Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Rehabilitation, Hebei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050011 Hebei, China.
Comput Math Methods Med. 2022 Jul 14;2022:2550875. doi: 10.1155/2022/2550875. eCollection 2022.
To explore the effect of acupotomy in combination with electroacupuncture therapy on the finger mobility and pain relief in patients who had carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
The clinical data of 60 CTS patients in our hospital from November 2020 to November 2021 received retrospective analysis. With 30 cases in each group, they were randomly divided into the treatment group and the control group. The control group underwent hot compress, oral medication, and local injection during hospitalization, while the treatment group received acupotomy and electroacupuncture therapy on top of the above treatments, and the clinical effects, finger mobility, and pain relief were compared between both groups.
The clinical indexes in the treatment group after treatment were remarkably better than those in the control group ( < 0.05), with the remarkably higher number of cured cases in the treatment group ( < 0.05). After treatment, the treatment group had remarkably higher mean total active motion (TAM) and score of the 36-item short form (SF-36) health survey and a remarkably lower mean score of visual analog scale (VAS) than those in the control group ( < 0.001).
The quality of life and finger mobility of CTS sufferers can be improved with acupotomy in conjunction with electroacupuncture therapy. In-depth research will help build better procedures for these patients because this approach lessens the discomfort and shortens the symptom duration in CTS sufferers.
探讨针刀联合电针疗法对腕管综合征（CTS）患者手指活动度和疼痛缓解的影响。
回顾性分析我院 2020 年 11 月至 2021 年 11 月收治的 60 例 CTS 患者的临床资料，将其随机分为治疗组和对照组，每组 30 例。对照组患者住院期间给予热敷、口服药物、局部注射治疗，治疗组患者在对照组治疗的基础上给予针刀联合电针治疗，比较两组患者的临床疗效、手指活动度和疼痛缓解情况。
治疗后，治疗组患者的临床指标明显优于对照组（ < 0.05），治疗组患者的痊愈例数明显多于对照组（ < 0.05）。治疗后，治疗组患者的平均总主动活动度（TAM）和 36 项简明健康状况调查问卷（SF-36）评分明显高于对照组，视觉模拟评分法（VAS）评分明显低于对照组（ < 0.001）。
针刀联合电针疗法可改善 CTS 患者的生活质量和手指活动度。深入研究将有助于为这些患者建立更好的治疗方案，因为这种方法减轻了 CTS 患者的不适，并缩短了症状持续时间。
