Study on thinking of clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment methods for neck-shoulder pain syndrome.
- Author:
Yang XU
1
;
Ying-kai ZHAO
;
Jian-bin CHENG
Author Information
1. Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100094, China. xuyang65@hotmail.com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Acupuncture Therapy;
methods;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Humans;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Meridians;
Neck Pain;
diagnosis;
therapy;
Shoulder Pain;
diagnosis;
therapy
- From:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
2007;27(5):379-382
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Neck-shoulder pain syndrome is a commonly-seen disease clinically. Modern medicine has had no better therapy for it yet. Acupuncture and moxibustion have a better therapeutic effect, but improper treatment easily induces protracted course. For the treatment, detailed syndrome differentiation, paying attention to pulse-taking, in combination with local palpation diagnosis and channel palpation, selection of proper acupoints should first be carried out; for manipulation of needling, do not seek first for arrival of qi, but waiting for arrival of qi is important, and warming needle treatment should be combined; for the patient with yang-qi not reaching the four limbs, firstly warming reinforcing yang of the spleen and kidney, then opening the 4 gates, Hegu (LI 4) and Taichong (LR 3) are carried out to promote yang-qi going, and then acupuncture is given at the neck-shoulder based on syndrome differentiation.
