Effect of acupuncture anesthesia for urological cancer pain.

VernacularTitle:泌尿器科系のがん性とう痛に対する針麻酔方式による治療効果
Author: Toshikazu SHIMA ; Hidetoshi MORI ; Kazushi NISHIJO ; Shori KANOH
Publication Type:Journal Article
From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 1984;33(3):285-292
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: We examined effect of acupuncture anethesia for urological cancer pain.
Subjects were 32 patients (30 men and 2 women) aged from 21 to 84 (mean 59.9 years old).
The method used in the treatment of these patients was 1Hz low frequency stimulation for 20 to 30 minutes.
The following results were obtained:
1) The treatment had not an effect on neuroparalytic patients with bone metastasis who were observed cancerous cachexia.
2) The treatment often had an effect on non-neuroparalytic patients with bone metastasis. The patients had a slight symptom.
3) The treatment rarely had an effect on a numbness of lower extremities that was caused by peripheral nerve's injury.
The numbness was sometimes aggravated by some electric treatments using TNS.