Relationships Between Pressure Pain Thresholds and Clinical Symptoms in Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy. A Case of Osteoarthritis of the Knee Joints.
10.3777/jjsam.51.604
- VernacularTitle:しん灸臨床における圧痛しきい値と臨床症状との関連性について 変形性膝関節症１例における検討
- Author:
Kazunori ITOH
;
Masato EGAWA
;
Takaharu IKEUCHI
;
Kenji KAWAKITA
;
Tadashi YANO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Pressure pain thresholds;
Tender point;
Osteoarthritis of the knee joint;
JOA score
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2001;51(5):604-610
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
The tender points treatment has been widely used for both treatment and diagnosis, but there have been very few studies that have examined its diagnostic usefulness. Thus, the purpose of this study was to clarify the diagnostic importance of tender points. The subject was a patient who had osteoarthritis of the knee of Meiji University of Oriental Medicine Hospital. The relationship between pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) and symptoms in osteoarthritis of the knee (painful knee motion) were evaluated with the Japanese Orthopaedic Association scale (JOA scale), a knee scale and the subject's knee pain diary (starting pain, flexion pain, walking pain and total pain Wong-Baker faces pain rating scale). After 40 acupuncture treatments, improvement was noted in the symptoms and PPTs. The changes in PPTs were related to the symptoms of the knee (flexion and walking pain). This suggests that changes in PPTs (around the knee) are a useful indicator for evaluating knee pain.
