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Wet cupping therapy improves local blood perfusion and analgesic effects in patients with nerve-root type cervical spondylosis.

Meng XW, Wang Y, Piao SA, Lv WT, Zhu CH, Mu MY, Li DD, Liu HP, Guo Y.

Chin J Integr Med.

2018

Epub ahead of print

10.1007/s11655-017-2925-7.

29340888

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29340888

wet cupping; nerve-root type cervical spondylosis; blood perfusion amount; acupuncture; Jiaji acupoint

습 부항; 신경근형 경추증; 혈액 관류 양; 침 치료; 협척 경혈

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OBJECTIVE:
To observe wet cupping therapy (WCT) on local blood perfusion and analgesic effects in patients with nerve-root type cervical spondylosis (NT-CS).

METHODS:
Fifty-seven NT-CS patients were randomly divided into WCT group and Jiaji acupoint-acupuncture (JA) group according a random number table. WCT group (30 cases) was treated with WCT for 10 min, and JA group (27 cases) was treated with acupuncture for 10 min. The treatment effificacies were evaluated with a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Blood perfusion at Dazhui (GV 14) and Jianjing (GB 21) acupoints (affected side) was observed with a laser speckle flflowmetry, and its variations before and after treatment in both groups were compared as well.

RESULTS:
In both groups, the VAS scores signifificantly decreased after the intervention (P<0.01), while the blood perfusion at the two acupoints signifificantly increased after intervention (P<0.05); however, the increasement magnitude caused by WCT was obvious compared with JA (P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONS:
WCT could improve analgesic effects in patients with NT-CS, which might be related to increasing local blood perfusion of acupunct points.

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