Acupuncture Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain by Using the Jingjin (Meridian Sinews) Model.
| Autor: | Legge D; School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: dlegge@hotkey.net.au. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of acupuncture and meridian studies [J Acupunct Meridian Stud] 2015 Oct; Vol. 8 (5), pp. 255-8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Sep 02. |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jams.2015.07.013 |
| Abstrakt: | This case report details the unexpected and sustained relief from chronic low back pain in a patient after a single acupuncture treatment. The treatment administered on that occasion was based on the jingjin (i.e., "meridian sinew") model of traditional acupuncture. Treatments based on the jingjin model involve needling the ah shi (i.e., locally tender) points in myofascial tissue along the jingjin pathway. Tight chains can be needled to treat symptoms that are either close to or at some distance from the site of the needling treatment. In this patient, the points were in the gastrocnemius muscle and the hamstring muscles, which are part of the Bladder jingjin pathway. The patient, a 69-year-old woman, had had back pain for more than 40 years. The relief from the pain occurred within a day after the treatment and, at the time of this report, the relief has persisted for 5 months. This report examines two possible mechanisms for such a result: (1) a local increase in the extensibility of the hamstrings could be responsible or (2) the complex interactions within the central nervous system that are involved in acupuncture treatment could be more important factors. (Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier B.V.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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