Cupping Therapy Combined with Rehabilitation for the Treatment of Radial Palsy: a Case Report
| Autor: | Mustafa Koroglu, Tansel Mutlu, Ali Ramazan Benli, Muhammet Nur Ogun, Didem Sunay, Selman Erturhan, Demir Yazici Senay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Motorcycle accident medicine.medical_treatment Electromyography Moxibustion Wrist rehabilitation Radial palsy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine physical therapy cupping therapy lcsh:Miscellaneous systems and treatments 030222 orthopedics Rehabilitation Cupping therapy medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry lcsh:RM1-950 lcsh:RZ409.7-999 Functional recovery 030205 complementary & alternative medicine Surgery lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology medicine.anatomical_structure radial palsy business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Acupuncture Research, Vol 35, Iss 1, Pp 1-3 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2586-2898 2586-288X |
| Popis: | This case report demonstrates the beneficial effects of cupping therapy (CT) in a 35-year-old man who is diagnosed with a fracture of the radial shaft due to a motorcycle accident. One year after the treatment started, pseudoarthrosis developed in the radius and an autogenous iliac bone graft was performed. However, extension dysfunction in the wrist became evident. After another 6 months of physical therapy and rehabilitation, no improvements were observed. Therefore, CT and adjunctive electrostimulation were performed, after 30 days of treatment, marked recovery of muscle function and full wrist extension were observed, as determined by electromyography and a grade 5/5 on the Medical Research Council power of wrist extension scale. The results in this case study suggest that CT in conjunction with adjunctive electrostimulation, may accelerate functional recovery from postoperative radial palsy, and provide a useful alternative treatment in this situation. ⓒ2018 Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Medicine Society. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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