ZHANG Yong, LUO Jing, YAN Jue, et al. Acupoint selection rules of electroacupuncture for treating osteoporosis: An analysis of clinical studies. [J]. Journal of Southwest Medical University 43(2):165-168(2020)
ZHANG Yong, LUO Jing, YAN Jue, et al. Acupoint selection rules of electroacupuncture for treating osteoporosis: An analysis of clinical studies. [J]. Journal of Southwest Medical University 43(2):165-168(2020)DOI:
Acupoint selection rules of electroacupuncture for treating osteoporosis: An analysis of clinical studies
Objective: To discuss the acupoint selection rules of electroacupuncture for treating primary osteopo-rosis(POP) through analyzing relevant clinical research. Methods: The PubMed and CNKI databases were searchedfor published clinical research on treating POP with electroacupuncture. The bibliometric method and Excel 2010 were used to summarize and analyze the selection of acupoints in the literature. Results: A total of 19 studies wereincluded
involving 49 acupoints with a total frequency of 165 times. The treatment methods included electroacu-puncture(26.32%)
electroacupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine(21.05%)
electroacupuncturecombined with Western medicine(10.53%)
electroacupuncture combined with physical therapy(10.53%)
elec-troacupuncture combined with acupoint injection(5.26%)
and comprehensive therapy(26.32%). Eight studies(42.11%) documented the acupoints electric needles were connected to
while the remaining 11(57.89%) did notmention them; 2 studies(10.53%) indicated the acupoints positive or negative electrodes were connected to. Wave-forms were declared in 16 studies(84.21%)
where 9 studies(37.50%) used a disperse-dense wave and 7 studies(43.75%) used a continuous wave
while the remaining 3 studies(18.75%) did not mention waveforms. The top 10 acupoints in use frequency were Shenshu
Pishu
Mingmen
Zusanli
Weizhong
Guanyuan
Yanglingquan
Xuan-zhong
Jiaji
and Ashi points. The most commonly used specific acupoints were back-shu
five-shu
and crossingpoints. The meridians that contained the acupoints were as following in descending order of the number of acupoints:bladder meridian
governor vessel
gallbladder meridian
conception vessel
stomach meridian
spleen meridian
kidney meridian
large intestine meridian
liver meridian
and pericardium meridian. Conclusion: Electroacupunc-ture for POP mainly involves the acupoints on the bladder meridian
governor vessel
and gallbladder meridian
with an emphasis on the specific acupoints. The therapy underlines an integrated consideration of disease and syn-drome and a combination of far and near acupoints
following the principle of aiming at root causes and also alleviat-ing symptoms.