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| Treating ankylosing spondylitis with moving cup manipulation |
| Hits 1739 Download times 1652 Received:April 21, 2008 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2008.05.12 |
| Key Words
Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS);moving cup manipulation;Chinese Medicine treatment |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | CHEN Ai-ping | Beijing Hospital of TCM Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100010, China |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To observe the effect of moving cup manipulation on treating ankylosing spondylitis (AS). [Methods] Thirty-three patients with AS were randomly divided into group A (Treated by moving cup manipulation plus Western medicine, n=18) and group B (treated with Western medicine only, n=15) according to their tolerance. VAS, time of morning stiffness, finger-ground distance, occiput-wall distance, Scholber test index were observed 4 weeks later. [Results] The effect on time of morning stiffness, finger-ground distance of group A was obviously better than that of group B. [Conclusion] The method of moving cup manipulation was dramatically effective on AS. |
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