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| Clinical observation on acupuncture for treating middle or elderly aged patients with insomnia |
| Hits 1741 Download times 1898 Received:April 02, 2010 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2010.05.15 |
| Key Words
acupuncture therapy;insomnia;effect-evaluating |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | LI Xin-yan | The 306 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100101, China | | ZHOU Zhang-ling | The 301 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100853, China | | ZHANG Bo | The 306 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100101, China |
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| [Objective] To systemically evaluate the effect of the acupuncture therapy on the patients with insomnia.[Methods] Sixty cases of insomnia were randomly divided into treatment group and control group with 30 cases in each.The patients of acupuncture group was treated with acupuncture at Shenmen(HT 7),Baihui(DU 20),Sishencong(EX-HN 1),Fengchi(GB 20),Anmian acupoint etc.The patients of medicine group was treated with oral administration of Estazolamum troches.The changes of clinical symptoms,the result of PSQI and the result of the micro-movement sensitive mattress sleep monitoring system were compared before and after treatment of the two groups.[Results] After treatment,subjective sleep quality,sleep latency and habitual sleep efficiency were significantly improved in both groups(P<0.01),and there were no significant differences between two groups(P>0.05).The improvement of sleep disturbance,daytime dysfunction and deep sleep quality in the acupuncture group were superior to that in the medicine group(P <0.01).The improvement of sleep duration in the medicine group was superior to that in the acupuncture group.[Conclusion] The acupuncture therapy can significantly improve the clinical symptoms and sleeping quality of the insomniac patients. |
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