Health Studies
Effect of Tai Chi on Patients with Lumbar Muscle Strain
The chronic lumbar muscle strain, a dynamo-static damage, is induced by the lumbar muscle fatigue.
Its etiology can be traced to the following factors, for example, poor postures, lumbar and back muscle and fascia strain because of engaging in bending and load-bearing labor for a long time, failure to treat timely, correctly and thoroughly after acute injury, congenital malformation and invasion of wind-cold damp pathogen.
The main manifestations can be described as that due to the chronic injury of lumbosacral muscle, fascia, ligaments and other soft tissues, the local aseptic inflammation is induced, as a result, a diffuse pain is inevitable at one side or both sides of lumbosacral, which is also known as the “low back myofascitis” or “functional lumbago”.
The doctors, practicing western medicine, treat the above said diseases by oral drug, however, there are side effects and the patients are prone to the drug dependence. In Chinese traditional medicine, the patients are treated by Chinese traditional medicine, smoked drug, acupuncture, massage, functional rehabilitation training and comprehensive therapy.
The doctors, practicing Chinese traditional medicine, believe that the ear is a holographic microcosm of the body tissues and organs, thus it can dredge channels, regulate mechanism and promote the rehabilitation of lesion by stimulating the corresponding ear acupoint.
For this reason, it intends to treat the patients in the observation group by the auricular plaster therapy in addition to Tai Chi exercise in this study.
It is found that the combination therapy shows an obvious curative effect and it is reported as follows.
Abstract:
Objectives:
Observe the effect of Tai Chi exercise on the patients with the chronic lumbar muscle strain under the intervention treatment of auricular plaster.
Design:
74 middle-aged and elderly patients, suffering from the chronic lumbar muscle strain, are randomly and equally divided into an observation group and a control group, with 37 patients in each group. The patients in the control group do Tai Chi exercise, while those in the observation group are treated by the auricular plaster therapy in addition to Tai Chi exercise. Evaluate and compare the disease conditions of the patients in the two groups before the treatment and after 12 weeks' treatment.
Results:
After 12 weeks' treatment, the patients in the two groups have been improved differently in comparison with those before the treatment (P < 0.05). However, the cure rate, the excellence rate and total effective rate of the observation group are superior to those of the control group, respectively P < 0.05 or P < 0.01, thus their difference shows statistic significance.
Conclusion:
After 12 weeks' Tai Chi exercise, it exercises an obvious curative effect on the patients with lumbar muscle strain but the curative effect is more remarkable if it is combined with auricular plaster therapy.
LINK:
Lu, Tao et al. “Effect of Tai Chi exercise in combination with auricular plaster on patients with lumbar muscle strain.” International journal of clinical and experimental medicine vol. 8,2 2949-53. 15 Feb. 2015
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