In the past 10 years we have analysed the results of treatment on the 114 cases of Cerviobrachial syndrome, mainly osteoarthritis of cericodorsal spine disease, of which the follow-up results were extinguished by acupuncture treatments and nerve block treatments in our pain clinic. These cases could not be cured by the physiotherapic treatment such as medication, traction and ultra-short wave.
The combined results of both acupuncture and nerve block treatments are as follows;
46 cases out of 114 (40%) obtained excellent or good effect and 68 cases out of 114 (60%) obtained fair or poor effect.
In the acupuncture treatments, electrical stimulation and low frequency electrical stimulation were employed. The results of acupuncture-moxibustion treatments and nerve block treatments were almost the same.
The efficacy of nerve block treatment could be found after several treatments. When the nerve block treatment is not effective, many cases can obtain some effect by combining with acupuncture treatment. And when the nerve block is not applicable only acupuncture treatment is effective in many cases.
Comparing the results with the number of treatments, many cases under 10 treatments obtained no effect. But above 11 times, the number of none effective cases became decreased.
Therefore it is better to give acupuncture treatment for many times. As a standard more than 10 or 20 times are necessary to obtain an effect. So I would like to emphasize the fact that you can most probably obtain some effect with more than 11 times treatments.
