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KMID : 0378019750180081026
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New Medical Journal
1975 Volume.18 No. 8 p.1026 ~ p.1035
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Clinical Studies of the Low-frequency Electical Acupuncture Stimulation Therapy
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Abstract
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Electrical acupuncture stimulation therapy by conducting direct low-frequency electrical current through needles placed at a therapeutic point has been intensively utilized in our pain clinic of Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, during the past 2 years since September 1973.
This method was originated in Japan since 1950 and has developed recently on the basis of mutual technical exchange between modern westernized medical science and classical Chinese medical science which originated more than 2,000 years ago in Northern China for acupuncture therapy.
Therapeutic points are selected on the skin where nerve fibers innervate a painful area. Trigger and stimulating points are selected for needling according to the various painful diseases. The insitu needles are connected to an electrical electrotherapeutic apparatus machine (Model 6.26) by wires, through which a low-frequency current of 1 Hz is conducted for 30 minutes. This electrical current is 10 mV and 0.6mA for batteries.
In this study, twenty eight cases of tennis elbow(lateral epicondylitis of the elbow) and eight cases of bicipital tendinitis of the shoulder were treated and analyzed as to immediate effect and long-term effect as shown in Table I and Table II.
The immediate effect of electrical stimulation repeated 4 times was loss of pain(99.3%) and disappearance of tenderness (99.5%) in tennis elbow cases.
The-immediate effect electrical sitmulation 4 times was loss of pain (86%) and disappearance of tenderness (88%) in bicipital tendinitis cases.
The long-term effect showed cured(72%), moderate improvement (24%), and no effect (4%) in tennis elbow cases.
The long-term effect showed cured (50%), moderate improvement (37%), and no effect (13%) in bicipital tendinitis cases.
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