Explanation on evidence-based guidelines of clinical practice with acupuncture and moxibustion: periarthritis of shoulder

    Zhon zhen jiu; 37 (9), 2017
    Publication year: 2017

    In 2015, the “Clinical Practice Guide for Evidence-based Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the Shoulder Periarthritis” was officially published as the standard of the Chinese Acupuncture Association. This article explains the purpose of the guide, the methodology of the guide, the scope of the guideline for the application of the disease, and the main body of the recommended program, which is convenient for acupuncturists to use the Guide. The Guide comprehensively searches for acupuncture treatment of frozen shoulder literature, adopts the best evidence at home and abroad, expert experience, patient values, borrows evidence quality and recommendation intensity grading system (GRADE) method, and refers to ancient and modern acupuncture experts. The clinical experience is based on the consensus of a wide range of experts across the country, in order to provide reliable evidence for acupuncture clinical treatment of frozen shoulder to ensure the safety and effectiveness of treatment. This Guide recommends that acupuncture treatment of periarthritis of the shoulder should be based on the principle of staging; the acute phase is mainly to relieve pain, acupuncture and moxibustion are selected according to the selection of distal acupoints, strong stimulation, and with local acupoints; chronic phase and functional recovery In order to correct the shoulder joint function activity disorder, acupuncture treatment combined with the syndrome differentiation and meridian syndrome differentiation, the acupoints were mainly local acupoints, and combined with the pathogenesis and etiology to determine the points.