Pharmacoacupuncture in osteomioarticular pain resistance to other treatments

Abstract

We carried out a prospective, descriptive study, with inferential analysis, where as the universe were taken all the patients sent to the Provincial Center for Developing Traditional and Natural Medicine “Dr. Mario E. Dihigo” of Matanzas with osteomioarticular pain. From them was taken a sample of 20 patients, the totality of those who did not present a favorable answer to previous treatments (conventional allopathic and other natural medicine treatments). With the objective of evaluating pain intensity, we applied the Test of Likert at the beginning and at the end of the treatment. Besides that, each patient was evaluated individually during the first visit, locating the pain place and selecting the drug and acupuntural points to use. The treatment was applied using disposable insulin syringes, and all the medical preparations used were applied in a reason of 0.25 cc per point, previously diluting it in nine parts of injection water. We took the extinction of pain as criteria of effectiveness. Although the sample was short, the obtained results make it worth to extend the application of pharmacoacupuncture to a bigger number of patients to obtain a better evidence of its analgesic effect. We concluded that the treatment with pharmacoacupuncture is effective in patients with osteomioarticular pain resistant to other treatments and, in the cases there is not achieved a pain elimination, it is possible to obtain an improvement of the pain status.