Floating needle treatment of frozen shoulder?

Everyone knows that when frozen shoulder occurs, the pain is often unbearable. Generally, if Western medicine is used to treat frozen shoulder, most of the Western medicine uses drugs for conservative treatment, and the effect is often not particularly ideal. Only in conjunction with physical therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, such as cupping and acupuncture treatment, the effect will be good. Most of the people with a high incidence of frozen shoulder are the elderly. Therefore, the use of acupuncture to treat frozen shoulder can also help the elderly recover faster.

The acupuncture therapy for periarthritis of the shoulder is to treat several periarthritis of the shoulder related acupoints, including Jianyu, acromion, Jianliao, Quchi, and Tiaokou, according to the principle of selecting acupoints along the meridians and selecting acupoints with the same name. Acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine is very effective in treating frozen shoulder.

Patients with frozen shoulder generally receive acupuncture once a day until the symptoms of frozen shoulder completely disappear, then they can stop the treatment. In addition, patients with frozen shoulder can also use oral anti-inflammatory drugs for treatment, combined with massage and cupping methods for treatment.

In addition to these methods, physical therapy is also very important for patients with periarthritis of the shoulder. The joints of patients with periarthritis of the shoulder are generally relatively tight. Using physical therapy to relieve and restore the function of the shoulder joint is very effective and important.

Patients with periarthritis of the shoulder must follow the principles of treatment when treated with acupuncture, so as to achieve better treatment results. Only by combining it with other methods to treat frozen shoulder can frozen shoulder be treated quickly and effectively.

Periarthritis of the shoulder is a common and frequently occurring disease. It is a chronic inflammation of soft tissues such as muscles, tendons, synovium, and joint capsule around the shoulder joint. Clinically, the disease often persists and is not cured. Floating needle therapy is often combined with active or passive contraction/relaxation of related muscles. This contraction/relaxation activity of the relevant muscles is called reperfusion activity in floating needling therapy. Reperfusion activities come in various forms, such as bending/straightening the waist, stretching/bending legs, deep breathing, spontaneous coughing, etc. Floating needle therapy has the characteristics of minimal pain, no side effects, quick results and a wide range of indications. Recent studies have shown that traditional acupuncture works on the main tissue in the superficial fascia: subcutaneous loose connective tissue. Floating needle therapy does not penetrate into multiple layers of tissue like traditional acupuncture, but only acts on the superficial fascia, with specific effects and great effectiveness. Floating needle therapy only stimulates the superficial subcutaneous tissue in non-lesioned areas, so it is very safe, safer than traditional acupuncture and massage.

The area of ​​subcutaneous loose connective tissue stimulated by floating needle therapy is 20-30 times that of traditional acupuncture, so its therapeutic effect is greatly improved:

(1) As long as the indication is met, the treatment will be effective immediately, and the number of acupuncture points (needle insertion points) required is greatly reduced;

(2) Only one or two acupuncture points are needed each time, while traditional acupuncture requires 10-20 acupuncture points;

(3) The number of treatments is greatly shortened. Generally, 3-4 treatments are sufficient for chronic diseases, while a course of traditional acupuncture treatment requires 7-10 treatments.

Generally speaking, as long as it is an indication for acupuncture, floating needle therapy can usually be used. Our clinical practice has also shown that floating needle therapy often has a good therapeutic effect on the indications of Chinese medicine internal medicine. Specifically, they are as follows: chronic headaches, cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, tennis elbow, tenosynovitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar muscle strain, knee arthritis, old ankle injury, femoral head necrosis, ankylosing spondylitis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, chronic stomach pain (chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer), urinary tract stones, chronic adnexitis, cervicitis, dysmenorrhea, intractable facial paralysis, etc. To sum up, everyone can clearly realize that in addition to treating frozen shoulder, floating needle can actually treat other diseases. However, whether this method is suitable for patients still needs to be determined based on the doctor's diagnosis.