PNF on acupuncture treatment of neck and shoulder syndrome.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 PNF on acupuncture treatment of neck and shoulder syndrome [Keywords:] neuromuscular facilitation techniques body acupuncture neck syndrome General long-term chronic neck and shoulder syndrome or cervical strain caused by degenerative changes, is clinical common diseases. With the faster pace of society, desk workers, increasing the incidence of this disease is increasing. I the use of body acupuncture and neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) in treatment of disease, achieve a satisfactory effect, are reported below. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General Information All cases are from June 2005 -2007 during the period of May outpatient and inpatient hospital, according to treatment randomly divided into treatment group and control group. The treatment group 39 patients, 17 males and 22 females, aged 24 60 years (mean 35.00 + -2.16) years, the shortest duration of 30 d, up to 4 years. the control group 39 patients, 20 males and 19 females, aged 23 to 59 years (mean 34.00 + -3.26 years) the shortest duration of 29 d, up to 4 years .2 patients had neck pain, shoulder limited mobility, cervical spine next to the tenderness, supraspinatus tenderness, trapezius muscle tenderness .2 general information in patients with comparable to the statistical analysis sex (Pgt; 0.05). 1.2 Diagnostic criteria History of chronic strain or trauma, or congenital malformations of cervical, cervical degeneration, long bow to workers or those who are accustomed to for a long time watching television video, often showed chronic disease, neck and shoulder pain, stiff neck discomfort, pain, radiation to the forearm , neck pain with activity was increased, in the sternocleidomastoid respectively mastoid side (the rear end point of bone), 7 cervical, 1 thoracic spinous process, trapezius muscle at the bottom of Jianjing Xue, and other parts of the scapula occur within the margin of tenderness; by X-ray examination can have different degrees of cervical