Tratamento das algias do joelho pela acupuntura com a utilização da técnica "ao oposto" da medicina tradicional chinesa

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the result of the knee pain treatment using The Opposite Side Technique from the Traditional Chinese Medicine. Thirty-six patients with unilateral gonalgia were studied. 44.44% (16) with osteoarthrosis, 30.55% (11) with patella femural osteoarthrosis, 11.11% (4) with severe osteoarthrosis, 11.11% (4) with patella chrondomalacy and 2.77% (1) with synovial plica. The patients were divided in two groups: Group I (Acupuncture) were eighteen, who submitted to 20 acupuncture sessions, where it was used points of counter to lateral acupuncture to the affected knee and acupuncture points to the distance according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine and to the acupuncture neurophisiologic action standard to select these points for the treatment, and Group II (Phisiotherapy) also eighteen, who submitted to 20 physiotherapeutic sessions and antiinflamatory non steroid (AINS) medicines. According to the results from the statistical analysis, non-parametric, of the subjective data (the intensity of the described pain, difficulty in walking, in crouching, in going upstairs and downstairs, in running, in jumping, in claudicant motion, in making use of some walking support) as the objective parameters ( the restriction of the flexional moviment and also the one of the knee extension moviment, and the arc moviment) showed good results in all the studied parameters. The most refractory parameters were the objective ones above mentioned. The Jue Yin (Liver) energetic channel of the foot showed to be the most affected (22.22%), followed by the associations of the Jue Yin (Liver) and the Tae Yang (Bladder) energetic channel of the foot (22.22%), the Jue Yin (Liver) and the Yang Ming (Stomach) of the foot (16.66%), and the Jue Yin (Liver) and the Shao Yang (Gall Bladder) of the foot (11.11%), and another associations (16.66%). The false-Yang (52.77%) characteristics of disorders were the predominant in relation to the energetic ones followed by the Yin (33.33%) and the Yang (13.88%) disorders of the patients.