[Professor GUAN Ling's clinical experience in treating knee osteoarthritis with structure-based medical acupuncture]. 2023

Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Sixth Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, Beijing 100048, China.

This paper summarizes professor GUAN Ling's clinical experience in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) with structure-based medical acupuncture (SMA). Based on anatomy and biomechanics and through accurate physical examination, SMA adjusts the mechanical imbalance of muscles to relieve KOA dysfunction, and releases nerve compression to attenuate pain symptoms of KOA. In reference to traditional acupoint selection, and in association with painful areas and mechanical deduction, ashi points located at the rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis and vastus lateralis muscles, etc. are specially stimulated with acupuncture; and the rehabilitation training and health education are the adjuvant treatment for the patients.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010146 Pain An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS. Suffering, Physical,Ache,Pain, Burning,Pain, Crushing,Pain, Migratory,Pain, Radiating,Pain, Splitting,Aches,Burning Pain,Burning Pains,Crushing Pain,Crushing Pains,Migratory Pain,Migratory Pains,Pains, Burning,Pains, Crushing,Pains, Migratory,Pains, Radiating,Pains, Splitting,Physical Suffering,Physical Sufferings,Radiating Pain,Radiating Pains,Splitting Pain,Splitting Pains,Sufferings, Physical
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000276 Adjuvants, Immunologic Substances that augment, stimulate, activate, potentiate, or modulate the immune response at either the cellular or humoral level. The classical agents (Freund's adjuvant, BCG, Corynebacterium parvum, et al.) contain bacterial antigens. Some are endogenous (e.g., histamine, interferon, transfer factor, tuftsin, interleukin-1). Their mode of action is either non-specific, resulting in increased immune responsiveness to a wide variety of antigens, or antigen-specific, i.e., affecting a restricted type of immune response to a narrow group of antigens. The therapeutic efficacy of many biological response modifiers is related to their antigen-specific immunoadjuvanticity. Immunoactivators,Immunoadjuvant,Immunoadjuvants,Immunologic Adjuvant,Immunopotentiator,Immunopotentiators,Immunostimulant,Immunostimulants,Adjuvant, Immunologic,Adjuvants, Immunological,Immunologic Adjuvants,Immunological Adjuvant,Adjuvant, Immunological,Immunological Adjuvants
D015669 Acupuncture Points Designated locations along nerves or organ meridians for inserting acupuncture needles. Acupoints,Acupoint,Acupuncture Point,Point, Acupuncture,Points, Acupuncture
D015670 Acupuncture Therapy Treatment of disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians. The placement varies with the disease being treated. It is sometimes used in conjunction with heat, moxibustion, acupressure, or electric stimulation. Acupotomy,Acupuncture Treatment,Pharmacoacupuncture Therapy,Pharmacoacupuncture Treatment,Therapy, Acupuncture,Acupotomies,Acupuncture Treatments,Therapy, Pharmacoacupuncture,Treatment, Acupuncture,Treatment, Pharmacoacupuncture
D052097 Quadriceps Muscle The quadriceps femoris. A collective name of the four-headed skeletal muscle of the thigh, comprised of the rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis, and vastus medialis. Quadriceps Femoris,Rectus Femoris,Vastus Intermedius,Vastus Lateralis,Vastus Medialis,Muscle, Quadriceps,Muscles, Quadriceps,Quadriceps Muscles
D020370 Osteoarthritis, Knee Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019) Osteoarthritis of Knee,Osteoarthritis of the Knee,Knee Osteoarthritides,Knee Osteoarthritis

Related Publications

Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
August 2021, Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
November 2018, Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
December 2004, Annals of internal medicine,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
November 2012, Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
November 2006, Arthritis and rheumatism,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
March 2021, Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
March 2024, Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
October 2008, Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
February 2015, JAMA,
Xin-Yuan Liu, and Yue Ma, and Ling Guan
February 2015, JAMA,
Copied contents to your clipboard!