1, can acupuncture be used for osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis can be treated with acupuncture, but please operate under the guidance of a professional doctor.
Acupuncture therapy includes acupuncture therapy and moxibustion therapy, which has the functions of harmonizing yin and yang, tonifying deficiency and purging excess, strengthening body resistance and eliminating evil. Experiments show that acupuncture is one of the methods to treat osteoporosis, which can relieve clinical symptoms, regulate bone metabolism and improve bone density. In the treatment, we should treat it according to syndrome differentiation, select points according to the symptoms and treat both the symptoms and the root causes.
2. Acupuncture therapy for osteoporosis
Acupoints: Shenshu (bilateral), Dachangshu, Jiaji, Weizhong, Kunlun, Taixi, Sanyinjiao and Zusanli.
Operation: acupuncture. Osteoporosis patients are generally older and weaker. The tonic method is the main method in acupuncture, and the stimulation amount is light.
Leave the needle 15~20 minutes after getting angry. Please treat under the guidance of a professional doctor.
3. Moxibustion therapy for osteoporosis.
Acupoint selection: Shenshu point (2 fingers across the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, one point on the left and one point on the right); Guanyuan point (3 inches below the navel).
Operation: You can choose moxa stick moxibustion or moxa stick moxibustion. The time of each moxibustion depends on the patient's age, constitution and degree of illness. Time is not fixed, tolerance is the main thing. Generally, moxibustion at each acupoint lasts 15-20 minutes, once every other day, and 15-20 times is a course of treatment. You can master the method at home under the guidance of a doctor.
Step 4: Skills
Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy is only an auxiliary treatment for osteoporosis, and it takes some time to get results. Patients should pay more attention to their daily diet, eat foods rich in calcium, such as milk and beans, and strengthen physical exercise to prevent osteoporosis.
5. Symptoms of osteoporosis
1, low back pain
One of the clinical manifestations of osteoporosis is general pain, discomfort and fatigue. Waist, neck and shoulder pain are the main symptoms of osteoporosis, especially back pain, which is often ignored by patients and misdiagnosed as lumbar muscle strain until osteoporosis develops to a serious degree.
2, height reduction, hunchback
Some elderly people increase or decrease with age, that is, when standing at attention, the vertical distance between the sole of the foot and the highest point on the top of the head decreases. Height loss and hunchback are typical symptoms of low back pain caused by the development of osteoporosis.
3, easy to fracture
Osteoporosis is a serious complication of osteoporosis symptoms, which brings great pain to patients and seriously limits their activities. The resulting mortality rate is as high as 20%, and ordinary survivors lose their ability to take care of themselves and need long-term care. There are two reasons why osteoporosis is prone to fracture: first, the bone loss caused by osteoporosis greatly reduces the strength of bones, and under the same external force, the probability of osteoporosis will naturally increase; However, the bone loss caused by osteoporosis is mainly the loss of bone matrix. It leads to the increase of bone strength and the decrease of toughness, and fracture occurs under the action of external force.
4. Visceral dysfunction
Because the ribs of osteoporosis patients lose elasticity, lumbar lordosis hinders blood circulation and normal functional activities of heart, lung and digestive system, and patients may have symptoms such as miracle, chest tightness, dyspnea, chronic cough, abdominal distension and constipation. Especially in the respiratory system, patients' vital capacity and maximum ventilation decreased and the incidence of emphysema increased.
5. Other symptoms
In addition to the above-mentioned main symptoms, patients with osteoporosis may also have various symptoms such as loose teeth, tooth loss, and easily broken teeth.