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- Title
A utilização da acupuntura no controlo da dor crónica em usuários com síndrome vertebral com irradiação.
- Authors
Carvalho, Elisabete Fernandes; Brito, Dinis Rodrigues; Rodrigues da Costa Barroso, Isabel Maria Antunes; dos Santos Pinto Monteiro, Maria João Filomena; Costa Pereira Rodrigues, Vitor Manuel
- Abstract
Aims: acupuncture is increasingly a technique used in users with various pathologies, and especially those who are accompanied by chronic pain. This research aimed to analyze the effect of non-pharmacological acupuncture and electroacupuncture therapy for the control of chronic pain in users with medical diagnosis of irradiation vertebral syndrome. Methods: a research was conducted with two evaluation moments: before and after non-pharmacological acupuncture and electroacupuncture therapy sessions. A questionnaire with variables of sociodemographic and clinical characterization, the Brief Pain Inventory and Short Form 6 Dimensions (SF-6D) was used. Results: forty-three users participated in the study, and statistically significant differences were found from moment 1 to moment 2 of evaluation, either in the pain severity domain (p<0.01)or in the pain interference domain in daily functioning (p <0.01), as well as in the different dimensions of SF-6D, statistically significant differences were found. Conclusions: non-pharmacological acupuncture and electroacupuncture therapy in users diagnosed with irradiation and chronic pain have contributed to decrease pain severity, pain interference in daily functioning and improvement of health-related quality of life.
- Publication
Scientia Medica, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1806-5562
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15448/1980-6108.2021.1.39304