Clinical Research Of Electro-acupuncture Of Jiaji Points On Cervicalspondylotic Radiculopathy

Objective: To explore the therapeutic effect of electro-acupuncture of Jiaji points on cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy and find out the better treatment program on cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy with acupuncture.Methods: sixty cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy patients were randomly divided into two groups: therapy group(electro-acupuncture of Jiaji points group) and control group (acupuncture of Jiaji points group). After three course of treatment, symptom and sign quantization score of pretherapy and post-treatment were observed. SPSS 13.0 software was performed in the statistical analysis.Result: After treatment, the symptom were obviously improved (p<0.01) . With independent-samples T test, there was statistical significance between therapy group and control group on symptom and sign quantization score (p<0.01). The total effective rate of control group and therapy group were 80.00%, 96.67% respectively.Conclusion: Electro-acupuncture of Jiaji points and acupuncture of Jiaji points are both the effective treatments on cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy. Electro-acupuncture of Jiaji points is better than acupuncture of Jiaji points on cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy. Removing etiopathogenisis and inducement, cervical exercise is important to prevent and treat cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy.