title: [Therapeutic effect of electroacupuncture combined with medicine on acute rheumatoid arthritis at active stage].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore a treatment program for increasing therapeutic effect on rheumatoid arthritis at active stage.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and forty-six cases were randomly divided into treatment group (n = 74) and medicine control group (n = 72). The treatment group were treated by electroacupuncture at Quchi (LI 11), Hegu (LI 4), Yanglingquan (GB 34), etc. , combined with meloxicam, sulfasalazine and MTX. The control group treated by simple the Western medicines. Their therapeutic effects were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The effective rate was 79.73% in the treatment group and 51.39% in the control group with a significant difference between the two groups (P< 0. 05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Electroacupuncture combined with medicine has a better therapeutic effect than the simple medicine on rheumatoid arthritis at active stage.
authors.affiliation: Zhuhai Hospital, Guangdong Provincial TCM Hospital, China.
authors.forename: Zhou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ai
authors.forename: Yuan-yuan
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qian-ru
authors.initials: QR
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Yu-feng
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Xi
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000628:therapy; D015671:Electroacupuncture; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine