title: [Study on thinking of clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment methods for neck-shoulder pain syndrome].
abstract: Neck-shoulder pain syndrome is a commonly-seen disease clinically. Modern medicine has had no better therapy for it yet. Acupuncture and moxibustion have a better therapeutic effect, but improper treatment easily induces protracted course. For the treatment, detailed syndrome differentiation, paying attention to pulse-taking, in combination with local palpation diagnosis and channel palpation, selection of proper acupoints should first be carried out; for manipulation of needling, do not seek first for arrival of qi, but waiting for arrival of qi is important, and warming needle treatment should be combined; for the patient with yang-qi not reaching the four limbs, firstly warming reinforcing yang of the spleen and kidney, then opening the 4 gates, Hegu (LI 4) and Taichong (LR 3) are carried out to promote yang-qi going, and then acupuncture is given at the neck-shoulder based on syndrome differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100094, China. xuyang65@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ying-kai
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Jian-bin
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D016740:Meridians; D019547:Neck Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D020069:Shoulder Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy