title: [Treatment of spasmodic torticollis by differentiation of symptoms and signs].
abstract: Spasmodic torticollis belongs to local dysmyotonia and it is a difficult and complicated disease with unknown pathogenic factor. The clinical effects of medication and operation on it are not satisfactory and there is not a safe and effective therapy for this disease at home and abroad. The authors apply flexibly the theory of treatment based on syndrome differentiation and fully exert the advantages of TCM to analyze the disease from pathogenic factor, disease and syndrome, pathogenesis and so on, and originally create acupuncture at "Wu Xin Xue" for treatment of this disease with Kaiqiao Shunjin method (resuscitation and regulating muscle) as main, clinically attaining satisfactory therapeutic effect.
authors.affiliation: The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China. tebie0688@sina.com
authors.forename: Lian-Zhong
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D014103:Torticollis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*