title: [Immediate analgesic effects of tendon acupuncture on soft tissue injury].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the immediate analgesic effect of tendon acupuncture on soft tissue injury in different sites.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 140 cases of soft tissue injury, involving 14 injury sites, were treated with tendon acupuncture. According to the principle of "considering pain as acupoint", based on injury sites, one to three tendon acupoints were selected in each tendon, which were treated with 1 to 5 times. Totally 676 times Of treatment was given. The visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to evaluate the immediate. analgesic effect before and after the treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the treatment, the score of VAS was significantly reduced (4. 20+ 1. 77 vs 2. 43 ± 1. 30, P<0. 001); regardless of the total number of treatment, the score of VAS after each acupuncture was obviously reduced compared with that before acupuncture (all P<0. 001); the score of VAS at each injury sites after treatment was significantly reduced compared with that before treatment (all P<0. 001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is an immediate analgesic effect of tendon acupuncture for different sites of soft tissue injury. Also, the effect has been shown in different frequencies of treatment.
authors.forename: Nongyu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Tianpei
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiang
mesh_terms: D015667:Acupuncture Analgesia; D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D013710:Tendons / Q000503:physiopathology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult