Effects of combined treatment of traditional Chinese medicince and western medicine to ameliorate pains and joint motion of patients with ankylosing spondylitis
METHODS:Randomized controlled experiment was carried out. A total of 50 patients with ankylosing spondylitis were divided into treatment group (n=30) and control group (n=20). Patients in treatment group received hydrochloric acid cucoline sheet(zhengqing fengtongning) and salazosulfadimidine, while patients in the control group only received salazosulfadimidine.
Conclusion: Long-term TCM-WM therapy, which concentrated on the advantages of traditional Chinese and western medicine, was a practical method in treating AS with reliable effect, few side-reaction, therefore, is worth spreading.
Methods:80 cases with ankylosmg spondylitis were treated by needle knife and maneuver added the traditional and western medicine, with observed for one yeart.
Thirty-two AS cases were treated by comprehensive methods: orally taken TCD, internally applied SASP and MTX combined with TCD-steam bath and functional exercises.
This study was performed to investigate the relationship between functional disability and depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
The recent introduction and positioning of anti-tumor necrosis factoralpha therapy in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and other types of SpA is, in large part, based on this concept.
Comparative examination of two groups of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (one showing a normal and the other one with an excessively increased sedimentation rate higher than 50 mm p.W.
In a preliminary analysis of patients with ankylosing spondylitis, no apparent correlation was observed between any specific B27 variants and disease susceptibility.
cases of ankylosing spondylitis were treated with integrated TCM and WM,20 cases treated with azulfidine were setup as the control group.Result:In the treatment group,6 cases were cured,18 were markedly effective,9 effective and 2 ineffective, the total effective rate was 94.3%;In the control group,it respectively was 1、4、7、8、60%.The difference between two groups was significant(P<0001)
Objective: To seek for the new method of integrated traditional Chinese and western medical treatment (TCM-WM) for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) to control the disease development, shorten the therapeutic course and reduce disability rate. Methods: Patients of AS enrolled in this study were 106 patients in group A, who were persistently treated with TCM-WM for over 10 months, 48 patients in group B treated with western medicine and 34 in group C treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic agent...
The newly prepared compound is a Chinese herbal medicine made by our hospital on the basis of the Han Dynasty Presciption unearthed in Wuwei, Gansu province in 1972. It is approved by the Public Health Bureau of Gansu Province(Ractification\|Number:PHB/GP[95]349\|04)and has been used in clinical application. Its main effect is, in traditional Chinese medical terms, to dispel the wind and to relieve the cold. In this study, we observed 120 cases, in which 23 cases were cured, 95 cases improved. As compared w...