Effects of Colorpuncture on Electrodermal Activities in Nurses with Shoulder Myofascial Pain

• Main Authors: YANG, YI-CHEN, 楊翊榛
• Other Authors: CHEN, CHIU-YUAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/at3qa6

碩士 === 南華大學 === 自然生物科技學系自然療癒碩士班 === 107 === 　　Background and Purpose: Due to the factors such as the working environment and work stress, nursing staffs are usually suffering from the shoulder and neck pain, which are commonly named as shoulder myofascial pain. From the viewpoint of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a pain happens when the energy flow of the body operation is blocked or stagnant and reflects the partial injury of the body. This study is to investigate the effectiveness of colorpuncture intervention for the shoulder myofascial pain. 　　Materials and Methods: This is a pilot study by single-group pre-test. The 16 experiment objects were selected from hospital, who had symptoms of myofascial pain in the neck or upper back for more than two weeks and more than one trigger pain point. Objects was irradiated for 1 minute with blue light at the eight points of the Jianzhongshu (SI15), Jianwaishu (SI14), Jianjing (Gb21) and Jugu (LI16). The assessment tools are Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and acupoint energy colorpuncture meter (Perlux P-117). Data was analyzed using SPSS 18.0 statistical software. 　　Results: After the intervention of colorpuncture, the pain score under the VAS of the experiment objects is decreased from 5.13 ± 2.09 to 3.31 ± 1.44 (p < .05) and the pain feeling was reduced by 35%, which indicates the intervention of colorpuncture can effectively improve shoulder myofascial pain. The percentage difference (PD) of the electrodermal activities of the acupoints such as Shangyang (LI1), Shaoze (SI1), Lidui (St45), Dadun (Liv1), Jianzhongshu (SI15), Jianwaishu (SI14), Jianjing (Gb21) and Jugu (LI16) had different degrees of increase or decrease, all had not reached significant differences. This study also found that the intervention of colorpuncture does not change the yin-yang balance. 　　Conclusion: Colorpuncture is an alternative therapy with effectiveness of not invasive, no side effects, safe and easy to use, which may improve shoulder myofascial pain. This study assumes that the pain improvement is related to the raise of acupoint energy. The correlation between the four acupoints of the shoulder and the twelve well-points affects the route and the corresponding organs.