Here - EWMA 2013

POSTER: PAIN
Poster: Pain
P 323
Acupuncture as an Additional Treatment for Chronic Wound
Michal Raba 1 , Dany Rosen 1 , David Gilad 1 , Hanna Kaufman 1
1 Maccabi Healthcare Servises (Haifa, Israel).
Aim: Reduction of pain level using acupuncture in patients with chronic wounds
Method: Twenty-one patients with chronic leg ulcers for at least three months and pain
level of «five» or above out of «ten» in a visual analog scale assessment were treated
weekly at a «one stop multi-disciplinary wound clinic». Ten of them (control group)
received the western standard of care treatment, while eleven (study group) also
received a weekly acupuncture treatment, using 12 needles (30X0.18 mm) for 30
minutes. Assessment tool: Pain level measured by Visual Analog Scale.
Two approaches of acupuncture in our research:
1. Traditional, using «Key Points» along the meridian system.
2. «Circle the Dragon», which uses needles around the margins, into the intact skin.
Results: After 12 treatments, the average pain level of the control group was reduced
from 7.1 to 4.65, while that of the study group was reduced from 8.09 to 2.27. This
difference is considered statistically significant (P