Comparison of the Effects of Electroacupuncture plus Cupping with That of the Electrical Pulse Therapy for Different Types of Cervical Spondylopathy

Objectives: To observe and compare the therapeutic effects of electroacupuncture (EA) plus cupping and the electrical pulse therapy on different types of cervical spondylopathy. Methods: 182 cases of cervical spondylopathy confirmed by X-ray or CT examination were divided into 4 types, and treated with EA plus cupping in Group A of 90 cases and with moderate or low electrical pulses in Group B of 92 cases. The therapeutic effects were compared after 3 courses of treatments. Results: For the vertebroarterial type and the nerve root type of cervical spondylopathy, the effect in Group A was better than that in Group B, while for the sympathetic type of cervical spondylopathy, the effect in Group B was superior to that in Group A.Conclusion: Appropriate therapies should be adopted for different types af cervical spondylopathy.     

The Clustered Needling,Massage and Cupping Used for Treatment of Obstinate Myofascitis of the Back——A Report of 68 Cases

The clustered needling, massage and cupping have been used together for treatment of myofascitis of the back with good therapeutic results through the joint effects of removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation, dredging the channels, promoting the metabolism and the repair of the tissues, impairing and relaxing the affected muscles.     

Dr. Huang Zhenqiao＇s Experience in Treating Acute Leukemia——A Summary for the Survivors Over Five Years

Dr. Huang Zhenqiao （黄振翘）, born in 1936, was graduated from Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1962. Now, he is professor and the tutor to the doctorial students at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is also the director of Hemopathy Specialty Committee under China Association of Chinese Medicine.[第一段]     

Understanding the Job in a New Way — A Basis for Development of Competence in Diabetes Care

Abstract

Patients complain that doctors and nurses do not listen, and therefore a need to develop the patient encounter is at hand. Phenomenological theory has opened new ways to develop professional competence. If the idea holds that we express our understanding about our work through our actions, a change in understanding might further develop professional competence. This idea offers a new way to develop competence in diabetes health care service. The aim of this study was to map health care professionals’ understanding of the patient encounter before and after an educational intervention that focused the way the health care professional experienced the encounter, and to describe how their understanding changed. Two general practitioners and two diabetes nurses participated. They were interviewed before and after the intervention. The intervention comprised 4-5 sessions during which they together with a tutor reviewed their videotaped consultations with different persons with diabetes. The tutors’ role was to make interventions that could alter the persons understanding of the diabetes consultation through questioning. The interviews were analysed using phenomenographic method. The results show that the professionals changed their ways of experiencing the encounter after the intervention. They started to question their way of working, focused the patient's learning process and became interested in how to stimulate it.     

Melanophore Indexing：A New Bio—assay Technique for the Analysis of Acute Heavy Metal（HgCl2）Toxicity

Toxicity of 0.4 pm (96h LC50value)and 0.03 ppm of mercuric chloride on the melanophores of the skin at different time intervals has been studied.Mercury treatment causes immediate increase in the number and size of the pigment cells.Subsequently these pigment cells form a dense matting of melanophore network with their cell processes interlacing with those of their neighbours.These cells later show degeneration and lysis releasing large quantity of pigment granules into the intercellulr spaces in the dermis.Later the pigment cells regenerate several times each followed by degeneration in a cyclic manner.Prolonged treatment with subletha concentration of mercuric chloride does not show significant alteration in the melanophore density and size.Statistical analysis and wide spread destruction of melanophores observed during 4-6 days of exposure might help in testing water samples contaminated with lethal concentration of heavy metal salts.