Trial reportPain research & management2021
Rehabilitation of An Analgesic Bracelet Based on Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture in Patients with Rotator Cuff Injury: A Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Pain research & management, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Preemptive Analgesia Using Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture on Postoperative Pain and Urinary Retention After Haemorrhoidectomy: A Randomised, Three-Arm, Clinical Trial.Journal of pain research · 2026Trial
- Efficacy and Safety of Transcutaneous Acupoint Electrical Stimulation in the Treatment of Cervical Spondylosis: A Multicenter Randomized Open-Labeled Controlled Clinical Study.Pain research & management · 2025Trial
- Effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation based on wrist-ankle acupuncture theory on the skeletal muscle repair and gut microbiota modulation in rats with gastrocnemius muscle injury.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Article
- Effects and Mechanisms of Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture on Inflammatory Pain in the Rat Gastrocnemius Muscle.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Research progress on the application of wrist-ankle acupuncture combined with rehabilitation therapy in the prevention and treatment of training injuries.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
- Efficacy comparison between acupuncture and other modalities in the treatment of rotator cuff diseases: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.American journal of translational research · 2024Review
- Cerebral cortical hemodynamic metrics to aid in assessing pain levels? A pilot study of functional near-infrared spectroscopy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (C-TENS) in the rehabilitation of rotator cuff injury. Methods: A total of 60 patients diagnosed with mild to moderate rotator cuff injury were randomly divided into the control group and test group. Both groups received conventional rehabilitation treatment including physical therapy, joint mobilization, interventional therapy, and family recovery training. The test group additionally received TENS treatment on the upper area 4 or 5 of the wrist, based on the wrist-ankle acupuncture (WAA) theory. The results of the visual analogue scale (VAS), shoulder range of motion (ROM), and Constant-Murley score (CMs) were collected before and after the 1 Results: The VAS scores of measurement points after treatment were all improved compared with those at baseline. There was a significant difference between the two groups after the 1 Conclusion: Electrical stimulation on the wrist combined with conventional rehabilitation is more effective in relieving pain than the conventional rehabilitation alone. Electrical stimulation on the wrist combined with conventional rehabilitation has no obvious effect in improving shoulder joint mobility and shoulder function.
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