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The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries

BACKGROUND: Postoperative pain is one of the most prevalent and bothersome issues found in the surgical department. Nowadays, there are various methods of acupuncture used for relieving pain without the complications found in some routine postoperative analgesics. These methods could be especially u...

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Autores principales: Taghavi, Rahim, Tabasi, Kamyar Tavakoli, Mogharabian, Nasser, Asadpour, Akram, Golchian, Amir, Mohamadi, Shabnam, Kabiri, Azade Ataran
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Publicado: The Korean Pain Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23342207
http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2013.26.1.46
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author Taghavi, Rahim
Tabasi, Kamyar Tavakoli
Mogharabian, Nasser
Asadpour, Akram
Golchian, Amir
Mohamadi, Shabnam
Kabiri, Azade Ataran
author_facet Taghavi, Rahim
Tabasi, Kamyar Tavakoli
Mogharabian, Nasser
Asadpour, Akram
Golchian, Amir
Mohamadi, Shabnam
Kabiri, Azade Ataran
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description BACKGROUND: Postoperative pain is one of the most prevalent and bothersome issues found in the surgical department. Nowadays, there are various methods of acupuncture used for relieving pain without the complications found in some routine postoperative analgesics. These methods could be especially useful for high risk patients prone to complications from analgesics, such as transplantation recipients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of electro-acupuncture on postoperative pain control after inguinal surgeries. METHODS: Ninety male patients, who were referred to our department with indications of inguinal surgery, were included in the study and randomly divided into two groups, such as acupuncture and control. We used electro-acupuncture for the acupuncture group and no actual acupuncture (but placed needle electrodes similar to the acupuncture group) for the control group. Postoperative pain was quantified by a blind observer in both groups using a visual analogue scale (VAS) standard score before being compared. RESULTS: Pain intensity and analgesic use were significantly higher in the control group (P < 0.05). In the acupuncture group, the VAS pain scores were significantly lower than the control group at 0.5, 1 and 2 hours post operation. When the opioid related side effects were compared for each group, the results showed that the number of subjects who experienced dizziness in the acupuncture group was significantly lower than the control group (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture in patients, after inguinal surgery, can reduce the need of analgesics, which also directly reduces the complications that may occur when analgesics are used in relieving pain postoperatively.
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spelling pubmed-35462102013-01-22 The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries Taghavi, Rahim Tabasi, Kamyar Tavakoli Mogharabian, Nasser Asadpour, Akram Golchian, Amir Mohamadi, Shabnam Kabiri, Azade Ataran Korean J Pain Original Article BACKGROUND: Postoperative pain is one of the most prevalent and bothersome issues found in the surgical department. Nowadays, there are various methods of acupuncture used for relieving pain without the complications found in some routine postoperative analgesics. These methods could be especially useful for high risk patients prone to complications from analgesics, such as transplantation recipients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of electro-acupuncture on postoperative pain control after inguinal surgeries. METHODS: Ninety male patients, who were referred to our department with indications of inguinal surgery, were included in the study and randomly divided into two groups, such as acupuncture and control. We used electro-acupuncture for the acupuncture group and no actual acupuncture (but placed needle electrodes similar to the acupuncture group) for the control group. Postoperative pain was quantified by a blind observer in both groups using a visual analogue scale (VAS) standard score before being compared. RESULTS: Pain intensity and analgesic use were significantly higher in the control group (P < 0.05). In the acupuncture group, the VAS pain scores were significantly lower than the control group at 0.5, 1 and 2 hours post operation. When the opioid related side effects were compared for each group, the results showed that the number of subjects who experienced dizziness in the acupuncture group was significantly lower than the control group (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture in patients, after inguinal surgery, can reduce the need of analgesics, which also directly reduces the complications that may occur when analgesics are used in relieving pain postoperatively. The Korean Pain Society 2013-01 2013-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3546210/ /pubmed/23342207 http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2013.26.1.46 Text en Copyright © The Korean Pain Society, 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Taghavi, Rahim
Tabasi, Kamyar Tavakoli
Mogharabian, Nasser
Asadpour, Akram
Golchian, Amir
Mohamadi, Shabnam
Kabiri, Azade Ataran
The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries
title The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries
title_full The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries
title_fullStr The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries
title_full_unstemmed The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries
title_short The Effect of Acupuncture on Relieving Pain after Inguinal Surgeries
title_sort effect of acupuncture on relieving pain after inguinal surgeries
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23342207
http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2013.26.1.46
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