Triple acupuncture at the Qugu acupoint as an adjunctive therapy for type-Ⅲ chronic prostatitis:Analysis of short-and long-term clinical effects
ZHANG Xiao-yi
LUO Shao-bo
ZHANG Jin-ying
MENG Zhe-cheng
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the short-and long-term effects of triple acupuncture at the Qugu acupoint as an adjunctive therapy on type-Ⅲ chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS).Methods:We equally randomized 90 CP/CPPS patients into a control and a treatment group,both treated with Levofloxacin Mesylate Tablets (0.5 g,tid) + Terazosin Hydrochloride Capsules (2 mg qd) for 4 weeks,while the latter group by triple acupuncture at the Qugu acupoint as an adjunctive therapy twice a week at the same time.Then,we followed up all the patients for 4 weeks,recorded the cases,time and rate of recurrence,obtained the scores in National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI),quality of life (QoL) and Zung Depression Scale (ZDS),and compared them between the two groups of patients.Results:Compared with the controls,the patients of the treatment group showed significantly decreased NIH-CPSI scores in pain (8.6 ± 2.12 vs 6.2 ± 2.25,P ＜ 0.05),micturition (5.8 ± 1.22vs3.1 ± 1.10,P ＜0.05),andQoL (6.0 ± 1.33 vs3.4 ± 1.71,P ＜0.05) and ZDS score as well (43.9 ±4.53 vs 33.6 ± 3.20,P ＜ 0.01).The recurrence rate was markedly lower while the recurrence time remarkably longer in the treatment than in the control group (15.56vs35.56％ and[20.0 ± 2.72] vs [12.5 ± 3.47] d,P ＜0.05).Conclusion:Asanadjunctive therapy,triple acupuncture at the Qugu acupoint can evidently ameliorate the clinical symptoms,enhance the curative effect of antibacterials,reduce the recurrence rate,and prolong the recurrence time in the treatment of CP/CPPS.
Keywords：type-Ⅲ chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrometriple acupuncturecurative effectrecurrence
Publication Date：2017-05-02
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 464-467 )