Immediate Analgesic Effect of Acupuncture in Patients With Primary Dysmenorrhea: A fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: Primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) is a common gynecological disease characterized by lower abdominal pain. Acupuncture is considered a good alternative therapy for PDM. However, the central mechanism of the analgesic effect of acupuncture is largely unknown. In this study, eligible patients were randomized into the real and sham acupuncture groups using a computer-generated, permuted block randomization method. The study cohort comprised 34 patients: 19 in the real acupuncture group and 15 in the sham acupuncture group. The clinical characteristics of the patients during their menstrual period were collected, and imaging scans were performed during the first 3 days of the patients' menstrual period. We analyzed task and resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to investigate the

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8180846 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature