Clinical Study on the Treatment of Residual Dizziness in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo with the Structural Balancing Acupuncture Method

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmhs.202405206

Author(s)

Weitong Fu*, Zhiguang Zhong, Zhenting Zhong, Hongbiao Zheng

Affiliation(s)

Ninth People's Hospital of Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong, China *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) often has residual dizziness symptoms after manipulative repositioning, and acupuncture is experienced in treating this disease. In this study, 68 cases of BPPV were recruited and randomly divided into 2 groups: acupuncture combined with manipulative reset group and reset group, and acupuncture treatment was performed with empirically prescribed structural balancing acupuncture method. The Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Dizziness Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and the effective rate were assessed after two treatments. The results showed that the acupuncture combined with manipulative restoration group was able to reduce the DHI scale score significantly, and a trend change was seen in the visual analog scale (VAS) of dizziness and the effective rate between groups after treatment. The results showed that the combination of structural balancing and manipulative repositioning in the treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo could improve the residual dizziness symptoms compared with manipulative repositioning alone, which can be clinically promoted and further validated in a large-sample RCT in the future.

Keywords

Acpuncture; Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo; Residual Dizziness; Tubular Stone Repositioning Method

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