Acupuncture at "pelvic floor six needles" combined with Kegel exercise for mild to moderate female stress urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial
LI Qianqian, HUANG Xianghong, ZHANG Jiali, et al. Acupuncture at "pelvic floor six needles" combined with Kegel exercise for mild to moderate female stress urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial[J]. Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, 2025, 45(3): 317-321.
LI Qianqian, HUANG Xianghong, ZHANG Jiali, et al. Acupuncture at "pelvic floor six needles" combined with Kegel exercise for mild to moderate female stress urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial[J]. Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, 2025, 45(3): 317-321.DOI: 10.13703/j.0255-2930.20240408-k0001.
To observe the effect of acupuncture at "pelvic floor six needles" for mild to moderate female stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
Methods
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A total of 60 patients with mild to moderate female SUI were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group
30 cases each group. The control group received Kegel exercise. The observation group received acupuncture at "pelvic floor six needles" on the basis of the treatment as the control group
bilateral Zhongliao (BL33)
Zhibian (BL54)
Huiyang (BL35)
Shuidao (ST28)
Dahe (KI12) and Guanyuan (CV4) were selected
once every other day
3 times a week
4 weeks as a course of treatment
a total of 2 courses were required. Before treatment and after 4
8 weeks of treatment
urine leakage in 1 hour
International Consultation on Incontinence questionnaire short form (ICI-Q-SF) score
and incontinence quality of life questionnaire (I-QOL) score were observed in the two groups
and the clinical efficacy was evaluated.
Results
2
After 8 weeks of treatment
urine leakage in 1 hour an
d ICI-Q-SF scores in both groups were decreased compared with those before treatment (
P
<
0.05)
and urine leakage in 1 hour and ICI-Q-SF score in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (
P
<
0.05). After 4
8 weeks of treatment
I-QOL scores were increased compared with those before treatment in both groups (
P
<
0.05)
and the I-QOL scores in the observation group were higher than those in the control group (
P
<
0.01
P
<
0.001). The total effective rate of the observation group was 93.3% (28/30)
which was higher than 73.3% (22/30) in the control group (
P
<
0.05).
Conclusion
2
Acupuncture at "pelvic floor six needles" could improve the clinical symptoms and quality of life in patients with mild to moderate female SUI to a certain degree.