Clinical Progress of Acupuncture in the Treatment of ACL after Reconstructive Surgery

  • Zhaolin Xu Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Xuejie Yang Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Pengyi Zhang Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Hong Su Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Yongyuan Huang Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Keywords: Acupuncture Treatment;ACL Injury Reconstruction; Rehabilitation Treatment

Abstract

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury of the knee is one of the common sports injuries, and ACL reconstruction is currently the mainstream treatment. However,ACL reconstruction often produces postoperative complications such as swelling, pain, muscle atrophy, joint adhesion and stifness, and timely interventional rehabilitation is needed for patients to recover the expected level. Studies have shown that acupuncture treatment can regulate infammatory factors and related signalling pathways, etc., and has obvious efcacy in joint rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction. The authors collated clinical reports on the use of acupuncture therapy such as general acupuncture, electroacu-puncture, moxibustion with acupuncture, snap needling, and ethnic acupuncture in the rehabilitation process after ACL reconstruction in re-cent years, to explore the feasibility and efectiveness of the intervention of acupuncture therapy, with the aim of providing a more systematic reference for the treatment ofACL injury in the future clinic after surgery.

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Published
2023-12-27
Issue
Vol 12 No 4 (2023)
Section
Review Article

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