Acupuncture Research

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Acupuncture therapy in the comprehensive treatment of salpingo oophoritis (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)

by Titova NG; Khashukoeva AZ; Korneev BM.

Akusherstvo i Ginekologiia, 1991 Jun(6):44-7. Language: Russian. (uI: 92059775) AT: UCLA Biomed W1 AK975 SRLF W1 AK975 (PE title: Akusherstvo i ginekologiia.)

Abstract: Follow-up and therapy of 136 patients with nonspecific salpingo-oophoritis evidence the efficacy of acupuncture included in a complex of therapeutic measures for the treatment of this condition, as compared to traditional therapeutic modalities.

Acupuncture therapy is conductive to shortening in-hospital therapy, to full-value normalization of the body immunobiologic defense and of the autonomic nervous system, and to a reduction of the incidence of the condition recurrences.