Clinical Method to Cure Somatoform Pain Disorder with Acupuncture Aided by Eight-Trigram-Boxing
针刺配合八段锦治疗躯体形式疼痛障碍临床思路

Somatoform pain disorder (SPD) is a kind of neurosis disease, and usually treated with anti-depressant drugs, which has various side-effects, but quite limited therapeutic effect on SPD in clinics. The method to cure SPD with acupuncture kinetotherapy is designed as follows: Baihuan invigoration, Yintang bleeding, needling with auricular therapy, positive athletics with Eight Trigrams Boxing, intentional breathing and imagery exercises. Acupuncture kinetotherapy is a traditional Chinese acesodyne method. It improves the threshold of pain and paintolerance of organisms and contents of centrum Ach, DA and 5-HT, and excites the pain-hold-back system of patients. The athletics helps to recuperate organisms, recover the injured mood, and rebuild up volition. The simultaneous recovery of the mood and body may be gained when the acupuncture kinetotherapy is used in combination with intervention therapy and cognition-behavior therapy.