Press Needle: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy for Myopia Patients with Dry Eye

Summary

Here, we present a protocol to standardize the operation of acupuncture in the treatment of myopia with dry eye.

Abstract

Most patients with myopia have dry eye, which has been shown to adversely affect ocular symptoms, myopia progression, and quality of life in patients with myopia. Needle prickling has been shown to be effective in providing symptom relief in patients with myopia and dry eye. Press needle is a long-lasting, easy-to-operate, and inexpensive traditional Chinese medicine treatment. The standard practice of needle insertion is very important for the treatment of myopia and dry eye. The specific steps include selecting the appropriate acupoints, piercing them with appropriate needles, and fixing them in the skin or subcutaneously at the acupoints, burying them for 2 days, resting for 1 day; the course of treatment lasts for 2 weeks. Specifically, the following indicators were assessed: uncorrected visual acuity and the ocular surface disease index. This article will explain how to standardize the operation of a press needle in the treatment of myopia and dry eye.

Introduction

Myopia is a refractive error; when the eye is in a relaxed state of adjustment, parallel light rays are focused in front of the retina after passing through the refractive retina, resulting in a clear image on the retina, which is called myopia. The main manifestations of this disease are clear vision of near objects and blurred vision of distant objects¹. When the normal eye adjusts to a relaxed state, the parallel light rays from 5 m away pass through the refractive system of the eye, and the focus falls on the retina, forming a clear image. However, when a myopic patient sees a distant object 5 m away, the parallel light rays are focused in ....

Protocol

This protocol has been approved for clinical trial ethics in the Department of Ophthalmology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ethics record number: KY2023001). Ensure that the environment is clean and pollution-free, with plenty of light and quiet surroundings. Informed consent was obtained from the patients to use and publish data shown in this paper.

1. Doctor preparation

1. Check the basic information of the patient. Make .......

Discussion

As an ancient traditional treatment method in China, the efficacy of acupuncture has been verified in the long history of development, and various research results in recent years have further proved the effectiveness of acupuncture in improving the vision and dry eye symptoms of myopia patients. The effectiveness of this therapy depends mainly on the acupuncture points chosen. The studies of Gao Hui¹⁴ and others have confirmed that acupuncture therapy can significantly improve the symptoms of dry.......

Materials

Name	Company	Catalog Number	Comments
75% Alcohol disinfectant	Kangpai (Jiangsu) Medical Technology Co., Ltd.	20230926
Disposable surgical masks	Hunan Kefu Medical Equipment Co., Ltd	20220401
Disposable treatment towels	Chengdu Mingsen medical equipment Co.,Ltd	20230824
Fingertip pulse oximeter	Jiangsu Yuyue Medical Equipment Co., Ltd	20172201070
Medical disposable hat	Qingdao Hairun Medical Technology Co., Ltd	20190576
Medical tweezers	Hunan Kefu Medical Equipment Co., Ltd	P0402311003
Mercury sphygmomanometer	Jiangsu Yuyue Medical Equipment Co., Ltd	20152070947
Sterile medical disposable sterilized cotton swabs	Hunan Kefu Medical Equipment Co., Ltd	20210014
Sterile press needles for single-use	Suzhou Medical Supplies Factory Co., Ltd	233126
SPSS		Data analysis software