Author Spotlight: Fu's Subcutaneous Needling for Knee Osteoarthritis Pain

Fu's subcutaneous needling was invented from our culture, focusing musculoskeletal problem, initially. Our scope aim to present a protocol by using full subcutaneous needling with sewing movement and approach for knee osteoarthritis pain. These foundings provide great potential for future application in my official pain treatment, especially for pain management.

Recent developments of our research have focused on several clinical observations such as lateral epicondylalgia, low back pain and the chronic neck pain to demonstrate the therapeutic benefits of Fu's subcutaneous needling, there are also animal studies ongoing, to find out the possible mechanisms of Fu's subcutaneous needling. There are several technologies currently used to advance research in Fu's subcutaneous needling like imaging techniques such as ultrasounds to visualize the anatomical structures and the physiologic changes during Fu's subcutaneous needling treatment. In addition, skin temperature change may be used to study the effects on the reperfusion effect of Fu's subcutaneous needling.

We observed significant pain relief and improvement in quality of life in patients with soft tissue pain associated with knee osteoarthritis in our research. The findings provide evidence to support the feasibility of Fu's therapy as a treatment option for patients suffering from painful knee osteoarthritis. Our research protocol offers the standardization techniques.

We provide a standardized protocol for Fu's incorporated sewing movement and reperfusion approaches to facilitate future research and improvement of reproducibility of Fu's studies. Our research opens up a new standardized definition of Fu's subcutaneous needling therapy for the treatment of various muscle disorders. The standardized procedure can provide visualized model learnings in Fu's subcutaneous needling education and the clinical trials and the applications to other pain-related disorders in the future.

The theory of affected muscles, so-called tightened muscles with one or more myofascial trigger points in the muscle. In Fu's subcutaneous needling therapy, it's an important code of pain and dysfunction. Our laboratory, we are focused on the possible mechanism of Fu's subcutaneous needling in moderating pain perception by experimental animal models in the future.