Radical Cure Article

Role of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome

The main manifestations of chronic pelvic pain syndrome are bladder stimulation syndrome, urinary incontinence, and other urinary issues, as well as pain or discomfort of the lower urinary tract, perineum, scrotum, and upper lumbosacral area of the pubic bone.

This disease is not an independent disease, but an exclusive diagnosis, with high incidence, multiple etiology and unknown mechanism, which can cause a series of serious symptoms, and is manifested as recovery miscellaneous urinary system diseases bring huge psychological and economic burden to patients.

At present, the clinical efficacy of antibiotics, α- receptor blockers, anti-inflammatory drugs, immunomodulatory drugs, and other drugs is not significant. Acupuncture has been widely used in clinical practice, and a large number of studies have proved that acupuncture is effective in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain syndrome(CPPS).

In the discussion of the mechanism of action of acupuncture on CPPS, the modern research on the effective mechanism of acupuncture mainly focuses on the research of neural regulation, immune regulation, and analgesic mechanism, especially in the aspect of analgesic mechanism, which can be summarized as local mechanism, spinal cord (segment) level mechanism of analgesic effect and central level mechanism of pain inhibition.