CLINICAL OBSERVATION OF 195 CASES OF CERVICAL DISEASE BY COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENTS WITH QIGONG AS THE LEADING THERAPY

Comprehensive treatments for 195 cases of cervical vertebra disease are reported as follows. We used static qigong therapy, which includes site qi therapy, collective qigong practicing therapy, and remote directional qi therapy; dynamic state qigong with 9 movements: acupoint pressing and massage and bone setting; mutual qi exhaling therapy;water with message and articles with good healthy message; remote diagnosis and cure and fast and also the combined methods such as acupuncture, pricking, moxibustion, cupping, oral dose or external application of herbs, segmental and separate medicine application, acupoint injection, application of medicated pillow and so on.
Criterion of therapeutic effect:
1) Cure: Subjective disappearance of symptoms and clinical signs
2) Marked effectiveness: markedly abated in subjective symptoms and clinical signs
3) Effectiveness: Symptoms and signs were abated, special treatment needed to remiss recurrence.
4) Failure: no change

Results:
1-5 courses of treatment were applied to 195 cases. the results were shown in the following.
Table 1:

# of % # of % # of % # of % cure %
cure marked effect failure + eff
effect
123 63.08 48 24.62 20 10.26 4 2.05 171 87.70

Table II: Results of half to one year follow-up survey

# of % # of % # of % # of % rate of
cure marked effect failure cure
effect
102 52.31 65 33.33 16 8.21 12 6.15 85.64

Table III: Results of 128 cases who persisted in training qigong at least for one year

# of % # of % # of % rate of
cure marked effect cure
effect
beginning 61 47.66 52 40.63 15 11.72 88.29
1 year after 105 82.03 23 17.97 0 0 100
training

The curative effect is 87.70% for short-term comprehensive treatment, 85.64% for a period of longer than half a year but less than one year end 100% for 128 patients persistent in qigong practicing for more than one year. The cure rate is 63.08%,52.31% and 82.03%, respectively for the above three treatment periods and there are obvious differences in curative effect among the different treatment periods.