ACUPUNCTURE IN THE TREATMENT OF RENAL COLIC YING-HUEI LEE, WEN-CHANG LEE, MING-TSUN CHEN, JONG-KHING HUANG, CHIEH CHUNG AND LUKE S. CHANG From the Department of Surgery (Urology) and Acupuncture, National Yang-Ming Medical College and Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
ABSTRACT
A prospective randomized study was performed to compare the effect of acupuncture and intramuscular Avafo_rtaI1* injE:)ctiQ!l 111 th� treatment of renal c:Qlic. Our _results Jlhowed_ that acupuncture is as effective in relieving renal colic as Avafortan but it had a more rapid analgesic onset (3.14 ± 2.88 minutes versus 15.44 ± 7.55 minutes, p
A prospective randomized study was performed to compare the effect of acupuncture and intramuscular Avafortan injection in the treatment of renal coli...