颈部挥鞭样损伤针灸分型论治初探

Preliminary study on syndrome differentiation types and acupuncture for whiplash injuries

颈部挥鞭样损伤是美国针灸临床中的常见病症,笔者通过分析其损伤机制、临床表现和中医病机,介绍挥鞭样损伤的常见中医辨证分型,提出挥鞭样损伤临床辨证应综合考虑病损部位与病程阶段的观点。病损部位以经筋的不同经证为辨证依据,而区分为太阳、阳明、少阳、少阴等经证;不同病程阶段的辨证分型,急性期分为气滞和血瘀型,慢性期分为痰浊交阻、肝肾不足、气血两虚型。同时介绍针灸治疗的方案与典型病例。

Whiplash injury is a relatively common injury of clinical acupuncture and moxibustion in the United States. The mechanism and clinical manifestation of whiplash injuries as well as its pathogenesis described in TCM were analyzed in this present article. The authors introduced the TCM syndrome differentiation of whiplash injuries and claimed that both the location and the stage of disease should be considered. For the different injury locations, the meridian musculature differentiation was applied to classify the whiplash injuries as Taiyang, Yangming, Shaoyang and Shaoyin Meridian syndromes. Considering the duration of the injury, qi stagnation and blood stasis types were classified in the acute stage and phlegm accumulation, insufficiency of the liver and kidney and qi and blood deficiencies types were classified during the chronic stage. An acupuncture protocol for whiplash injuries and typical cases were also introduced.