[Efficacy observation on abdominal acupuncture for adhesion-stage shoulder periarthritis].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of abdominal acupuncture for adhesion-stage shoulder periarthritis.

Methods: One hundred and fifty-seven cases of shoulder periarthritis were randomly divided into an abdominal acupuncture group (79 cases) and a body acupuncture group (78 cases). The abdominal acupuncture was applied at Zhongwan (CV 12), Shangqu (KI 17) and Huaroumen (ST 24) in the abdominal acupuncture group while conventional acupuncture was applied at Jianyu (LI 15), Jianliao (TE 14) and Jianzhen (SI 9) in the body acupuncture group.