Objective: To study the clinical effect and mechanism of auricular acupoint pressing (AAP) in treating sleep apnea syndrome (SAS).
Methods: Forty-five patients with SAS were randomly divided in to the AAP group (30 patients) and the control group (15 patients) to observe the changes of clinical symptoms, apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), apnea index (AI), hypopnea index (HI) and minimum blood oxygen saturation (mSaO2) in night before and after treatment by multiple channel polysomnography (PSG).
Results: Clinical symptoms were significantly alleviated in the AAP group after treatment, with improvement in various parameters monitored by PSG (P < 0.01), showing significantly reduced AHI, AI and HI and increased mSaO2 (P < 0.01). While in the control group, no improvement was found either in clinical symptom or in PSG parameters (P > 0.05). Comparison between the two groups showed significant difference (P < 0.01).
Conclusion: AAP is an effective treatment of SAS, it provides a facilitate, economic and safe therapy for early prevention and treatment to SAS.
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