Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2 articles published in JoVE Medicine Analgesic Effect of Tuina on Rat Models with Compression of the Dorsal Root Ganglion Pain Fanchao Meng*1, Hua Xing*1, Xiaojie Su2, Wenshuai Xu1, Pengfei Song3, Li Gong1 1Department of Tuina, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3Department of Tuina, Shuguang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine This article presents a manipulation for treating chronic compression of the dorsal root ganglion in rats using Tuina therapy, along with a method for evaluating its effectiveness based on pain behavior and histopathological results. Medicine Tuina Manipulation to Reduce Inflammation and Cartilage Loss in Knee Osteoarthritis Rats Xiaojie Su*1, Pengfei Song*1, Fanchao Meng1, Wenshuai Xu1, Hua Xing1, Hong Zhang1 1Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine We present a protocol for Tuina manipulation performed on plaster-immobilized-induced knee osteoarthritis rats. Based on the preliminary results, it suggested that the efficacy of the method relied on the reduction of inflammation and cartilage loss.
