Department of Tuina and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hubei Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China
Research
Therapeutic Effect Analysis of Tuina Manipulations in the Treatment of Insomnia and Itraq Quantitative Proteome Analysis
Author(s): Jing Zhou, Biwei Cao, Meng Wei, Yuan Xiong, Wan Liu, Li Zhu and Yan Zhao*
Introduction: Insomnia, one of the most common mental disorders, not only affects the quality of life, but also
damages physical and mental health. Therefore, it is very necessary to explore the molecular mechanism of insomnia
and find some suitable treatments. At present, methods of using drugs to treat insomnia are not satisfactory due
to lack of evidences and side effects. Hence, development of non-drug treatments is particularly important. Tuina
manipulations, a Chinese massage method, has achieved certain therapeutic effects on injuries, rheumatism,
neurological diseases and other types of diseases. We have treated patient with insomnia by Tuina manipulations,
and obtained therapeutic effects indeed.
Methods: In the current study, assessments were performed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and
the insomni.. View more»