Professor Wei-bin GAO's experience in treatment of voiding dysfunction with electroacupuncture

Abstract

As a common clinical syndrome, voiding dysfunction is complicated in etiology, involved in a variety of diseases and associated with multi-disciplines of medicine. Either medication or surgery has not obtained the favorable effect on it. Integrated the theories of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine and based on the pathogenesis of the disease, the acupoint specificity and neuromodulatory effects, Professor Wei-bin GAO suggested “selecting the acupoints along the affected areas”. The acupoints located near to the lumbar, sacral and abdominal regions are dominated and stimulated with electroacupuncture at different electric waves. In treatment, electric stimulation with disperse and dense waves was adopted. The bone conduction theory of dense-wave electric field was proposed. The same neuromodulation is presented in different diseases such as neurogenic bladder, pediatric enuresis, senile nocturia, benign prostatic hyerplasia, and postpartum of postoperative urination disorders. Hence, the same therapeutic method is adoptable to different diseases with the basic acupoint composition modified.