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Volume 5, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Tradi Med Clin Natur
ISSN: JTMCN, an open access journal
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Chai-Yi Chou et al., J Tradi Med Clin Natur 2016, 5:2 (Suppl)
Acute effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoints stimulation on heart rate recovery after the 3-minute
step test
Chai-Yi Chou1,2 , Huei-Jhen Wen3 and Boon Suen Ang 4
1University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
2Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taiwan
3Tzu Chi University, Taiwan
4Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Introduction: Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation (TEAS) is a safe standardized non-invasive therapeutic technique to
enhance the heart rate regulation in healthy and cardiovascular disease individuals
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the acute therapeutic effect of TEAS on recovery heart rate (HR) after exercise.
Methods: Forty-one recreationally active college students were recruited and randomly assigned into either TEAS group (TG) or
control group (CG). All participants were required to perform two trials of 3-minute step exercise (3MST) wtih a break of 30 minutes
between trials. For the TG, participants received 10 minutes TEAS treatment on both forearms at the two selected standard acupoints
(Nei-Guan [PC6] and Lie-Que [LU7]) for cardiovascular disease before the second trial, while the CG was seated at rest. HR was
measured at rest (HRrest), the first (HR1), second (HR2) and third-minute (HR3) of recovery after 3MST. Mixed-models repeated
measures method was used to compare differences between the groups (α = 0.05).
Results: There were no significant difference in HRrest1 and HRrest2 between the first and the second 3MST in both groups, as well as
between groups.
Groups HRrest1 (beats/min) HRrest2 (beats/min) 3MST Fitness Index
(Pre-treatment)
3MST Fitness Index
(Post treatment)
TG 81 ± 7 82 ± 8 56.93 ± 8.43 58.31 ± 11.80
CG 81 ± 10 82 ± 11 58.31 ± 11.80 58.13 ± 6.09
The caluculated 3MST fitness indexes were no significance different between the pre-treatment and the post treatment in both
groups.
Conclusion: Although TEAS at PC6 and LU7 has demonstrated it can slowdown the heart rate in tachycardia patients. But in
this study, it did not show the effect. We spaculate, the timing and durantion of TEAS treatment may play important role and
its machanism on enhencing cardiovascular enhencing need to further investigate.
Biography
Chai-Yi Chou earned her MD degree from China Medical University in Taiwan in 2008. She specialized in Acupuncture. After 3 years residency training in Tzu Chi
Medical Center, she has experience in treating patients with various diseases, including cardiopulmonary diseases and sports, injuries rehabilitation and recovery.
She has great passion and interest in Sports Medicine. She would like to utilize and apply acupuncture in Exercise Science. She is pursuing her MS degree in
Exercise Science at Department of Kinesiology in University of Wisconsin-Madison.