Estudo retrospectivo do perfil e evolução clínica do paciente atendido por acupuntura veterinária em Florianópolis/SC

• Autor(a) principal: Pires, Mariana Orofino
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/12726
• topic: Acupuntura; Medicina Tradicional Chinesa; Veterinária

Acupuncture is a part of the millenary treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which aims at therapy and cure of diseases through the insertion of needles, which generate stimuli in specific points of the skin, acupoints, being in veterinary medicine so as old as in humans. This study aimed to survey the clinical cases treated by acupuncture in a private veterinary office in the city of Florianópolis, since the beginning of their care in 2016 to 2019, evaluating the effects of treatment in relation to the affected system, the profile of patients. , the clinical evolution and the need for the use of complementary medications, or the possibility of the removal of allopathy, in order to emphasize the efficacy of acupuncture in the clinical evolution of patients, reducing drugs whenever possible, favoring the healing process and analgesia. stimulated by this therapy. For this purpose, information on species, age, sex, diagnosed condition and its system in the body, need for medication, total number of acupuncture sessions and clinical evolution were analyzed in two hundred and eighty-six medical records. occurrence for each category of information through Excel 2016 spreadsheets. In this study we observed a higher prevalence of assistance to dogs (91%) compared to cats (8.7%) and monkeys (0.3%), with most elderly care (73%), mainly in the treatment of west musculoskeletal disorders (51%) and neurological disorders (36.5%), but also cutaneous (2.7%), immunological (3.8%), urinary disorders (2.2%), gastrointestinal (2.5%), endocrine (0.9%), cardiovascular (0.2%) and respiratory (0.2%), successful in acupuncture treatment where more than half (65%) of the patients treated were discharged in an average of 4.9 therapeutic sessions and 31.9% of patients receiving treatment in synergy with medication could remove allopathy, in addition to the 68.1% who were no longer on pharmacological use, benefiting only from acupuncture privileges.