Treatment and outcome
The patient was given individualised acupuncture
treatment once a week for 12 weeks, and points were
punctured bilaterally. The needles used were
0.25×25 mm or 0.20×15 mm stainless steel (depending
on the place of needling) single use needles
(AcuPro C, Wujiang City Cloud and Dragon Medical
Device Co Ltd, China) and were placed according to
Traditional Chinese Medicine principles.1 De qi was
obtained, and the needles were not stimulated after
that, but left in place for 1 h.