[Pressing acupuncture therapy combined with auricular pressure beans for the treatment of chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome].

Objective: To explore the application value of the pressing acupuncture therapy (PAT) combined with auricular pressure beans in the treatment of chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS).
Methods: We selected 50 cases of CP/CPPS confirmed in our Department of Andrology from January to December 2019 and randomly divided them into an observation (n = 25) and a control group (n = 25), the former treated by PAT combined with auricular pressure beans in addition to medication, and the latter with auricular pressure beans in combination with drug therapy, both for 14 successive days. We compared the scores on NIH-CPSI and General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ) between the two groups of patients before and after treatment.
Results: After treatment, the patients in the observation group, compared with the controls, showed a significantly higher total effectiveness rate (92% vs 68%, P < 0.05) and GCQ score (［95.00 ± 9.39］ vs ［80.16 ± 9.96］, P < 0.05), and a lower pain symptom score ( ［6.92 ± 2.34］ vs ［10.08 ± 2.22］, P < 0.05), urination symptom score (［3.16 ± 1.46］ vs ［4.80 ± 1.19］, P < 0.05), quality of life score (［4.68 ± 1.35］ vs ［6.80 ± 1.71］, P < 0.05) and total NIH-CPSI score (［14.76 ± 3.31］ vs ［23.68 ± 3.05］, P < 0.05).
Conclusions: The pressing acupuncture therapy, with the advantage of dynamic needle retention with good compliance, can relieve the clinical symptoms of CP/CPPS and improve the life comfort of the patients, and is therefore worthy of further clinical research and application.