Evaluation of the Clinical Efficacy of Press-Needle Therapy Combined with Conventional Treatment for Heart Failure

Corresponding author: CHEN Feng, cfly149@126.com

DOI: 10.12201/bmr.202511.00004

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  Abstract: Objective　To investigate the clinical efficacy of press needles at Neiguan (PC6), Daling (PC7), Xinshu (BL15), and Dazhui (GV14) acupoints as an adjunctive therapy for heart failure.Methods　A total of 62 patients with grade III heart failure who were treated in the Department of Severe Rehabilitation of the Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University between January 2023 and December 2024 were selected. Using a random number table, they were divided into a control group and an observation group, with 31 cases in each group. Both groups received standard Western medical treatment. The observation group additionally received acupoint stimulation with press needles for a treatment course of 7 days. The following indicators were compared between the two groups before treatment and within 24 hours after treatment completion: clinical symptoms (nocturnal orthopnea, lower limb edema, pulmonary moist rales, and hepatojugular reflux), vital signs heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), laboratory tests cardiac troponin T (cTnT), N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), and TCM syndrome scores. Additionally, quality of life scores were compared before treatment and one month after discharge.Results　Within 24 hours after treatment, both groups showed improvement in clinical symptoms, vital signs, laboratory test indicators, and TCM syndrome scores compared to pre-treatment levels, with the observation group demonstrating significantly greater improvement in all indicators than the control group (all P < 0.05). At the 1-month follow-up after discharge, quality of life scores improved in both groups compared to pre-treatment, and the degree of improvement in the observation group was significantly superior to that in the control group (P < 0.05).Conclusion　Combining press-needle acupoint stimulation with standard Western therapy more effectively alleviates clinical symptoms, improves heart failure-related markers and TCM syndromes, and enhances long-term quality of life in heart failure patients.

  Key words: Press-needle; Heart failure; Clinical symptoms; Quality of life; Randomized controlled trial

  Submit time: 4 November 2025

  Copyright: The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted biomedRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.
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