Comparison infectious result of percutaneous needles trough cloths without alcohol rub kin method and percutaneous needles without clots with alcohol rub method in Nakhonping Hospital

Abstract

                This study on acupuncture carried out on the patients in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture, Nakornping Hospital, chiang Mai Province, Thailand between May 1 and 30 September 30, 2008. The selection of study patients in that period recruited 72 samples without age group specific. The experiment compared methods of acupuncture techniques, which one method was an acupuncture with needles through percutaneous kin after rubbing with alcohol and the other was an acupuncture through hospital gown without rubbing alcohol. The total counts of 1,500 acupunctures using disposable sterile needles applied to 72 patients. The results from ANOVA statistical analysis shower that there was no significant different kin infection the two methods of acupuncture techniques.