**6. Precautions**


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**Author details**

Zhonghua Fu1

provided the original work is properly cited.

\* and Dejian Lu<sup>2</sup>

1 Nanjing FSN Medical Institute, Nanjing, China

\*Address all correspondence to: 139004426@qq.com

*Fu's Subcutaneous Needling: A Novel Therapeutic Proposal*

3 months, it is better not to conduct needling on the lumbosacral region and abdomen. If pregnant women are nervous, it is forbidden to do needling

• If patients use safflower oil, massage milk, and other stimulating drugs for external use on their skin or receive treatment of strong plaster, strong cupping, and scraping method, FSN therapy should not be applied in a short time. But if the skin condition has returned to normal after these treatments, then it

• It is better not to give FSN therapy to people who have recently received

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84251*

is suitable to do FSN therapy.

steroids injection therapy.

treatment.

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2 Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kiang Wu Hospital, Macau, China

*Acupuncture - Resolving Old Controversies and Pointing New Pathways*

It is better to explain thoroughly to the patient so as to eliminate the patient's worries, choose the right position, and treat the patient in a gentle way. If the patient feels hungry and tired, treatment can be given after the patient finishes eating, drinking, and taking a rest. Supine position is recommended when patients feel too nervous. Practitioners should observe the patients' responses and ask about their feelings. If the treatment causes discomfort and the patient shows symptoms of fainting, the practitioner should stop immediately and take some necessary

The needling operation should be stopped immediately. The practitioner should withdraw the needle, help the patients lie on bed, and keep them warm. Generally, the patient will recover soon after drinking warm water or sugar water and taking some rest. If the patient is still unconscious or breathing weakly, or his or her blood pressure drops rapidly, other rescuing measures or first aid treatment should be carried out.

• It is suggested to give a brief explanation to patients about FSN manipulation and its features before giving treatment so as to reduce the patient's fear and

• For patients who are aged and weak, the first time to receive FSN treatment and patients who are scared of needles, it is suggested to treat them by supine

• When giving reperfusion approach, the scope of activity should be from small to large, step by step, and the external force given from outside should be from light to heavy. The external force should be counterforce when patients move actively. A sudden force or vigorous activity is forbidden when giving passive activity. Age, physical, mental state, and other factors of patients should be considered when practitioners design the reperfusion activities. It is better to avoid the situation that one single reperfusion approach takes too much time,

• During the period of retaining the soft tube, patients should keep adhesive tape clean and dry so as to avoid infections. Mild activities are suggested during the retaining of the soft tube, but strong and large movements should be avoided in order not to affect the fixation of the soft tube. In some rare cases, if the retaining tube reaches the blood vessels, resulting in stinging or bleeding, the tube should be taken out immediately. Do not be worried if patients feel itchy around the tube-retaining area, as it is usually due to allergic reactions of patients to the soft tube or adhesive tape. Practitioners can choose other kinds

of materials instead to fix the tube, for example, bandages can be used.

• Practitioners should not perform FSN therapy on the abdomen of women within 3 months of pregnancy. Even for women who are pregnant over

too much strength, or is repeated too frequently.

**5.2 Fainting during the treatment**

measures in advance.

**6. Precautions**

doubts.

position.

*5.2.1 Prevention of fainting during treatment*

*5.2.2 Management of fainting during treatment*

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3 months, it is better not to conduct needling on the lumbosacral region and abdomen. If pregnant women are nervous, it is forbidden to do needling treatment.

