Pain Mesotherapy Adventure of Three Sisters Who Applied to a Traditional And Complementary Medicine Center

Year 2024, , 199 - 203, 26.12.2024

Dilşat Erümit Çamaş , Onur Öztürk

https://doi.org/10.53811/ijtcmr.1515240

Abstract

Today, musculoskeletal pain is frequently seen in the working population. Analgesic drugs are frequently used in the treatment of this chronic pain. However, analgesic drug treatment causes various side effects. Mesotherapy is an application method that aims to heal by injecting a small amount of medication under the skin. In this method, less medication is used compared to systemic treatment and a similar effect is achieved. Although mesotherapy has a wide range of uses, it does not yet have a standard protocol. For these reasons, every study conducted in the field of mesotherapy is quite valuable. It was aimed to contribute to the literature by evaluating the mesotherapy results of three sisters from the same family who applied to our center with various pain complaints. The pain of the sisters, aged 44, 47 and 50, was evaluated with the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) before and after mesotherapy. The pain levels, which were 10/10, 8/10 and 10/10, decreased to 7/10, 4/10 and 3/10 after three sessions of mesotherapy, respectively. In addition, all of them reported an increase in their quality of life. The decrease in pain in these patients with similar genetic and sociodemographic characteristics, consistent with previous studies, can be interpreted as significant.

Keywords

pain, mesotherapy, siblings, musculoskeletal

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