TCM Pattern Questionnaire for Lateral Elbow Pain: Development of an Instrument via a Delphi Process

Table 5

Treatment recommendations.

Treatment intervention	⁢Patterns and agreement of experts % ()
	Wind-cold-dampness pattern	Retained dampness-heat pattern	Dual deficiency of qi and blood pattern	Qi stagnation and blood stasis pattern
Acupuncture	92	91	96	96
Manual acupuncture	92	91	91	83
Electro-acupuncture	88	—	—	96
Moxibustion	92	—	91	87
Ginger-moxibustion (direct moxibustion with a thin slice of ginger between skin and moxa cone)	88	—	81	—
Moxa stick (indirect moxibustion about 3 cm away from elbow)	96	—	91	88
Acupuncture and moxibustion	96	—	95	92

—, treatment modality CVI < 0.51: experts do not recommend this treatment modality.