Study on the effect of massage therapy combined with medications on MGD

Abstract

AIM: To study the effect of tarsal gland massage combined with medication in treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction(MGD).METHODS: Totally 100 patients(189 eyes)with MGD were selected in our hospital from December 2014 to December 2016. The patients were randomly divided into control group and observation group. Patients in the control group were treated with routine drugs, while the patients in the observation group were treated with routine massage. We observed and compared the clinical efficacy of two groups of patients before treatment, 1wk, 1 and 3mo after treatment for the subjective symptoms, tear film break-up time, tear secretion test, ocular surface disease index, corneal staining score of the patients in the 3 groups. RESULTS: The total effective rate of the observation group was 93.6%, which was significantly higher than that of the control group(PPPCONCLUSION: Massage combined with medication can improve the clinical efficacy of MGD.

Keywords

• meibomian gland dysfunction
• massage
• curative effect
• symptom
• symptom