探討遠紅外線治療儀應用於失眠之臨床療效

To Explore the Clinical Efficacy of Far Infrared Rays in Improving Insomnia

探討遠紅外線治療儀照射失眠患者之頸椎及薦椎是否可改善睡眠品質。以匹茲堡睡眠量表（Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI）問卷方式初步篩選出睡眠品質大於5分的個案，並使用心率睡眠儀監測個案睡眠情況，依照實驗設計加入遠紅外線治療儀照射頸椎及腰椎並收集照射前後之各項數據，並針對收集之睡眠相關數據及副交感神經之活性進行統計分析比對，藉此證明遠紅外線對於改善睡眠品質之效果。使用遠紅外線照射副交感神經節點後發現，受試者對於PSQI之評分分數顯著下降，客觀數據上，照射前後數值比較，發現睡眠效率提升，深度睡眠時間增加以及清醒時間減少。結論是主觀以及客觀數值顯示睡眠品質改善，故研究初步推論，使用遠紅外線治療儀照射副交感神經節點可以改善睡眠。

To explore the efficacy of far infrared rays to irradiate cervical and sacral spine who was insomnia. In this study, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire was used to screen out cases with sleep quality greater than 5/5, and the cases were monitored with a heart rate sleep monitor (“Zoetek”Heart Rate & Sleep Monitor, ZT-O2-P). Before and after sleep-related data and autonomic nerve values were measured. According to the experimental results, after the use of far-infrared radiation, the PSQI scores of the subjects decreased significantly, indicating that their sleep improved. In terms of objective data, compared with the values before irradiation, the findings show that sleep efficiency increased, deep sleep time increased, and awake time decreased. After irradiating the parasympathetic nerve node with far infrared rays, results showed that the sympathetic nerve was inhibited. The NN50 value, which reflects the activity of the parasympathetic nerve, increased when the sacral spine is irradiated. In conclusion, after using a far-infrared therapeutic instrument to irradiate parasympathetic nerve nodes, the subjective and objective values show that sleep quality can be improved. Therefore, this study preliminarily concludes that using far-infrared therapeutic instruments to irradiate parasympathetic nerve nodes can improve sleep.