만성 요통에 대한 매선요법을 병행한 한방치료의 효과에 대한 후향적 연구 ※
김선욱, 신정철
*동신대학교 목포한방병원 침구의학과
[Abstract]
TheEffectsofKoreanMedicalTreatmentCombinedwithEmbedding AcupunctureonPatientswithChronicLowerBackPain:aRetro- spectiveStudy
※SeonWookKimandJeongCheolShin
*DepartmentofAcupuncture&MoxibustionMedicine,MokpoOrientalHospitalof DongshinUniversity
Objectives : ThepurposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatetheclinicaleffectsofKoreanmedical treatmentscombinedwithEmbeddingacupunctureonpatientswithchroniclowerbackpain.
Methods : Wereviewedthemedicalrecordsof40patientswithchroniclowerbackpainhospi- talizedatDongshinKoreanMedicineHospitalfromMarch,2015toFebruary,2016.Theywere dividedintotwogroups:theembeddingacupuncturegroup(20patients)andthenon-embed- dingacupuncturegroup(20patients).
Toevaluatetheefficacyofthetreatments,the40patientswereaskedtocompleteaNumerical Ratingscale(NRS)andtheOswestryDisabilityIndex(ODI)fourtimesduringadmission.
Results : ThemeanNRSoftheembeddingacupuncturegroupdecreasedmoresignificantlythan thenon-embeddingacupuncturegroupatdaysthreeandtenofadmission.TheODIchange andODIrateofchangeoftheembeddingacupuncturegroupweresignificantlygreaterthan thenon-embeddingacupunctureatdaysthreeandtenofadmission.
Conclusion : Koreanmedicaltreatmentcombinedwithembeddingacupuncturemightbeeffective inreducingpainandimprovingthelifequalityofpatientswithchroniclowerbackpain.
Wehopethatfurtherstudieswillbedonetoproducemoreclinicaldataandensureeffective applicationoftheseresults.
※ ThisresearchwassupportedbytheDongshinUniversityresearchgrants
✱ Correspondingauthor:DepartmentofAcupuncture&MoxibustionMedicine,MokpoOriental HospitalofDongshinUniversity,313,Baengnyeon-daero,Mokpo-si,Jeollanam-do,530-822, RepublicofKorea
Tel:+82-61-280-7903 E-mail:[email protected] Key words :
Embeddingacupuncture;
Chroniclowbackpain;
RetrospectiveStudy
Received : 2016. 05. 30.
Revised : 2016. 06. 07.
Accepted : 2016. 06. 09.
On-line : 2016. 06. 20.
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