Journal of Acupuncture Research

Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Medicine Society (대한침구의학회)
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Comparison of the Improvement of Subjective Symptoms between Body Acupuncture Group & 8 Constitution Acupuncture Group

요추간판탈출증 환자의 체질침과 체침에 의한 자각적 통증감소 비교

  • Chae, Sang-Jin (Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Bundang Cha Oriental Medical Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Nam-Ok (Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Bundang Cha Oriental Medical Hospital) ;
  • Park, Young-Chul (Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Bundang Cha Oriental Medical Hospital) ;
  • Son, Sung-Se (Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Bundang Cha Oriental Medical Hospital)
  • 채상진 (분당차한방병원 침구과) ;
  • 김남옥 (분당차한방병원 침구과) ;
  • 박영철 (분당차한방병원 침구과) ;
  • 손성세 (분당차한방병원 침구과)
  • Received : 2001.05.07
  • Accepted : 2001.05.19
  • Published : 2001.06.20
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Abstract

Objective : The main cause of back pain & sciatica is HNP of L-spine. Recently, 8 Constitution Acupuncture is largely used for it, but the effects isn't announced. So we studied. The perceived pain diminishment is compared with Body acupuncture and 8 Constitution acupuncture. Methods : VAS(Visual analogue scale) was used for this research, with the pain indicator of 10 and 0 which represents a patient admission to a hospital and a status of no pain respectively. Two groups, consisting of Body acupuncture group with 17 persons and 8 Constitution acupuncture group with 12 persons, was randomly allocated for this research. SPSS(Statistical Program for Social Science) for window is used for a statistical analysis, and the independent T-test is performed to gauge the improvement of VAS, in which case, value of P below 0.05 is considered as useful. Results : The result of the VAS of comparison analysis between two groups after 10 days, shows that the improvement of subjective symptoms in Body acupuncture group is more effective than that in 8 Constitution acupuncture group. (independent T-test, P=0.009)

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