Journal of the Korean Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics (대한한의정보학회지)

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The Influence of Therapeutic Horseback Riding on Treatment of Low Back Pain

요통치료에서 승마요법의 영향

  • Jang, Sang Chul (Dept. of Third Medicine, Professional Graduate School of Korean Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Ki Seung (Detp. of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Kim, In Chang (Detp. of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Kim, Jin Hee (Dept. of Third Medicine, Professional Graduate School of Korean Medicine) ;
  • Chong, Myong Soo (Detp. of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University)
  • 장상철 (원광대학교 한의학전문대학원 제3의학과) ;
  • 이기승 (원광대학교 한의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 김인창 (원광대학교 한의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 김진희 (원광대학교 한의학전문대학원 제3의학과) ;
  • 정명수 (원광대학교 한의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

This study is aimed to verify what effects horseback riding has in treating hospitalized patients with low back pain in the Korean medicine hospital. The method of this study is choosing 31 people among hospitalized male and female patients whose chief complaints were low back pain in 2 Korean medicine hospital in Gyeonggi Province. 14 people who agreed to take horseback riding treatment were classified into experimental group and 17, the rest of the people, were classified into control group. Both experimental group and control group were treated with Korean medicine. In addition, only experimental group performed horseback riding program. Changes of temperature difference by digital infrared thermal imaging(DITI), sit and reach test and visual analogue scale(VAS) survey were used as measuring tools. IBM SPSS Statistics 21 was used in processing statistics. Mean ${\pm}$standard deviation was indicated down to two places of decimals and the level of significance was judged as p<0.05. The summary of this study's result is as in the following. First of all, the meaningful difference was shown in the experimental group but not in the control group in the difference of temperature between Yintang and Kwanwon(the difference between up and down). Secondly, there were significant difference in the experimental group which performed horseback riding treatments but not in the control group resulting from examining the change of temperature difference between left and right Yongchon. Thirdly, there were significant difference between experimental and control group in the change of sit and reach. Especially, the change was much more in experimental group. As known from the results above, patients who only were treated with Korean medicine relieved low back pain, reordered pelvis and improved the motor ability. However, the group which carried out horseback riding at the same time reordered pelvis and improved the motor ability more obviously.

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