• 한방재활의학과학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.111-121
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• 2009

Objectives : The Purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical application of traditional Korean herbal therapy to a patient with thoraco-lumbar compression fracture. Methods : The patient who had sudden low back pain, back pain and ambulation disorder due to pain caused by an accidental fall, we prescribed Doinseunggi-tang (Taorenchenqi-tang) for her with acupuncture therapy. And we adopted several scales to estimate to progress of her symptoms. Results : Soon after taking herbal medication with other treatments, the patients pain was controlled and was able to ambulation without pain. Conclusions : In this case, we assume that Doinseunggi-tang(Taorenchenqi-tang) play an important role in improvement of the patient's symptoms. So, the present results suggest that traditional Korean herbal therapy has the positive effect to reduce the pain and shortening the period of treatment.