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A comparison study of acupuncture sensation scale between real acupuncture and sham needle (거짓침 피부접촉부 형태에 따른 침감 차이 연구)

  • Chae Youn-Byoung;Kim Yun-Ju;Choe Il-Hwan;Lim Sabina;Lee Sang-Jae;Lee Hye-Jung;Park Hi-Joon
    • Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.85-99
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    • 2006
  • Objectives : Proper acupuncture stimulation is associated with a characteristic set of sensation usually referred to as 'De-Qi'. In order to develop the appropriate sham acupuncture, various sensations to each stimulation should be considered through analysis of the profiles of acupuncture sensation. It was therefore investigated to compare the acupuncture sensation scale (ASS) of two types of sham acupuncture to that of the real acupuncture. Methods : Ninety-four participants (mean age 26.4, range 26-49) were asked to complete five point-Likert scale ASS developed by Vincent et al. after real or two-kinds of sham acupuncture stimulation: blunted tip sham acupuncture (BT) and round tip sham acupuncture (RT). Needling was done at LI4 acupoint on non-dominant hand and stimulated for 30 seconds with real or two-kinds of sham needle. Finger withdrawal latency (FWL) of each group was also measured to evaluate the pain sensitivity to noxious heat stimuli. Results : BT acupuncture significantly less produced penetrating, numb, intense, hurting, pulling, shock, tingling, throbbing sensation than real acupuncture stimulation. RT acupuncture significantly less produced penetrating, burning, electric, numb, intense, hurting, pulling, aching, shasharp, shock, stinging, tingling, throbbing sensation than real acupuncture. Each group did not demonstrate the differences of pain sensitivity to noxious stimuli. Conclusions : These results indicated that types of tip of acupuncture produced different kinds of acupuncture sensation. Our finding provides a general information of sensations to two kinds of sham acupuncture for development of ideal placebo sham needle.

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A Study of Farmer's Syndrome in Choongju Area (충주지역 전업농민의 농부증에 관한 연구)

  • Chang, Soung-Hoon;Lee, Kun-Sei;Lee, Won-Jin
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 1998
  • To find the prevalence of the Farmer's syndrome and the related factors, we investigated 909 farmers who and older than 30 years and live in Choongju area. The farmers were interviewed individually with a questionnaire from July 18 through 31, 1997. The results are as follows; The prevalence of Farmer's syndrome was 21.0% in male and 45.1% in female. The age prevalence of Farmer's syndrome was higher in thirties and forties than fifties and over sixties in both sex. Farmer's syndrome was significantly higher in low educational status, low income, low family members and more than 20 years of farming group. However, Farmer's syndrome was significantly higher in non smoking and non alcohol intake group, there were no significant differences according to smoking and alcohol intake after stratification by sex. The most frequent symptom in male was lumbago(60.5%), the second was numb limb(49.8%), the third was shoulder stiffness(43.2%) and the fourth was dizziness(31.5%). In female, the most frequent symptom was lumbago(81.3%), the second was numb limb(70.2%), the third was dizziness(62.2%) and the fourth was shoulder stiffness(55.9%). All of these four symptoms are significantly higher in female than in male. With multiple logistic regression for Farmer's syndrome, sex(OR of female=3.3) number of family(OR of <=1.9) and duration of farming(OR of $\geq$2.0 yr=1.5) were turned out to be significant variables.

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The Comparison Of Acupuncture Sensation Index Among Three Different Acupuncture Devices - Double-blind and Randomized Controlled Trial Method - (3개 침제조회사 침구(鍼具)에 대한 침감지표 비교 - 이중 맹검 무작위 배정법 -)

  • Lim, Seong-chul;Seo, Jung-chul;Kim, Kyung-un;Seo, Bo-myung;Kim, Sung-woong;Lee, Se-youn;Jung, Tae-young;Han, Sang-won;Lee, Hyun
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.209-219
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    • 2004
  • Objective : This study was designed to compare acupuncture sensation index among three different acupuncture devices. Methods : A, B and C acupuncture devices were inserted into Quchi(LI 11) of the subjects. After 5 minutes the subjects completed a questionnaire rating the intensity of 21 kinds of acupuncture sensation; hurting, penetrating, sharp, aching, intense, spreading, radiating, tingling, pricking, stinging, pulling, heavy, dull, numb, electric, shocking, hot, burning, cool, pulsing, and throbbing. We compared subjective evaluations of acupuncture sensation among the groups. Results : The acupuncture sensation index when administrated among three different acupuncture devices(A, B and C) was not significantly different. The acupuncture sensation of B acupuncture devices showed significant difference than A or C in Spreading, Dull, Numb item. But, the other items of acupuncture sensation were not significantly different among three acupuncture devices. Conclusions : We found that acupuncture sensation index when administrated among three different acupuncture devices. Further study is needed to know different acupuncture sensation among acupuncture devices.

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Use of Hypnosis in the Management of Patients with Burn Pain (최면을 이용한 화상 환자의 동통 조절)

  • Park, Hee-Gwan
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.218-222
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    • 1997
  • Before the dressing and debridement of the wounds, patients received hypnosis and were taught self-hypnosis. They were instructed to let the burn areas being worked on "become relaxed and numb" in the trance. The author encouraged them to imagine wound-healing. Result of this hypnoanalgesia as an adjunct treatment for burn pain proved it most effective and facilitative. Theoretical and practical implications and future research directions were discussed.

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The Variation of the Wake behind a Circular Cylinder Having Arc Grooves (Groove에 의한 원주 후류의 유동구조 변화)

  • Seo, Seong-Ho;Hong, Cheol-Hyun;Boo, Jung-Suk
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.901-907
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    • 2008
  • The measurements of velocity vectors are made in the wake(X/d=8) of a circular cylinder with arc grooves. The experiments are conducted by changing the groove number. groove depth, Reynolds number(Re) and the angle of the first formed groove. We know that the optimum groove angle is 70 degree and the wake velocity profiles are improved at a few conditions. According to vortex shedding frequency distributions. the key solutions to vary the flow field behind the circular cylinder are 70 degree groove angle and more deeper grooves than 0.2mm depth.

Randomized Clinical Trials of Herbal Acupuncture for Placebo Control (플라세보 약침에 대한 무작위배정 임상시험)

  • Seo, Jung-Chul;Xue, Charlie
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2008
  • Objectives : This study was designed to find out whether normal saline(NS) acupuncture is able to be constituted as an appropriate control group for Cervi Cornu Parvum herbal acupuncture(CC). Methods : NS and CC were injected into Quchi($LI_{11}$) of the subjects. The subjects completed a questionnaire rating the intensity of 21 kinds of acupuncture sensation(hurting, penetrating, sharp, aching, intense, spreading, radiating, tingling, pricking, stinging, pulling, heavy, dull, numb, electric, shocking, hot, burning, cool, pulsing, and throbbing) and side effects. We compared subjective evaluations of acupuncture sensation and side effects between two groups. Results : As for CC most of the acupuncture sensation items were not significantly different from NS especially in less acupuncture-experienced subjects(average 2, below 10 time experiences) rather than more acupuncture-experienced subjects(above 10 time experiences). Conclusions : We found that NS might be an appropriate placebo herbal acupuncture for CC in small amount of acupuncture-experienced subjects. Further study is needed for new placebo herbal acupuncture for CC in more acupuncture-experienced subjects.

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A Tree Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Reducing Average Hop Count Between Bluetooth Devices (블루투스 장치 간의 평균 홉 수를 줄이기 위한 트리 스캐터넷 형성 알고리즘)

  • Kang, Seung-Ho;Kang, Dae-Wook;Lim, Hyeong-Seok
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.11C no.3
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    • pp.401-408
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    • 2004
  • The Bluetooth Scatternet based on tree structure has several merits such as small numb of links and simple routing method. This paper proposes an algorithm which satisfies the constraints of Bluetooth Specification and forms the topology of scatternet as close as the tree structure that has the shortest average inter-node distance among trees. Also we show that the proposed method reduces the average hop count between any two devices compared to early works without higher formation delay by a simulation.

AN APPROXIMATION SCHEME FOR A GEOMETRICAL NP-HARD PROBLEM

  • Kim, Joon-Mo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2007
  • In some wireless sensor networks, the sensor nodes are required to be located sparsely at designated positions over a wide area, introducing the problem of adding minimum number of relay nodes to interconnect the sensor nodes. The problem finds its a bstract form in literature: the Minimum number of Steiner Points. Since it is known to be NP-hard, this paper proposes an approximation scheme to estimate the minimum number of relay nodes through the properties of the abstract form. Note that by reducing the numb er of nodes in a sensor network, the amount of data exchange over the net will be far decreased.

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The Clinical Study on Acupuncture Sensation in Hwangryunhaedoktang Herbal Acupuncture and Hominis Placenta Herbal Acupuncture - The Basic Study on Placebo Herbal Acupuncture (2) - (황련해독탕 약침, 자하거 약침의 침감에 대한 임상적 연구 - placebo 약침을 위한 기초연구 (2) -)

  • Yoon, Jong-seok;Seo, Jung-chul;Lee, Hyang-sook;Lim, Seong-cheol;Jung, Tae-young;Shin, Leem-hee;Han, Sang-won
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.197-206
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    • 2004
  • Objective : This study was designed to find out whether NS(normal saline) is able to be constituted as an appropriate control group for HHT(Hwangryunhaedoktang herbal acupuncture) and HP(Homnis Placenta herbal acupuncture). Methods : NS and two herbal acupuncture were inserted into Quchi(LI 11) of the subjects. After 5 minutes the subjects completed a questionnaire rating the intensity of 21 kinds of acupuncture sensation; hurting, penetrating, sharp, aching, intense, spreading, radiating, tingling, pricking, stinging, pulling, heavy, dull, numb, electric, shocking, hot, burning, cool, pulsing, and throbbing. We compared the subjective acupuncture sensation between the two groups. Results : As for HHT seven items of the acupuncture sensation were significantly different from NS. In case of HP just two items were significantly different from NS. Conclusion : We found that NS may be able to be an placebo herbal acupuncture for HP. Further study is needed for the appropriate placebo herbal acupuncture.

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