• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.192-202
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• 2011

Purpose: This study examined the effects of heat therapy combined with aromatherapy on pain, flexibility, sleep, and depression in elderly women with osteoarthritis. Methods: This study was designed as a nonequivalent control group quasi-experimental study based upon data acquired through a pre-post test. The experimental group (n=21) was treated using an aroma-permeated hot compress applied to the knee. The cotton towel was heated in a microwave to $45^{\circ}C$, and 2~3 drops of lavender were applied on it. The towel was wrapped with plastic bag to prevent aroma leakage and retain heat. The treatment was applied the towel for 20 minutes, three times a day for 3 weeks. The control group (n=24) was not given any treatment. Data were collected using a VAS(100mm) for pain, questionnaire for sleep and depression, and a goniometer for knee flexibility. The data were analyzed with ${\chi}^2$-test and t-test using SPSS/Win18.0. Results: There were significant differences in knee pain (p=.001) and flexibility (p<.001), subjective quality of sleep (p=.020) and depression (p=.003) between the groups. Conclusion: Heat therapy combined with aromatherapy may be an effective nursing intervention and self-care technique to ameliorate pain and depression and to improve flexibility and sleep in elderly suffering from osteoarthritis.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of a self-exercise program on low back pain, abdominal-back muscle strength and waist flexibility in hospital nurses. Method: An experimental research design was employed. 43 subjects (20 in the experimental group and 23 in the control group) who worked in a general hospital in W city agreed to participate in this study. The intervention had 6 sessions with self-exercise program including flexion and extension demonstrated by a trained research assistant. A Visual Analog Scale was used to measure the subjective pain severity. Abdominal-back muscle strength was measured with a back strength dynamometer, while waist flexibility was gauged by the standing of the subject's upper body. Analysis included descriptive statistics, $x^2$ test, t-test and ANOVA. Result: The experimental group exhibited significantly decreased low back pain, an increase in abdominal-back muscle strength, and increased waist flexibility after 6 sessions. The experimental group were not significantly increased in abdominal-back muscle strength than the control group. Conclusion: These results suggest that further research is needed to replicate for verification of clinical validity with the methodological rigors, and to utilize the self-exercise program for care and prevention of low back pain.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2018

본 연구는 대학생을 대상으로 지연성근육통 유발 후 수동적 스트레칭의 효과를 확인하고 부상 시 효과적인 통증완화 및 예방을 위한 재활 운동프로그램을 제안하고자 한다. 연구대상자는 20대 남자 대학생을 대상으로 수동적 스트레칭그룹과 통제그룹으로 구분하였다. 수동적 스트레칭 그룹은 지연성근육통 유발 후 수동적 스트레칭을 실시하였으며 통제그룹은 지연성근육통 유발 후 어떠한 처치도 실시하지 않았다. 지연성근육통 유발 방법은 벤치 스텝 운동을 통하여 유발하였으며, 스텝박스의 높이는 50cm이며, 착지 시 왼쪽 하지 쪽으로 착지하도록 하였다. 측정변인은 혈중피로물질과 주관적 통증척도를 알아보았으며 자료처리는 수동적 스트레칭 그룹과 통제그룹의 비교를 위하여 2-way RGRM ANOVA를 실시하였다. 결론적으로 지연성근육통 유발 후 수동적 스트레칭이 혈중피로물질(CRP, LDH)과 주관적 통증척도(VAS)에 긍정적 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.131-135
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• 2021

Purpose: Depression is a condition that weakens psychosocial functioning and reduces quality of life. In Korea, the prevalence of depression among the elderly is 29.2% and depression is a considerable public health concern for the elderly. Depression has a statistically significant relationship with oral conditions such as number of teeth and salivary flow rate. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is the concept including subjective evaluations of psychological, physical and social aspects of oral health. Tooth loss and hyposalivation can affect mental health and quality of life. Our study was designed to identify the relationship among the number of teeth, salivation, OHRQoL, and depressive symptoms in the elderly in Korea. Methods: We recruited 100 participants, aged over 65 years, and assessed their number of teeth, unstimulated salivary flow rate. All participants filled out oral health impact profile 14 (OHIP-14) and Zung self-rating depression score (SDS) for checking OHRQoL and depressive symptoms. Statistical analysis was done by R program. Results: We found that the positive relationship between OHIP-14 and SDS after Mann-Whitney test (p=0.03). The lower SDS group had an OHIP-14 median score of 4. On the other hand, the higher SDS group had a median value of 7.5. The other factors (number of teeth and salivary flow rate) did not show correlations with OHIP-14 or SDS. Conclusions: OHRQoL and depressive symptoms have significant correlation.

• 한국자연치유학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2021

Background: The understanding of back-pain as one of the commonest clinical presentations, made the path to the present study. More than three-quarters of the world's population experience back-pain at some time in their lives Purpose: The present study has evaluated the selected Naturopathic therapeutic procedures on individuals with low back-pain. Methods: Thirteen patients were selected for the study and randomly divided into two groups, viz., Group A, Naturopathic group and Group B, Control group. One patient discontinued. Naturopathic group was treated with mud pack, aromatherapy massage with Eucalyptus oil, acupressure, steam, wet trunk pack, exercises, relaxation and breathing exercises. Advice for life style and diet was given for patients of both the groups. The effect of the therapy was assessed subjectively and objectively. Particular scores drawn for Naturopathic group and control group were individually analyzed before and after treatment and the values were compared using standard statistical protocols. Results: Naturopathic intervention revealed 100% relief in both subjective and objective parameters (i.e., 6 out of 14 parameters showed statistically highly significant P < 0.01 results, while 8 showed significant results P < 0.05). Conclusion: Statistically highly significant results of this study point out the successful management of the multi factorial low back-pain with a multi focused Naturopathic treatment approach. Such encouraging results may pave the way for a future study on a large sample in a longer duration incorporating clinical investigations.

• 한방재활의학과학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.19-32
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• 2023

Objectives The purpose of this study is to systematically review the degree of pain and function improvement in acupuncture treatment for patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Methods Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were searched from Medline/PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, WanFang Data, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Citation Information by NII (CiNII), Koreanstudies Information Service System (KISS), ScienceON, KoreaMed, and Korean Medical Database (KMbase). The methodological quality of selected RCTs' were evaluated according to Cochrane RoB2 tool. Results Total of 158 studies were identified and 7 RCTs were selected for systematic review. Frequently used evaluation method were visual analogue scale and Kujala scores. All studies showed significant effect on pain reduction and knee function between before and after treatment, but showed partial significance between the intervention and control group. Conclusions Research showed that acupuncture treatment is an effective treatment for improving the pain and function of PFPS, but it is difficult to conclude that it has a significant effect compared to other treatments. Selected studies included subjective evaluation indicators and the total of selected studies were small, so the interpretation of the results is limited. Also most of the included studies are evaluated to have some concerns of bias. Therefore, subsequent research should continously be done in more objective and systematic method.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.53-67
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• 2013

보툴리눔 독소는 Clostridium botulinum이라는 박테리아가 만들어내는 독소를 의료용으로 희석, 정제한 약제로서 이 독소가 시냅스 전 신경말단에 부착되어 신경근접합부에서 아세틸콜린의 분비를 억제함으로써 근육의 수축을 차단하는 역할을 한다. 보툴리눔 독소 주사 요법은 구강안면 분야에서 저작근의 근경축, 근경련, 운동이상증, 측두하악관절질환, 근막통증, 이갈이, 특발성 교근비대증 또는 만성편두통을 비롯한 두통 등 다양한 질환에서 가역적, 보존적 치료법으로 활발히 사용되고 있다. 사용 범위가 넓어지면서 교근이나 측두근 같은 저작근 부위에 주사를 하는 경우가 많아지고 있으며 그러한 경우 약제자체의 약리학적 작용에 의해 일시적인 근마비 및 근위축에 따라 저작기능에 변화가 생기게 된다. 하지만 지금까지 보툴리눔 독소 주사치료의 효과나 활용에 대한 연구만이 주를 이루었고 부작용 중의 하나인 저작기능 변화에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 몇몇 저작기능과 관련한 연구 또한 근전도 등을 이용한 정적인 상태의 저작력 감소에 대한 연구로, 실제로 동적인 저작 환경을 반영하는 저작 효율에 대해서는 현재까지 전혀 연구가 이루어지지 않은 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 총 40명의 건강한 성인환자를 대상으로 보툴리눔 A형 독소 주사 요법을 교근 부위에만 시술 받은 사람 과 교근과 측두근 부위 모두에 시술 받은 사람 각각 20명씩 두 군으로 나누어 주사를 시행하고, 주사 전과 주사 후 4주, 8주, 12주째의 저작 효율의 변화를 주관적 평가방법인 식품섭취능 (Food Intake Ability, 이하 FIA)과 저작 능력에 대한 주관적 인식도 (Visual Analogue Scale, 이하 VAS), 객관적 평가 방법인 Mixing Ability Test를 시행하여 알아보았다. 그 결과 보툴리눔 A형 독소 주사 후 4주 째에 저작효율의 뚜렷한 감소가 나타났으며 이후 서서히 회복되는 경향을 보였다. 주사부위를 달리하여 본 결과 교근과 측두근에 모두 주사를 시행하는 경우, 교근에만 주사를 시행하는 경우에 비해 주관적, 객관적인 값 모두 낮게 나타났다. 주관적인 값에 있어서 4주 째 유의하였으나 이후에는 유의하지 않았으며 객관적인 값은 전 기간에 걸쳐 유의하지 않았다. 실험에서 정한 주사 용량에 대해서는 측두근까지 주사가 이루어지더라도 교근만 주사를 시행한 사람과 비교하여 저작효율의 큰 차이가 없는 것으로 보인다. 또한 식품성상에 따라 저작 효율을 살펴본 결과 보툴리눔 A형 독소 주사가 단단하고 질긴 음식 섭취에 더 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 보이며 무르고 약한 음식의 섭취 시에도 유의할만한 영향을 받는다는 사실을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.196-209
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• 2010

Purpose: To investigate effect of Sweet Bee Venom on postpartum's De Quervain's Disease. Methods: We investigated 3 patients diagnosed as De Quervain's Disease. Sweet Bee Venom Herbal-acupuncture was used for treatment of De Quervain's Disease, once every two days, 5 times. Pain, satisfaction at treatment and function of wrist were measured with VNS, Baumgaertner's nine point scale and dynamometer. Results: Pain reduction, functional improvement, increased grip power were found out in cases treated with Sweet Bee Venom Herbal-acupuncture. In every cases, they represent high subjective satisfaction with treatment. Conclusion: Clinical results show that Sweet Bee Venom Herbal-acupuncture has a good analgesic effect in De Quervain's Disease.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제62권1호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2013

High frequency system has been used for the purpose of skin care and obesity treatment, by high-frequency energy is applied to the human body generates deep heat. Conventional high frequency system could not selection control by depending on the body load fluctuations. Such as burns and side effects have been reported by system instability and then therapeutic effect is insufficient. During treatment, objective information about the status of the patient was no. Because of treatment methods are subjective, and so tailored treatments were impossible. In this paper, high frequency medical system with sinusoidal frequency characteristics without distortion of the Push pull switching scheme for pain relief therapy was designed. And control circuit that was designed by feedback using the output changes according to the body-load fluctuation. Last, power circuit for efficient control the heat generated from the hardware was proposed.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.137-151
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• 1994

In order to evaluate objectively the anxiety level in dental treatment, the author used Biotrainer(BF-120R), one of the skin temperature biofeedback apparatus, to examine 68 dental outpatients on their digital skin temperature change due to routine consecutive dental procedures(oral examination, anesthetic injection, cavity preparation, fissure sealing, polishing). The subjective anxiety level change was also evaluated by visual analog scale. The obtained results were as follows : 1. The skin temperature decreased through consecutive procedures and the temperature in each procedure decreased until 60sec, and then increased on 120sec. 2. The temperature changes in Preparation and Injection were greater than those in other procedures. 3. Generally, male exhibited more change of skin temperature in all procedures than female. 4. Type II, continuously decreasing after procedure, occupied the most in all patients and yhad the lowest beseline temperature. 5. The anxiety level of before-procedure was higher than that of after-procedure and the levels in Injection and Preparation were higher than in other procedures.