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Effect of Exercise Using an Automatic Spine Extension Device on Thoracic Kyphotic and Extension Angles

  • Kim, Ju-hyeon;Park, Seon-mi;Sin, Hyang-hee;Choi, Ho-jeong;Liu, Yaoyao;Yoo, Won-gyu
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.235-240
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    • 2022
  • Background: A spinal extension and intensive rehabilitation program reduced the symptoms and pain of kyphosis, and improved function. Objects: This study aimed to demonstrate the effect of a spine extension device on the degree of thoracic kyphosis and extension angles, confirm reduction of the kyphosis angle and an increase in flexibility. Methods: Thirteen adults were enrolled in the experiment, using the spine extension device, which was set to passively extend the spine. The angle between the spinous process of the first thoracic vertebra and the spinous process of the twelfth thoracic vertebra was measured by dual inclinometer before and after using the spine extension device. Results: In the static posture, the thoracic kyphosis decreased after using the spine extension device in the thoracic extension posture, and there was a significant difference (p < 0.05); thoracic extension angle increased with statistical significance (p < 0.05). Conclusion: In this study, the thoracic kyphosis angle and thoracic extension angle of the subjects before and after using spine extension device was compared and analyzed, which proved that the spine extension device can effectively improve the mobility of spinal extension.

A Study on the Blood-Letting Therapy in Elementary Questions (("황제내경소문(黃帝內經素問)" 중(中) 사혈(瀉血)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Jun-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.19-42
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    • 2008
  • Blood-Letting Therapy is a rational and ecological medical treatment by which we can heal most of the diseases by removing the static blood which precipitates in the blood vessel and blocks the flowing of blood. And the static blood is the generic term for the injurious, bad, dead and precipitated blood which is blocked the capillary vessel. The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine says that "the patient is treated with drugs internally and stone acupuncture externally. "In the old texts, the blood-letting therapy is mentioned as blood-letting, network vessel pricking, bloodletting, pricking, and arousing pulses etc and it is noted down as the method of network vessel pricking in 'On the Application of Needles' of Spiritual Pivot. Nine-pricking therapy, twelve-pricking therapy and five-pricking therapy are recorded in the methods of network vessel pricking and among them, the method of squeezing blood after pricking the affected part is explained as the network vessel pricking. There are four methods of network vessel pricking, pricking, picking, cluster needling and scatter-pricking and they are fluidly applied to the various symptoms of diseases. In 'On Discriminative Treating for Patients of Different Regions' in Elementary Questions, Ki-baek emphasizes "most of the local people, there are black in skin and loose in striate, and their diseases are mostly of carbuncle kind. It is suitable to treat the disease with stone therapy to prick with stone, so the stone therapy is transmitted from the east. "And in 'On the Corresponding Relation Between the Eum and Yang of Man and All Things' in Elementary Questions, when the Emperor asked Ki-Back, he answered "sthenia means the sthenia of evil, and deficiency means the deficiency of healthy energy. When the blood is sthenic, the evil should be discharged by pricking when out letting the blood; deficiency of vital energy is the asthenia of channels and network vessels, so the energy should drain from the channel which is not deficient, to replenish. "And in this case we can use the methods of 'Breaking out the static bloods', 'driving out the static bloods', blood-letting'. With this we can infer that the blood-letting therapy is made use of the important medical treatments from the ancient times. Especially in referring to the principles of treatment in The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, it mostly alluded to acupuncture therapies and only eleven times to medicinal treatments. This is to verify that the blood-letting therapy formed the foundation of the medical art. In Dong's Therapy of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Bloodletting, Dong Kyeong-Chang gave emphasis on the points that there must be extravasated bloods without exception in the serious illnesses which is old, unnatural, accompanying acute pains and so we can revive our body‘s sprit by circulating 'gi' and static blood piled up in the network vessel, regulating the weakness and strength, and controling the disharmony of the internal organs. The blood-letting therapy has effect on the orifice in emergency, such as fore draining, freeing network vessels, harmonizing gi and blood, relieving pain, dispersing swelling and concretion, sedation, resolving toxin as well as strengthening the heart, relieving itching. So it has distinguished effect on all kinds of medical treatment to the modern people. But by the change of social customs and the confucianism of confucius - it is widely spread on the period of North and South Dynasties, 'Wi' and 'Jin' in china and the period of the Three States in korea - The blood-letting therapy which was regarded as the most important medicinal treatment withered rapidly. And Confucius accentuated the importance of our body and all its members, loyalty and filial piety and banned any damage of our body under no circumstances. As a result of it, the therapy of blood-letting had a rapid decrease and barely kept itself in existence in both countries. What is worse, at the period of Japanese colonial rule of korea and our nation's founding of early stage, it has been withered by the high-handed policy to change Oriental Medicine into modern medical science. So the therapy of blood-letting barely kept itself in existence in some Buddhist temples. Another case, it has handed down as a old-fashioned quick fix in folk remedies. But all kinds of the contamination of heavy metals and the misuses of antibiotics are widely spread nowadays, which increased diseases of adult people and incurable diseases as modern society unavoidably made its way into a highly industrial society. To make us more miserable, the western medical science - the antibiotics and surgical operation medical science - already reveals itself into a limit. The necessity of a new medical science which can give a security to the patients who are suffering from the diseases of adult people and the incurable diseases is especially come into the force nowadays. In view of the results after bibliographically studying on the blood-letting Therapy in Elementary Questions of the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, the blood-letting therapy has acted for the important Oriental medicinal science and has been clarified the prominent effects on the diseases of adult people and the incurable diseases. So it is regarded as an appropriate thing that we lay out a determined theory of the blood-letting therapy and of course prevent the unwanted side effects from inappropriate medicinal treatments, and make full use of clinic by elevating the curative value and that we win back our self-respect of medical treatment which is dominated from the western medical science and ultimately contribute to national medical welfare.

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A Study on Pattern Identification of Patients Who Participated in Korean Medical Infertility Support Program of CheongJu-City (청주시 한방난임지원사업에 참여한 난임환자의 한의학적 변증 특성 연구)

  • Kwon, Na-Yoen;Park, Yong-Youn;Kim, Hyeong-Jun;Lee, Dong-Nyung
    • The Journal of Korean Obstetrics and Gynecology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.147-164
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: This study was performed to analyze the pattern identification in infertile women who participated in infertility support program of Cheongju-city. Methods: The project proceeded from October, 2016 to June 2017. Participants filled in the questionnaire which is composed of 33 symptoms before korean medical treatments. Data were collected from 17 participants. We classified symptoms into six pattern identifications based on previous research and rated each answer to score. Results: Throughout the study, the average age of 26 patients was $34.88{\pm}3.19$ years old, the average height was $162.51{\pm}4.99cm$, and average weight was $58.41{\pm}7.88kg$. The average duration of acupuncture treatment was $121.03{\pm}52.73$ days and the average times of acupuncture treatment was $27.42{\pm}10.77$ times. The average number of herbal medicine treatment was $2.65{\pm}0.69$, the majority of it was Chokyungjongok-tang. After the treatment, 3 patients of infertility became pregnant (11.54%) in twenty six patients. By analyzing pattern identification survey papers, We can classify infertile women into 6 pattern identification based on previous research. The majority of participants was identified as Blood deficiency and the other participants were identified as Kidney deficiency, Liver depression, Dampness-phlegm, Qi deficiency and Static blood in order of priority. Most of patients' pattern identification were combined with two kind of pattern identification. In terms of priority, Liver depression combined with Kidney deficiency, Blood deficiency combined with Kidney deficiency, Liver depression combined with Qi deficiency, Liver depression combined with Dampness-phlegm. Conclusions: After the study we confirmed that Korean traditional medicine is a safe treatment for infertile women. Further clinical study about herbal medicines of patients who have combined pattern identification is needed.

A Study of Musculoskeletal Disorders at a Subway Train Repair Plant in Korea (국내 지하철 정비 사업장의 근골격계질환 실태조사에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Cheol-Hong;Gwon, Yeong-Jun;Baek, Seung-Ryeol;Son, Gyeong-Il
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.121-134
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    • 2004
  • A research project was conducted to study work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) at subway train repair plant in Korea. The project was consisted of 4 main parts; education on the topics of MSDs for all workers, symptom survey, medical check-up, investigation of MSD risk factors. The result of symptom survey showed that 95.2% of the respondents complained pains on at least one part of the body. After cross-sectional analysis of various information and risk factors, 86.8% of respondents were considered as active health surveillance level 1 that require continuous monitoring on their symptoms and working conditions. And 57.1% of the respondents were considered as active health surveillance level 2 that needed medical check-ups for proper medical treatment. The analysis of occupational risk factors revealed that handling of heavy object (46.15%) and repeated awkward postures (46.15%) were two most contributing risk factors for the on-set of MSD at this work site followed by static strain (7.7%), and vibration and impact (3.8%). Medical examination was performed by an industrial medicine MD on 156 workers those considered as active health surveillance level 2. The result showed that 35 workers (20.7%) were considered as MSD patient group at severe level, and 68.6 workers (68.6%) were considered as moderate group and 18 workers (10.6%) were considered minor or normal group those have no symptom.

DIAGNOSTIC EFFICACY OF DITI (DIGITAL INFRARED THERMOGRAPHIC IMAGING) FOR THE DYSESTHESIA OF THE LOWER LIP & CHIN (하치조 신경손상에 따른 하순 및 이부의 지각이상시 적외선 체열검사(DITI)의 진단적 효용)

  • Kim, Yae-Won;Kim, Myung-Rae
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2002
  • Neurosensory dysfunction of the injured inferior alveolarnerve(IAN) is a common and distrssing consequence of traumatic or iatrogenic injury. Conventional neurosensory testing has been used to detect and monitor sensory impairments of the injured IAN. However, these tests had low reliability and are not qualitative at best because they are based on solely on the patient's subjective assesment of symptoms. Consequently, there is need for more reliable, sensitive, and objective test measures to document and to monitor sensory dysfunction of the trigeminal nerve. This study was to investigate DITI's (digital infrared thermographic imaging) potential as a diagnostic alternative for evaluating of the nerve injures and sensory disturbance. Subjects were 30 patients who had been referred to Ewha Medical Center due to sensory disturbance of the lower lip and chin followed after unobserved inferior alveolar nerve injuries. The patients were examined by clinical neurosensory tests as SLTD (static light touch discrimination), MDD (moving direction discrimination), PPN (pin prick nociception) and DITI (digital infrared thermographic imaging). The correlation between clinical sensory dysfunction scores(Sum of SLTD, MDD, PPN, NP, Tinel sign) and DITI were tested by Spearman nonparametric rank correlation anaylsis & Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon 2-sample test. This study resulted in as follows; (1) The difference of thermal difference between normal side and affected side was as ${\Delta}-3.2{\pm}0.13$. (2) The DITI differences of the subjects presenting dysesthesia of the lip and chin were correlated significantly with the neurosensory dysfunction scores(r=0.419, p=0.021)and SLTD (r=0.429, p<0.05). (3) The MDD, PPN, NP, Tinel sign, duration, gender were not correlated with DITI(p> 0.05). Therefore, the DITI(digital infrared thermographic imaging) can be an option of the useful objective diagnostic methods to evaluate the injured inferior alveolar nerve and sensory dysfunction of trigerminal nerve.

A Review Study and Proposal of Facial Palsy Sequelae Evaluating Scale (안면마비 후유증 평가법에 대한 고찰 및 제언)

  • Suk, Kyung Hwan;Ryu, Hee Kyoung;Goo, Bon Hyuk;Lee, Ju Hyeon;Ryu, Soo Hyeong;Lee, Su Yeon;Kim, Min Jeong;Park, Yeon Cheol;Seo, Byung Kwan;Park, Dong Suk;Baek, Yong Hyeon
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2014
  • Objectives : This study was performed to review articles referring to facial palsy sequelae evaluating scale and propose how to assess facial palsy sequelae. Methods : We searched for the medical literature to find out method of evaluating facial palsy sequelae. Then, we researched strengths and weaknesses of the scale and considered the way to appraise the facial palsy sequelae. Results : There were subjective and objective scale for evaluating facial palsy sequelae. Subjective scale could offer detailed assessment but had low objectivity and reproducibility. Objective scale had consistency and detachment but needed for specific equipments with time for measuring and calculating. Conclusions : We should evaluate the facial palsy sequelae with the strengths of subjective and objective scale and assess facial nerve function, symptoms of facial palsy sequelae and quality of life entirely. Moreover, the scale has to contain the reliability with static and dynamic assessment.

Three-Phase Bone Scintigraphy in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome of the Hand (반사성 교감신경계 기능장애 증후군(RSDS)의 손 3상 골스캔 소견)

  • Ahn, Myeong-Im;Park, Jeong-Mi;Park, Young-Ha;Kim, Sung-Hoon;Chung, Soo-Kyo;Shinn, Kyung-Sub;Bahk, Yong-Whee
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.81-86
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    • 1991
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS), known also as Sudeck's atrophy, is an uncommon disorder recognized by its distinctive symptom complex consisting of pain and tenderness, vasomotor instability, swelling, and dystrophic skin changes and radiologic changes. The present study has been carried out to prospectively establish scintigraphic diagnostic criteria for RSDS using three-phase radionuclide bone scintigraphy (TPBS). In addition, the usefulness in the evaluation of treatment of RSDS was assessed. Patients included were 6 men and 7 women with the age ranging from 25 to 63 years (average 47 years). Diagnosis was based on typical clinical symptoms and signs as described above. Associated clinical conditions in these patients were cerebral infarction (4 patients), lung cancer (2 patients), trauma (1 patient), lymphoma (1 patient), and unknown cause (5 patients). All patients showed diffuse radionuclide accumulation in juxtaarticular region on the delayed static image and 11 patients showed diffusely increased activities also on scintiangiogram and blood-pool image. Fillow-up TPBS after corticosteroid therapy in 4 patients revealed near normal return of abnormal radionuclide accumulations in the affected hand. TPBS is an useful test for the diagnosis of as well as the evaluation of the therapeutic effects of RSDS.

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Two Cases of Inflammatory Pseudotumor in Respiratory System (호흡기계에 발생한 염증성 가성종양 2예)

  • Kim, Jae-Gwon;Jeong, Nak-Yong;Kim, Kwang-Hyun;Kim, Hee-Sun;Lee, Won-Yeon;Yong, Suk-Joong;Shin, Kye-Chul;Yang, Seok-Woo;Jeong, Soon-Hee
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.394-401
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    • 1999
  • Inflammatory pseudotumor is a infrequent, benign tumor that affects at all ages and involves the lung, gastrointestinal tract, and salivary gland. They are the most common, isolated, primary lesion of the lung in children, and usually present as circumscribed, peripheral, parenchymal tumors or endobronchial tumors, which may be usually static or increase slowly in size without causing symptoms. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice because of the location and benign nature of this lesion. The prognosis after resection is excellent. Other therapeutic modalities include radiation and steroid therapy. We experienced two cases of inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung parenchyme and endobronchus. We report these cases with a review of literatures.

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Ergonomics Job Hazard Evaluation of Building Cleaners

  • Lee, Kyung-Sun;Lee, In-Seok;Kim, Hyun-Joo;Jung-Choi, KyungHee;Bahk, Jin-Wook;Jung, Myung-Chul
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.427-435
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    • 2011
  • Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate a work of building cleaners using the ergonomic methods. Background: Previous studies about cleaning worker describe typical physical demands of this work. They found that the most significant risk factors associated with the physical work of cleaners are static loads and repetitive movements and high output of force. Method: A head of ergonomics estimation was work analysis(define of combined task, work tool, work time and frequency of combined task) and posture analysis of worker. Results: The results showed that combined task of building cleaners was classification sweeping, mopping(wet), mopping(oil), moving barrels/carts, dumping trash bags, scrubbing, arrangement of cleaning tool, arrangement of circumferential, moving of cleaning tool, and waiting. The work time of combined task such as mopping(wet) and scrubbing indicated high ratio. The posture analysis of building cleaners indicated high value in bending of the head, lower arm, and hands. Conclusion: The findings appear to indicate that building cleaner were related to high risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. So, building cleaner would be required an interventional strategy, improvement of cleaning tools and working environment. Application: If ergonomics rule can be integrated into existing cleaning tools and work environments, the risk of occupational injuries will be reduced.

A Case of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Completely Resolved by Steroid Therapy (스테로이드 요법으로 완치된 염증성 가종양 1예)

  • Bang, Seung-Ho;Kim, Chi-Hong;Kwon, Soon-Seog;Kim, Young-Kyoon;Kim, Kwan-Hyoung;Moon, Hwa-Sik;Song, Jeong-Sup;Park, Sung-Hak
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.709-713
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    • 1993
  • Inflammatory pseudotumor, also known as plasma cell granuloma, is a rare, benign tumor that affects at all ages and frequently involves the lung, gastrointestinal tract, and salivary gland. They are the most common, isolated, primary lesion of the lung in children less than 16 years of age, and usually present as circumscribed, peripheral, parenchymal tumors, which may be static or increase slowly in size without causing symptoms. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice bacause of the location and benign nature of this lesion. The prognosis after resection is excellent. Adjuvant therapeutic modalities include radiation and steroid therapy. Recently, we experienced a case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung, the diagnosis of which was made by percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology examination. We tried steroid and the lesions of the lung was completely resolved. We report this case with a review of literatures.

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