A general concept of Geun includes the soft organizations such as a muscle, a myofascia, a tendon and a ligament, cartilages and nerves that surround it. The main function of it is a movement of the body such as a flextion and an extension, a connection of the joints, and a construction of the body shape.
Lately, we consider Geun important little by little, develop a variety of the therapeutic measures which make use of it, and apply it to the treatment in the oriental medicine. And the therapeutic measures which utilize Geun will be developed from now on.
Therefore, this study reviewed and analyzed the direction of the research referred to Geun in the oriental medicine and the tendency to the experiment to grow the study referred to Geun in oriental medicine continuously and developed the new direction.
This study collected 44’s theses reported in the oriental medical journal and analyzed in accordance with the journal, time, form and topics.
The following results were obtained in this study;
1. In the theses referred to Geun, the journal of Korean acupuncture & moxibustion society and of Korean oriental medicine have the most of them (11’s theses) and at the next the journal of oriental rehabilitation medicine has 9’s theses.
2. By analyzing the form of the theses, these were classified into the theoretical, experimental and clinical studies. The theoretical these occupied 39%, the experimental theses 54%, and the clinical theses 7%.
3. By analyzing the theses referred to Geun, these were classified into the muscular abnormality-such as a powerlessness, an injury, an atrophy, a disorder, and a pain-the theory of muscles along the regular meridians, the muscular organization, the therapeutic measures, the manipulation and so on.
4. The theses of the muscular abnormality occupied 30% of them referred to Geun and the theory of muscles along the regular meridians 20%, the muscular organization 12%, the therapeutic measures 12%, and the manipulation 8%.
According to the above results, the study of the new field referred to Geun and the clinical report are indispensable since the field is limited and the tendency is theoretical and experimental.
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