We have arrived the below conclusion by the clinical ana(ysis of 100 patient-cases who had received the hospital treatment for low back pain at Kwang-ju Oriental medical hospital in affiliation with Dong-shin university
1. In the distribution of sex and age, female rate is higher than male rate and the seventies and over group was the largest group by 25 cases(25%).
2. In the period of disease, the largest group was the group of ´the chronic´ cases and ´the acutest´ by 32(32%) each, and the next was ´the subacute´ group by 20(20%), ´the acute´ group by 16(16%) in order.
3. According to the reading of Lumbar X-ray, H. N. P was shown in 74 cases, which was the most frequent case, and Degenerative change of L-spine was in 50, Compression fracture was in 22, Spinal stenosis was in 18 cases. In the total of 100 cases, 82 cases had shown organic change, while 18 had not shown and change.
4. In the therapeutic result according to the reading of Lumbar X-ray, the average days of hospital treatment for the lumbar sprain was the shortest term, 10.14 days and ´effective rate´(the percentage of positive effective treatment cases) was 93.75%.
5. In the therapeutic result to the period of disease, ´effective rate´(the percentage of positive effective treatment cases) and ´extra-effective rate´(the percentage of apparently well effective treatment cases) of ´the acutest´ group were 96.77%, and 83.87% whose treatment efficacy was far better than other groups.
6. In the therapeutic result to the patient-condition when he was hospitalized with the period of disease, ´the acutest-Gr IV´ treatment efficacy was higher than any other group by 61.29%(19 of 31 cases). In that case the therapeutic result(´effecive rate´ 100%, ´extra-effective rate´ 84.21%) was also good.
7. The therapeutic result of the hospitalized patients was as follows: excellent was 13 cases, good 56, fair 19, and failure 12, i. e., ´effective rate´ was 88% and ´extra-effective rate´ was 69%.
8. When we examined the therapeutic result to the patient-condition when hospitalized, it was shown that in ´extra-effective rate´ Gr IV was 70.96%, Gr III was 8.76% and Gr II was 66.67%, i. e., the more acute pain-experiencing patient when hospitalized had the more apparent treatment effectiveness.
9. In the therapeutic result to age, ´effective rate´ and ´extra-effective rate´ of the forties and below(92.68% and 75.61% each) were better than those of the fifties and over(84.75% and 64.41% each).
10. In the therapeutic result to the term of hospitalization, when the term was short the failure rate was rather high, while ´effective rate´ and ´extra-effective rate´ were higher as the term became longer.
11. In the average days of hospital treatment, the average days of the total hospitalized padients were 16.88 days: those of the failure group were 9.84 days, those of effective treatment result group were 17.85 days, and those of excellent treatment result group were 19.29 days.
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