Object : This study is designed to evaluate effects of acupuncture and herb-medication by the data of DITI(Digital Infrared Thermographic Imaging) examination and the changes of clinical symptoms after the therapy of acupuncture and herb-medication in the patients with Bell´s palsy.
Contents : The conservative therapy with acupuncture and herb-medication was performed during 1-8weeks.
The acupuncture points of S4, S6, G14, S2, BL2, SI18, TE23, LI4 and S36 was used.
In the pre- and post therapy, DITI examinations were performed in patients who had Bell´s palsy and were treated by acupuncture simultaneously, and then tried to correlate the results of clinical symptoms with the difference of thermographic findings at pre-and post acupuncture.
Setting : The standard routine themographic examinations were performed with thermography (DITI) in the 16 patients with Bell´s palsy at pre- and post acupuncture.
patients : Thermographic imaging of 16cases was analyzed. They had diagnosed Bell´s palsy. They were treated by acupuncture and moxibustion therapy in Wonkwang Oriental Hospital from Jauary, 1999 to February, 2000.
Results : The results of treatment showes that 56.25% of patients achieved excellent recovery and 31.25% achieved good recovery. After compairing the DITI results before and after treatment, we found 43.75% of patients achieved excellent recovery and 43.75% achieved good recovery.
Conclusion :Acupuncture showed good results over 87.5% in clinical evaluation and 87.5% in DITI. Thermographic examination showes terapeutic effect of acupuncture treatment.
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