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KMID : 0615720010180030048
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Jouranl of Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion society
2001 Volume.18 No. 3 p.48 ~ p.55
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Comparison of the Improvement of Subjective Symptoms between Body Acupuncture Group 48 Constitution Acupuncture Group
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박영철/Park, Young Chul
김남옥/채상진/손성세/Kim, Nam Ok/Chae, Sang Jin/Son, Sung Se
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Abstract
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Objective : The main cause of back pain & sciatica is HNP of L-spine. Recently, 8 Constitution Acupuncture is largely used for it, but the effects isn´t announced. So we studied. The perceived pain diminishment is compared with Body acupuncture and 8 Constitution acupuncture.
Methods : VAS(Visual analogue scale) was used for this research, with the pain indicator of 10 and 0 which represents a patient admission to a hospital and a status of no pain respectively. Two groups, consisting of Body acupuncture group with 17 persons and 8 Constitution acupuncture group with l2 persons, was randomly allocated for this research. SPSS(Statistical Program for Social Science) for window is used for a statistical analysis, and the independent T-test is performed to gauge the improvement of VAS, in which case, value of P below 0.05 is considered as useful.
Results : The result of the VAS of comparison analysis between two groups after 10 days, shows that the improvement of subjective symptoms in Body acupuncture group is more effective than that in 8 Constitution acupunctute group. (independent T-test, P=0.009)
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