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KMID : 0615720100270020071
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Jouranl of Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion society
2010 Volume.27 No. 2 p.71 ~ p.78
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The Use of Ojeok-san in Low Back Pain Patients: Results of a Telephone Survey
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Shin Kyung-Min
Kim Eun-Jung
Lee Seung-Deok
Kim Kap-Sung
Jang Min-Gee
Kim Sun-Woong
Lee Jae-Dong
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Abstract
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Objectives : This survey was accomplished to find out how Korean medical doctors take Ojeok-san prescriptions for low back pain in clinical practice.
Methods : The survey questionnaire was developed by the committee of experts who major in acupuncture & moxibustion or statistics for acupuncture clinical trial protocol development. 306 persons having more than 5 years experience were randomly selected from a list of Korean medical doctors. Telephone interviews with them were conducted by the well-trained interviewers between March 21 and April 4 in 2009 and the computerized data were analyzed by STATA 9.0 SE version(Stata Corp, Colleg Station Tex, USA) statistical program.
Results : 1. 192 out of 306(65.1%) Korean medical doctors taked Ojeok-san prescriptions for musculoskeletal disorders patients and 183 out of 192(95.3%) Korean medical doctors taked Ojeok-san prescriptions for low back pain treatment. 2. The rate of low back pain patients, ‘20～30%’ was 99 people(33.6%) and the rate of Ojeok-san prescriptions for low back pain treatment, ‘below 10%’ was 65 people(35.5%). 3. In Ojeok-san effect of low back pain treatment, ‘greate effects’ 29.5%, ‘tolerable effects’ 66.7%, ‘no effects’ 3.8% were selected. In granule extracts effect, ‘similar to Original herbs’ 9.8%, ‘unlike to Original herbs’ 90.2% were selected.
Conclusions : In our telephone survey, Korean medical doctors taked Ojeok-san prescriptions for low back pain treatment. Further research on this issue is needed.
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KEYWORD
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Ojeok-san, Low back pain, telephone survey
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