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KMID : 0615720110280020043
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Jouranl of Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion society
2011 Volume.28 No. 2 p.43 ~ p.47
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The Comparison of Effectiveness between Acupuncture and Its Cotreatment with Wan-Gwa Acupuncture on the Treatment of Low Back Pain
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Lee Jin-Bok
Im Jeong-Gyun
Lee Hyung-Geol
Kim Jong-Uk
Yook Tae-Han
Song Beom-Yong
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Abstract
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Objectives : The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of treating low back pain patients with Wan-Gwa acupuncture.
Methods : Clinical study was conducted to 42 patients who were treated in Dept. of Acupuncture and Moxibusion, Woosuk University Hospital from March 1 to December 31, 2010. Subject were randomly divided into two groups. In one group(control group), patients were treated with acupuncture. And in the other group(test group), patients were treated with both acupuncture and Wan-Gwa acupuncture. To estimate the efficacy of treatments, visual analog scale(VAS) and Oswestry disability index(ODI) were checked. 13 patients were excluded and we investigated 14 patients of control group and 15 patients of test group entirely.
Results : 1. In both two groups, VAS and ODI of patients were decreased significantly in the statistics 2. In test group, ODI of patients were decreased more significantly in the statistics than ODI of patients in control group.
Conclusions : We suggest that cotreatment of acupuncture and Wan-Gwa acupuncture on low back pain patients can be recommended as a useful therapy.
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KEYWORD
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Low back pain, acupuncture, Wan-Gwa acupuncture, Korean medicine
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