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KMID : 0615720110280030021
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Jouranl of Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion society
2011 Volume.28 No. 3 p.21 ~ p.31
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Clinical Observation on 119 Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Treated with Bee Venom Pharmacopuncture Therapy
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Han Kyung-Wan
Kim Eun-Seok
Woo Jae-Hyuk
Lee Seul-Ji
Lee Joon-Seok
Nam Ji-Hwan
Kim Kie-Won
Koh Kang-Hoon
Yoo In-Sik
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Abstract
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Objectives:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of bee venom pharmacopuncture therapy in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.
Methods: This clinical study was carried out on 119 patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, who had been admitted from May, 2009 to March, 2011. Patients were sorted into two groups ; One group(bee venom pharmacopuncture group) was treated with bee venom pharmacopuncture and acupuncture therapy, the other(non-bee venom pharmacopuncture group) with acupuncture therapy only. Verbal numerical rating scale(VNRS) and Oswestry disability index(ODI) were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment in both groups. VNRS and ODI scores of the two groups were statistically compared.
Results:The bee venom pharmacopuncture group demonstrated a more significant improvement than non-bee venom pharmacopuncture group when evaluated with VNRS and ODI.
Conclusions: In the case of the patients with spinal stenosis, it was found that treatment with combination of bee venom pharmacopuncture and acupuncture was more effective in improving the conditions of the patients (subsidence of the symptoms) than the acupuncture treatment only.
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KEYWORD
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lumbar spinal stenosis, bee venom pharmacopuncture therapy, VNRS, ODI
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