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KMID : 1123920170310010025
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Korean Journal of Oriental Physiology and Pathology
2017 Volume.31 No. 1 p.25 ~ p.35
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Research Trends on the Thread Embedding Therapy of Low back pain in Traditional Chinese M edicine - Focusing on published articles in China
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Jun Purumea
Liu Yan
Park Ji-Eun
Jung So-Young
Han Chang-Hyun
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Abstract
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About 60% to 90% of a total population experience low back pain at least once of life, and about 35% to 79% among them experience a recurrent and chronic low back pain. thread-embedding therapy is mainly used to improve appearance or treat obesity in early stage, but recently it is also used to treat musculoskeletal pain. This study aimed to search Chinese study using thread-embedding therapy on low back pain and to analyse their methodology. Three Chinese database(CNKI(www.cnki.net), WANFANG(www.wanfangdata.com), WEIPU(www.cqvip.com)) were searched for clinical study of thread-embedding therapy up to March 2016. The characteristics of included studies and regimen of thread-embedding in those studies were analyzed. The total 21 studies (4 case studies, 16 non-randomized controlled trials, 1 randomized controlled trial) were included. All studies on thread embedding treatment of low back pain reported that its effectiveness was very good. The most frequently used acupoints was Ashi acupoints and acupoints on bladder meridian(BL) or governor vessel(GV). Thread-embedding therapy is considered very useful for low back pain in Traditional Chinese medicine. Further studies are needed to investigate the effect of thread-embedding therapy and to expand its application. This study is limited in that the literature search in the Chinese database were restricted.
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KEYWORD
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Thread embedding therapy, Low back pain, Clinical trial, Traditional Chinese medicine
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