KMID : 1138520110140030091
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Journal of Pharmacopuncture 2011 Volume.14 No. 3 p.91 ~ p.97
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Case Series Report on the Effect of Hand Acupuncture - Focusing on 29 Patients with Headache -
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Sun Seung-Ho
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Abstract
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Objectives:The purpose of 29 case series is to report the possibility that a hand acupuncture is effective in relieving headache.
Methods:After approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB), I analyzed 29 cases medical records of outpatients with headache, who visited ¡Û¡Û oriental medical hospital from December 2008 to December 2010, who have taken a hand acupuncture¡¯s treatment without other intervention, and who were diagnosed with one disease of international classification of headache disease second version (ICHD-2). The data was analyzed with Wilcoxon signed rank test to determine whether a hand acupuncture¡¯s treatment differed between before and after treatment¡¯s Visual Analogue Scale(VAS) according to types of headache and syndrome differentiation. Statistics program was used SPSS 18.0. Differences were considered significant at P<0.05.
Results: The VAS of patients with headache was reduced after treatment of hand acupuncture from 6.57¡¾2.04 to 2.90¡¾2.04 for overall headache, from 6.32¡¾2.05 to 2.47¡¾2.03 for tension-type headache(P<0.001), from 7.10¡¾2.18 to 3.70¡¾1.77 for migraine(P<0.001), and from 6.00¡¾1.41 to 2.50¡¾3.54 for headache unspecified. A hand acupuncture produced a decrease in VAS of both ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang(P<0.001) and phlegm turbidity according to syndrome differentiation(P=0.002). No adverse event were encountered in any of the patients.
Conclusions: It is suggested that a hand acupuncture may be effective in relieving headache, and could be applicable to first choice of acupuncture treatment for headache.
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KEYWORD
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Headache, Hand acupuncture, Tensiontype headache, Probable Migraine
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