A Case Study of 20 Patients with Lateral Epicondylitis of the Elbow by Using Hwachim (Burning Acupuncture Therapy) and Sweet Bee Venom Pharmacopuncture
| Autor: | NaYoung Jo, Eun-Yong Lee, Seho Jung, Jeong-Du Roh, Heejin Sung, Inho Yeo, Cham-Geol Lee |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual analogue scale Elbow lcsh:Medicine Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation sweet bee venom pharmacopuncture law.invention Bee venom law medicine Acupuncture therapy lateral epicondylitis lcsh:Miscellaneous systems and treatments Vas score Pharmacology hwachim burning acupuncture therapy business.industry Epicondylitis lcsh:R lcsh:RM1-950 Treatment method medicine.disease lcsh:RZ409.7-999 Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology Complementary and alternative medicine Original Article business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pharmacopuncture, Vol 17, Iss 4, Pp 22-26 (2014) Journal of Pharmacopuncture |
| ISSN: | 2234-6856 2093-6966 |
| Popis: | Objectives: This study was performed to estimate the effectiveness of burning acupuncture therapy (Hwa chim) and sweet bee venom pharmacopuncture (S-BV pharmacopuncture) in treating lateral epicondylitis of elbow. Methods: We selected 33 patients at first, but 13 patients were excluded due to unclear medical records. Finally, a total of 20 patients who had received treatment from January 2012 to December 2013 were included in this study; all 20 patients had undergone Hwachim for the treatment of lateral epicondylitis of elbow, and 19 of the 20 had been treated with S-BV pharmacopuncture (Korea Pharmacopuncture Institute, KPI) and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) as an ancillary treatment method. The degrees of pain of the 20 patients were evaluated by using the visual analogue scale (VAS) score at their first and final visits. The Wilcoxon signed rank test and the Kruskal-Wallis test were used to compare the VAS scores statistically. Results: The VAS score had decreased significantly from 10.00 ± 0.00 to 4.00 ± 2.47 (P = 0.000) by the end of the treatment. No significant changes were observed based on the number of treatments (P = 0.246), the age of the patients (P = 0.810), the duration of the illness (P = 0.705), and the location of the lesion (P = 0.076). Conclusion: This study suggests Hwachim and S-BV pharmacopuncture are very effective for treating later al epicondylitis of the elbow. |
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