퇴행성 슬관절 100례에 대한 임상적 고찰 |
김성배1, 김승욱1, 윤승미1, 이동민1, 서원희2, 최준혁3, 한이수4 |
1동인당 한방병원 내과 2동인당 한방병원 침구과 3동국대학교 내과 4나사렛한방병원 내과 |
The Clinical Study on 100 Cases of Patient with Degenerative Arthritis of Knee Joint |
sung-bae Kim1, seung-uk Kim1, seung-mi Yoon1, dong-min Lee1, won-hee Seo2, Jun-Hyuk Choi3, I-Su Han4 |
1Department of Oriental Medicine , Dong-in-dang Oriental Medical Hospital 2Department of Acupunture , Dong-in-dang Oriental Medical Hospital 3College of Oriental Medicine. Dong Guk University 4Deporrtment of Oriental Medicine, Nazareth Oriental Medical Hospital |
Correspondence |
sung-bae Kim ,Tel: 02-518-3668,
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Received: July 12, 2002, Accepted: August 31, 2002, Published online: September 30, 2002. |
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ABSTRACT |
Objective : This study was performed to evaluate the clinical results of knee joint degenerative arthritis patients treated with oriental medical method
Method: We reviewed 100 patients of degenerative arthritis of the knee joint, who were cared for at Dong in dang Oriental Medical Hospital and treated by oriental medical methods such as so pung-hwal-hweul-tang, and acupunture of knee joint. We classified patients to 5 pain grade and then analyed by sex-age distribution, frequency of treatment, pain grade after treatment, duration of symptoms, etc.
Result: 1. The distribution showed female predominance (male : female = 1 : 4.89) in sex and 50's , 60's predominance in age 2. In the duration of symptoms , the largest group was "over 3 years" below 5 years (43%) 3. In the 5 Grades of knee joint pain, patients of below the grade was none, patients of grade was the most (63%) 4. Therapeutic effects above "fair" were 91 cases (91%) 5. In the all grades, whatever the pain grade at the first medical examination, Therapeutic effects above "fair" were most frequently found 6. In most of age group, Therapeutic effects were similar 7. In the below 6 months-duration of symptom-group , results showed cases of below the "fair" predominance and In the over 6 months-duration of symptom-group , results showed cases of over the "fair" predominance
Conclusions: The result of treating degenerative arthritis of the knee joint by oriental medical methods is satisfactory |
Key words:
Degenerative arthritis, Knee joint, Sopoungwhalwheol-tang |
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