Journal of Haehwa Medicine (혜화의학회지)

Research Institute of Korean Medicine (대전대학교 한의학연구소)
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Consideration of Literatures on the Treatment of Pain in Shoulder and Arm Based on Oriental Medicine and Western Medicine

견비통(肩臂痛)의 치험(治療)에 대(對)한 동서의학적(東西醫學的) 고찰(考察)

  • Park, Ki-Hong (Dept. of Acupuncture, College of oriental Medicine, Graduate school of Daejeon University) ;
  • Lee, Hyun (Dept. of Acupuncture, College of oriental Medicine, Graduate school of Daejeon University)
  • 박기홍 (대전대학교 한의과대학 침구과학교실) ;
  • 이현 (대전대학교 한의과대학 침구과학교실)
  • Accepted : 2006.05.22
  • Published : 2006.06.30
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Abstract

Objectives & Methods : I investigated 45 literature of Oriental and Western medicine about the treatment of pain in shoulder and arm. Result and Conclusion : 1. The etiological causes of Pain in Shoulder and Arm based on literatures of Oriental medicine are attack of wind-heat on the lung, wind cold, damp-heat struggle between the vital energy and pathogenic factor and six pathogenic factors. And all these causes are the conception of blockage syndrome, Qi and blood stagnating in meridian system. 2. The treatment of Pain in Shoulder and Arm based on Oriental medicine is mainly composed of both medical therapy for Bi syndrome due to pathogenic wind, deficiency of both Qi and blood, consumption of the liver and the spleen, and also acupuncture and moxibustion treatment by selection for acupoint. And those treatments are for treating etiology. And also there are treatments using the meridian system and Twelve Muscle Region and Ashihyeol for the purpose of treating the symptoms. 3. The etiological causes of Pain in Shoulder and Arm based on literatures of Western medicine are degenerative cut of tendon and nerve symptoms caused by tendonitis, bursitis, calcification, ruptured cervical disc and thoracic outlet syndrome. 4. The treatment of Pain in Shoulder and Arm based on Western medicine is for alleviation of pain, such as giving an anodyne, steroid products, local anesthetic injection and stretching and strengthening the muscles.

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