足陽明胃經의 鍼灸治療가 膝關節炎에 미치는 臨床硏究

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the clinical effect of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of the Stomach meridian on the knee joint arthritis. This study develops the sampling frame from September 10 to October 31, 2007, targeting patients of the knee joint arthritis from Y hospital, Gwangju. It uses the Convenient sampling method to sample 120 patients, and 100 answers for the actual study except 20 copies whose answers are no sincere or in part omitted. For this study, we develop questions on the Stomach meridian acupuncture and moxibustion treatment and knee joint arthritis to collect data. The results obtained through this process are presented as follows:

1. There is not statistically significant difference in effect of acupuncture and moxibustion of the Stomach meridian in respect to all the variables of pain according to sex, daily living, and knee joint arthritis. For pain according to sex, female subjects show the most pain while male subjects show the least pain. In respect to difficulties in daily living, male group has the highest degree of difficulties, while female group has the lowest degree of difficulties. For knee joint arthritis, female subjects show the highest degree of arthritis while mae subjects show the lowest degree of arthritis.

2. In the effect of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of the Stomach meridian pain according to age, daily life, and knee joint arthritis, there is a difference in all the variables of pain, difficulties of daily living and knee joint arthritis. For pain according to age, the subjects from 50 to 59 show the most pain and the subject group from 40 to 49 show the least pain. For the difficulties of daily living, the subjects whose age is above 70 have the highest degree of difficulties while the subjects whose age ranges from 30 to 39 have the least difficulties. For the knee joint arthritis, the subjects whose age ranges from 60 to 69 have the highest prevalence while the subjects whose age ranges from 30 to 39 have the lowest prevalence.

3. The acupuncture and moxibustion treatment shows different effect in all the variables of pain, difficulties in daily living, and knee joint arthritis. The house wife group shows the highest degree of occupational pain and the subjects who own their shops show the lowest degree of occupational pain. For difficulties in daily living, the house wife group shows the highest degree of difficulties while the subjects who own their shops show the lowest degree of difficulties. The house wife group shows the highest degree of knee joint arthritis while other subjects groups show the lowest degree of the arthritis

4. In respect to the correlations between pain, daily living and knee joint arthritis, pain has positive correlations with difficulties in daily living and the arthritis, and the difficulties in daily living have positive correlations with the arthritis.