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A Review of Research on the Effects of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatment to Complex Regional Pain Syndromes

복합부위통증증후군의 침구치료 효과에 대한 연구동향 고찰

  • Kim, Ho Sun (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital) ;
  • Bae, Young Hyun (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Hae Sol (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital) ;
  • Suh, Chang Yong (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital) ;
  • Kim, No Hyeon (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital) ;
  • Yang, Kyu Jin (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Gi Bum (Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine, Gang-Nam Jaseng Hospital)
  • 김호선 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과) ;
  • 배영현 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과) ;
  • 김해솔 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과) ;
  • 서창용 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과) ;
  • 김노현 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과) ;
  • 양규진 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과) ;
  • 이기범 (강남자생한방병원 침구의학과)
  • Received : 2016.11.10
  • Accepted : 2016.12.09
  • Published : 2016.12.20
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Abstract

Objectives : This study was performed to review articles concerning acupuncture or moxibustion treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndromes. Methods : On-line databases including PubMed, Cochrane Library, Ovid-EMBASE, NDSL and OASIS were searched to find articles concerning acupuncture or moxibustion treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndromes. Several overlapping articles and those not relevant to the topic were excluded, as well as review articles and commentaries. Results : 16 case reports were selected through the procedure, all of which presented successful treatment cases of Complex Regional Pain Syndromes with acupuncture and moxibustion. Most of them presented one single patient case and were published in Korea. However, almost half of them were printed in English, and had been continuously published since 2005. It was remarkable that pharmacopuncture was predominantly used to treat Complex Regional Pain Syndromes. Also, we noted that Chinese scalp acupuncture needs to be studied further as two successful cases were presented from the U.S army. Conclusion : The results show that several case reports have been published regarding Complex Regional Pain Syndromes treated with acupuncture and moxibustion. However, all of them were case reports which are given low status in Evidence-Based Medicine. We expect that a more diverse range of articles, including case control studies, cohort studies and randomized controlled trials will be performed in the near future, and that a unified outcome measure will be developed for Complex Regional Pain Syndromes.

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