• Title/Summary/Keyword: DEFS(Detailed of Facial Symmetry of Phillsbury and Fisch)

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The Clinical Study of Bell's palsy of Children (소아(小兒)에서 발생(發生)하는 구안와사(口眼喎斜)의 임상적(臨床的) 고찰(考察))

  • Seo, Won-hee;Moon, Ik-ryoul;Park, Jong-tae;Kim, Jin-young
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.73-91
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    • 2002
  • Objective : The purpose of this study is to assess treatment of children's bell's palsy based on physiological and pathological character. Methods : At the age of 0 to 15, 30 bell's palsy out-patients who visited and treated more than 3weeks at the Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Dong-indang Oriental Medicine Hospital, from 07-01-2001 to 06-30-2002. They were treated with Acupuncture, Herb, Aqua-acupuncture, Physical therapy and measured by HBGS(House-Brackmann Grading System) and DEFS(Detailed of Facial Symmetry of Phillsbury and Fisch) at visit and 3 weeks after. Result and Conclusion : Children's bell's palsy is mostly caused by recent upper respiratory infection and developed most frequently on March, September, seasonally in Spring, Autumn. A group of children's bell's palsy was marked much higher than a group of adult's bell's palsy conducted by Kim's report with oriental medicine in treatment outcome. But we discovered that there was not the signifcant difference between two groups.

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