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The Practice of Korean Medicine: An Overview of Clinical Trials in Acupuncture

Acupuncture, one of the Oriental medical therapeutic techniques that can be traced back at least 2500 years, is growing in popularity all over the world. Korea has continued to develop its own unique tradition of medicine throughout its long history, and has formed different types of acupuncture met...

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Autores principales: Kim, Yong-Suk, Jun, Hyungjoon, Chae, Younbyoung, Park, Hi-Joon, Kim, Bong Hyun, Chang, Il-Moo, Kang, Sung-keel, Lee, Hye-Jung
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1193543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16136212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/neh102
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author Kim, Yong-Suk
Jun, Hyungjoon
Chae, Younbyoung
Park, Hi-Joon
Kim, Bong Hyun
Chang, Il-Moo
Kang, Sung-keel
Lee, Hye-Jung
author_facet Kim, Yong-Suk
Jun, Hyungjoon
Chae, Younbyoung
Park, Hi-Joon
Kim, Bong Hyun
Chang, Il-Moo
Kang, Sung-keel
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description Acupuncture, one of the Oriental medical therapeutic techniques that can be traced back at least 2500 years, is growing in popularity all over the world. Korea has continued to develop its own unique tradition of medicine throughout its long history, and has formed different types of acupuncture methods. The purpose of this review is to summarize clinical case studies in acupuncture and related therapies, such as acupressure, electric acupuncture, auricular acupuncture and moxibustion in Korea. A survey of Korean journals revealed that a total of 124 studies were published from 1983 to 2001. Results obtained from the survey showed that most clinical studies using acupuncture, electric acupuncture, moxibustion and other traditional therapies could alleviate a relatively broad range of medical problems. However, it should be emphasized that almost all clinical case studies published in various local journals did not follow the ‘good clinical practice’ with respect to regulatory aspects. Since they were not conducted using the randomized double-blinded controls with a large sample size, all the results should be considered as therapeutic indications. This review is an attempt to show the scope of acupuncture in our country and the kind of diseases, after many years of clinical experience, that were deemed valid targets for clinical trials.
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spelling pubmed-11935432005-09-01 The Practice of Korean Medicine: An Overview of Clinical Trials in Acupuncture Kim, Yong-Suk Jun, Hyungjoon Chae, Younbyoung Park, Hi-Joon Kim, Bong Hyun Chang, Il-Moo Kang, Sung-keel Lee, Hye-Jung Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Reviews Acupuncture, one of the Oriental medical therapeutic techniques that can be traced back at least 2500 years, is growing in popularity all over the world. Korea has continued to develop its own unique tradition of medicine throughout its long history, and has formed different types of acupuncture methods. The purpose of this review is to summarize clinical case studies in acupuncture and related therapies, such as acupressure, electric acupuncture, auricular acupuncture and moxibustion in Korea. A survey of Korean journals revealed that a total of 124 studies were published from 1983 to 2001. Results obtained from the survey showed that most clinical studies using acupuncture, electric acupuncture, moxibustion and other traditional therapies could alleviate a relatively broad range of medical problems. However, it should be emphasized that almost all clinical case studies published in various local journals did not follow the ‘good clinical practice’ with respect to regulatory aspects. Since they were not conducted using the randomized double-blinded controls with a large sample size, all the results should be considered as therapeutic indications. This review is an attempt to show the scope of acupuncture in our country and the kind of diseases, after many years of clinical experience, that were deemed valid targets for clinical trials. Oxford University Press 2005-09 2005-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC1193543/ /pubmed/16136212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/neh102 Text en © The Author (2005). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
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Kim, Bong Hyun
Chang, Il-Moo
Kang, Sung-keel
Lee, Hye-Jung
The Practice of Korean Medicine: An Overview of Clinical Trials in Acupuncture
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1193543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16136212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/neh102
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