카이로프랙틱 교정과 척추관절유동술이 청각기능에 미치는 영향

A Study of the Effect of Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy and Mobilization on Changing Auditory Sensory Function

This study is to compare and analyse the effect of chiropractic manipulation and mobilization on the auditory sensory function. This study has carried out on the 18 males and 9 females among total 27 students of the department of health management of Hanseo University from Nov. 21 to Nov. 28, 2010, and their average age is 20.89. After measuring the hearing range with hearing tester (AMA-PTA), the area of movement restricted was selected, and the hearing range after the chiropractic correction and mobilization correction was measured again. The result of this study is as follows. The difference of results before and after the chiropractic correction is average 2.488±8.889 of left hearing range, and the right hearing range lowered to average 2.572±6.475. As a statistical significance level, it was meaningfully showed at 500 Hz of left hearing frequency, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 4,000 Hz of right hearing frequency (p < 0.05). In the other left and right frequencies, there was no statistically significant difference. As the difference of results before and after the mobilization, the left hearing range has lowered to average 1.036±5.53, and right hearing range to average0.927±6.76, and at the statistical significance level, it was significant only at left frequency 250 Hz (p < .05). At other frequencies, there was no statistically significant difference. As a result, this study was meaningfully verified that chiropractic has an effect on various and specific hearing frequencies more than mobilization.