건염의 한의학적 치료에 대한 국내 연구 동향

The Domestic Trends of Traditional Korean Medicine Treatments on Tendinitis

Objectives The purpose of this review is to investigate the trends of traditional Korean medicine treatments on tendinitis. Methods We investigated the studies on traditional Korean medicine treatments for tendinitis via searching 5 Korean web databases. Results Nineteen papers were published since 2004. The studies on traditional Korean medicine treatments about tendinitis were mainly published in the journal of Korean spine & joint. Nineteen papers had been under research. In most of the research, the number of the cases were not enough. In 8 cases of the studies, special methods were used to treat the symptoms. Whereas in 11 cases of the studies, various traditional Korean medicine treatments were used to treat the symptoms. Range of motion(ROM) and visual analogue scale(VAS) were used most frequently as primary assessments. Conclusions In this study, we analyzed the trends of traditional Korean medicine treatments on tendinitis. Reviewing the domestic trends of studies on traditional Korean medicine treatments on tendinitis and examining the strong and weak points of those treatments are essential for the further studies.