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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

中部地區脊髓損傷病患求診傳統中醫之探討

Abstract

People with spinal cord injury often asked help to manage the symptoms such as spasticity, inco-ntinence of sphincter or paresthesia with combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. In order to explore the popularization of, perceived effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine, and difficulty to be faced when utilizing traditional Chinese medicine among people with spinal cord injury in central Taiwan, we collected and analyzed 115 effective questionnaires of them who had ever used Chinese medicine after injury. The results showed: the ways utilizing traditional Chinese medicine most were prescribed Chinese herbs (27.4%), acupuncture (25.6%) and Chinese massage (20.0%), the places to see Traditional Chinese medicine most were Chinese hospital or clinics (43.4%), Western hospital or clinics (21.9%). More than half of samplers utilized traditional Chinese medicine at their own expense with 200-500 NT dollars of medical charges that most of them (51.6%) afforded. The symptoms of the most perceived effectiveness are pressure sore (79%), incont-inence of sphincter (76.6%), and depressive mood (75.2%). 65.2% of participants agreed to attend the acupuncture therapy in the rehabilitation hospital where we collected the study sample. The advantages of combining acupuncture in rehabilitation clinics are : 1.convenient for receiving treatment combing Western and Chinese medicine, 2.understanding well the exact effect of acupuncture on symptoms associated with spinal cord injury under the operation of rehabilitation specialist, 3.preven-ting patients from misdiagnosed or cheated by conjurers, 4.expending specialist fields of physiatrists.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

245

Last Page

251

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