Lee, Byung-Hoon; Kim, Cheol-Hong; Seo, Jung-Chul; Youn, Hyoun-Min; Song, Choon-Ho; Ahn, Chang-Beohm; Jang, Kyung-Jeon

By process of treatment for a case which diagnosed as HNP of left posterolateral aspect of L4/5 disc and treated from the 10th, May 2001 to the 23rd, Jun 2001, the results are as follows. Method & Results : This patient was medicated Hwallaktang-gami, taken acupuncture, phototherapy, TENS, electric acupuncture, exercises, Mori Cortex-bee venom acupuncture. As a result, the patient's clinical symptom were improved but a computed tomagraphy confirmed L4/5 and L5/S1 HNP was not changed as seen on repeated CT scanning. Conclusion : These results suggest that among conservative therapies the oriental medical treatments including Mori Cortex-bee venom acupuncture improve clinical symptom effectively. But in this case, the structure of herniated disc was not changed.

Mori Cortex-bee venom acupuncture; reduction; HNP; conservative therapy

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