Long Term Follow up of Spinal Stenosis Inpatients Treated With Korean Integrative Medicine Treatment.

Long Term Follow up of Spinal Stenosis Inpatients Treated With Korean Integrative Medicine Treatment.

The purpose of this study is to reveal the effectiveness and safety of integrative Korean medicine for spinal stenosis by observation inpatients treated with integrative Korean medicine.

This study is a prospective observational study. The subjects for study are patients diagnosed with spinal stenosis and who have been admitted to four Jaseng Hospital of Korean medicine (Gangnam, Bucheon, Daejeon, and Haeundae) for 2015.01-2018.12.

Medical records of selected patients will be analyzed, and telephone surveys will be conducted for each patient. The survey questions are Numeric rating scale (NRS), Oswestry disability index (ODI), quality of life, and Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC), etc.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients diagnosed with spinal stenosis by an Korean medicine doctor and was admitted to Jaseng hospital of Korean medicien.
• Patients undergone MRI readings of central spinal stenosis
• Patients have no communication problems
• Patients have agreed to participate the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have been diagnosed with certain serious diseases that may cause back pain or neck pain (tumor metastases to the spine, acute fractures, spinal dislocations, and so on)
• Patient hospitalized for pain caused by a traffic accident
• Patients with serious mental illness
• Patients deemed unable to participate in the clinical research by other researchers