A Case Report of Korean Medicine Treatment on Back Pain of a Parkinson's Disease Patient

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to explore the possibility of Korean medicine treatment on back pain of Parkinson's disease patient through a case study. A Parkinson's disease patient suffering from back pain and both limbs pain was hospitalized and treated with acupuncture and traditional medicine. We evaluated the treatment effect with Numerial Rate Scale (NRS), Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire (ODI), EuroQol-Five Dimensions (EQ-5D), and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). As a result, back pain NRS, lower limbs pain NRS, ODI, EQ-5D, UPDRS turned out to be greatly improved from 9 to 3, 5 to 2, 80 to 64, −0.014 to 0.513, 122 to 37, respectively. This study suggested that Korean Medicine could be effective treatment for back pain of Parkinson's Disease. Further clinical studies are needed to obtain definite conclusion.

Acupuncture Treatment in Clinical Studies for Parkinson’s Disease : A Literature Review

“…Kim et al [56] recently treated Parkinson's patients with lower back pain with acupuncture treatment. Although they treated patients according to the general lower back pain treatment method, patients with Parkinson's disease reported positive effects on Parkinson's disease-related symptoms such as dizziness, anxiety and depression.…”