Survey the Frequency of Clinical Symptoms According to Traditional Medicine in Patients With Low Back Pain

Abstract

Background: Low back pain is a very common disease in daily life and clinical, which affects much to the health. Traditional medical symptoms of low back pain are very diverse and clinically difficult to diagnose. So we conduct this study to contribute to the standardization of symptoms according to traditional medicine and initially contributed to the improvement of diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Objectives: to survey the frequency of clinical symptoms according to traditional medicine in patients with low back pain and find out some factors related to the frequency of clinical types of the disease. Subjects and Methods: Including 92 patients were diagnosed with low back pain and treatment at the Traditional Medicine department of Hue Central Hospital and Thua Thien Hue Traditional Medicine Hospital. Research methodology is descriptive cross-sectional. Results: The symptoms of the tongue: 65.2% pale red tongue, 6.5% bluish purple tongue, 37.0% enlarged tongue, 8.7% thin tongue. About the tongue fur: 68.5% white fur and 31.5% yellow fur, 42.4% moist fur, 4.3% sticky slimy fur, 58.7% thin fur and 41.3% thick fur. The symptoms of the pulse: 17.4% floating pulse, 69.6% sunken pulse, nmoderate pulse 43.5%, powerful pulse 84.8%, weak pulse 15.2%. Among the patients have 33.7% constipation, 45.7% nocturia, 34.8% inability to sleep, 17.4% night sweating 12.0% spontaneous sweating. Conclusion: Symptoms: pale red tongue, white fur, moist fur, thin fur, constipation, nocturia, inability to sleep, sunken pulse, moderate pulse, powerful pulse have high rate; Symptoms have low rate such as bluish purple, the thin tongue, sticky slimy fur. There were significant relationships between clinical types and age, tongue color, tongue fur color, pain properties and pulse frequency (p < 0.05). Key words: Low back pain, symptoms, traditional medicine.