The result of studying papers about management of lower back pain published in domestic and foreign nursing and medical magazines in these 10 years is as follows; 1. General characteristic of lower back pain; 1) In sex distribution, there were more men than women in 5 papers and more women than men in 4 papers among 9 papers surveryed. 2) In age distribution, thirties to forties of patients had more lower back pain as surveyed by general hospitals and fifties to sixties of patients had more lower back pain as surveyed by oriental medical hospitals. 3) In cause factor, there were 50 to 65% of sprain, 32 to 44% of herniated intervertebral disc and 13 to 29% of degenerative changes. 4) In symtom distribution, there were 26 to 57% of lower back pain, 42 to 65% of lower back pain with radiating pain and 34 to 99% of paravertevral muscle spasm. 5) In period of pain management distribution, 18 to 40% of patients experienced pain for Jess than 6 months and 59 to 82% of them experienced pain for more than 6 months in 3 papers among 4 papers. 6) In surveying the treatment, 66 to 88% of patients had conservative treatment and there were treatments of general hospital, oriental medicine, self remedy and traditional practice in conservative treatment. 7) In job distribution, 12 to 50% of them were housekeepers, 23 to 31% office workers, 4.6 to 36% blue color workers and 11 to 15% students. 2. As psychological character lower back pain paients had anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, phobic anxiety, neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, and interpersonal sensitivity. 3. To distinguish the cause of lower back pain, plain lumbar roentgenogram, straight leg rasing test, eletromyelogic findings, somatosensory evoked potentials CT and MRI were performed. 4. To relieve lower back pain, epidural adhesiolysis, epidulal injection of local anesthetic in mixture with steroid, lumbar spinal root block, low level laser therapy, acupuncture like transcutaneous nerve stimulation(ALTENS), topical capsaicin and lumbar orthotics were used in medical field, and relaxation technique was used in nursing field. 5. Mckenzie's extension exercise and William's flexsion exercise for lower back pain were used in medical field and Yoga exercise was applied in nursing field. 6. The more school education and self efficacy were high, the better they had active coping lower back pain positively and the less self efficacy was the more they had serious pain. As a result of studying the paper there have been very little research for lower back pain in nursing fields of Korea and foreign countries. Because 60 to 80% of population expeience lower back pain at least more than once, it is necessary to develop the study and clinical practice for management of lower back pain.
Acupuncture ; Age Distribution ; Anxiety ; Capsaicin ; Depression ; Education ; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory ; Female ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Hypochondriasis ; Intervertebral Disc ; Korea ; Low-Level Light Therapy ; Leg ; Low Back Pain* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Medicine, East Asian Traditional ; Neurasthenia ; Nursing ; Pain Management ; Periodicals as Topic ; Relaxation ; Self Efficacy ; Sex Distribution ; Spasm ; Spinal Nerve Roots ; Sprains and Strains ; Yoga

To observe whether the measurement of enzyme activity has any critical role in assesment of diagnostic value, beta-glucuronidase and lactic dehydrogenase activities in neoplastic tissue of stomach were compared with those in the stomach at the stomach mucosa at the antrum and body which was uninvolved by tumor. And then activities of those enzymes were also compared with differentiated and undifferentiated carcinomas. The stomach tested were obtained by gastrectomy in Pusan National University Hospital during the months from March to June in 1983. The results were summarized as follows: 1) beta-glucuronidase activity in the neoplastic tissue of stomach was higher than that in the antral and body mucosa, and this enzyme activity in the antral mucosa with intestinal metaplasia was higher than that in the body mucosa of stomach. 2) Lactic dehydrogenase activity in the neoplastic tissue of stomach was similar to that in the antral mucosa with intestinal metaplasia, and was higher than that in the body mucosa of stomach. 3) Acitivities of both enzymes in the neoplastic tissue of differentiated carcinoma were slightly higher than that of undifferentiated one, but did not found statistically significant difference. 4) In the neoplastic tissue of the stomach there was no significant correlation between beta-glucuronidase and latic dehydrogenase activities. Above results support that the measurement of gastric juice enzymes is useful in the diagnosis of stomach carcinoma and may be of value in the identification of high-risk groups.

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PURPOSE: Anorectal manometry has become a routine investigation for the evaluation of patients with anorectal disorders. However, the interpretation of such studies is confounded by the fact that controversial data are reported with regard to the same events. The aim of this study was to measure the reproducibility of the pressure profiles of anorectal manometry in healthy controls for standardization of their measurements. METHODS: Manometric study was performed on different days with 7 days interval in 22 male healthy subjects with the use of a pneumohydraulic capillary perfusion system. RESULTS: For resting pressures with rapid pull-through (RPT) technique, maximum pressure revealed 43.58, 19.8% and mean pressure, 16.02, 14.6% in the order of reproducibility coefficient and coefficient of variation. For resting pressures with stationary pull-through (SPT) technique, maximum pressure; 17.22, 12.2% and mean pressure; 14.66, 26.4%, respectively. For squeezing pressures with RPT technique, maximum pressure; 53.37, 14.3% and mean pressure; 66.32, 23.6%. For squeezing pressures with SPT technique, maximum pressure; 72.80, 11.9%, mean pressure; 93.10, 30.5% and coughing pressure; 69.42, 15.8%, respectively, For anal canal length (ACL) with RPT technique, at resting state; 7.10, 7.9% and at squeezing state; 14.55, 13.7%, respectively. For high pressure zone (HPZ) with RPT technique, at resting state; 6.68, 16.3% and at squeezing state; 11.06, 23.5%. For HPZ with SPT technique, at resting state; 11.28, 25.4% and at squeezing state; 10.04, 17.5%, respectively. For radial asymmetry (RA) with RPT technique, at resting state; 13.76, 42.3% and at squeezing state; 7.86, 22.9%. For RA with SPT technique, at resting state; 24.6, 58.6% and at squeezing state; 14.28, 46.7%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Measurements of resting and squeezing pressure are more reproducible by SPT technique, in which technique it seems that maximum value is more preferred as a representative value. ACL and HPZ are may well measured on resting pressure with SPT technique. Radial asymmetry shows the best reproducibility on squeezing pressure with RPT.
Anal Canal ; Capillaries ; Cough ; Humans ; Male ; Manometry ; Perfusion

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We report a case of extraskeletal osteosarcoma in view of rarity, and a brief review of the literature related to this type of tumor is presented. The patient was a 31-year-old Korean woman, who had noticed a bean-sized hard mass in the right thigh progressively enlarged to become egg-size during about 7 months, followed by pain and tenderness. There was neither recognizable previous lesion nor causable agent about the mass on history taking. Physical examination revealed another palpable mass on the inguinal area. The right thigh and inguinal masses were simply excised and histologically confirmed to be an extraskeletal osteosarcoma and metastatic one, respectively.
Female ; Humans ; Neoplasm Metastasis

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