Baumgarden Joseph, Klein Penelope, Picard George
Physical Therapy Department, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY 14201, USA.
Village of Healing and Wellness, St. Catharines, ON L2R 3L2, Canada.
Medicines (Basel). 2018 Jun 21;5(3):60. doi: 10.3390/medicines5030060.
Chronic back pain is one of the leading causes of disability and decreased quality of life for people in both their personal and professional lives. In addition to modern medical intervention, many individuals seek relief through complementary and alternative therapies. This study was designed as a retrospective descriptive review presented as two case studies. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with two volunteer subjects of convenience who each had a medical diagnosis of chronic back pain. Both individuals practiced a daily, standardized regimen of 24-Posture Qigong. Both individuals experienced clinically significant symptomatic relief and functional benefit from their practice of qigong. Positive outcomes are theoretically attributed to relief of inflammation systemically and locally, reversal of sensitization and structural restorative reparation. These results provide justification for further prospective, controlled, long-term investigations.
慢性背痛是导致个人生活和职业生涯中残疾和生活质量下降的主要原因之一。除了现代医学干预外，许多人还通过补充和替代疗法寻求缓解。本研究设计为一项回顾性描述性综述，以两个案例研究的形式呈现。通过与两名方便选取的志愿者受试者进行面对面访谈收集数据，这两名受试者均被医学诊断为慢性背痛。两人都每天练习标准化的24式气功。两人都从气功练习中体验到了临床上显著的症状缓解和功能改善。理论上，积极的结果归因于全身和局部炎症的缓解、敏化的逆转和结构修复性修复。这些结果为进一步进行前瞻性、对照性、长期研究提供了依据。
