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A Case Report of Intra-articular Bee Venom Pharmacopuncture combining with oriental medical treatment for Acute Traumatic Partial Tear of Meniscus
Author(s) -
JaeHoon Lee,
Junsoo Kim,
Jeong Young-Hoon,
Jeong Byul,
Cha-Ro Lee
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of pharmacopuncture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2234-6856
pISSN - 2093-6966
DOI - 10.3831/kpi.2010.13.4.129
Subject(s) - bee venom , medicine , meniscus , anesthesia , surgery , biology , zoology , physics , incidence (geometry) , optics
This case was report of intra-articular bee venom pharmacopuncture injection on the patient with Acute Traumatic Partial tear of meniscus. We used intra-articular bee venom pharmacopuncture injection to Acute Traumatic Partial tear of meniscus diagnosed by symptoms and MR imaging. Be under\udtreatment if necessary we prescribed herbal medication and physiotherapy. The state of patient was measured by Visual Analog Scale(VAS) and Walking time and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities(WOMAC) Index score. After several times of treatments, noticeable reduction of pain was measured and increased time of walking on floor and decreased WOMAC score. This results suggest that intra-articular bee venom pharmacopuncture injection are effective to treatments of Acute\udTraumatic Partial tear of meniscus

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