Der Merkurstab | September/Oktober 2003 | 22,00 Euro (inkl. Mwst., zzgl. Versandkosten)
Artikel | Anthroposophische vs. konventionelle Therapie beim chronischen LWS-Syndrom: Ergebnisse einer prospektiven Studie Anthroposophical vs conventional treatment of low back pain - results of a prospective study |
Autoren | Harald J. Hamre, Claudia Becker-Witt, Renatus Ziegler, Stefan N. Willich, Helmut Kiene |
Seite | 292 |
Zusammenfassung
Im Bambus begegnet ein starkes einstrahlendes Lichtprinzip
einem stabilen, rhythmisch gegliederten und elastischen Spross. Substantiell
zeigt der Kieselprozess im Bambus eine besondere Ausprägung. Er ist
Naturbild für eine gesunde Wirbelsäule. Seit seiner Entdeckung für die
anthroposophische Medizin 1951 hat er sich bei den verschiedensten Störungen
der Form-, Bewegungs- und Aufrichteprozesse an der gesamten Wirbelsäule als
Heilmittel bewährt. Entsprechend der Tätigkeit der Wesensglieder bei
unterschiedlichen Pathologien wird eine Ratio für die Potenzhöhe gegeben.
Abstract
Summary of a Iecture given at a German Anthroposophical Medical Association conference on spinal conditions and osteoporosis, individualized diagnosis and treatment in Kassel on November 23 and 24, 2002.
As part of a model project on methods used in natural medicine for the lnnungskrankenkasse (health insurance company) Hamburg and the Federal Department of Transport‘s health insurance company, a prospective comparative study on low back pain was run in German medical practices. The subject of the study was the evolution over 12 months seen in patients between 17 and 75 years of age presenting with lumbar pain of at least 6 weeks‘ duration. Patients who had had surgical treatment of the spine and 12 specific diagnoses were excluded. 44 patients who were given their first anthroposophical treatment for low back pain (Group A) were compared with 50 patients receiving their first conventional treatment for low back pain (Group S). The most frequently given treatments in Group A were eurythmy therapy (n = 33) and rhythmical massage (n = 8). Low back pain had persisted for a median of 8.5 years in Group A (interquartile range 2.3 - 19.0 years), and 0.5 years in Group 5 (0.2 - 2.5 years). Low back pain rating scale, function oft he back (Hanover function questionnaire for back pain) and health-related quality of life (SF-36 questionnaire on state of health) improved in both groups. With reference to SF-36 subscales, Group A showed same more favourable evolutions than Group S, whilst other evolutions were comparable. Analgesics and NSAIDs had been taken by a greater number of patients in Group S than in Group A during the year preceding admission to the study. The difference increased in the first year of the study. About two thirds of patients in both groups had physical therapies in addition in the year preceding and the first year following admission to the study.