한냉치료가 중추신경계 손상환자의 경직에 미치는 영향 = The Effects of Cold Therapy on Patient with Spasticity by Cerebrovascular Accident

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of cold application for reducing spasticity in patients with traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular accident who did not take neurasurgical treatment and medication except patients with spinal cord injury. The participants consisted of 24 men and 21 female were ramdomly assigned to three groups with each 15.
The result were as followings after making on observation about the change of skin temperature and spasticity throughout cryontherapy which was performed with ice stick in Group I (1 min); Group II (5 min) and Group III (10 min).
1. It was found that the Group III, Group II, Group I, in order named, had the statistically significant reduction of skin temperature, the reduction of spasticity showed statistically significance in Group III, Group II, in order named, but did not show it even though there was a little increase in Group I.
2. The reduction of skin temperature end spasticity did not continue aver 24 hours at the same time every day for 5 days.
3. The longer cryotherapy was applied the more skin temperature and apasticity reduced, the more skin temperature was reduced the more spasticity reduced.