A Proposal for Standardization of Acupotomy Terms and Definition Among Korean researchers

Sang-Hoon Yoon; Sinyeong Jeong; Chan-Young Kwon; Hee-Geun Jo; Young-Il Kim; Yoon, Sang-Hoon; Jeong, Sinyeong; Kwon, Chan-Young; Jo, Hee-Geun; Kim, Young-Il

doi:10.13048/jkm.18012

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Yoon, Jeong, Kwon, Jo, and Kim: A Proposal for Standardization of Acupotomy Terms and Definition Among Korean researchers

Original Article

The Journal of Korean Medicine 2018; 39(2): 13-28.

Published online: June 30, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13048/jkm.18012

A Proposal for Standardization of Acupotomy Terms and Definition Among Korean researchers

Sang-Hoon Yoon¹^{, 2}^{, ¶}

, Sinyeong Jeong²^{, ¶}

, Chan-Young Kwon¹^{, 3}^{, 4}

, Hee-Geun Jo¹^{, 2}

, Young-Il Kim⁵^{, *}

¹Chung-Yeon Medical Institute, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University

²Chung-Yeon Korean Medicine Hospital, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University

³Yanggu Public Health Center, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University

⁴Department of Clinical Korean Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University

⁵Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Daejeon University

Correspondence to: 김영일(Young-Il Kim), 대전대학교 한의과대학 침구학 교실, Tel: +82-42-470-9137, E-mail: omdkim01@dju.kr

¶ These authors contributed equally to this work(co-first authors)

Received May 23, 2018 Revised June 8, 2018 Accepted June 8, 2018

Abstract

Objectives

The aim of this study was to investigate the use of Korean and English terminology of acupotomy therapy among Korean Researchers.

Methods

The search was conducted on eight medical journals (PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, OASIS, KISS, IMR, NDSL, RISS), Google Scholar and 8 Korean medine journals. The definitions of acupotomy therapy, Korean and English terminology were analyzed in the studies that met the criteria.

Results

A total of 60 studies were finally included in the analysis. In Korean terminology, Chim-Do was the most used with 37 studies, Do-Chim with 23 (including duplicates). In English termology, 46 studies were used acupotomy and 10 studies were used miniscalpel acupuncture.

Conclusions

As a result of analyzing the terminology use of acupotomy therapy studies in Korea, it was confirmed that Korean and English terminology are different according to the study. It will be necessary to discuss the standardization of terminology.

Keywords: miniscalpel needle therapy, Acupotomy, Knife acupuncture, Needle Knife

Fig. 1

PRISMA Flow Chart of Selection Results

Fig. 2

Number of Acupotomy Therapy Studies Published by Year

Fig. 3

The Frequency of Korean Terminology use of Acupotomy Therapy among Korean Researchers

Fig. 4

The Frequency of English Terminology use of Acupotomy Therapy among Korean Researchers

Table 1

Summary of Reviewed Studies

1st Author (year)	Journal	Study type	Terminology		Concept	Tool	Application site	Indications	Origins
1st Author (year)	Journal	Study type	Kor/Chin*	Eng†	Concept	Tool	Application site	Indications	Origins
Jeong (2002)22)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society‡	RA	2	3	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion of soft tissue	Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Shin (2004)23)	The Korean Journal of Pain	CR/CS	1	1	unclear	acupuncture+knife	trigger point of skeletal muscle	activation of trigger point	NR
Jang (2008)24)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1/2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Kim (2008a)25)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	injury of soft tissue	Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Kim (2008b)26)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	RA	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	chronic pain due to injury of soft tissue	Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Kim (2008c)27)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Kwak (2008)28)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue	NR
Lee (2008a)29)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	T-shaped acupuncture + knife	NR	NR	NR
Lee (2008b)30)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Lee (2008c)31)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue	NR
Lim (2008)32)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1/2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Jang (2008)33)	Journal of Pharmacopuncture	CR/CS	1/2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion of soft tissue	NR
Kim (2009a)34)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Kim (2009b)35)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	NR	soft tissue	pain due to injury of soft tissue	NR
Jang (2009)36)	Journal of Pharmacopuncture	CR/CS	2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion of soft tissue	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Lim (2009)37)	Journal of Pharmacopuncture	CR/CS	1/3	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Ko (2010)38)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Park (2010)39)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Song (2010)40)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	RA	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	chronic pain due to injury of soft tissue	NR
Yun (2010)41)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	RCT	1	1	NDA	NR	soft tissue	NR	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Yang (2010)8)	thesis	RA	1/2/3/4	1/3	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Kim (2011)42)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Park (2011a)43)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Park (2011b)44)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	NR	NR	NR	NR
Sung (2011)45)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	NR	NR	NR	NR
Kim (2011)46)	Journal of Pharmacopuncture	CR/CS	1/3	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Lim (2011)47)	Journal of Pharmacopuncture	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Kim (2012)48)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1/3	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Lee (2012)49)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1	1	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Park (2012)50)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CCT	1	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Yuk (2012)51)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	1/3	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Jung (2012)52)	Journal of physiology & pathology in Korean Medicine	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	NR	soft tissue	adhesion of soft tissue	NR
Kim (2012)53)	thesis	CR/CS	1	1	NDA	NR	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue due to injury of soft tissue	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Son (2013)54)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	RA	2	3	TA	piece of ceramics, knife-shaped cupuncture	NR	pathogenic qi on superficial and deep layers	knife-shaped acupuncture from Hanfeizi(韓非子)
Sung (2013)55)	Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society	CR/CS	2	3	TA	piece of ceramics, knife-shaped acupuncture	NR	pathogenic qi on superficial and deep layers	NR
Yuk (2013)56)	thesis	CR/CS	1	1	TA	stiletto needle(鈹鍼)	NR	NR	from stiletto needle(鈹鍼)
Kim (2014a)57)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	NR	NR
Kim (2014b)58)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue	NR
Lee (2014)7)	The Acupuncture	RCT	1	1	NDA	NR	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue	NR
Yuk (2014)20)	The Acupuncture	RA	1/2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	chronic pain due to injury of soft tissue	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Cho (2014)59)	thesis	CR/CS	1/2/4	1	NDA/TA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue/pathogenic qi on superficial and deep layers	NR
Kim (2015a)60)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue, chronic pain	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Kim (2015b)9)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	2/3	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion, nodule, and scar of soft tissue	NR
Min (2015)61)	Journal of Korean Medicine	CR/CS	2	1	TA	stiletto needle(鈹鍼)	NR	pathogenic qi on superficial and deep layers	ceramic acupuncture(陶鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼)
Yoon (2015)6)	Journal of Society of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research	CR/CS	2	1	TA	stiletto needle(鈹鍼)	NR	NR	NR
Lee (2016)62)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	2	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Oh (2016)63)	The Acupuncture	Perspective article	2/3	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Park (2016)5)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	2	2	unclear	acupuncture+knife	NR	pathogenic qi on superficial and deep layers	NR
Jun (2016a)64)	Korean J Acupunct	RCT protocol	2	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Kim (2016)4)	J Acupunct Meridian Stud	CR/CS	NA	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue, bone	injury of soft tissue, bone hyperplasia	NR
Kim (2017a)65)	The Acupuncture	RA	NA	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	injury of soft tissue	NR
Kim (2017b)66)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	NA	3	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion of soft tissue	NR
Jun (2017b)3)	The Acupuncture	CR/CS	NA	2	unclear	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	adhesion of soft tissue, pain	NR
Jun (2017c)67)	Journal of oriental rehabilitation medicine	RA	1/2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	adhesion, nodule, and scar of tissue	NR
Yoon (2017)10)	The Acupuncture	RA	1/2/4	2	unclear	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	from stiletto needle(鈹鍼)
Choi (2017)68)	Journal of Haehwa Medicine	CR/CS	2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	soft tissue	injury of soft tissue	lance needle(鋒鍼) or stiletto needle(鈹鍼) from Huangdineijing(黃帝內經)
Jo (2017)69)	J Korean Med Rehabi	RA	2	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Kim (2017)70)	thesis	RCT	2	1	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Yoon (2018a)71)	J Korean Med Rehabi	CR/CS	2	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR
Yoon (2018b)72)	J Korean Med Rehabi	CR/CS	2	2	NDA	acupuncture+knife	NR	NR	NR

Table legends Abbreviation: CR/CS, case report/case series; CCT, case control trial; TA, traditional acupuncture; RA, review article; RCT, randomized controlled trial; NA, not applicable; NDA, newly developed acupuncture;

NR, not recorded.

* 1, Chim-do(침도); 2, Do-chim(도침); 3, So-chim-do(소침도); 4, etc.

† 1, acupotomy; 2, miniscalpel acupuncture; 3, etc.

‡ ‘Journal of Korean Acupuncture & Moxibustion Society’ is the former name of ‘The Acupuncture’.

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