Backgrounds: Shoulder and neck pain is a common disease in the world as well as in Viet Nam and tends to increasingly rejuvenate, it impacts on patient’s ability to work and quality of life. Surveying the clinical symptoms according to the traditional medicine on purpose of making diverse diagnostic and towards comprehensive treatment. Therefore, in this study we contribute to build standardization of diagnostic symptoms according to traditional medicine. Objectives: To survey the frequency of some clinical symptoms according to traditional medicine and find outseveral factors related with frequency appear clinical groups of shoulder and neck pain. Materials and Methods: Including 87 patients were diagnosed with shoulder and neck pain treatment at the Traditional Medicine Department of Hue Central Hospital and Thua Thien Hue Traditional Medicine Hospital. Research methodology is descriptive cross-sectional. Results: about the tongue body: higher abnormal group is 18.4% pale tongue, 27.6% enlarged tongue. About the tongue fur: 75.9% white fur, 58.6% thin fur, slippery fur (31%) is higher than dry fur (17.2%). Cold symptom are the most common: warm compress relieve pain (62.1%). Heat symptom are the most common: dry thirsty mouth (34.5%). About pain feature, common symptoms such as press relieve pain (64.4%), dull pain (71.3%) and persistent pain (69%). About the pulse: sunken pulse 65.5%, slow pulse (31.1%), moderate pulse (47.1%), weak pulse (55.2%). Conclusion: symptoms have high rate such as pink moist tongue, white fur, dull pain, sunken pulse. Symptoms have low rate such as bluish purple tongue, sticky slimy fur. There were significant relationships between clinical groups and age, gender, disease duration, warm compress relieve pain, body palpation and pulse frequency (p <0.05).
Key words: frequency, symptoms, shoulder and neck pain, traditional medicine.
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