Follow-up and Evaluation on the treatment by Nuad Thai Therapy

Abstract

This research study aimed to follow-up and evaluation on the treatment by Nuad Thai therapy. The follow-up and evaluation will be done after the completely treatment by Thai Traditional Medical doctor. The subjects were the voluntary patients in the Thai Traditional clinic in the collaboration with the School of Traditional and Alternative Medicine (STAM), Chiang Rai Rajabhat University (CRRU). The specific disease treated by TTM doctors in this research consisted of paralysis, frozen shoulder, scapula-pain, stiff neck, trigger finger, and joint stiffness. The samples were selected by purposive sampling technique under three conditions: 1) completely basic information derived from OPD card 2) patients were diagnosed after treatment by TTM doctors as recovered from disease 3) able to contact and agreed for the follow-up and evaluation research. The number of samples was 69 cases who were in-depth interviewed by researchers.

               The results revealed that after in-depth interviewed 69 samples, it can be divided into three groups: 1) completely recover (56.52%) 2) recover but disease recurrence (27.54%) 3) immediately recurrence after treatment (15.94%).  It can be concluded the longest period without recurrence of disease and patients are able to spend their normal life as follow: 1) Frozen shoulder (within 4 years),  2) Trigger finger (within 2 years and 2 months) and 3) Joint stiffness (within 1 year and 9 months).  The factors influencing completely recover were depended on the patients who follow the doctor’s advices strictly and avoid the risks of disease.  Moreover, the group who had diagnosed as recovered but disease recurrence because they’re able to avoid the risk for a while and return to the risk of disease. While the group who recur disease immediately after treatment because they return to spend their life with high risk as they were before the treatment.

               This research can be concluded that 6 specific diseases in this study are able to cure by Nuad Thai therapy. After curative treatment, each diseases has different period of recovering with the strictly practices from the doctor’s advices and avoid the risks condition.