Acupuncture for Lower Back Pain

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How Acupuncture Treats Lower Back Pain?

From the National Library of Medicine. National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Research: Acupuncture and Neural Mechanism in the Management of Low Back Pain.

Tiaw-Kee Lim, Yan Ma, Frederic Berger, and Gerhard Litscher.

PMCID: PMC6164863

The evidence for efficacy of the German Acupuncture Trials (GERAD) of 1162 patients with chronic low back pain compared verum acupuncture, sham acupuncture and a conventional therapy group as the control.

The effectiveness of acupuncture, both verum and sham, was almost twice that of conventional therapy 6 months after the trial. Acupuncture is recommended for patients with chronic LBP due to its cost-effectiveness and low adverse effects.

Lower Back Pain treatment – Cheng Xinnong “Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion”.

Main points: Bl 23 + 40; DU-3.

Cold Damp Symptoms:

1 – (Weather) Cold or Damp (rain) aggravated pain in Lower Back.

2 – Heavy sensation; muscular stiffness in Lower Back; less ROM; pain radiates down to the legs.

3 – Pulse: week; deep; slow. 4 – Tongue: with white & sticky coating.

Plus points: BL 25-26.

Kidney Deficiency Symptoms (Kid Qi Def.):

1 – knees weakness & LB soreness. 2 – Fatigue – aggravated the LB pain. 3 – Rest – makes LB soreness better.

Kidney Yang Deficiency:

1 – Cold limbs. 2 – Cramp sensation in lower abdomen. 3 – Pulse: Deep & Slow. Tongue: Pale.

Points: DU-4; Yao Yan.

Kidney Yin Deficiency:

1 – Irritability, insomnia. 2 – Dry mouth & throat. 3 – Flashed face. 4 – Fever chest sensation.

Points: BL-52; Kid-3.

Trauma:

1 – Pain in the fixed location.  2 – Aggravated with pressure or turning.  3 – Tongue: pink & dark purplish.

Points: DU-26; YaoTongXue; Ashi points.

Acupuncture treats Lower Back Pain – references.

1 – Haake M., Müller H.H., Schade-Brittinger C., Basler H.D., Schäfer H., Maier C., Endres H.G., Trampisch H.J., Wolfsberger A. German Acupuncture Trials (GERAC) for chronic low back pain: Randomised, multicenter, blinded, parallel-group trial with 3 groups. Arch. Intern Med. 2007;167:1892–1898. doi: 10.1001/Archinte.167.17.1892.

2 – Taylor P., Pezzullo L., Grant S.J., Bensoussan A. Cost-effectiveness of acupuncture for chronic nonspecific low back pain. Pain Pract. 2014;14:599–606. doi: 10.1111/papr.12116.

3 – Wu J., Hu Y., Zhu Y., Yin P., Litscher G., Xu S. Systematic review of adverse effects: A further step towards modernization of acupuncture in China. Evid. Based Complement. Alternate. Med. 2015:432467.

Another publication about Lower Back Pain research.

4 – Béatrice Duthey Background Paper 6.24 Lower Back Pain. [(accessed on 5 June 2018)];2013

5 – Driscoll T., Jacklyn G., Orchard J., Passmore E., Vos T., Freedman G., Lim S., Punnett L. The global burden of occupationally related low back pain: Estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 2014;73:975–981. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204631.

6 – Hoy D., March L., Brooks P., Blyth F., Woolf A., Bain C., Williams G., Smith E., Vos T., Barendregt J., et al. The global burden of low back pain: Estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 2014;73:968–974. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204428.

7 – Van Tulder M., Koes B. Low Back Pain. In: McMahon S., Koltzenburg M., Tracey I., Turk D., editors. Wall and Melzack’s Textbook of Pain. 6th ed. Churchill Livingstone; Philadelphia, PA, USA: 2013. Chapter 49.