1. Observation on therapeutic effect of acupuncture at abdomen acupoints plus tuina for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation
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Sheng-biao Xiong, Ying-dong Liu, Jing Lu, Nian-tang Yu, and Cheng-hua Xu
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Cure rate ,business.industry ,Therapeutic effect ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,030205 complementary & alternative medicine ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,021105 building & construction ,Acupuncture ,Medicine ,Abdomen ,Observation group ,Clinical efficacy ,business ,Lumbar intervertebral disc ,After treatment - Abstract
To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture at abdomen acupoints plus tuina for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation (LIDH). A total of 70 patients with LIDH were randomized into an observation group and a control group, with 35 cases in each group. The observation group was treated with acupuncture at abdomen acupoints plus tuina, while the control group was treated only with tuina treatment. The clinical efficacy was observed after one course of treatment. The cure rate and the total effective rate of the observation group were 83.3% and 96.7%, respectively. The cure rate and the total effective rate of the control group were 39.4% and 78.8%, respectively. There were significant differences in the cured rate and the total effective rate between the two groups (both P 0.05). After treatment, the JOA scores of both groups increased significantly, and the intra-group differences were statistically significant (both P
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- 2019
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