Acupuncture as complementary treatment for lower back pain

Jastrzębska Ilona, Kołodziej Magdalena, Piecewicz-Szczęsna Halina. Acupuncture as complementary treatment for lower back pain. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(8):179-184. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.08.017 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2022.12.08.017 https://zenodo.org/record/6790418 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 21 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe: Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2022; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 22.06.2022. Revised: 25.06.2022. Accepted: 02.07.2022. ACUPUNCTURE AS COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENT FOR LOWER BACK PAIN Ilona Jastrzębska1, Magdalena Kołodziej1, Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna2 1Student Scientific Association at Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology Medical University of Lublin, ul.Radziwiłłowska 11, Lublin 20-080, Poland 2Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology of the Medical University of Lublin, ul.Radziwiłłowska11, Lublin 20-080, Poland Corresponding author: Ilona Jastrzębska , ilonaj14@gmail.com ORCID ID: Ilona Jastrzębska: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6754-529X Magdalena Kołodziej: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6597-1559 Dr n. med. Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0573-7226 Abstract Introduction: Lower back pain is one of the most common disorders in the world. Acupuncture is one the methods of treatment, but its efficiency is still researched. Aim of the study: To verify the effectiveness of acupuncture on low back pain. Material and Methods: Search of the PubMed database using the following keywords: acupuncture, lower back pain. Only full-length articles were taken into consideration. Results: The studies show that acupuncture is effective in the treatment of chronic low back pain and is not inferior to the usual care. However its efficiency in treatment of acute low back pain is not satisfactory and patients still require additional pharmacotherapy. Conclusion: Acupuncture is efficient in the treatment of chronic low back pain, however more research is needed on its efficiency in treatment of acute low back pain. Keywords: acupuncture, lower back pain