C03. Research progress in the treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation with special acupuncture therapy

Abstract

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) refers to a clinical syndrome in which the nerve root and cauda equina nerve are stimulated or compressed by the protruding intervertebral disc tissue on the pathological basis of LDH. Its clinical manifestations are low back pain, lower limb radiation pain, lower limb numbness and weakness, stool and urination dysfunction, etc. Most patients with lumbar disc herniation can improve their symptoms after conservative treatment. For those patients without significant nerve damage, the preferred treatment should be non-surgical treatment. There are many records about low back pain in traditional Chinese medicine literature, which are scattered in the discussion of "low back pain", "waist and foot pain", "waist and leg pain", "arthralgia syndrome" and other diseases and syndromes. Moreover, there are many kinds of therapies, especially the use of special acupuncture and moxibustion therapy for LDH has a good curative effect. Among them, all kinds of therapies have their own characteristics and continue to develop to the present. This paper introduces some literature reviews on the application of special acupuncture therapy in the treatment of LDH for reference, and the contents are summarized as follows.