Acupuncture for Acute Low Back Pain

Abstract

The current evidence is encouraging in that acupuncture may be more effective than medication for symptom improvement or relieve pain better than sham acupuncture in acute LBP. The present findings should be confirmed by future studies that overcome the methodological limitations of the studies evaluated in our review.

Characteristics of acupuncture users among internal medicine patients in Germany

“…For both chronic non-specific and acute low back pain, acupuncture is found to be useful in reducing pain and improving function. 35,36 Similarly, acupuncture is found to be helpful in managing tension type headache or migraine. 9,19 But for fibromyalgia, effectiveness of acupuncture is more controversial, as suggested by a recent Cochrane review.…”

How Do You TreatBack Painin Your Practice? Part 1

“…A systematic review of acupuncture for acute LBP showed that verum acupuncture was more effective than medications or sham acupuncture for relieving pain, but not for improvement of function. 10 This is hard to comprehend; relief of pain, logically, should have some favorable effect on function. 4.…”

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“…In these endogenous analgesics is released within the spinal cord 106 . Acupuncture is reported to be effective in treating many conditions including, fibromyalgia 107, chronic low back pain 108 , as well as chronic pain caused by osteoarthritis 109 . Due to its analgesic effects, acupuncture is widely used, cost effective 110 and a relatively safe non-pharmacological treatment of musculoskeletal pain 111 .…”