Low Back Pain Case
Case One
53 years old Male, patients with low back pain for over two years, whenever he had an overcast and rainy days increase, accompanied by left lower extremity limb pain, unable to walk, restless, coughing pain increased. Check cooperation, next to the fifth lumbar tenderness, tenderness to the lower limb mass line, leg lift test in (+), at 35 degrees or less, limited mobility left leg. Tongue coating Bai Ni, quality dark red. The patient felt the wind cold dampness evil, blocking the meridians, numb and not pass. Promoting blood circulation, dispels wind and pain.
Prescription: Acupuncture 17 paravertebral, huanzhong .
treatment: Acupuncture 2 times per day, continue treat seven times, the pain disappeared.
Case Two
A female, 38 years old, the teaching profession. Five years ago, caused by low back pain due to pregnancy, as treatment like rheumatism, disorders, kidney insufficient, trauma and other ineffective. To stand 1 hour for each lecture the need to bed-ridden body rates a moment. Eating as normal, urine normal and normal menstruation, leucorrhea more. Check: Pulse sink, pink tongue fur is thin, looking chlorosis. Zhulinqie,points and Du Channel Mingmen points tenderness reaction. Meridian of the QI energy barrier caused by low back pain, hot and humid place downstream, then the leucorrhea more. Pathogenesis of in Dai Channel, sickness and located in the waist. Treatment in order to pass through Channel Qi energy.
Prescription: ① Mingmen, remain intradermal needle; ② Zhulinqie points
acupuncture needles will remain here after 15 minutes, every 5 minutes both sides at the same time twisting 1 minute. After the treatment, lumbar no pain, so easily. But the tenderness response has not disappeared. The second visit, patient feels tired. Third visit attending leucorrhea decreased significantly. Fourth visit consultation responses are still tenderness. To continue to needle two times, tenderness response to disappear, clinical cure. To by more than a month, low back pain did not attack.
Acupuncture is the key to knowledge of clinical pathogenesis, clear location, application manipulation, all three are indispensable.