A Random Controlled Test (RCT): Acupuncture Treatment on Nonspecific Low Back Pain (NLBP)

A Random Controlled Test (RCT): Acupuncture Treatment on Nonspecific Low Back Pain (NLBP) (ANLBP)

Hypothesis: Acupuncture procedure of He's Santong Methods could be an option to treat nonspecific low back pain.

He's Santong Methods is a combined manipulated needling methods, including filiform needling, fire needling and bloodletting needling, which was created by Dr. He Puren who is one of the most famous TCM doctors in China.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patient who is suffering the Non-specific Low Back Pain which meets the diagnostic criterion of posterior ramus of lumbar spinal nerve syndrome.
• The patient who is from 18 to 79 years old.
• The patient who can comprehensively understand and fill in the questionnaires about the disease.
• The patient who suffered problems no less than 12 weeks.
• The patient who have not the other diseases which can result in back pain.
• The patient who received the clear examinations of X-ray, CT scan or MRI.
• The patient who wrote the informed consents.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The patient whose low back pain is the consequences of spondyloschisis, Spondylolysis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, internal disease, metastatic tumor.
• The patient who have the hemorrhagic disease such as hemophilia.
• The patient who have the spinal diseases which have not been diagnosed clearly.