title: Acupuncture for back pain in a patient with Forestier's disease (diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis/DISH).
abstract: Acupuncture was used to treat a 54-year-old man with low back pain and Forestier's disease. His symptoms were markedly improved with acupuncture where other treatments in the form of analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy had proved ineffective. There would appear to be no cases reported in the literature where medical acupuncture has been used to treat back pain in a patient with this condition.
authors.affiliation: tim26@tesco.net
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mears
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D004057:Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome