title: [Therapeutic effect of acupuncture on postoperative recovery of prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate therapeutic effect of comprehensive therapy of acupuncture as main in postoperative recovery of prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-seven cases were randomly divided into an observation group (n = 40) and a control group (n = 37). The observation group were treated with acupuncture at Shenshu (BL 23), Dachangshu (BL 25), Baliao (BL 31, BL32, BL33, BL 34), Zhibian (BL 54) combined with polarized light, and the control group with western medicine dikeleke 75 mg, once daily. They were treated for 1 month.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The cure-markedly effective rate was 95.0% in the observation group and 75.7% in the control group with a significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05). The average VAS score was 2.28 +/- 0. 96 in the observation group and 3.49 +/- 1.45 in the control group with a significant difference between the two groups (P <0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The comprehensive therapy of acupuncture as main can obviously increase the therapeutic effect in the postoperative recovery of prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Tiantan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China.
authors.forename: Yan-qing
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yan-qing
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000628:therapy; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D011391:Prolapse