title: [Re-recognition of single-point electroacupuncture therapy for treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study on the characteristics and clinical application of single-point electroacupuncture therapy for treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Expound single-point electroacupuncture therapy from acupoint selection, acupuncture methods, clinical indications and the mechanism of this therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The single-point electroacupuncture therapy has the characteristic of "fewer but better" in acupoint selection, with a better analgesic effect on lumbocrural pain induced by lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, but the exact analgesic mechanisms have been incompletely known yet.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of TCM, Shanghai 200021, China. huangshirong3268@sina.com
authors.forename: Shi-rong
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015671:Electroacupuncture / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000628:therapy*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae