title: [Study on the effects of the auricular acupuncture with different manipulations for rapid analgesia on the patients with lumbar disc hernia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare the effects of the point-to-point needling and perpendicular needling of auricular acupuncture for rapid analgesia on the patients with lumbar disc hernia, and find which method is better for this disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety two patients were paired according to the three factors as sex, age and degree of pain, and then randomly divided into the point-to-point needling group and perpendicular needling group. The methods of point-to-point needling through the skin and perpendicular needling towardS the skin were respectively applied at bilateral lumbar areas as auricular acupuncture, and added acupoints following the change of symptom. All patients accorded with the demands of McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ), before treatment, 5 and 30 min after treatment, the accumulated score of pain was recorded respectively for observing the difference of the effects in both groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 5 min treatment, the effect of analgesia on the male patients in the point-to-point needling group was better than that of in the perpendicular needling group (P<0.05), but there was no difference on the female patients in both groups (P>0.05). After 30 min treatment, the effect of analgesia in the point-to-point needling group was better than that of the perpendicular needling group (P<0.05). Besides the patients with light degree pain, there was no significant difference between the two groups after 5 min treatment as score of pain (P>0.05), paired t-test showed that the effects of analgesia on the patients with lumbar disc hernia in the point-to-point needling group was better than that of perpendicular needling group (P<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The point-to-point needling method can rapidly relieve patients' lumbar disc hernia of pain, which is better than the perpendicular needling method.
authors.affiliation: Department of TCM, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050091, China)
authors.forename: Er-jun
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chun-sheng
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Xiao-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiao-shun
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D015667:Acupuncture Analgesia; D020831:Acupuncture, Ear; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult