The effect of wet-cupping therapy on nonspecific low back pain

OBJECTIVE: To observe the pricking blood therapy for low back pain in patients with non-specific METHODS: 90 patients with non-specific low back pain patients were randomly divided into groups Bloodletting, cupping group and drug group, were used cupping, pricking blood therapy and diclofenac sodium enteric-coated capsules oral treatment, observe changes 3 weeks after the pain visual analogue scale and Oswestry index: after 3 weeks of treatment, the first three groups pain visual analogue scale and Oswestry index than before treatment decreased (P <0.05), pricking blood therapy group pain visual analogue scale and Oswestry index were lower than cupping therapy group and drug group (P <0.05) but there was no significant difference between the treatment group and drug group cupping score CONCLUSION: pricking blood therapy is the treatment of non-specific low back pain effective way.