The use of warm needle acupuncture plus cupping therapy for chronic low back pain involving osteoarthritic hyperostosis

According to basic TCM theory, the pain and other symptoms associated with the modern Western diagnosis of osteoarthritic hyperostosis of the lumbar vertebrae are caused by invasion of pathogenic Wind-Dampness-Cold in the lumbar region due to insufficiency of Yang energy in the vessels and meridians of that region. Clinical observation of the therapeutic effectiveness in 183 cases indicates that warm needle acupuncture plus cupping is an effective method for treating this disease.