ABSTRACT
The goal of this panel discussion<BR>The understanding of lumbago has been changing in recent years.<BR>It has moved from "Trouble of the spine"to recognizing the importance of catching the concept of "Living thing, psychology, and social pain syndrome".<BR>It is a way of thinking that is going to grasp the clinical condition of lumbago along with the invisible dysfunction and provide better viewpoint in order to understand the aberration which we call a disorder of conventional intervertebral disc clinical condition of lumbago.<BR>This view point supports the appropriate technical use of acupuncture and moxibustion.<BR>It is important for the medical man not to begin treatment until the complete condition is understood.<BR>In keeping with this viewpoint, the panel of four will be joined by an orthopedist and a physical therapist, and this panel discussion 1 planned "primary care for lumbago".<BR>Each panelist described how to catch condition of a patient, a way of the correspondence, the advantages and disadvantages of acupuncture and moxibustion, therapeutic method and evaluation method in this method of treating lumbago.