Clinical Study on Combined Tuina with Qi Zheng Qing Peng Paste for Herniation of the Lumbar Intervertebral Disc / 针灸推拿医学（英文版）

ABSTRACT

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of combined tuina manipulations with Qi Zheng Qing Peng paste for herniation of the lumbar intervertebral disc. Method: All 568 cases were randomly allocated into an observation group (189 cases), control Ⅰ group (187 cases) and control Ⅱ group (192 cases). Combined tuina with Qi Zheng Qing Peng paste, combined tuina with diclofenac diethylamine emulsions and tuina alone were adopted in the above three groups respectively. The efficacies in the three groups were compared after 4 weeks of treatment. Results: The total effective rates in the observation group, control Ⅰ group and control Ⅱ group were 89.9%, 86.6% and 84.9% respectively, showing a significant difference (P ＜0.05) . Conclusion: Combined tuina manipulations with Qi Zheng Qing Peng paste works well for herniation of the lumbar intervertebral disc.