Clinical Research Progress of Acupuncture-Based Treatment of Sciatica
Sciatica patients suffer from long-term radioactive lower limb pain,and their functional activity impairment grad-ually deepens,which seriously affects their quality of life.In recent years,there are many treatments for sciatica by acupunc-ture,including general acupuncture,electroacupuncture,superficial acupuncture,warm acupuncture,sports acupuncture,and combination of acupuncture and medicine,which have the advantages of easy operation,safety,less adverse reactions and can be selected according to the patient's specific condition,with significant efficacy and worthy of clinical promotion.Therefore,the au-thor sorted out and summarized the clinical application research of acupuncture for this disease in the past 10 years,in order to provide reference for clinical treatment of this disease.