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Recent evidence suggests that acupuncture can help relieve the pain caused by sciatica, a common condition in which the sciatic nerve becomes compressed.
An analysis of the 13 highest quality studies of pain treatment with acupuncture, published in January 2009 in the British Medical Journal, was unable to quantify the difference in the effect on pain of real, sham and no acupuncture. [21] A systematic review in 2019 reported that acupuncture injection therapy was an effective treatment for ...
Many treatments, including corticosteroids, gabapentin, pregabalin, acupuncture, heat or ice, and spinal manipulation, have limited or poor evidence for their use. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Depending on how it is defined, less than 1% to 40% of people have sciatica at some point in time.
A 2012 systematic review suggested that the use of spine manipulation in clinical practice is a cost-effective treatment when used alone or in combination with other treatment approaches. [168] A 2011 systematic review found evidence supporting the cost-effectiveness of using spinal manipulation for the treatment of sub-acute or chronic low ...
Acupuncture is most heavily practiced in China [94] and is popular in [94] the US, [17] Australia, [143] and Europe. [144] In Switzerland, acupuncture has become the most frequently used alternative medicine since 2004. [145] In the United Kingdom, a total of 4 million acupuncture treatments were administered in 2009. [146]
Treatment is usually for neck or low back pain and related disorders. [ 45 ] For acute low back pain, low quality evidence has suggested no difference between real and sham spine manipulation, [ 46 ] and moderate quality evidence has suggested no difference between spine manipulation and other commonly used treatments, such as medication and ...