There are manifold therapies for the treatment of acute lummbar sprain.This paper presents that 150 cases of acute lumbar sprain have been treated with the theary of puncturing Houxi points from 1987 to 1988. Among thesepatients there were 99 cases of male and 51 cases of female. The averageage of them were 47 years old. They were all treated at the time withinfive days after wound. The patients who had the history of acute lumbarsprain

waist pain

difficulty to move about

and were found to be ill With therestrictions on lumbar exercise and marked and fixed tender spots

and weredetermined to be ill with acute lumbar sprian were punctured 2 inch in bothHouxi points with twisting and twirling the needles at the same time. The patientsoften felt that the stiff sense and pain in waist relaxed immediately. In somecases the effects were so wonderful that the patients were healed immediately.