Objective: to evaluate the analgesia effect and daily activities improvement of long-needle electroacupuncture and "Than thong truc U" remedy in treating patients with low back pain caused by lumbar dies herniation. Methods: Interventional study, comparing before and after treatment, between experimental group and control group. Results: after 15 days of treatment, VAS score of the experimental group decreased significally from 5.73 +/- 0.73 to 1.3 +/- 0.47 (p0.05), no statistically significant heterogeneity between two groups (VAS score of control group decreased from 6.0 +/- 0.44 to 1.63 +/- 0.61) (p0.05)
60 percent patients of experimental group improved daily activities, it seems the same with control group (53.3 percent) (p0.05). Conclusions: long-needle electro-acupuncture combined with "Than thong truc U" remedy has analgesia effect and has improved daily activities for patients suffering from low back pain due to lumbar dies herniation.