Letter to the Editor: An Updated Overview of Low Back Pain Management

We read the review article by Hong et al. [1] titled “An updated overview of low back pain management” with great interest. The authors have discussed the management of low back pain in a very informative and elaborative manner. We appreciate the authors for this; however, we wish to bring forth some additional therapeutic strategies available for the management of low back pain which are emerging as evidence in the present scenario. Hu et al. [2] conducted a systemic review and metaanalysis based on an evaluation of the efficacy and safety of dry needling (DN) for treating low back pain. It was concluded that DN has a significant effect on relieving the intensity of pain and functional limitation than acupuncture, although follow-up of the studies showed equal effectiveness of DN and acupuncture on the same outcomes. When compared with the sham treatment group, DN showed a significant effect on reducing pain perception and functional disability, and improvement remains intact in follow-up except in functional disability. © 2022 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited