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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Rheumatol Rep. 2012 Dec;14(6):589–597. doi: 10.1007/s11926-012-0295-x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic representation of acupuncture of the more common low back pain points used and some of the more common knee pain points used. Knee points in blue. ST: Stomach meridian, GB: Gall bladder meridian, BL: bladder meridian, KI: kidney meridian and SP: spleen meridian, UB: urinary bladder. These points were obtained as an approximated reference of the most common acupuncture points from the Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion [90] and from Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text [91]. Low back pain points in red. These points were adapted as an approximated reference of the most common acupuncture points used for low back pain from Cheng [92] in Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion.