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This paper is for patients who have chronic back pain and will demonstrate the effects of established applications of acupoints in conjunction with muscle energy techniques(MET) by using SPSS. Backache causes a lot of pain for modern age people. Even though muscle energy techniques have been regarded and utilized as an effective method to treat chronic backache, little study has been done on the efficiencies surrounding this type of treatment. We will study the connection between MET treatment and the cross-functional relationship with acupuncture. Using the test group composed of 60 patients who visited our clinic; we constructed three groups and initiated MET treatment several times. The sample groups were A(=only MET treatment), B(=MET treatment after distal acupoint treatment) and C(=MET treatment after distal local treatment). Group A only received MET treatment, Group B was treated using both MET and local acupoints, with group C receiving distal acupoints treatment concurrent with MET. We used ROM, VAS(=visual analogue scale score) and TRV Test to compare the results after the treatment with data gathered prior to the treatment of the entire test samples. The tests demonstrate that MET with distal acupoints is the most effective in suppressing pain, restoring function, and strengthening muscles, while MET with local acupoints failed to show any significant difference from the result of MET only.