Elder waist pain is thought to be related closely with physiology of elders in traditional Chinese medicine because physiques of elders are often vacuity (renal vacuity and qi vacuity) and stagnation (qi stagnation and blood stagnation). Therefore muscular soreness and pain are often caused by vacuity and stagnation or external pathogenic factors caused by vacuity, which would form special complex pathological phenomena combining vacuity and solid of elder physiques.