Oriental Medicine – Traditional Chinese Medicine – Introduction to acupuncture. Principles and Effects of acupuncture – Needles and how to use them.
It can quell nausea, fight off headaches, and help you quit smoking. What’s more, it’s relatively inexpensive, painless, andvirtually free of side effects. If you didn’t know better, you might dismiss these claims as nothing more than hype heralding another quack remedy. In reality, these are the conclusions of a panel of prominent scientists convened …
Headache and migraine These are lumped together because, at least from the acupuncture point of view, there is little need to separate them. Acupuncture works pretty well for headaches – over 70 per cent response rate. It works best as a preventive, although it can sometimes abort a headache if done early enough. (It can …
A useful classification of spinal pain has been put forward by J.P. O’Brien. I use it in a slightly modified form. Type A pain is dull, deep and aching and is poorly localized. It may be felt in the back or may be referred to distant areas. The distribution of pain is fairly constant but …
Pain in this area can be treated quite well by needling the periosteum, for example over the lower end of the tibia and over the navicular. Pain in the heel, often ascribed (I think wrongly) to heel spurs can sometimes be helped by local periosteal needling, although more often by needling painful areas in the …
Needling sites: – Coracoid process (Lung 1) – Groove of long head of biceps – Supraspinatus tendon (sst) – “Hansen 1” (2-3 cm below med. third of spine of scapula. – “Hansen 2” (infraglenoid tubercle) – TPs in anterior or posterior axillary folds These points can be used to treat various painful disorders of the …
Trigger points (TPs) are zones in muscles and sometimes in other tissues that are tender when pressed and which may give rise to referred pain and other remote effects. The earliest recorded research on the referral of muscle pain was was carried out by Kellgren, following up the chance observation by Sir Thomas Lewis; his …
Although transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is not strictly speaking acupuncture, there is a good deal of overlapping with acupuncture and probably some common ground in the ways they work. TENS is primarily used for the relief of pain although it can be used in other circumstances also. TENS machines put out pulsed current at …
Indication: – pain in knee, especially in young patients. Posterior thigh area (hamstrings) Radiation: – forwards, to lower part of quadriceps Indication: – pain at or just above knee.
We sometimes hear claims that it can do this. However, there is certainly no hard evidence that it can, and I think it is safer to regard it as merely a symptomatic treatment. This may seem a rather negative and unexciting conclusion, but we should remember that the same is true of much conventional treatment, …
