Jun Xu MD L. Ac

The Praeger Handbook of Acupuncture for Pain Management (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to How the "Magic Needles" Work

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique text examines 30 specific pain management case studies to explain pain treatments from the perspectives of Eastern acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine as well as that of Western medical practice. Millions of Americans are affected or incapacitated by a wide variety of chronic pain-from heel spurs, herniated discs, and hip bursitis to osteoarthritis, plantar fasciitis, and rotator cuff tears. As complex as the injuries and problems can be, medically speaking, for many pain sufferers, the question is simple: can acupuncture work to make my pain go away? This book provides information from 30 different pain management cases to shed light on the effectiveness of acupuncture treatments in specific situations. Presented in easy-to-understand, plain language, the author explains why acupuncture works to stop pain from the theoretical frameworks of both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Each chapter describes the potential sources and systems of specific pain, depicts the acupuncture points for that pain, and explains how they work. The case studies-selected from more than 9,000 patients seen by Dr. Xu during his 14 years of clinical practice in the United States-document how acupuncture has effectively granted these individuals relief from pain, whether viewed from the Western science of neurology, or the Eastern theories of yin and yang and keeping the body's energies in a balanced state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313397028
• Artikelnr.: 68183960

Autorenporträt

Jun Xu, MD, L.Ac, is clinical assistant professor at New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, and attending physician in Stamford Hospital, CT.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One Acupuncture Information and Theories
1 A Brief History of Acupuncture 2 The Mechanism of Acupuncture 3 Diseases
Where Acupuncture Can Be Helpful 4 The Advance of Acupuncture Research 5
The Choice of Acupuncturists 6 Current Theories of Acupuncture in China
Part Two Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine 7 The Theory of Yin and
Yang 8 The Theory of Five Elements 9 The Theory of Zang-Fu Organs 10 The
Theory of Meridians Part Three Case Histories 11 Cervical Dystonia 12
Occipital Neuralgia 13 Trigeminal Neuralgia 14 Severe Neck Pain-Herniated
Disc 15 Cervical Spondylosis 16 Acute Neck Spasms 17 Frozen Shoulder 18
Rotator Cuff Tendonitis 19 Shoulder Arthritis 20 Bilateral Elbow Pain 21
Wrist Pain 22 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 23 Ulnar Nerve Entrapment 24
Dupuytren's Contracture 25 Hand Arthritis 26 Trigger Finger 27 Acute Low
Back Sprain 28 Chronic Low Back Pain 29 Low Back Pain with Failed Back
Surgery Syndrome (FBSS) 30 Low Back Pain-Spinal Compression Fracture 31 Hip
Pain 32 Hip Pain-Trochanteric Bursitis 33 Groin Pain and Hip Tendonitis 34
Lateral Thigh Burning Sensation 35 Knee Pain and Knee Osteoarthritis 36
Knee Pain-Meniscus Tear 37 Shin Splints 38 Ankle Pain 39 Achilles Tendon
Injury 40 Heel and Foot Pain References Resources Index