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Edited By Marcus Backer, MD, Clinic for Integrative Medicine and Naturopathy, Essen-Mitte Clinics, Essen, Germany Michael Hammes, MD, Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic, Technical University Munich, Germany
Description Acupuncture in the Treatment of Pain is aimed at both beginners and experienced practitioners who are treating patients with painful
conditions. It provides an integrative approach using conventional and traditional Chinese Medicine in the treatment of pain with acupuncture.
It is especially suited for conventionally (western) trained physicians, who are interested in complementary approaches and seek a guideline
to judge the potentials and limits of acupuncture in the treatment of pain.
The book consists of two parts. The first
part (chapter 2-8) gives the background for both traditional Chinese concepts to pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of pain and basics
of the conventional, western approach to pain treatment. The second part (chapter 9-17) gives detailed information for the integrative
treatment of all common painful conditions. For every single indication, conventional and traditional Chinese treatment options (including
Chinese phytotherapy) are shown and the value of acupuncture, scientific data about its efficacy, and its possible mode of action (in
western-physiological terms) are discussed.
For all readers this book offers a modern integrative approach, which is based
on scientific data and the clinical experience of the authors that Western and Traditional Chinese medicine complement each other and
can create synergistic effects.
Contents
Part I: The basics
1 Introduction
2 Pain from the western scientific medicine perspective
2.1
Foundations 2.2 Diagnosis of chronic pain 2.3 General treatment guidelines for chronic pain 2.4 Conventional pain treatment 2.5
Western naturopathic approaches to pain treatment
3 Pain from the traditional Chinese medicine perspective
3.1 Basic characheristics of
traditional Chinese medicine 3.2 Pathogenesis of pain 3.3 The concept of Bi obturation 3.4 Prevention
4 Diagnosis and
differential diagnosis in TCM
4.1 Perspectives in the West and East 4.2 History taking 4.3 Special physical examination 4.4
Syndrome differentiation 4.5 Correlation between western disease categories and syndrome pattern 4.6 Significance
of syndrome diagnosis in treatment
5 Guidelines for TCM treatment of pain
5.1 Formulating treatment principles
(Zhize) 5.2 Treatment of the 'root' (Ben) and 'branches' (Biao) 5.3 Treatment options
6 Acupuncture
6.1 Definition 6.2
Neurobiological mechanisms of action 6.3 Indications 6.4 Contraindications 6.5 Undesired side-effects 6.6 Techniques and
practical application 6.7 Treatment principles 6.8 Warming the acupoints: moxibustion 6.9 Related Techniques
7 Channels
and important acupoints
7.1 Channels and acupoints 7.2 Acupoints from a western scientific point of view
8 Further treatment options
in TCM
8.1 Chinese Herbal Medicine 8.2 Chinese Dietetics 8.3 Tuina 8.4 Qi Gong
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