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Acupuncture Analgesia and Therapy - Part 3

Acupuncture Analgesia and Therapy - Part 3 Acupuncture Analgesia and Therapy - Part 3 Dr Alexander Macdonald Reprinted from "Textbook of Pain" Eds: Wall PO, Melzack R. (2nd Ed.) 7989, by kind permission of Churchill Livingstone. Origin, i.e. giant-cell arteritis, glioma or pituitary Key words Abdominal pain, acupuncture, analgesia, tumour, acupuncture produced relief of pain: the appendicitis, musculo-skeletal pain, trigger points. authors concluded that success with acupuncture does not preclude a serious underlying condition. TRIALS OF NEEDLING TENDER REGIONS Macdonald et al (1983) examined chronic back pain sufferers referred by orthopaedic surgeons or Because double-blind controlled studies in rheumatologists to a pain relief clinic. They treated tender regions found in the following muscles: acupuncture therapy are so difficult to conduct, there have been few published reports of the effects erector spinae, multifidus, iliocostalis and quadratus of inserting needles into the painful regions lumborum, iliopsoas, obliquus externus, internus themselves. In an uncontrolled study, lewit (1979) abdominis and rectus abdominis. The stimulus examined 241 patients, some of whom had more consisted of a shallow and virtually painless than one painful region in their muscles, tendons or insertion of needles into the skin and subcutaneous ligaments. In all, 312 painful regions were found in regions overlying the trigger points. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

Acupuncture Analgesia and Therapy - Part 3

Macdonald, Alexander
Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 9 (1): 6 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 British Medical Acupuncutre Society
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Acupuncture Analgesia and Therapy - Part 3 Dr Alexander Macdonald Reprinted from "Textbook of Pain" Eds: Wall PO, Melzack R. (2nd Ed.) 7989, by kind permission of Churchill Livingstone. Origin, i.e. giant-cell arteritis, glioma or pituitary Key words Abdominal pain, acupuncture, analgesia, tumour, acupuncture produced relief of pain: the appendicitis, musculo-skeletal pain, trigger points. authors concluded that success with acupuncture does not preclude a serious underlying condition. TRIALS OF NEEDLING TENDER REGIONS Macdonald et al (1983) examined chronic back pain sufferers referred by orthopaedic surgeons or Because double-blind controlled studies in rheumatologists to a pain relief clinic. They treated tender regions found in the following muscles: acupuncture therapy are so difficult to conduct, there have been few published reports of the effects erector spinae, multifidus, iliocostalis and quadratus of inserting needles into the painful regions lumborum, iliopsoas, obliquus externus, internus themselves. In an uncontrolled study, lewit (1979) abdominis and rectus abdominis. The stimulus examined 241 patients, some of whom had more consisted of a shallow and virtually painless than one painful region in their muscles, tendons or insertion of needles into the skin and subcutaneous ligaments. In all, 312 painful regions were found in regions overlying the trigger points.

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Published: Jan 1, 1991

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