Acupuncture: An Anatomical Approach
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0849316510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Two Thumbs Up" according to Craig J. Amnott. I am an actively practicing Osteopathic Family Physician. I incorporate a lot of manipulation and trigger point injections into my practice. I have been studying acupuncture (Traditional Chinese Medicine) now for about six months. TCM acupuncture is difficult for my western trained brain to grab a hold. Without the hocus-pocus Benjamin Pimentel Insightful book that attempts to explain acupuncture from a scientific physiologic bent without the hocus-pocus found in a lot of acupuncture books written today.After reading a lot of acupuncture books about the weird "pulse diagnosis," the mysterious "chi" (from those Kung Fu movies where the Kung Fu. Incomplete, Uninformed and Dangerous S. A. Ajmani I enjoyed this book's objective analysis of acupoint nerve innervation; however, the overall tone of the book suggests the author has deluded himself into believing he is superior to licensed acupuncturists who have had far more training in the field than he. He dismisses the potential risks for pneumo
This sequence, expressed as a "pain quantification," has important prognostic significance to the person's response to acupuncture, as well as other treatments.The author has diminished the metaphysical aura of classical acupuncture and reinvented it as a medical science. A book that examines this Eastern medicine through the systematic principles of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry is long overdue.Addressing acupuncture from a unique perspective, Acupuncture: An Anatomical Approach abandons the traditional Oriental medicine approach in favor of a more analytical scientific presentation. This original contribution adds new knowledge to the understanding of the progression of pain throughout a person's lifetime.. While ancient concepts of yin and yang and meridians have been effective for sustaining traditional knowledge of acupuncture, contemporary clinicians need a more scientific structure to apply these complex teachings. This innovative book describes the progression of chronic pain in the peripheral nervous system, demonstrating that points conducting pain impulses through