March 30, 2017
25-year-old Beth suffered from a bad pain in her coccyx for 6 months. The pain came every month for a few days and mainly at night time. It was so intense and pain killers didn't help at all. When Beth described the symptom to me, I suspected it was something to do with her menstrual cycle. But I was told that she'd had a coil put in 2 years ago and had no periods since then. On physical examination, I found some sensitive points around her sacrum area and chose two of them for acupuncture. Moxabustion was also applied and two other points in her legs were also used to help loosen the muscles. Treatments were carried out once a week. After the third session she had the pain again and also a little bleeding in her vagina. I suggested she go to see her GP to have the coil checked. It turned out there was nothing wrong with the coil, according to her doctor. We carried on with the treatment and the pain didn’t come back the following month. Now it's been 6 months since the last bout and Beth still comes to see me for other health issues - she became a big believer of acupuncture.
Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Muscular-skeletal system
February 13, 2017
43-year-old Linda had been suffering from a pain in her left shoulder and chest for a month. The pain was excruciating and radiating down into her left arm. It had come on gradually over a few days without any clear incident associated with symptoms. Linda could only think of a fall about 10 days before the pain started, in which she fell on her left wrist. The doctor gave her pain killers which hadn't help at all. Then she tried a few sessions of sports massage but couldn't get any relief. T...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Nervous system
January 20, 2017
68-year-old Patricia has had headaches for a week. The pain begins in the left side of her upper neck and back of the head and sometimes radiates forward toward the left eye. It is an intense stabbing pain, and the bouts of pain are quite frequent. Since she had benefited a lot from my acupuncture treatments in the past, Patricia decided to see me again for this problem. According to the character of the pain, I believed this condition was occipital neuralgia, which is caused by damage to the...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Nervous system
January 6, 2017
Nurs Outlook. 2016 Sep-Oct;64(5):491-8.
By Walker PH
Abstract
Battlefield acupuncture is a unique auricular acupuncture procedure which is being used in a number of military medical facilities throughout the Department of Defense (DoD). It has been used with anecdotal published positive impact with warriors experiencing polytrauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury. It has also been effectively used to treat warriors with mu...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : News & research
October 27, 2016
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27310980
Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Jun; 95(24):e3884.
By Zheng H
Abstract
Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) and functional diarrhea (FD) are highly prevalent, and the effectiveness of acupuncture for managing IBS-D and FD is still unknown. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of electro-acupuncture with loperamide. It was a prospective, randomized, parallel group controlled trial. A total of 448 participants were randomly a...
Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Digestive system
September 29, 2016
David started having headaches 25 years ago. Although he just suffers from them every 3-4 years, the headaches are severe and normally linger for 2-3 months. The attacks start from the inside corner spread to the back of his right eye. They can come at anytime and last 10 minutes to 3 hours. The pain can be so strong that it makes him want to bang his head. After trying various medications for 10 years without any effect, David was sent to see a consultant, who believed the headaches was cau...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Nervous system
