Addressing acupuncture from a unique perspective, Acupuncture: An Anatomical Approach abandons the traditional oriental medicine approach in favor of a carefully analytic scientific presentation. The tightly-focused book describes the progression of chronic pain in the peripheral nervous system, demonstrates that points conducting pain impulses through the peripheral nerves become tenderer to palpation throughout life in response to episodes of pain, and they do this in a predictable sequence. This sequence, expressed as ”pain quantification," has important prognostic significance to the person's response, not just to acupuncture, but also to any other intervention.This book is the most logical and reasonable means of understanding and using acupuncture as a pain relieving modality for everyday clinical practice. A simple review of a bit of gross anatomy (emphasizing the peripheral nervous system) is recommended. Any well motivated and prudent physician can begin using this information fairly rapidly and will soon see that allegiance to "Yin/Yang" theory and other philosophical constructs is unnecessary. Neuromodulation is based on basic science research and is the logical basis of this wonderful (but underutilized) modality.
Anatomical Acupuncture is a breath of fresh air. 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. This book cuts out all those outdated, mystic, superstitious, ideas that were used to explain acupuncture in medieval times, and brings it more into accord with 21st Century thinking grounded on the laws of physics, chemistry and physiology. Highly recommended. You won't be disappointed. Well worth the investment.
- Title: Acupuncture: An Anatomical Approach
- Authors: Houchi Dung, Curtis P. Clogston, Joeming W. Dunn
- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: CRC (April 12, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0849316510
- ISBN-13: 978-0849316517
- Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
- List Price: $119.95
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