Acupuncture in Manual Therapy

by Longbottom, Jennie

• ISBN13: 9780443067822
• ISBN10: 0443067821
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

Summary

Acupuncture in Manual Therapy is a comprehensive overview of manual therapy interventions combined with acupuncture management of musculo-skeletal disorders covering all major joints of the body. The book is intended to offer physiotherapists and students of acupuncture a clinical reasoning model, whilst supporting suggested interventions with the relevant evidence base in order to alleviate pain, restore function and facilitate rehabilitation within musculo-skeletal management. It places an emphasis on the neurophysiological processes of pain management stressing the importance of using the correct intervention for the relevant presenting pain mechanism. Each chapter discusses suggested manual intervention, acupuncture evidence and physiological processes underpinning this combined approach to musculo-skeletal pain and dysfunction including meridian acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, electroacupuncture, tens and trigger point acupuncture as a means of addressing the varying pain patterns presented within musculo-skeletal rehabilitation.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Dedication	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Clinical reasoning in Western acupuncture	p. 1
Clinical reasoning in traditional Chinese medicine	p. 7
Case study 1	p. 9
Case study 2	p. 14
The temporomandibular joint	p. 21
Acupuncture in the management of temporomandibular joint disorders	p. 26
Case study 1	p. 29
Cervical spine	p. 35
Acupuncture intervention in cervical spine dysfunction	p. 44
Case study 1	p. 44
Case study 2	p. 47
The shoulder	p. 57
Case study 1	p. 68
Case study 2	p. 70
The elbow	p. 75
Acupuncture and elbow dysfunction	p. 81
Case study 1	p. 82
Case study 2	p. 84
The thoracic spine	p. 93
Acupuncture interventions with thoracic spine dysfunction	p. 100
Case study 1	p. 102
Case study 2	p. 105
The lumbar spine	p. 113
Acupuncture in low back pain	p. 118
Case study 1	p. 120
Case study 2	p. 123
The sacroiliac joint and pelvis	p. 131
Acupuncture in pelvic dysfunction	p. 137
Case study 1	p. 139
Case study 2	p. 143
The hip	p. 151
Case study 1	p. 158
Case study 2	p. 160
Case study 3	p. 162
Anterior knee pain	p. 169
Acupuncture in the management of knee pain	p. 175
Case study 1	p. 177
Case study 2	p. 179
Foot and ankle	p. 185
Acupuncture in lower limb dysfunction	p. 194
Case study 1	p. 196
Case study 2	p. 199
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulators for pain management	p. 205
Case study 1	p. 212
Case study 2	p. 215
Index	p. 225
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