Acupuncture, Trigger Points and Musculoskeletal Pain (Acupuncture, Trigger Points, & Musculoskeletal Pain)

✍ Scribed by Peter E. Baldry MB FRCP

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Series: Acupuncture, Trigger Points, & Musculoskeletal Pain
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition of this highly successful book describes how musculoskeletal pain can be simply and effectively treated by acupuncture. Building on a thorough review of the scientific evidence available, the provides a detailed and practical account of the many different forms of musculoskeletal pain and the specific ways in which acupuncture can be applied effectively to trigger points to alleviate this pain. Case studies are included to aid diagnosis and choice of treatment.

• Evidence-based, up-to-date, and detailed information on trigger points, musculoskeletal pain, and the physiology of pain provide the most authoritative assessments available on this topic.
• Practical, step-by-step treatment guidelines help readers apply key concepts to actual practice.
• Clear illustrations demonstrate important techniques and areas of pain and needling.
• Expanded coverage of fibromyalgia and the neurophysiology of myofascial trigger points includes common symptoms and treatments.
• More information on new treatment options for the common problem of whiplash injuries.

• Expanded chapter on fibromyalgia
• Expanded chapter on the neurophysiology of myofascial trigger points
• Revised and updated throughout to include all relevant clinical trial information
• More information on whiplash injuries
• New chapter on complex regional pain syndromes

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication,
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the third edition
Chapter 1
Traditional Chinese acupuncture
Chapter 2
How news of acupuncture and
moxibustion spread from China
to the outside world
Chapter 3
The practice of acupuncture in
the Western world during the
19th century
Chapter 4
Some basic observations leading
to its development
Chapter 5
Evolution of knowledge
concerning muscle pain
syndromes for which it is
employed
Chapter 6
Neurophysiology of pain
Chapter 7
Myofascial trigger point pain
and fibromyalgia syndromes
Chapter 8
Concurrent complex regional
and myofascial trigger point
pain syndromes
Chapter 9
Neurophysiological
pain-suppressing effects of
acupuncture and transcutaneous
electrical nerve stimulation
Chapter 10
Treatment of myofascial trigger
point pain and fibromyalgia
syndromes
Chapter 11
Scientific evaluation of
acupuncture’s ability to
relieve nociceptive pain
Chapter 12
Chest pain
Chapter 13
The painful shoulder
Chapter 14
Pain in the neck
Chapter 15
Pain in the arm
Chapter 16
Pain in the head and face
Chapter 17
Low-back pain
Chapter 18
Pain in the lower limb
Chapter 19
Pain in and around joints
Chapter 20
Abdominal and pelvic pain
Index