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This text gives a thorough and analytical review of the treatment options for post-operative pain, using acupuncture. Based on the clinical experience of the author and supported by that of acupuncturists in Chinese universities, the book offers a comprehensive and detailed set of treatments for a wide variety of post-operative pain symptoms and conditions, and includes detailed modifications of the treatments, to aid clinical practice. Thorough exploration of the management of post-operative pain with acupunctureProvides knowledge on the theory and practical skills of the treatment with acupuncture in order to obtain better therapeutic resultsOnly book available offering acupuncturists the opportunity to manage the treatment skilfullyComprehensively covers all kinds of pain after the operationHighlights the importance of treatment differentiation, point selection, point explanations and modifications, hereby providing as much knowledge on treatment as possibleIn addition to acupuncture treatment, also includes relevant information for example on auricular acupuncture, electroacupuncture and point injectionWritten by an experienced and well-known author in the field.

CHAPTER 1GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- Generalisation -- Aetiology of the Pain after the operation -- Incomplete disappearance of Exogenous factors -- Wind. Cold. Damp. Dryness. Heat (Fire, Warmth) -- Seven emotional factors -- Over thinking. Excessive anger. Excessive sadness. -- Excessive meditation. Over fear -- Miscellaneous pathogenic factors -- Improper food intake or medications. Over stress, overstrain or lack of physical exertion. Traumatic injuries -- Pathology of Pain after the operation -- Disturbance of the Qi and Blood circulation is the main pathology -- Influence on physiological function of the Zang-Fu organs and tissues -- Damage or even cutting off some normal tissues and Meridians -- Blood stagnation due to remaining of some excessive Blood during the operation -- Loss of Qi and Blood -- Disturbance of the Heart in housing the Shen -- Scale formation -- Differentiation of Pain after the operation -- Differentiation of the location of the pain -- Differentiation of the nature of the pain -- Incomplete disappearance of Exogenous factors. Cold and Heat. Excess and Deficiency. Qi Stagnation and Blood Stagnation. Damp and Dryness -- Differentiation of the characteristics of the pain -- Sore pain. Distending pain. Stabling pain. Sharp pain. Throbbing pain. Burning pain. Colic pain. Hemialgia. Pantalgia. Wandering pain. Pain with spasm. Pain with suffocating feeling. Pain with radiation. Pain with contraction. Pain with heaviness. Pain with swelling. Pain with dislike or preference to pressure and massage. Pain with preference to warmth or cold. Constant or intermittent pain -- Diagnosis principle and treatment concepts -- General principle of pain diagnosis -- Application of four methods of diagnosis. -- Master of the syndromes prior to the operation. -- Determination of the actual and past causative factors for the pain. Channel and point palpation -- General concepts of treatment -- Managing the secondary symptom and searching the root causes -- Supporting the Anti-pathogenic Qi and expel pathogenic factors -- Preventing possible new invasion of Exogenous pathogenic factors -- Considering the individual constitutions -- Selection and combination of acupuncture points -- Selection of acupuncture point -- Selection of the pain-controlling points -- Selection of the points for the causative treatment -- Calming the Shen and benefiting the Heart -- Selection of the inducing points -- Combination of acupuncture points -- Combining the local points and distal points -- Combining the points on the left with the diseases on the right -- Combining the points on the front with the points on the back -- Combining the point on the Yang Channels and the points on the Yin Channels -- Combining the points above with the points below -- Additional Techniques -- Moxibustion. Electric Stimulation. Cutaneous Needle. The Three -- Edged Needle. The Intradermal Needle. Point Injection. Auricular Acupuncture. Scalp Acupuncture. -- Point prescription and frequency of treatment -- Point prescriptions -- Frequency of treatment -- Modern research on pain control by acupuncture -- CHAPTER 2 SENSE ORGAN PAIN AFTER THE OPERATION -- Post-operative Facial Pain -- Post-operative Eye Pain -- Post-operative Ear Pain -- Post-operative Nasal Pain -- Post-operative Lip Pain -- Post-operative Tooth Pain -- Post-operative Tongue Pain -- Post-operative Throat Pain -- CHAPTER 3 FRONT TRUNK PAIN -- Post-operative Painful Swallowing -- Post-operative Chest Pain -- Post-operative Breast Pain -- Post-operative Axillary Pain -- Post-operative Epigastric Pain -- Post-operative Hypochondria Pain -- Post-operative Abdominal Pain -- II. Treatment differentiations -- CHAPTER 4 THE PAIN OVER THE BODY -- Pain in the Entire Body -- Post-operative Headache -- Post-operative Neck Pain -- Post-operative Shoulder Pain -- Post-operative Elbow Pain -- Post-operative Wrist Pain -- Post-operative Hand Pain -- Post-operative Hip Pain -- Post-operative Knee Pain -- Post-operative Ankle Pain -- Post-operative Heel Pain -- Post-operative Foot Pain -- Post-operative Leg Pain -- Post-operative Back Pain -- Post-operative Coccyx Pain -- Phantom Pain -- CHAPTER 5GENITAL PAIN -- Post-operative Gynecological Pain -- Post-operative Genital Pain -- Post-operative Urination Pain -- Post-operative Anal Pain -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-358) and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- General introduction -- Sense organ pain after the operation -- Front trunk pain -- Pain over the body -- Genital pain -- General postoperative complications.

Gives a thorough and analytical review of the treatment options for post-operative pain using acupuncture.

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