Aryana Libris

Author : Baldry Peter E.
Title : Acupuncture, trigger points and musculoskeletal pain
Year : 1993

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Preface. The aims of this book. It is because traditional Chinese acupuncture is perforce inextricably bound up with archaic concepts concerning the structure and function of the body that most members of the medical profession in the Western world view it with suspicion and scepticism and assign it, together with various other seemingly esoteric forms of therapy, to what is called alternative or complementary medicine. Moreover, it is evident that attempts during the past 40 years to place Chinese acupuncture on a more rational and scientific basis have done little to dispel this attitude. My reason for writing this book is to bring to the attention of doctors and physiotherapists a 20thcentury- evolved scientific approach to acupuncture for the relief of pain emanating from trigger points in the myofascial pain syndrome and from tender and trigger points in the fibromyalgia syndrome, and to take acupuncture (so far as the alleviation of nociceptive pain of this type is concerned) out of the category of alternative or complementry medicine by describing a method of employing it that has been developed as a result of observations made by physicians during recent years and is now fast becoming incorporated within the framework of present-day orthodox medical practice. It is because there have been so many advances in our knowledge concerning the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of the myofascial trigger point and fibromyalgia syndromes since the 2nd edition of this book was published, that in this edition four chapters in Part 2 (Principles of Trigger Point Acupuncture) have had to be replaced by entirely new ones. In addition to these changes most of the other chapters in Part 2 and Part 3 (The Practical Application of Trigger Point Acupuncture) have had to be extensively revised. It is hoped that as a result of reading this book many more anaesthetists, rheumatologists, orthopaedic specialists, general physicians, general practitioners and physiotherapists than at present may not only be led to search for trigger points in their routine clinical investigation of pain, but may also be persuaded to include dry needling at these points in their therapeutic armamentarium. Case histories I offer no apology for having included case histories in this book. They are, of course, by their very nature essentially anecdotal and certainly no inference is meant to be drawn from them concerning the effectiveness of trigger point acupuncture, for any conclusions about that can only come from clinical trials. The sole purpose of including these vignettes is to provide illustrations from everyday clinical practice that serve to highlight certain important principles underlying the diagnosis and management of various painful musculoskeletal disorders. ...