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| | Network Vessel Pricking: The Forgotten Key to Chronic Problems - Blue Poppy Press |
 | | It is a statement of fact in Chinese medicine that, New diseases are in the channels; enduring diseases enter the network vessels. This means that all chronic, enduring diseases eventually result in the blood stasis which then obstructs and hinders the free flow of the network vessels. | | | According to the authors of this study, rheumatoid arthritis is categorized as an impediment condition in Chinese medicine. | | | Therefore, in the treatment of chronic, enduring diseases, it is important to identify the presence of blood stasis and to assess its role in the patients overall disease mechanisms. |
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http://www.bluepoppy.com/press/download/articles/net_vessel_pricking_oct.cfm
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| | Stress and Insomnia: Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine |
| | Acupuncture, herbal therapy, shiatsu and Thai massage have a very long and successful history of treating acute and chronic stress, as well as the disorders associated with it. | | | Chronic stress can be a major contributing factor in almost any disorder, including anxiety and depression, insomnia, vertigo/dizziness, muscle pain, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, hypertension, digestive disorders, PMS, menopausal symptoms, infertility, headaches and migraines, some forms of asthma, back pain, neck pain, and cancers. | | | I have often observed the benefits of stress reduction and relaxation with acupuncture, including more relaxed and deeper breathing, increased digestive abilities, better sleeping patterns, a decrease in various forms of pain, and a general sense of well being. |
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http://www.calvindale.com/treatments/stress-insom.html
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| | Integrating Western Medicine with Alternative Medicine |
| | Alternative medicine is well-known for helping people with the chronic ailments like diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, etc. Chronic problems can also be less severe like back pain, soreness, obesity, chattering mind, etc. Western medicine seems clueless when it comes to these problems. | | | The name alternative medicine makes it sound like these therapies should be used instead of Western medicine. | | | Alternative medicine is a catch-all term that includes many healing methods from many countries and cultures. |
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http://www.holisticwebdirectory.com/healtharticles/westernmedicine.html
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| | Orthopedic medicine - definition of Orthopedic medicine in Encyclopedia |
| | Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (BE: orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with acute, chronic, traumatic and recurrent injuries and other disorders of the locomotor system, its musclular and bone parts. | | | Orthopedic surgeons work closely with many allied health professionals, such as athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, physical medicine and rehabilitation physcians and other physicians in related fields in the treatment of patients. | | | Orthopedic surgeons treat patients using surgical and non-surgical methods to correct problems. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Orthopedic_medicine
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| | TBJ- Cover Article |
| | [20] Additionally, criteria that should also be considered in defining standard of care boundaries include pain symptom management, patient satisfaction, shared decision-making among the patient, her family, and the treating physicians, coordination of pain care with other medical and social issues, and the guarantee of continuity of care throughout the chronic pain illness. | | | Interestingly, confusion defining a pain management standard of care has attorneys wondering whether claims against physicians for the under-treatment of chronic pain should arise in the new theories of elder abuse statutes or should simply be an extension of the more traditional medical malpractice negligence suits. | | | In time, as pain management protocols permeate even the most rural areas of medicine, pain management experts testifying on the appropriate standard of care will be available to all. |
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http://www.tba.org/Journal_Current/200410/TBJ-200410-coverarticle.html
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| | HSS - Pain Medicine |
| | Directed by an anesthesiologist with subspecialty training in pain management, the Division of Pain Medicine offers comprehensive evaluation and treatment to patients with acute and chronic pain syndromes, including pain from orthopedic and rheumatologic conditions. | | | The Hospital for Special Surgery's Division of Pain Medicine is meeting the needs of patients struggling with this and other chronic pain due to musculoskeletal injuries or disorders. | | | Pain is a complex physiological and emotional experience, which can dramatically affect an individual's life. |
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http://www.hss.edu/Departments/Specialties/Pain-Medicine
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| | UM Interventional Pain Medicine |
| | The Center for Interventional Pain Medicine is one of the best qualified clinics of its kind dealing with pain, offering the newest procedures and the finest quality of care. | | | Chronic pain is often defined as pain that persists for more than 3 months or that outlasts the usual healing process. | | | Chronic pain affects all aspects of a persons life including daily activities, family life, work, leisure time, sleep patterns, and mood. |
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http://www.med.umich.edu/anes/pain/pain_patients.htm
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| | Family Medicine (Allopathic/Osteopathic) Residency, Bethlehem |
| | The curriculum is designed to provide training in preventive medicine, health maintenance and acute and chronic illnesses in both the adult and pediatric population. | | | The Family Medicine Residency, with a complement of 18 residents, is dually accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Osteopathic Association. | | | Graduates of this residency are able to manage a broad spectrum of health care needs, ranging from preventive care to treatment of chronic disease states, in the context of the individual and the family. |
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http://www.stlukesresidenteducation.org/body.cfm?id=707
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| | Chronic Bronchitis -- familydoctor.org |
| | Your doctor may prescribe oxygen if your chronic bronchitis is severe and medicine doesn't help you feel better. | | | Yes, your doctor may prescribe a medicine called a bronchodilator to treat your chronic bronchitis. | | | Because of the damage from chronic bronchitis, your lungs may not be able to get enough oxygen into your body. |
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http://familydoctor.org/handouts/280.html
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| | Environmental Medicine |
| | Environmental Medicine offers a sweeping reinterpretation of medical thinking, especially its approach to many previously unexplained and ineffectively treated chronic diseases. | | | The goal of Environmental Medicine is to identify the cause of a health problem and eliminate or reduce the level of exposure as much as possible. | | | Multiple and chronic environmental exposures in a susceptible individual contribute to a breakdown of that person's defense mechanisms. |
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http://www.drbuscher.com/environmental_medicine.htm
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| | Center for Stress Medicine |
| | Stress may also intensify the severity of many existing chronic conditions such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, herpes, hypertension, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, gastrointestinal disorders and many infectious diseases and immunity-related problems. | | | Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Center for Stress Medicine is a comprehensive community resource for the treatment of stress-related or illness and conditions. | | | The care professionals at the Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Center for Stress Medicine may also partner with other care disciplines throughout the hospital to assure that the emotional needs of patients are met. |
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http://www.advocatehealth.com/gshp/services/mind/stress
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| | Integrated Medicine - (acupuncture, alternative medicine, holistic medicine, natural medcine) |
| | The combined use of Chinese and Western medicine makes shingles a much easier to treat disease, without the dread of chronic pain or the need of steroids and potent analgesics. | | | And one further piece of good news: even if post-herpetic pain develops or is already an established condition, Chinese medicine also has much to offer to bring such chronic pain to an end. | | | only with an antiviral agent and pain medicines, may have helped the disease& symptoms, but at a much slower pace. |
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http://www.integratedmedicine.com/monthly/1999_january.html
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| | Chinese Med |
| | Chinese medicine treats dysfunction much earlier, while it is still in the energetic state. | | | Western allopathic medicine looks to relieve symptoms with drugs and medications, with the assumption that the underlying imbalances will self-correct. | | | She has treated large numbers of patients in the Emergency Department with severe chronic illness fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine headaches, chronic back pain and many others and is convinced that, beyond simple suppression of symptoms, there is true healing for these conditions. |
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http://www.crossroadsinstitute.org/chinmed.html
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| | Family Medicine (Allopathic/Osteopathic) Residency, Bethlehem |
| | The curriculum is designed to provide training in preventive medicine, health maintenance and acute and chronic illnesses in both the adult and pediatric population. | | | Graduates of this residency are able to manage a broad spectrum of health care needs, ranging from preventive care to treatment of chronic disease states, in the context of the individual and the family. | | | The Family Medicine Residency, with a complement of 18 residents, is dually accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Osteopathic Association. |
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http://www.slhn-lehighvalley.org/body.cfm?id=707
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| | Natural Therapy Center - Natural Health Clinic, Natural Medicine Clinic |
| | is an International Health Centre renowned for its successful treatment of chronic diseases, using a combination of orthodox and natural medicine, called Integrative Medicine. | | | Natural Therapy Center - Natural Health Clinic, Natural Medicine Clinic | | | Come into The DaVinci Clinic and meet the staff and the patients, as well as witness the successes that we have had treating many different health problems ranging from Cancer, Candidiasis, Chronic Fatigue, Digestive problems, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Hormonal Imbalances, Migraines, Polycystic ovaries, Skin problems, Sterility and many other chronic disease processes. |
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http://www.naturaltherapycenter.com
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| | NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE |
| | Naturopathic medicine can be applied in any health care situation, but its strongest area is in the treatment of chronic and degenerative disease. | | | Naturopathic medicine is not a single modality of healing but an arrayof healing practices including diet and clinical nutrition; homeopathy; acupuncture; herbal medicine; hydrotherapy; therapeutic exercise; spinal and soft tissue manipulation; physical therapies involving electric currents, ultrasound, and light therapy; therapeutic counseling; and pharmacology. | | | Naturopathic medicine treats health conditions by utilizing the body's inherent ability to heal. |
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http://www.healingartscenter.com/Library/articles/art07.htm
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| | APS- The Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Chronic Pain |
| | The mission of the American Academy of Pain Medicine is to enhance pain medicine practice in this country by promoting a socioeconomic and political climate conducive to the effective and efficient practice of pain medicine and by ensuring quality medical care by physicians specializing in pain medicine, for patients in need of such services. | | | Since chronic pain is not a single entity but may have myriad causes and perpetuating factors, these strategies and options vary from behavioral methods and rehabilitation approaches to the use of a number of different medications, including opioids. | | | It is now accepted by practitioners of the specialty of pain medicine that respiratory depression induced by opioids tends to be a short-lived phenomenon, generally occurs only in the opioid-naive patient, and is antagonized by pain. |
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http://www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/opioids.htm
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| | Forensic Psych-Harvard Faculty |
| | Dr. Bursztajn is frequently chosen as a peer reviewer by journals in medicine and psychiatry, ranging from the Journal of the American Medical Association to the American Journal of Psychiatry. | | | A forensic psychiatrist is a physician who integrates clinical experience, knowledge of medicine, mental health, and the neurosciences to form an independent, objective opinion. | | | In the workplace, the forensic psychiatrist may be asked to consider whether a claimed disability (e.g., a chronic general illness, such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a chronic pain syndrome, such as Fibromyalgia, or a mental disorder, such as Depression or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is valid and work stress related. |
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http://www.forensic-psych.com
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| | Herbal Article - About Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| | By combining both modern and traditional medicines, he prescribes medicine according to the patient’s pathogenic mechanism, for the purpose of reinforcing body resistance to eliminate pathogens; preventing patient’s liver cells from deteriorating, preventing the liver fibers from growing, and avoiding the disease becoming chronic. | | | The aim at improving the capacity of the patient's immune system is not only the distinctive difference between this therapy and that of modern medicine, including that of traditional herbal therapy of "combating poison with poison", but also the key to its high efficacy. | | | So far, the treatment of acute leukemia via the combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine is far better along than that of the treatment via chemotherapy of modern medicine and traditional herbal medicine. |
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http://www.metromkt.net/viable/herbs30.shtml
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| | Chronic Pain - Back Pain - General Pain Resources |
| | Chronic Pain Study - A study by TJ Murray, OC, MD, FRCPC, FACP, Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine (Division of Neurology) Dalhousie University. | | | International Association for the Study of Pain - The IASP is an international, multidisciplinary, non-profit professional association dedicated to furthering research on pain and improving the care of patients with pain. | | | American Pain Society - The mission of the American Pain Society is to advance pain-related research, education, treatment and professional practice. |
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http://www.painandhealth.org/pain-links.html
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| | Traditional Chinese Medicine in Chinese-American Communities |
| | Modern medicine is life-saving in a crisis, but modern medicine fails to cure chronic diseases, whereas traditional medicine seems to excel. | | | Another strength of traditional medicine is that it treats the person as a whole as opposed to Western medicine, which sees the human being as consisting of isolable systems. | | | Traditional medicine, as practice in China and other East Asian countries, is a coherent and sophisticated system of techniques and methods. |
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http://www.camsociety.org/issues/Attitudes.htm
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| | Learn more about Traditional Chinese medicine in the online encyclopedia. |
| | For example, modern applications of TCM include alleviating the side effects of chemotherapy when treating cancer patients, helping drug addicts get clean, and treating a variety of chronic conditions that allopathic medicine is often ineffective against. | | | Traditional Chinese medicine, abbreviated as TCM, also known as "Chinese medicine" or "Traditional Oriental Medicine") is the traditional medicine dating back to antiquity and originating in China. | | | TCM is usually regarded as a complementary and alternative medicine. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/t/tr/traditional_chinese_medicine.html
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| | Family Medicine (Allopathic/Osteopathic) Residency, Bethlehem |
| | The curriculum is designed to provide training in preventive medicine, health maintenance and acute and chronic illnesses in both the adult and pediatric population. | | | The Family Medicine Residency, with a complement of 18 residents, is dually accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Osteopathic Association. | | | Graduates of this residency are able to manage a broad spectrum of health care needs, ranging from preventive care to treatment of chronic disease states, in the context of the individual and the family. |
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http://www.slhn-lehighvalley.org/body.cfm?id=707
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| | Acupuncture.Com - Education - Theory - Pts for Blood |
| | The Methods and Rules of Medicine says "In chest bi, pain in the Heart region is caused by yang deficiency and invasion of cold". | | | Impairment of blood circulation and consequent stasis may be due to stagnation or deficiency of qi, traumatic injury, haemorrhage, penetration of cold, blood deficiency, heat, chronic disease or emotional factors, and may give rise to many different disorders of menstruation. | | | Acute severe pain from blood stasis which threatens the survival of the Heart zang is therefore primarily treated by using points of the Pericardium channel, the 'protector' of the Heart. |
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http://www.acupuncture.com/education/theory/ptsforblood.htm
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| | The Three Treasures and Women's Treasure - Giovanni Maciocia Chinese Medicine UK |
| | There is a interrelationship between stasis of Blood and Phlegm, especially in chronic conditions. | | | In his case, the Blood stasis in the chest derives from Heart-Yang deficiency (he also suffers from a feeling of stuffiness of the chest, cold hands, the tongue is pale-Purple and his pulse is slow). | | | Another man suffers from cold hands, palpitations, occasionally irregular heart beat, a feeling of stuffiness of the chest, slight breathlessness on exertion, pale tongue that is very slightly purple on the sides in the chest area, and a slow and weak pulse; he occasionally suffers from a slight chest tightness and pain. |
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http://www.three-treasures.com/newsletters/summer03.html
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| | Sanford M. Silverman, MD, PA - Comprehensive Pain Medicine |
| | Although some patients seek our services for short-term or acute pain, usually caused by an injury or surgery, most of our patients suffer from intractable chronic pain, which does not always have an easily identifiable cause. | | | When pain interferes with the quality of your life, restricting activities and, perhaps, causing depression, you may wish to consider the services of the Comprehensive Pain Medicine. | | | Your pain is treated both medically and with the latest interventional and surgical means. |
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http://www.cpmedicine.com
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| | Brain Wired To Anticipate Pain |
| | "In people with chronic pain, such as those with back pain or arthritis, their experience can be exacerbated by anticipation and expectation of pain," researcher Dr. Irene Tracey of the University of Oxford in England told Reuters Health. | | | Anticipation of pain is processed in the frontal region of the brain, the cerebellum (located at the back of the brain), and another area of the brain called the insular cortex. | | | These areas are found close to the brain regions that respond to an actual painful event such as a root canal or the joint pain and stiffness of arthritis. |
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http://www.personalmd.com/news/a1999061711.shtml
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