Welcome to Dr Robert Cran's link blog
This Link blog is intended to help Patients, and also Practitioners, with useful links to information on the internet that may help them better understand the world's 2nd largest medical system, the only medical system in world history with over 2,000 years of written clinical research.
The most important starting link for Patients is the Clinic pages of The Chinese Medicine Practice website. If you have not visited them before, do click this link to begin your enquiry into Chinese medicine treatment.
Prognosis after Diagnosis of Liver Cancer: The Influence of Chinese Herbs
April 3rd, 2011Link: http://www.itmonline.org/arts/livcancr.htm
This article by Subhuti Dharmananda catalogues a number of studies done in China using Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of liver cancer. The studies use various different strategies, reflected in widely varying results.
One constant, however, is that using Chinese herbal medicine in conjunction with radio or chemo therapy does increase survival rates significantly. Using Chinese herbal medicine has therefore become standard in oncology treatment in China alongside radio, chemo, and surgical therapies.
Register of Traditional Chinese Massage (UK)
March 11th, 2011Link: http://www.ukrtcm.org/
Tui Na is a highly complex form of massage therapy, peculiar to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Tui Na training is both physically and intellectually demanding; treatments involveelaborated technique, often highly strenuous, administered in the context of a rigorous Chinese medicine diagnosis.
Tui Na is a major department of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the treatment of disease differentiated according to Chinese medicine Syndrome.
Googling over Chinese medicine
February 17th, 2011Link: http://www.chinesemedicinepractice.co.za/chinese_medicine_links_index.htm
Can I search meaningfully for Chinese medicine on the internet?
I addressed this question under Useful Links for Patients in the Patients pages of my website.
The answer to this question depends on two things:
Frozen shoulder treated with neuro muscular medical taping concept: video snip by Harry Pijnappel
September 9th, 2010Link: http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=cfG3NTBDkz0&feature=related
This is a snp from the beautiful DVD that accompanies Harry Pijnappel's book, "Medical Taping Concept Handbook"
Is surfing good for you?
May 8th, 2010Link: http://nursepractitionerschools.org/what-doctors-want-you-to-know-about-the-web/
What doctors want you to know about the web
This article from the industrial medicine sector eloquently expresses what is even more valid in the field of Chinese medicine: where the non-specialist hasn't even the most basic vocabulary to work with.
Becoming truly knowledgeable takes time and sweat, lots of them.
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