Description:

What every acupuncturist ought to know about electroacupuncture:

• Understand the scientific basis of electro acupuncture
• Know how you can use electro acupuncture in clinic and what for
• Determine exactly what tools you will need to practice electroacupuncture
• Learn how to give electro acupuncture properly and safely to patients
• Get all the comprehensive support information and references you need about electro acupuncture in the generous Appendices, accompanying CD-ROM and linked website resource 

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Edited by David F Mayor
Forewords by Angela and John Hicks, Joint Principals of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, UK, and
Zang-Hee Cho, Professor of Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Director of Functional Imaging and Acupuncture Research, University of California, Irvine, California, USA

381 pages, 254mm x 199mm
Copious illustrations, tables and photographs
Hardcover
Churchill Livingstone, 2004
ISBN: 0-443-06369-9

Basic Information:

This book presents an overview of the theoretical foundations of electroacupuncture, together with experimental and clinical evidence for the efficacy of electroacupuncture in its various forms. It also provides guidance on the effective clinical practice of electroacupuncture, illustrated with informative case histories. It serves as an excellent introduction on the subject, covering all the key information a beginning practitioner would need to know, as well as exploring avenues for advanced practice. The accompanying CD-ROM is an ideal research tool, providing searchable chapters from the book as well as an extensive database of more than 8,000 clinical trials that can be accessed via the CD-ROM or through a companion website.

Contents:

• Part 1. Initial Orientation

Introduction to Part 1
1.Introduction
2. Electroacupuncture East and West: the historical context

•  Part 2. Scientific and Clinical Foundations

Introduction to Part 2
3.Electromagnetism and vibration: concepts and terminology
4.Electroacupuncture in context: the effects of electrotherapy
5.Neurophysiology, acupoints and meridians: Western and Eastern prespectives
6.How electroacupuncture works I. Ovservations from experimental and animal studies
7.How electroacupuncture works II: Gathering the threads – from observations to mechanisms and models
8.Does electroacupuncture work? Evaluating the controlled trials. 9.Acupuncture in clinical practice: an overview
9.1 Psychological and nervous conditions
9.2 Stroke and cerebrovascular disease.
9.3 Peripheral motor disorders, the immune system and the endocrine system
9.4 Disorders of the skin and hair, eye and ear, nose, throat and mouth
9.5 Obstetrics and gynaecology and the breast
9.6 The cardiovascular system
9.7The respiratory system
.8 The gastrointestinal system, liver, gall bladder and pancreas
9.9 The genitourinary tract
9.10 Pain and its treatment
9.11 Neurogenic pain – head and facial pain – neck pain
9.12 Musculoskeletal conditions: an integrated approach
9.13 Acupuncture anaesthesia
9.14 Postoperative pain
9.15 Addiction
9.16 Appetite regulation and weight control

•  Part 3. Technology and Practice

Introduction to Part 3

10.The technology of acupuncture
11.Tools of the trade
12.Practicalities and precautions: the basic do's and don'ts
13.Developing an integrated approach
14.Conclusion, and the view ahead

• Appendix 1 Resources: information, organisations and suppliers
• Appendix 2 Technology in practice: assessment, legislation and insurance
• Glossary
• Index

About the editor:

David F Mayor is a widely experienced non-medical acupuncturist in private practice in Hertfordshire, England, integrating different strands of traditional and modern acupuncture with other skills leaned over the years. He lectures on electroacupuncture at a number of acupuncture colleges in the UK 

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