Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture, Methods & Applications

This book is designed to meet the needs of today's acupuncture practitioners through both text and illustrations. A comprehensive, "cost effective" introduction to the ever-expanding discipline of acupuncture. Location of points, treatment techniques, clinical applications and management of pain and other various diseases, research on the efficacy of WAA in anesthetic mechanism.

Section One
General Introduction,
Chapter 1. Characteristics and advantage

Section Two
Methods of Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture
Chapter 2. Location of Symptoms and Signs
Chapter 3. Location of Selection of Points
Chapter 4. Needle Techniques

Section Three
Clinical Applications
A. Pain Related Diseases
Chapter 5. General Pain Syndrome
Chapter 6. Pain in the Region of the Head
Chapter 7. Pain in the Region of the Neck
Chapter 8. Pain in the Region of the Shoulder
Chapter 9. Pain in the Region of the Chest
Chapter 10. Pain in the Region of the Abdomen
Chapter 11. Pain the Region of the Lower Back
Chapter 12. Pain the Region of the Four Limbs
Chapter 13. Post-operative would pain.

B. Conditions other than pain
Chapter 14. Internal Disorders
Chapter 15. Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16. Neurological Disorders
Chapter 17. Dermatological & Surgical Disorders
Chapter 18. Gynecological Disorder
Chapter 19. Disorders of the Sensory Organs.

Section Four
Approach to the Mechanism
Chapter 20. Analysis from the TCM perspectives
Chapter 21. WAA at cellular level - an novel approach.