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Allied J Med Res 2017
Volume 1 Issue 2
September 01-02, 2017 London, UK
3rd International Conference and Expo on
Herbal & Alternative Medicine
Herbal Medicine 2017
Biomechanical approach related to meridians
and myofascias: Biomechanical acupuncture
B iomechanical acupuncture originated from the
biomechanical approach of treating musculoskeletal
pains by Myofascial concepts of Western medicine and
Meridian concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM). There have been various attempts to treat
musculoskeletal pains using needle stimulations
around the East and the West. But practical point of
views, most practitioners agree upon the difficulties in
choosing exact treatment points. In this paper, a new
concept of Biomechanical acupuncture is proposed to
solve the difficulties, which is simple and easy to apply
to everyday practice but comprehensive enough to
integrate modern myofascial concepts of the West and
traditional Meridian concepts of the East. In the basis
of biomechanical acupuncture, myofascial concepts
don’t mean trigger points developed by Janet G Travell
and David G Simons but biomechanical network of
anatomical myofascia spreading through human
body. And acupuncture points in TCM related to 12
Meridian theories are to be used in the treatment of
musculoskeletal pains through myofascial concepts.
Owing to ceaseless connection of the whole myofascia,
a disorder in one region may be expressed in the form
of pain and limitation on certain movement in other
part of body mainly in the same myofascial tension line
by biomechanical dysfunction. When one attempts to
move freely on the condition that one side is fixed, one’s
body is bound to take compensatory overloading. As a
result, a cause of biomechanical dysfunction gets to be
enlarged. Repeated stresses transcending the limited
rangegive rise toa local inflammationor apain.According
to these concepts I can approach goals of treatment:
1. improvement of biomechanical overloadings, 2.
restoration of neural function, and 3. maintenance of
optimal alignment. Biomechanical acupuncture doesn’t
cure and heal anything. All it does is set body back to
normal so that healing process begins. Biomechanical
acupuncture combined prevailing treatment concepts of
both the East and the West is a new effective treatment
method of Functional Orthopedic Stimulation Therapy
(FOST) in the common pain problems arising from
musculoskeletal system. Through this new method of
treatment, all types of practitioners who use needle
stimulations as their main treatment modality can
benefit from ease of its application and consistency of
its effectiveness.
Biography
Eun-Tae Jo has completed his PhD from Daegu Haany University and is a Member
of Korea Pain Diagnosis Society. He presented a poster at 9th Interdisciplinary
World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Singapore on 31 October
2016. He is the co-author of “Shoulder Treatment ABC”.
Eun-Tae Jo
Joint & Spine Pain Center, Kwang-ju, Korea
Korea Pain Diagnosis Society, Korea
Eun-Tae Jo, Allied J Med Res 2017