Guest guest Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 Question for everyone... Does anyone have any experience with the trigger-point approach to acupuncture? Just came home from an open house of a school that concentrates mostly on the trigger point approach, and heavily on the Japanese meridian system. Is the effect that much different from the TCM or 5 elements approach? Lauren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 Trigger point is usefull yet so primary that it almost resembles allopathy in its approach. Trigger points become detectable when evil energy stagnates in tendinomuscular meridians. It is important to disperse them, but also to make the rest of the treatment, which is to strengthen the main meridian and to deliver yang defence energy to the place, as to eliminate evil intruder. Otherwise, pain and disease will come back soon. TCM is a very complex structure of knowledge which takes some years to manage, of which the trigger point manipulation is but a tiny aspect. Personally I believe no serious student of Acupuncture will stay on that stage of superficial layer therapies for long. Pedro - <DautoBrody <acupuncture > Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:59 AM acupuncture trigger point > DautoBrody > > Question for everyone... > Does anyone have any experience with the trigger-point approach to > acupuncture? > Just came home from an open house of a school that concentrates mostly on the > trigger point approach, and heavily on the Japanese meridian system. Is the > effect that much different from the TCM or 5 elements approach? > Lauren > > --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > Get great offers on top-notch products that match your interests! > Sign up for eLerts at: > <a href= " http://clickme./ad/elerts1 " >Click Here</a> > > ------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 >Question for everyone... >Does anyone have any experience with the trigger-point approach to >acupuncture? >Just came home from an open house of a school that concentrates mostly on >the >trigger point approach, and heavily on the Japanese meridian system. Is the >effect that much different from the TCM or 5 elements approach? >Lauren > >------------------------ With the risk of sounding paranoid and protectionist, " Trigger-point " approach to acupuncture does not sound like " real " acupuncture. It sounds like some kind of chiropractic or MD simplification. This is just kind of based on a hunch, forgive me if I don't know what I'm talking about. But can you tell us more about the school? Greg Dember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 As far as I know.... This Japanese meridian system was part of the system that J.R. Worsley put together that the list is tentatively calling Five Element. So there are some similarities and it is very different. Stephen Birch is travelling the world a lot at the moment ( yes even made down here to Australia) teaching this form as another alternative approach to TCM. Can I explain anything about it !?- no sorry. All the best Gye Question for everyone... Does anyone have any experience with the trigger-point approach to acupuncture? Just came home from an open house of a school that concentrates mostly on the trigger point approach, and heavily on the Japanese meridian system. Is the effect that much different from the TCM or 5 elements approach? Lauren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 Since the description of trigger points was mentioned in the past as it relates to the importance of langue here are some words. I just read Birch's abstract on trigger points and acupuncture points in which he states that 1. trigger point analogies ignore that most treatment of pain in acupuncture is by distal points. In saying this he ignores satellite trigger points. 2. He states that many of the acupuncture points are not indicated for pain. Again here he ignores the whole somatoviceral and vicerosomatic principle of trigger points and their use in other than pain disorders. To me this is just another example of dogmatic rigid thinking and not to the fact that two completely different traditions have noticed that somatic points exist that are seen together with some painful conditions and visceral conditions. These often overlap anatomically with acupuncture points. These thoughts are from someone that does not think much of the whole trigger point religion. Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2003 Report Share Posted April 14, 2003 My teacher taught me that all the points have the same function and all the points have a different function. The same part of the equasion was that they all move the qi. Move Qi, stop pain. g > __________ > > " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus > Re: Trigger point > > satellite trigger points. 2. He states that many of the > acupuncture points are not indicated for pain. Again here he > ignores the whole somatoviceral and vicerosomatic principle > of trigger points and their use in other than pain disorders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2003 Report Share Posted April 14, 2003 My teacher taught me that all the points have the same function and allthe points have a different function. The same part of the equasion wasthat they all move the qi. Move Qi, stop pain.>>That is another problem by the study. Although we have point indications in reality we use all points for various problems even when not " listed". Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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