lucky shots was TMJ

[Guest guest]

Hi Nam and Group,

 

As a young practitioner (3 years practicing ), there is question that I

would like to bring up to came up in your email. Although we have our

pattern differentiation, treatment strategies and point selection, we never

really know what point did what in the treatment. We are always left

guessing if it was the SI7 that did the trick, or another point in the

selection of points. Sometimes we have to wait to see the patient a week

later in order to know if we are on the right track.

This sense of frustration is stronger when I see my colleagues who had

studied TCM and now have deserted to Japanese acupuncture, claiming that is

much more precise and gives better results. They tell me that they can know

immediatly if the point did the job and if the results were obtained by

checking reflexes , pulses and so on. It sounds too good to be true . I

would like to hear your thoughts on the subject.

 

Thanks,

Guy

 

 

> Any way, that was actually a lucky shot when I chose SI 7. I did not

> expect a good result before I started a treatment. However,

> everybody needs a lucky shot like this once in a while.

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Guy,

 

That reasoning is one of the reasons why I spent a lot of time and dollars to

learn from Kiiko Matsumoto, Miki Shima as well as Shudo Denmai, etc. I felt

that my TCM education was better then most but fell really short of providing

a useful yardstick for patient progress. After all, if you cannot tell if your

patient

is getting better, then you have a real problem. I noticed in my internship

that many

patients did not get better and that there was an overall reliance on needling

the

same points on most patients (is treatment really individualized by this?).

BTW,

since I have been using Kiiko's protocols, I have been able in positively impact

some really difficult cases (AS, viral CHF and RA come to mind). Remember that

acupuncture was a separate entity of medicine in ancient times. Mike W. Bowser,

L Ac

 

 

: guysedan:

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:20:00 +0300lucky shots " was TMJ "

 

 

 

 

Hi Nam and Group,As a young practitioner (3 years practicing ), there is

question that Iwould like to bring up to came up in your email. Although we have

ourpattern differentiation, treatment strategies and point selection, we

neverreally know what point did what in the treatment. We are always

leftguessing if it was the SI7 that did the trick, or another point in

theselection of points. Sometimes we have to wait to see the patient a weeklater

in order to know if we are on the right track.This sense of frustration is

stronger when I see my colleagues who hadstudied TCM and now have deserted to

Japanese acupuncture, claiming that ismuch more precise and gives better

results. They tell me that they can knowimmediatly if the point did the job and

if the results were obtained bychecking reflexes , pulses and so on. It sounds

too good to be true . Iwould like to hear your thoughts on the

subject.Thanks,Guy> Any way, that was actually a lucky shot when I chose SI 7. I

did not> expect a good result before I started a treatment. However,> everybody

needs a lucky shot like this once in a while.>>[Non-text portions of this

message have been removed]

 

 

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