Acupuncture is used extensively in sport related injury. A fellow acupuncturists alerted me to this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6362684/ “Safety is paramount” is my maxim, so some acupuncture points around the knee joint may be avoided. Electroacupuncture to the muscles around the knee seems to be very affective for all sorts of knee pain. Patients report lengthy Read More …
Every day is a school day! It is of course a trueism that Migraine happens in your head, but there maybe a way that muscle pain may be experienced as headache… However, it becomes more and more evident that headache may be linked to nociceptive inputs from peripheral structures that can converge upon the same Read More …
I am sitting at home on a wet Sunday morning just about to walk the dog, when I came across this paper… https://thejournalofheadacheandpain.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s10194-019-0960-9 Dr. Max was once told by an “expert” in Headaches from Queens Square, London, that Migraine “all happened in the head”. I think the implication was that peripheral phenomena were just that! Read More …
“I have used my acupuncture as a General Practitioner locum, an Associate Specialist Physician in a hospital setting, and now as a medical acupuncturist working in independent practice. I found it most rewarding treating musculoskeletal conditions as a GP, setting up a back pain acupuncture clinic in hospital, and now treating the widest variety of conditions that Read More …
Remember my last question? How much for how long in relation to Electroacupuncture and (say) chronic pain… Well, I found two Chinese papers, one treated for 45 minutes and the other 45 to 60 minutes. Both using Electroacupuncture for knee pain. They are written in Chinese so I will have to ask for help in Read More …
Here at Dr Max Acupuncture we like to get the most out of different treatments, for the benefit of patients. Take electroacupuncture for example. What is the best treatment duration time for an electroacupuncture treatment? Most practitioners are taught 20-30 minutes. I have been extending this to 45 minutes to good effect. All patients say Read More …
Hi! Hope you all had a great Christmas. Let us all hope 2019 is going to be better than 2018! You may remember some time ago I was concerned that some acupuncturists were reinventing both themselves and also long established ideas and techniques. Here at Dr Max Acupuncture we have been digging…We have found a Read More …
Dr Max has often mused on why we do certain things in acupuncture practice. When treating trigger points it has long been the custom to ask the patient “Is that your pain?” when needling a particular tight muscle band or ligament. But who first did it? At drmaxacupuncture we are on the search for the Read More …
Dr Max has noticed that electroacupuncture can sometimes switch off chronic pain for long periods of time. This may be due, in part, to the deactivation of microglia cells in the central nervous system. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3727/096368916X690872
AUTUMN SCIENTIFIC MEETING SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 2018 Paddington Hilton Hotel, London W2 1EE Join me for this prestigious annual event. I shall be updating myself on the latest research into acupuncture, catching up with news, network with my colleagues and earn CPD hours. The keynote speaker for the BMAS Autumn Meeting will be: Dr Vitaly Read More …