ACU-050 Case Study Part 2: Upper Back Pain Treated With Tung Style Acupuncture, with Henry McCann DAOM

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ACU-050 This is the part two of a case review I did with Henry McCann. We discuss how Henry treats neck and arm pain with Tung Style Acupuncture. If you missed the first part, be sure to check out Episode 49 where we had a brief chat about the importance and differences between the DAOM programs and the DACM programs. We learned about Henry’s path and teachings in Chinese medicine which include teaching extensively in the US as well as abroad. We learn about the history of Master Dung and this system of acupuncture and how it differs from the Tan method. and lastly, We discuss Henry’s books which you can find in the show notes.

In today’s episode we do a thorough case exploration.

Here is a glimpse of the case. She's a female in her forties and she came in with complaining basically of pain in her upper back and her shoulder that was radiating into her right arm. She has a C-6, C-7 disc herniation and there is pain and numbness going down into the right arm. There's numbness in the fingers.

Upon palpation, Henry determined she was really complaining of pain in the area of the superspinatus. She definitely had trigger points in the, the upper trapezius on basically all on the right side. There was definitely some scaling involvement, some elevator scapula involvement.

Listen in to see how the case unfolds.

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