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A New American Acupuncture: Acupuncture Osteopathy — The Myofascial Release of the Bodymind's
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By Mark Seem
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(15 Reviews)
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List Price: $29.95
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Blue Poppy Press
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1st
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May 1, 1993 |
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Paperback
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Highly recommended for Acupuncture practitioners, June 07, 2015
By CB
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Finally, I have found a book that resonates with how I practice. The information is detailed and provides another perspective from which to develop your personal style as an practitioner. Highly recommended.
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A New American Acupuncture, January 02, 2015
By Margery F. Bastian (Leicester, NC United States)
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Book arrived in good condition
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ACUPUNCTURE AND TRIGGER POINT THERAPY, April 30, 2011
By EXCELLANT BOOK FOR PUTTING ACPUNCTURE INTO PR...
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THIS BOOK IS EXCELLENT TO PUT ACUPUNCTURE INTO LAYMAN TERMS. THE AUTHOR DOES A GREAT JOB OF APPLYING JAPANESE ACUPUNCTURE CONCEPTS TO TRIGGER POINT TREATMENTS FOR MUSCLE PAIN. HE PUTS THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE POINTS HE USES TO MERIDIANS. HE ALSO HAS ILLUSTRATIONS FOR YOU TO VISUAL SEE WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. EXCELLENT BOOK AND SHOULD BE EVERYONE'S LIBRARY WHO IS DOING ACUPUNCTURE.
1 of 1 people found the above review helpful.
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Helpful for organizing the broad options to address pain problems utilizing meridian-based acpuncture approaches.., April 09, 2010
By Quadradox
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A short summary book -- primarily based on synthesis of trigger point therapy with older forms of acupuncture (meridian-based rather than TCM style diagnosis and treatment). Places heavy emphasis on physical examination of the meridians and pain locations. He provides helpful diagrams of relevant common trigger pionts within these zones and documents the relevant muscular anatomy.
His strategies are more aimed at disturbances in musculoskeletal tissue (or in unobstructing the flow of Qi) rather than the standard TCM diagnostic categories. Thus it does not rely as much on tongue and pulse findings -- a feature that may be preferred by some readers and frustrating to others. His three proposed dominant zones for planning pain management are the major Yang Meridians (Tai Yang, Shao Yang and Yang Ming). He discusses the interrelationship of these to the paired extraordinary meridians (as well as tendinomuscular, cutaneous, divergent, etc) and provides recommendations on major point "zones or regions" to examine and possibly treat.
In general, he stressed choosing the functional points of maximum tenderness rather than attempting anatomically precise location (relevant safety factors still in effect) or rather than points proposed for TCM or 5-element considerations. He does offer for each of these 3 major Yang zones some key yin supporting treatments with which he might supplement his overall protocol, but these are clearly secondary.
I am not sure I would have recognized the benefits of this book early in my training, and I might have been a little put off by aspects of his writing style. After more experience, I found it to be an excellent rapid refresher course of basic principles for meridian acupuncture; and along the way it added significantly to my own internal synthesis of the vast array of treatment paradigms in oriental and western acupuncture. It will continue to be of value to me on return reading -- a source to explore over and over again when contemplating a difficult case.
4 of 5 people found the above review helpful.
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The Missing Piece, September 01, 2009
By Ronald D. Hubbs
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I am an acupuncturist in Southern California and I have taken several workshop intensives in different styles of acupuncture: Master Tung's style, Kiiko Matsumoto, Balance Method, Japanese Styles, etc, etc. On top of that, I have read every book I could get my hands on trying to discern the piece missing from my repertoire that would help me fully resolve the tough cases and chronic pain that virtually all of my patients have. This simple little book is it. It's really almost embarrassingly simple and I almost feel like an idiot for not thinking of it myself.
Acupuncturists, I have found, get very dogmatic and hard-headed when it comes different styles: The reviewer who gave the book a 1 star rating (twice! How did he vote twice?!) seems quite ignorant in his comments. First, Mark Seem is not a "scientist", he is an acupuncturist with a small mountain of experience and credentials. He respects many different styles of acupuncture and draws from them to develop a style that is pragmatic and effective. How truly American. Maybe this is what makes the reviewer angry - that Mr. Seem did not get the "real" acupuncture bequeathed to him from a mysterious sage in the hills of China. The bottom line is that Mr. Seem's ideas both correlate with ancient principles and match modern anatomical and physiological knowledge - and they just plain work (a novel idea in TCM style acupuncture!). Just after implementing a couple of principles from this book, I was solving some some of my toughest cases. It didn't violate anything in the classics, in fact, it proved them true. I say all of this, to encourage any would-be reader to dismiss the two (actually the same!) bad reviews as they are non-sensical.
My only problem with the book is that the cover is kind of crap. It curled up on me the first reading. It always irritates me to pay $30 for a short paperback. This is a book deserves to be hard-bound anyway. With that said, it's probably the best $30 bucks I've spent in my acupuncture education.
5 of 6 people found the above review helpful.
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AcuSpa, June 28, 2009
By AcuSpa
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I had really high hopes for this book. It really needs to greatly improve its index, as it should be more diversified for those who read just portions of books at times. His writing style really killed me..... There are some positives. If you don't know trigge point therapy and are an acupunturist, this book could be helpful. I enjoy meridian therapy, but he kills me with the dull writing style.
1 of 6 people found the above review helpful.
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