Longkang Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic Philippines

Patient after weight lifting, had pain all the way through his left back and shoulder, difficulties to rise arms. We found out the trigger point is from his back, so called “supraspinatus tendonitis”, which people often misunderstood it as dearticulation, or joint sprain. Before any acupuncture treatment, precise diagnosis is prerequisite, therefore, we could target the main reason in efficient strategy. After acupuncture and tuina therapy, the patient could rise his arm and move his shoulder without pain. In the gym, there are common injuries after work out, for weightlifting such as strained lumbar muscle, dorsal muscle, and deltoid which causing back pain, shoulder pain, arm pain; for treadmill such as vastus lateralis muscle which causing knee pain, plantar fasciitis( feet pain) , and Achilles tendon injuries( heel pain). For concerns, proper warm up before work out is necessary, suitable sport shoes, and never gain the weight once too much while doing weightlifting.

Patient had been diagnosed as Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) for 6 years, followed with insomnia and gastrointestinal symptoms. Since May 2018 she came clinic for  acupuncture and herbal medicine treatment  regularly until July . In August, she came back clinic not only solved the insomnia and gastrointestinal problems but also brought this blessing result, confirmed pregnant for 6 weeks already. PCOS is the most common female endocrine disease causing by complex endocrine and metabolic abnormalities, shown as chronic ovulation disorders or loss, and high androgens. In clinical manifestations, there are irregular menstruation cycle, infertility, along with hairy or acne symptoms. The reasons of PCOS are still controversial as two dimensions, theory of heredity or non-gene related. The modern therapeutic method is medicine and operation. However, in traditional Chinese medicine, we still use TCM diagnose system to customized this patient’s treatment strategy. To minimize

Patient wears airtight pants such as fit jeans, which easily cause eczema when sweating in humid and hot weather. Meanwhile, as her body type due to our TCM diagnosis, is “dampness-heat of lung and bladder” which presented in her heat type cough, and urination.  After one session of acupuncture and one week TCM herb medicine, the reddish reduce and no more itchiness, as well reduce her cough and no more heat feeling during urination. That’s the results when we did precisely treatment under correct diagnosis, likewise all the related symptoms will be solved as our expectation.

Elder seniors with medication of hypertension, often have symptoms as edema as complication, which affect the daily walking ability. However, less exercise, sitting long time without proper position could further causing the back pain or sciatica. For our treatment, not only for the area pain of the pressed spine, but also strengthen the cardiovascular function as boosting circulation. Therefore, there will be less pain and less edema after acupuncture and TCM herb treatment. Likewise, for the complication such as numbness on diabetes patients, or stiff neck and shoulder on hyperlipidemia patients, not only reduce the “symptoms” but we focus their circulation and metabolism as long term condition.