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Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine
A full-color textbook by Matt Callison, L.Ac., integrating sports medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, with detailed information on more than 93 sports and orthopedic injuries. Now also available as an e-book.
Order your copy:
- United States: Lhasa OMS (opens in a new tab)
- Canada: Eastern Currents (opens in a new tab)
- Australia: China Books (opens in a new tab)
- Publisher: Eastland Press (opens in a new tab)
Europe and the U.K.: email [email protected] to buy a copy.
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Inside the Book
Packed with clinical information, including innovative advanced needle techniques, therapeutic exercise recommendations and herbal medicine treatments. More than 780 detailed drawings and photos across 3 sections and 12 chapters.
- Section I: Principles & treatment options (Chapters 1–5): sports medicine and TCM principles for musculoskeletal health, plus acupuncture, therapeutic exercise, herbal medicine, moxibustion, kinesiological taping, cupping, bloodletting and gua sha.
- Section II: Neck, shoulder & upper extremity: each injury includes a description, mechanisms of injury, assessment and treatment, common local TCM patterns and a prognosis.
- Section III: Low back, hip & lower extremity: the same detail, with rehabilitative exercises (proprioceptive, stretching and strengthening) at the end of each chapter.
“The most comprehensive and thorough English-language text on the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and sports medicine. Much of it can be used immediately in the acupuncture clinic.”
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