PAIN RELIEF CLINIC - ACUPUNCTURE

NO FLOW- PAIN, FLOW- NO PAIN

不 通 這 痛, 通 這 不 通

BU TONG ZE TONG,TONG ZE BU TONG

Daniel Waldman master acupuncturist DIP.AC DIP.R.M Trained in both Japan and Australia. Daniel qualified in 1976 and he opened his practice in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1978 integrating acupuncture, herbal medicine and massage.Since opening the clinic Daniel's reputation has grown and he is currently treating a 100 patients a week.

To schedule an appointment please call +61 2 93615045 (overseas), 02 93615045 (local), or email admin@painreliefclinic.com.au.

Daniel been accepting students for observation for the past 15 years mentoring them before they graduate.

Daniel is publishing texts on his systems of treatment believing that teaching and showing people the art and medicine of acupuncture can be done only through clinical experience.

The style of acupuncture used in our clinic is a systematic palpatory method which proves to be extremely effective in identifying source of the actual symptom and allowes more precise treatment plan.

Being a Pain Relief Clinic we specialize in pain management that might have developed for various reasons: either of musculoskeletal origin or proper systemic irregularities where certain metabolic errors occurred.

One of the causes of pain/neuropathy is the shortened muscle syndrome. Apart from pain and tenderness that may occur within muscle (possibly from the compression of supersensitive nociceptors), neuropathy increases muscle tone and causes concurrent muscle shortening. Muscle shortening in turn, can mechanically cause a large variety of pain syndromes by its relentless pull on various structures.Muscle shortening is the key to myofascial pain of neuropathic origin. In fact, myofascial pain cannot exist in absence of muscle shortening. One could say :"No shortening no pain"

Tennis elbow a real pain in the neck !

There are many patients who present for acupuncture with a history of predominantly right lateral elbow pain, which had arisen gradually without any significant cause. The pain was worse with gripping actions, such as holding pots or cups of tea/coffee, as well as reaching overhead and washing their hair. They also complain of associated right arm and shoulder pain extending into the neck, also aggravated by similar activities.
Thorough examination it is first revealed that patients had clinical signs of tennis elbow, a common and painful condition that occurs secondary to inflammation and degeneration of the extensor carpi radialis brevis tendon in the elbow. This tendon attaches one of the main wrist extensor muscles to the lateral epicondyle (elbow) and is important in most manual tasks.
However, patients also had clinical signs in their cervical spine that suggested that some of their symptoms may be arising from their neck. The fact that some of their aggravating activities involved movement of the shoulder and muscles of the neck and scapula supported this theory. These thought processes that acupuncturists use to determine the nature and extent of symptoms are collectively known as clinical reasoning.
After several weeks of usual local treatments on the elbow with only moderate improvement, treatments were altered to focus on the cervical spine. In particular, whenever cervical acupuncture was administered  pain resolved completely within four sessions.
This study illustrates the complex nature of tennis elbow and how the cervical spine can refer pain to the elbow. Interestingly, most patients who suffer tennis elbow do not play tennis. The cervical spine is a common source of symptoms in this condition, but each individual case is different and needs to be assessed thoroughly.