What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is a branch of Chinese Traditional Medicine, which was already practiced in ancestral times (from the Latin term “Acus”, needle, and “Puntura”, puncturing/stabbing), taken in by Jesuit missioners that visited China back in the XVII century and they described the method, stating that it should be called acupuncture and moxibustion or simply needle and moxa (Tchen-Ziú), according to its original name.

Acupuncture is an important component of Chinese Traditional Medicine, and one of the great contributions of that nation to humanity. During millenniums of clinical practice, very rich experiences were accrued, presently allowing acupuncture to have relatively complete therapeutic and theoretical methods. It has to do with diverse stimulation systems of the meridians (channels) and of the collaterals and of the acupunctural points. Presently, acupuncture has spread throughout many countries in the world.

Acupuncture is an important part of the great treasure of Chinese medicine and pharmacology. Its history goes back two thousand years. During a long period of practice, the physicians of many Chinese dynasties have enriched, developed and perfected this speciality of Chinese traditional medicine, that covers diverse basic theories and different methods for the manipulation of the needles, in addition to great clinical experience in the treatment according to the symptoms and the signals, making this into a very effective therapy and characteristic of China. This therapy delivers good results when confronted with many illnesses, it has outstanding advantages; for example, it requires very simple equipment, it is safe and economic and it is very easy to learn. It does not deliver negative results, and this is why acupuncture has a more predominant roll day after day.

Acupuncture provides treatment to illnesses through needles. This therapeutic procedure is of an apparent simplicity in its execution, since it consists on introducing steel needles or on doing heat stimulation in certain parts of the skin. Behind this very simple operation hides a wonderful logic structure, a vast construction, the pieces of which adjust as if a very precise mechanism; it is the result of a patient observation of the meticulous application of the methodic empiricism, perfected throughout the millenniums.

Europe became aware of the existence of acupuncture by the midst of the XVII century.

Acupuncture does not pretend to displace official/modern medicine. What it pretends to do is to enrich the therapeutic arsenal of the practitioner with an effective and inoffensive method.

What advantages does acupuncture have?

The great effectiveness of the procedure in the majority of functional disorders, and in some cases of injuries.

Safety, in other words, the absence of harmful secondary effects.

The therapeutic poverty of allopathic medicine, when confronted with functional symptoms (not injuries), which, by the way, represent more than half of ambulatory patients, has repeatedly been confessed by representatives of that same school of medicine.

Physiotherapy is one of the branches of medicine that researches about the influence of natural or artificially created physical factors on the human organism, and for the treatment it uses prophylaxis and medical rehabilitation of the patients and it is the alternative or compliment to pharmaco-therapy.

For the treatments we use:

· The healing physical factors of electromagnetic nature through methods such as galvanization, medicamentous electrophoresis, electro-sleep therapy, amplipulse therapy, electrostatic massage, magneto therapy and more.

· The healing mechanical physical factors through methods such as healing massage, chiropraxis, acupuncture, therapeutic ultrasound, etc.

· Natural physical factors such as climate-therapy, balneum-therapy, mud-therapy, etc.

I. ELECTRO PHYSIOTHERAPY.

MAGNETO-THERAPY WITH LOW FREQUENCY FIELDS.

a. Continuous.
b. Alternating.
c. Pulsating.
d. Of Impulse.

INDUCTO-THERMIA (magneto-therapy with high frequency fields).

DI-ADYNAMIC CURRENTS.

MODULATED SINUS-EAR CURRENTS.

D ARSONVALIZATION.

ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY CURRENT.

ELECTRO-SLEEP.

II. MECANO-THERAPY.

1. THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE.
2. VIBRO-THERAPY.
3. MANUAL THERAPY.
4. ACUPUNCTURE.
5. THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND.
6. COMPUTERIZED TRACTION.

III. LIGHT THERAPY.

EMISSION OF SHORT WAVE ULTRAVIOLET RAYS.

IV. ENDO-ECOLOGICAL REHABILITATION.

V. HYDRO-THERAPY.

SHOWERS:

a. Pluvial (acqualeiform and of cloud).
b. Sprouting (of Sharcó).
c. Circular.
d. Of ascent (perineal).

VI. BALNEUM-THERAPY.

VII. CLIMATE-THERAPY.

Indications for PHYSIOTHERAPY.

The digestive system

The respiratory system

The circulatory system

The urinary system and the reproductive apparatus

Illnesses of muscles and of joints

The nervous system and mental disorders

Ophthalmology

Otorhinolaryngology

Dermatology

Gynecology