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Acupuncture Congress 2018
Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
Page 72
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
D
egenerative diseases on discs, ligaments, joints or muscles
can originate very similar pain patterns on the neck, shoulder
and upper limbs no matter which structures are involved.
This occurs because of the close inter relationship between
the segmental sub systems (dermatomes, sclerotomes and
myotomes) and the ample recurrence of rami amongst spinal
segments originated from the dorsal ramus. This anatomical
configuration is characterized by irradiation of pain from a
determined structure to contiguous areas apparently without
any direct anatomical relationship. From the neck, the pain
can spread to the head, shoulders, upper chest or upper limbs.
Several authors have already described pain patterns according
to the various spinal segments. Treatment protocols for pain
on head, neck, shoulders, upper chest and upper limbs related
acupuncture points (acupoints) were developed by the crossing
of data of cervical segmental innervation with pain locations and
symptoms like muscle spasms, tendinopathies, enthesopathies
and segmental spinal sensitization. This study proposes a
classification for acupoints into three categories for the treatment
of neck pain and its correlates according to the location of pain
and segmental distribution of symptoms like local, regional and
super-segmental.
marcoah3@gmail.comAcupoints for neck pain according to segmentation and pain
patterns
Marco Antonio Helio da Silva
Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003