Abstract: Academically, we agree with the recent Education and Practice paper by Zhou et al ,1 which states that, for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, dry needling and acupuncture overlap greatly in their origin, techniques and theories, and dry needling is one subcategory of Western medical acupuncture, and is thus acupuncture. As current training and clinical practice of acupuncturists involve both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine, at least in China, where acupuncture originated, we have the following comments.
The term ‘acupuncture’ is a translation of 针刺术 ( zhen ci shu in Chinese pin yin) or in short 针 ( zhen ), and is literally equivalent to the term ‘needling’ or ‘needling technique’. Based on the traditional and official definition, the term acupuncture refers to the actual insertion …
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-06-01
Language: en
Type: letter
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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