{"id":712,"date":"2012-10-30T04:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/?page_id=712"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:24:56","slug":"tcm-diagnostics-therapeutics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/?page_id=712","title":{"rendered":"TCM Diagnostics &#038; Therapeutics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diagnostics in TCM<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Western clinicians, a TCM clinician spends a significant amount of time at each visit with the client both to identify and to resolve health issues.<\/p>\n<p>This is because we believe that the individual is a microcosmic dynamic system that is changing and adapting to its physical and social environment all the time.\u00a0<strong> To us, pathologies begin to manifest when this flow\/adaptive behavior is disturbed or blocked.\u00a0 Detailed interviews, palpation or touch, and Tongue\/Pulse signs are used to arrive at a diagnosis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition, an individual\u2019s response to an external disturbance or event in their physical or social environment can push their constitution to either the heat (increased metabolism) or the cool (decreased metabolism) side of what would be considered normal.\u00a0 This tendency is predictable, according to TCM theory, based on the yin-yang balance in the underlying constitutional pattern.<\/p>\n<p>The TCM clinician then uses the least aggressive therapy, individualized to the patient\u2019s constitutional needs, to treat the condition that are the basis of the chief complaint.\u00a0 The aim is to restore balance and the normal physiological adaptive dynamics within the system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TCM Therapeutics<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TCM therapies- Acupuncture, TuiNa (acupressure\/orthopedic massage), Internal Medicine (diet and nutrition, Chinese herbs), and Qigong (Qi cultivation, exercises)- are four interconnected parts of a unique Whole Medical System that have been in use for over 3000 years in China.<\/p>\n<p>Treatments are based on integrating the various aspects of an individual\u2019s health and environment.\u00a0 All successful TCM therapies, like other aspects of Integrative Medicine, are dependent on the patient\u2019s commitment to participate in the transition from illness to well being.<\/p>\n<p>For conditions treated, visit the <a title=\"Clic Profile\" href=\"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/clinic-profile\/\">Clinic Profile<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnostics in TCM<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Western clinicians, a TCM clinician spends a significant amount of time at each visit with the client both to identify and to resolve health issues.<\/p>\n<p>This is because we believe that the individual is a microcosmic dynamic system that is changing and adapting to its physical and social environment all the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-712","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712\/revisions\/899"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuinaacupuncture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}