Traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy is a method to prevent and treat diseases by using artificial or natural physical factors to act on the human body and produce favorable reactions. It is also an important part of rehabilitation treatment. Physical factors cause human reactions through local direct and indirect effects on nerves and body fluids, thus regulating blood circulation, accelerating metabolism, promoting the repair of cell tissue, regulating the function of nervous system, improving immune function, eliminating pathogenic factors, improving pathological process, and achieving the purpose of treating diseases.
Now we often use physical factors such as electricity, light, sound, gas, magnetism, temperature and mechanical force. Electrotherapy can be divided into direct current, low frequency, intermediate frequency, high frequency and static electricity, while phototherapy can be divided into infrared, far infrared, visible light, ultraviolet and laser. Due to the rapid development of modern physics and biology, physical therapy has been paid more and more attention and has become an important part of clinical comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation medicine. Physical therapy is a non-invasive method, which is easily accepted by the sick and disabled. Physical therapy has a wide range of functions. It can be used not only for symptomatic treatment, but also for etiological treatment of some diseases. If we can choose and apply various physical therapies correctly, we can improve the curative effect and shorten the course of treatment, which is conducive to the rehabilitation of patients and disabled people.
Chinese physical therapy is an external therapy based on Chinese medicine theory and guided by meridian theory. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body is an organic whole, and the viscera are physiologically coordinated and promote each other. At the same time, we are also a member of nature. As early as ancient times, people would use natural sunshine, hot spring water and cold water to treat diseases and strengthen their bodies. In the Stone Age, people began to use stone tools to treat diseases. After long-term continuous improvement, this method has not only achieved outstanding results in alleviating some important human diseases, but also laid a solid material foundation for the treatment methods in Chinese medicine. In the development of TCM physiotherapy, we should inherit and carry forward the theory of TCM, take the five pillars of TCM theory (acupuncture, moxibustion, medicine and acupressure) as the foundation, take the science of meridians as the guide, and make full use of modern physiotherapy facilities to cooperate with treatment while adjusting and treating patients' diseases, which will get twice the result with half the effort.
Case: How to treat cervical spondylosis: Cervical spondylosis is caused by abnormal cervical motion and nerve compression caused by cold, strain or trauma. The main symptoms are neck and shoulder pain, accompanied by upper limb pain, finger numbness, dizziness and tinnitus.
First, the patient was examined, and it was found that the second and third cervical vertebrae of the patient were dislocated with the forward movement of the vertebral body. I began to use the gas therapy machine to start treatment, because gas therapy can fully mobilize the meridians and tissues of the human body, accelerate blood circulation, improve immune function, and achieve the therapeutic effects of strengthening the body resistance, eliminating pathogenic factors, expelling wind and dispelling cold, activating qi and promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals and removing arthralgia.