Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular Dystrophy Connections

Below you will find various relationships to the concept of and potential clinical approaches for muscular dystrophy. It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine (and most related systems), treatment for "muscular dystrophy" is rarely designed with the resulting "muscular dystrophy" exclusively in mind.

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

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Some acupuncture points are considered "empirically" related to a specific condition or diagnostic pattern. While this would rarely, if ever, dictate the entire composition of a treatment, the following points should be considered, possibly even more so within the context of acupressure:

The Tom Tam/Tong Ren Therapy system can be applied via energy healing/medical qi gong methods as well as an acupuncture component. The acupuncture aspect is generally utilized in combination with more standard TCM diagnostic approaches. For the specific points/areas that would generally be utilized in someone experiencing "muscular dystrophy", please read "Tam Healing and Tong Ren Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy ".