Acupuncture in the treatment of pain : an integrative approach / edited by Marcus B衣ker, Michael G. Hammes ; translated by Velia Wortman ; foreword by Gustav J. Dobos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Pain from a Western scientific medicine perspective -- Pain from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective -- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis in TCM -- Guidelines for TCM treatment of pain -- Acupuncture -- Channels and important acupoints -- Further treatment options in TCM -- Head and face pain -- Pain in the locomotor system -- Fibromyalgia syndrome -- Visceral pain -- Neuropathic pain syndrome -- Pain due to vascular disease -- Acupuncture in palliative care -- Psychovegetative complaints -- Psychosomatic aspects of pain therapy -- Afterword.

This title depicts the potentials and limits of acupuncture in the treatment of pain in the context of a modern bio-psycho-social concept of pain therapy. This is realized by an integration of western and traditional Chinese medicine, with the aim to meet the respective other medicine system and critical distance.