Tui Na is also concerned with “looking, smelling, asking and cutting”

  Staff member Xiao Wang back pain for a long time, saw several hospitals, saw a number of specialist clinics, came here is full of sad face, under my guidance, confided in the condition, is not complicated, chronic low back pain. The next step should be to do some appropriate physical examination to determine the compressed nerve, and the localization of the nerve.  After the straight leg raise test, “4” test, knee and hip flexion test, Achilles tendon knee reflex, and skin sensory examination of the lower extremities, I told her that the sciatic nerve compression could be ruled out, which meant that although her MRI report described her as having a herniated disc, dural sac compression, and other serious conditions, these were not the cause of her The cause of her back and leg pain was indeed nerve compression, but it was localized to the posterior branch of the spinal nerve near the first lumbar vertebra to the third lumbar vertebra because the tension in the lumbar muscles was too high, which could be treated by acupuncture and massage, and recovery was very promising.  She was surprised not by her condition, but by my treatment process. She said, “I have never seen a Tui-Na doctor see a patient like this. In the past, when I went for a Tui-Na massage or something, I would talk to the doctor about where I was hurting and then the doctor would immediately start operating, there was no lifting my feet and lifting my hands and knocking like you did today.”  Later, Xiao Wang’s back and leg pain improved significantly after 2 times, and she recovered completely after 1 course of treatment. After explaining some precautions in her daily life, I believe that if she follows them, she will not have a relapse in the future.  The shock she gave me about the treatment process of the Tui Na doctor lasted for a long time. In our clinical work, we Tui Na doctors see and treat patients according to the idea of combining Chinese and Western medicine, naturally we have to ask medical history combined with physical examination, then do the necessary tests to diagnose the nerve localization and characterization of pain and muscle atrophy, judge the prognosis, and target manipulation combined with acupuncture treatment. We are also teaching waves of interns and advanced students that Tui-Na and acupuncture, like other clinicians, emphasize the traditional means of looking, smelling, asking, and listening to diagnoses, as well as the modern medicine of looking, touching, and listening.  But in many people’s perception, we just pain where to press where the massage therapist, in fact, massage therapist after a short period of training to master a few simple massage techniques can be on the job, while the massage physician to receive systematic medical education in a formal medical school, slowly in the clinical process of growth, the difference between the two is still relatively obvious. The reason why people think that hospital massage department is also a place to press the head for headache and the foot for foot pain is probably because we simplify the process of diagnosing diseases in the treatment process and do not analyze and communicate enough about patients’ diseases.  If every tui-na doctor can really follow the treatment routine, they will definitely let the patients have a correct understanding.