Acupuncture: techniques

Or therapy by transdinámica pressure. Probably she is one of the most primitive forms of the treatment by points. Unconsciously we practiced this rascamos technique whenever we rubbed or masajeamos a painful area or a zone of prurito. The first Chinese doctors discovered 8 different forms for the therapeutic massage:

* To push
* To take hold
* To tighten
* Friccionar Girar
* To tweak
* To rub between the palms
* Slight blows

In Veterinary Medicine the acupresión is applied in exceptional situations, in special alleviating to muscular espasmos and pains. They can be taught to the proprietors of the mascots to harness acupuncture applied in the veterinary treatment.

Cupping glasses or therapy by emptiness

A variant of the acupresión is the negative pressure, which can be applied to the acupuntos by means of an old technique of application with cupping glasses. For the use 3 types of cupping glasses are described:
A type is made in Bamboo with a mouth and bases small. With an average section as soon as enlarged.
The other two globular types are potes of small mouth, elaborated with clay and glass.
A combustible solution, as the alcohol is applied inside the ignited cupping glass and. Then the cupping glass is applied with firmness on the point. As oxygen is consumed by the fire in the cupping glass, the emptiness is created and the skin is betrayed towards the interior of pote. The derivations to apply an ardent glass to the skin of our mascots can be imagined without difficulty, being this more frequent human medicine technique. Although some applications in great animals exist.

Needles

The book of Nei Ching describes 9 traditional types of needles. At the present time, for the treatments in Small Animals are used stainless steel needles filiform of caliber 25 to 34 and 1.25 to 5 cm in length.
The correct techniques for the insertion of the needles until the prefixed depth, in the suitable angle, the application of the appropriate manipulation to the needles while they are placed and his extraction, are more difficult that what could be supposed. A suitable treatment and much practical one are necessary before trying to treat to our mascots.
In the following figure, is the evolution of the needles used for acupuncture through the years until the present time.

Thermal variation

One is based on the use of the heat and the cold:

Heat use:
The moxibustión is a very old technique, which is based on the combustion of leaves pulverized of Artemisa vulgaris. These leaves are cured, dried and crushed in a mortar. The obtained fiber of this plant is of yellow color and to the sifted being it separates of vellón of moxa of the stems. For the direct moxibustión, vellón of moxa or tinder is coiled in the form of a cone tiny and placed directly on the acupuncture point that is going away to use for the treatment. Soon one ignites and it is left burns towards the skin, but one retires with a clamp before it can cause a thermal burn. The indirect moxibustión the indirect moxibustión is of more frequent use. Moxa can be acquired specially precoiled in a rod with form of cigarette and surrounded in a paper
treaty. Formerly she was coiled and sealed in crust of Moor. The rod of moxa is ignited and soon mobilized towards ahead and back with slowness on acupunto or to a needle already inserted in the point. The procedure takes place until the skin shows eritema light. With both techniques of moxibustión one is due to be very careful to avoid burns of the patient or the surrounding hair. These techniques are of particular importance for the treatment of chronic painful processes.
Other methods that are used the heat to stimulate the acupuncture points are the use of infra-red lamp to a distance of 18 to 24 inches of the corporal surface to warm up the placed needles and the use of the electronic thermal device developed specially for this intention. The vesicant pastes for the additional stimulation of you are areas were used in the Great Animals, but its application in the Small Animals is not recommended.

Use of cold:
The crioterapia is effective in many acute painful states. Like so, the dry ice, ice cubes have been used, freezing prepackaged chemistries and the ethyl chloride dew. The stimulation of the acupuntos with the cold is not advised for the conditions of chronic pain.
The crioterapia is effective in many acute painful states. Like so, the dry ice, ice cubes have been used, freezing prepackaged chemistries and the ethyl chloride dew. The stimulation of the acupuntos with the cold is not advised for the conditions of chronic pain.
In the following figure, one is the different used techniques stops in the moxibustión:

Ultrasound

The sonoacupuntura, ultrasonic stimulation of loci of acupuncture, is recommended because she is not invasive and it shortens the time of treatment. It is only required of 10 to 30 seconds by point. Available soundings or small heads with a diameter are up to 5 mm.

Acuapuntura

The injection of solutions in the acupuncture points is fast, simple in most of the cases and can be the only way to treat an animal that only can be held during a very brief lapse. In the Small Animals a hypodermic needle can be used caliber 25 and of 1.25 to 2.5 cm in length. The examples of substances advised for the injection include:

* Distilled water.
* Electrolytic solutions (preferably hypotonic or hypertonic).
* Vitamins (in special B 12 and/or Cs).
* Antibiotics.
* Extracts of grass.
* The anesthetic premises.
* Analgesic (fenilbutazona).
* Antiinflammatory agents steroids and AINE.

The injected amounts vary from 0.25 cc to 2 cc, depending on the site of injection and the size of the animal.

Electroacupuntura

In order to harness the stimulation given to the acupuntos electronic devices have been devised. These devices are connected to the inserted needles and give the electronic stimulation in percutánea form or soundings are used and an average electroconductivo to pass the stimulus via transcutánea until the underlying nervous structures. The electronic stimulation is more intense than the manual manipulation of the needles and in general it causes effects more pronouncing. The electroacupuntura is very common in the human acuterapia and animal in Europe and the U.S.A.

Implantation