'CHM for Musculoskeletal Disease: Getting Your Bearings in the Non-Weight Bearing' Webinar Presented by Dr Steve Marsden

About the Webinar

In a busy integrative medical practice, it’s tempting to just assume painful animals have Blood Stasis and give them a ‘stasis breaker’ to treat it. Unfortunately, that approach often doesn’t work. Modern medicine uses the same approach, by prescribing NSAIDs to most lame animals, and that same lack of results is what drives those animal owners into our practices. To serve them properly and meet expectations, we need to dig a little deeper. 

The more considered view of the painful animal is that their pathology has ‘roots’ and ‘branches’. They go through different phases of disease as their pathology develops. So-called Blood Stasis is only the deepest and final stage of pathology in painful animals, with many patients not reaching that point. Small wonder that the Blood moving approach frequently fails them. Successful treatment requires we figure out where in the disease progression the animal is, and then ‘prune the branches’ from there to get back to the root of their concerns.  

This lecture will provide tips to help you figure out what those various roots and branches are in your patients, after asking just a few key questions and examining their pulses. We’ll look at some of the key formulas used in Classical Chinese medicine from this same perspective, so you can quickly match the phases of disease they treat with what is going on in your patients. A few case examples will be provided to help you understand how to put this knowledge to work right away in your practice.