Abstract
Background In 2005, Mrs ES, a 54 year-old patient, consulted our acupuncture outpatient service for the first time, having suffered from intense headaches and permanent tensions in the shoulder and neck region for 7 years. The clinical symptoms were exacerbated by all kinds of stress. Although the patient had worked the same stressful job for years, the headaches only first manifested after she'd had a hysterectomy. Aim Pain reduction and improvement of stress tolerance at the work place Methods acupuncture, analysis of life style, means of stress prophylaxis Results Between the 4th and 10th treatment session, only one migraine episode occurred which was related to the consumption of red wine. For the following three years, the patient remained free of symptoms. Then tensions and headache attacks returned. Discussion According to TCM, long-term exposure to emotional stress situations can lead to the stagnation of liver qi. 7 years ago, this manifested as a blood stagnation of the lower heater (myomatous uterus). From the point of view of western medicine, the problem was solved by hysterectomy – however, stagnation now came to appear elsewhere in the body, this time, in the head. In this case, western medicine could offer only symptom-oriented therapeutic interventions whereas TCM enabled us to work on the underlying problem and reach, if only temporarily, an improvement of the clinical situation.
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