Preventative Medicine department

Today we had a tour around the preventative medicine department. On the twelfth floor. This is a very tranquil department that felt more like our own practice at home.
This department works with acupuncture, tui na and adjunctive therapies to try and prevent disease occurring.
We saw patients receiving tui na massage for various MSK problems. We saw the therapist who inserts cat gut into acupoints if they cannot visit on a daily basis. 
We also visited the paediatric room and saw a 2 1/2 month old baby having tui na on its neck for SCM shortening. We spend  lot of time worrying about baby's heads in the UK. I don't think I will ever worry again after seeing this baby almost have its head twisted off!! It wasn't happy! Mind you the poor mum having 13 observers with no consent!
We then went to the preventative medicine outpatients clinic where they are given a lot of lifestyle advice. They have to fill in a form of 60 symptom questions and then it the answers are fed into a computer and a print out of their pattern differentiation is worked out. It also tells them what foods to eat and avoid and also any lifestyle advice - fascinating!!

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