by Carl Balingit
on May 6, 2016
‘Corporation,’ by Matt Niemi [flickr.com/niemster]. License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
It will be interesting how traditional medicine unfolds as the Chinese herbal market becomes increasingly corporatized.
To be fair, corporatization can help broaden the market and access to herbs—through economies of scale, added distribution chains, and deeper advert coffers. However, it can also sacrifice quality and safety for the sake of profit.
Prior to the recent acquisition of a Chinese herbal medicine company by a public vitamin firm, there was already one public TCM company (Eu Yang Sang), located in Singapore. That company has traded on the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) since 2000. The vitamin firm is traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
This is not to discredit those companies (for I have not extensively researched them), but to be vigilant of issues related to the safety, quality and authenticity of herbal products at the bottom line of a corporate venture.
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by Carl Balingit
on May 3, 2016
Photo by Steve & Michelle Gerdes [flickr.com/smgerdes]. License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
If you get a chance to visit a
Body Worlds exhibition, it will not only fascinate but also instruct you on body mechanics and the concept of referred pain syndromes.
These are real cadavers, without the formaldehyde smell. It is not postmodern art, but postmortem—lifeless bodies in beautiful athletic pose, as if reanimated. This is where body mechanics is visualized, and you see the connections beneath the skin.
Shown here is a female archer after the release of a drawn arrow. It is a good demonstration of a repetitive motion that can not only cause a rotator cuff injury but also referred pain that can mislead into thoughts of either a deltoid or arm strain/tear.
Referred pain can be due to a transfer of abnormal forces along connective tissue planes (confounding with adjacent muscles), nerve impingent (confusing pain signals along the length of a nerve), and/or to a tendency to look at the surface (where outer-layer muscle groups may obscure the injured muscle beneath). [continue reading…]
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