Endorsements
Phyllis Berger
The western world is waiting for a clear
scientific basis for using acupuncture and “Electroacupuncture”, with its
emphasis on electrical stimulation of acupuncture needles and many other
techniques, presents a wide range of research from controlled clinical trials
and case studies in clinical practice that will no doubt ultimately lead to the
integration of ancient healing practice into modern medical treatment.
Phyllis Berger
Acupuncturist, physiotherapist and author of
The Journey to Pain Relief. Sandton, South Africa
C Richard Chapman
Electroacupuncture: A Practical Manual
and Resource is timely, insightful and valuable. Unlike most medical authors,
David F. Mayor recognizes that individual physicians build understanding and
mastery in individual ways. Instead of providing a sterile tome of information
to digest, Mayor provides a core resource of basic information that links
readily to an in-depth coverage of key issues, an evidence base, a glossary of
terms, references, and a website resource. The reader seeking to enhance his or
her unique understanding finds a wide range of resources available, and it is
possible to follow a particular thread of interest to multiple deeper levels.
Unlike a standard medical text, this is a resource that engages the reader and
invites exploration.
C Richard Chapman
Professor and
Director, Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah
School of Medicine
Robert A Charman
With 22 special contributors, 85
illustrations, and over 8000 clinical references David F Mayor's research based
Electroacupuncture book plus CD-Rom is a truly stunning achievement. The reader
is taken through the techniques of applying EA to the beneficial application of
EA across the complete range of clinical specialities. This, in itself,
constitutes a valuable review of a wide range of disorders for which carefully
administered EA offers symptomatic and often causal relief. From the
neurological pathways and neuropsychological effects of EA to a review of the
theories and evidence for body bioelectricity, bioelectric circuitries, currents
of injury and biophysical microresonances the author explores the informational
dynamics of frequency interaction within the living matrix and its implications
for therapeutic EA intervention. This book and its accompanying CD-Rom should be
on the bookshelf of every acupuncturist, every NHS and GP service providing
acupuncture, and in the library of every university faculty that offers courses
in acupuncture and CAM therapies.
Robert A
Charman
Former lecturer in physiotherapy, University of Wales College of
Medicine. Founder chairman, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Energy
Medicine. Editor, Complementary Therapies for Physical Therapists
(2000)
Peter Deadman
Most acupuncturists have no more than a
passing knowledge of the practice of electroacupuncture and a comprehensive text
on the subject has been sorely needed for some time, particularly in view of the
accumulation of recent electroacupuncture research. Who better to compile such a
book than David Mayor, whose long-standing absorption in the subject is
reflected in this substantial work. For anyone who wants to expand and refine
their range of treatment options, this is an essential text.
Peter Deadman
Editor of the Journal of Chinese
Medicine and co-author of A Manual of Acupuncture. Hove,
England
Richard Hammerschlag
This comprehensive compilation of
clinical and research information on electroacupuncture provides an outstanding
resource to further the important dialogue between two key stake holders in the
acupuncture community. Researchers can learn how to design protocols that best
reflect clinical practice while acupuncturists can learn of numerous studies
that are contributing to the evidence base for their traditional health care
system.
Richard Hammerschlag
Research Director,
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Neurology, Oregon
Health and Science University, Past-president, Society for Acupuncture
Research
Han Jisheng
Electroacupuncture (EA) is a very important
modality of acupuncture in its broadest sense. Compared to manual needling it
has the benefit of stronger therapeutic effect and is more cost-effective for
the patient. However, the proper application of EA requires knowledge not only
of traditional acupuncture, but also of biophysics and other relevant
disciplines that may not be familiar to most practitioners. One can hardly
imagine that a single book could fulfil the requirements of clinicians on the
one side and those oriented to research on the other. Moreover, the interests of
acupuncturists who are traditionarily trained and those with a Western medical
training will also be very different. However, by their innovative approach the
author and publisher have successfully solved the problem by editing this
publication in two parts, one classical book for a clear outline presentation
and a CD-Rom for more detailed material and a huge updateable database. I am
quite sure that the publication of this book will greatly foster the more
general use of EA in clinical practice and help improve its therapeutic effect.
One can predict that in the long run it will also stimulate research into the
mechanisms of EA.
Han Jisheng
Founder and professor, Neuroscience Research Centre, Beijing University, founder of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, author of The Neurochemical Basis of Pain Relief by Acupuncture vols 1 and 2 (Beijing 1987, Wuhan 1998)
Val Hopwood
This book has been some time in preparation
but the waiting has been worthwhile. David Mayor has covered his field most
comprehensively; he has read very widely and considered many relatively unusual
sources together with mainstream research papers. He has also remained true to
his roots and the ideas of TCM are not absent, but quietly in the background.
All efforts to integrate science and TCM in a meaningful way are to be
applauded.
Physiotherapists using acupuncture as one of their professional skills have
always been drawn to electroacupuncture. Electricity is just another "physical
modality" and has been used by the profession to relax tissues and re-educate
muscle for decades. When not dealing with pain in its myriad variations,
physiotherapists are frequently concerned with the functioning of the nervous
system. Electroacupuncture has often seemed like a key to both doors.
Val Hopwood
Author of Acupuncture in Physiotherapy
(2004), Leader, MSc Acupuncture course, Coventry University, England. Education
Adviser, Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists
George Lewith
This is a well referenced and very
comprehensive introduction to electroacupuncture, primarily directed at
acupuncturists and other complementary medical practitioners who may be
interested. A compilation of a life time's work
George
Lewith
Reader, Southampton University and Honorary Consultant Physician,
Southampton General Hospital, England. Editor and author of many books and
papers on acupuncture and other forms of complementary medicine
Thomas Lundeberg
David Mayor has given us one of the most
wanted books in acupuncture – The Book about electroacupuncture.
He has
approached each chapter with an almost radical sense of compassion, as if all
that any of us could do were to stumble ahead with the new knowledge we’re
given. The result is a book crammed with wisdoms both from a scientific and
clinical perspective. I don’t usually like books about acupuncture but if they
were all like David Mayor’s - I’d read them by the truckload.
Thomas Lundeberg
Professor in integrative physiology and
senior consultant in rehabilitation medicine and algology, Stockholm,
Sweden
Hugh MacPherson
David Mayor has provided us with an
outstanding compilation of information and research on electroacupuncture. With
scholarship and attention to detail, he explores what he calls this "rich seam
of knowledge". Undoubtedly this book will be the bible on electroacupuncture for
many years to come.
Hugh MacPherson
Senior Research
Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, England. Co-editor of
Acupuncture in Practice (1997)
Lynley Roberts
This book is an excellent resource for
both practitioner and academic and is a valuable addition to the acupuncture
literature. The novel approach, using written and computer media, has ensured
the publication is user-friendly and allows a reader to target areas of
individual interest. David Mayor has brought together a distinguished group of
contributors, assuring readers of the highest quality of both clinical and
research knowledge in this field. In this era of evidence-based practice,
in-depth knowledge of the evidence underpinning practice is crucial; hence a
resource containing such a vast number of clinical studies and numerous other
references will be of immense value to practising clinicians as well as
academics, researchers and teachers of acupuncture. The author gracefully
integrates Traditional Chinese and western scientific principles underpinning
electroacupuncture without conflict, in my belief, a hugely positive step for
the practice of acupuncture itself.
Lynley
Roberts
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health & Sport Science, Eastern
Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Phil Rogers
This work is a masterpiece, an amazing
achievement. It is the deepest and most critical assessment of the international
literature to date. It is a labour of love that took nine years of painstaking
research to compile.
Overall, because of its vast breath and depth of coverage, this is a
difficult work to assimulate. It will take many readings but is a work destined
to become the standard reference on electroacupuncture for many years to come.
Hearty congratulations to its author and his team of expert
contributers!
Phil Rogers
Acupuncturist and student
of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dublin, Ireland. http://homepage.tinet.ie/~progers
Allen M Schoen
This is the most thorough text I have seen
on the practice of electroacupuncture, covering every conceivable aspect of the
field in an extremely userfriendly, yet scientific manner. It will be used
regularly by all practitioners and should be in the library of every
acupuncturist, whether in practice, research or academia. Have this text in your
library, read it and your patients will benefit.
Allen
M Schoen
Editor of Veterinary Acupuncture, Ancient Art to Modern
Medicine (2nd edition, St Louis 2001) and
co-editor, Complementary
and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (St Louis 1998). Assistant Clinical
Professor, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, N Grafton,
MA
C Norman Shealy
Electroacupuncture is one of the most
successful and effective Complementary and Integrative approaches. Whenever
indicated and done by a competent practitioner, it should be the first choice
before resorting to drugs!
C Norman
Shealy
President, Holos University Graduate Seminary. Pioneer of TENS
research and author of Sacred Healing: The curative power of energy and
spirituality (1999)
Sean Walsh
The book is the A, B, C of electro-acupuncture
(EA) and other non-traditional therapies that many acupuncture practitioners
have been waiting for. The author offers an informed approach to using these
within an acupuncture framework drawing upon and integrating both traditional
and modern concepts within a contemporary clinical setting. The text’s value
cannot be overly stressed for both the traditional and the non-traditional
practitioner; it comprehensively informs, explains, guides, assists and mentors
the reader in the unique therapeutic properties of EA. This is a valuable
resource and a worthy addition to any reader’s library.
Sean Walsh
Lecturer, College of TCM, Department of Health
Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
Tim Watson
Electroacupuncture is not a new phenomenon,
but constitutes an approach to treatment that has been widely adopted by a broad
clinical church. For those seeking background theory and links between Eastern
and Western philosophical approaches, those seeking to evaluate a collection of
the available evidence and those seeking to enhance their clinical practice,
this text offers a substantive contribution to the field. It has the advantage
of being presented in a brief (paper) form with additional and comprehensive
support material on the CD Rom. It will, I am sure, be used as both a quick
reference guide, material for study support and a fascinating text for those
that want to explore this mode of intervention and its many permutations. The
author has been thorough in his approach and has taken a wide-ranging approach
to the topics covered.
Tim Watson
Professor, Faculty
of Health & Human Science, University of Hertfordshire, England. Author of
The Bioelectric Correlates of Musculoskeletal Injury and Repair (PhD
Thesis 1994)
