- Name:
- To Inform Audience about Acupuncture Treatment
- Informative Speech Outline
- General Purpose: To inform
- Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about acupuncture treatment
- Central idea: Importance of acupuncture treatment for various diseases like shoulder pain in older people.
- Main Points:
- Strategic Organizational: Topical
- To Inform Audience about Acupuncture Treatment
- Introduction
- Body
- Introduction and development of acupuncture treatment on chronic shoulder pain
- Shoulder pain is a common disease that affects many older people in outpatient settings, which can be treated thorough employment of acupuncture.
- The main goal of applying acupuncture treatment on older patients with chronic shoulder pain is to relieve pain and stiffness.
- Acupuncture tends to be an effective treatment for older people with chronic shoulder pains.
- Imagine your parents or grandparents having shoulder pain for a long period and having tried all medication for the chronic disease without being successful.
- My grandfather having shoulder pain that stayed for a long time led me to investigate about the possible cure of his chronic disease while using acupuncture treatment.
- I have discovered that application of acupuncture treatment on older people with chronic shoulder pain can be of significant importance.
- In this speech, I would like to share with you what I have learnt concerning the significance of acupuncture treatment for various diseases like shoulder pain in older people.
- Introduction and development of acupuncture treatment on chronic shoulder pain
- Acupuncture is one of the many forms of traditional medicines China that has continued to be used for a long period in chronic diseases including shoulder pain.
- The invention of acupuncture dates back over thousand years ago in the Chinese culture and it is one of the oldest traditional medical systems of the Chinese people, which are now used worldwide.
- Acupuncture has continued to be employed in the medical fraternity through most studies mechanism that entails penetration of the skin by thin, solid metallic needles of which are commonly manipulated by electrical stimulation method or manually.
- Acupuncture has been a cure to millions of people with various problems since its establishment where the treatment is based on theory that most of the diseases occur because of imbalance in energy flow of the patient’s body.
- Lathia, Jung & Chen (2009) many people including the Westerns have been using acupuncture for the past decades in order to cure chronic diseases including shoulder pain.
- With the help of improvements in communication and technology, a number of randomized trials have been employed to establish the role of acupuncture in the curing of various noninfectious and non-arthritic cause of chronic shoulder pain.
- (TRANSLATION: Now that I have told you about the introduction and development of acupuncture, I am going to discuss on the role of acupuncture in treating chronic shoulder disease that affects most of the older people.)
- Shoulder pain is a common disease that affects many older people in outpatient settings, which can be treated through employment of acupuncture.
- Most of the older people with shoulder pain may fail to respond effectively to other common medications offered in health institutions but acupuncture tends to be the best cure of the disease with recommendable outcomes.
- In a study conducted by Lathia, Jung & Chen (2009), they managed to figure out that randomized treatment of acupuncture on patients with chronic shoulder pain were responding effectively after the employment of acupuncture as the proposed medication.
- The authors used a visual analogue scale (p<0.0002) to measure the improvements that showed that use of acupuncture on the patients was of significant importance because they reported to have reduced the shoulder pain.
- Lathia, Jung & Chen (2009) illustrated that acupuncture treatment showed to be of significant importance in older patients with chronic shoulder pain especially when arthroscopic acromioplasty followed the treatment.
- Another issue to consider when employing acupuncture in the treatment of chronic shoulder pain is continuous exercise.
- Home exercises are of effective importance in helping to reduce the shoulder pain during the treatment using acupuncture.
- A program that entails the patient to engage in simple exercise that corresponds with the patient’s age tends to decrease the pain.
- Shoulder pain comes because of a sprain in AC joint or separation and the use of acupuncture treatment helps in relieving the pain.
- It is necessary for an older patient with chronic shoulder pain to continue accessing acupuncture treatment in order to improve on the reduction of pain and stiffness (Reaves, 2011).
- Reaves (2011) recommends that it is necessary for the patient with the shoulder pain to consider electrical stimulation in order to have a faster relive of the pain.
- According to Reaves (2011), he indicates that use of various points and techniques in acupuncture tend to assist in decreasing the patients shoulder pain and increase range of motion.
- One of these techniques according to Reaves (2011) is the acupuncture point that entails choosing one side of the shoulder pain experiencing pain and treats it with active movement using moderate pecking and rotation.
- The other technique is engaging in the treatment procedure as indicated by the caregiver.
- The main goal of applying acupuncture treatment on older patients with chronic shoulder pain is to relieve pain and stiffness.
- (TRANSLATION: I believe that now everybody have well understood the role and effectiveness of acupuncture in treating older patients with shoulder pain, which I am going to emphasis further)
- Acupuncture tends to be an effective treatment for older people with chronic shoulder pains.
- Lathia, Jung & Chen (2009) illustrates that acupuncture is the most reliable treatment method that help improve pain and function in most of the patients’ older patient with chronic shoulder pain.
- The treatment is effective for both older males and females with chronic shoulder pain.
- There is no stereotyping identified with the connection of acupuncture treatment.
- Most of the females and males respond the same and effectively during the acupuncture treatment.
- Conclusion
- It is great to know that traditional cure known as acupuncture is of significance importance in the medical world.
- There is enough evidence that acupuncture is the required cure for older patients with chronic shoulder pain.
- Everyone has an obligation of notifying any older person with acute/chronic shoulder pain about acupuncture.
- I would like to thank everyone for giving me your precious time to address you in those few minutes
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- References
- Lathia, A., Jung, S., & Chen, L. (2009). Efficacy of acupuncture as a treatment for chronic shoulder pain. Journal Of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 15(6), 613-618.
- Reaves, W. (2011). Acupuncture Treatment of Shoulder Pain: The Acromioclavicular Joint. American Acupuncturist, 5622-25.
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