Thursday, August 5, 2010

Dr. Hui Visits PCMC


Dr. Ka-Kit Hui, founding director of the Center for East-West Medicine at UCLA medical school visited Stockton on June 25, 2010 to give a talk at Dameron Hospital. His topic was “Integrative East-West Medicine: From Pain Management to Patient Outcomes.”

Dr. Hui focused on the mechanism and efficacy of acupuncture in pain management, including but not limited to the treatment of:

l Fibromyalgia

l Headache

l Neck pain

l Shoulder pain

l Low back pain

l Osteoarthritis pain

l Myofascial pain

as well as for treating post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, and for stroke rehabilitation.

After the talk, Dr. Hui visited Pacific Complementary Medicine Center and exchanged ideas with Dr. Wu about the future of health care and the integration of Eastern and Western medicine.

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