This volume covers the basics of acupuncture theory as well as explaining the precepts of Eastern medicine. The text is written for orthopaedic surgeons, anaesthesiologists and rehabilitation medicine specialists and should aid them in their diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal pain - both acute and chronic - as well as arthritis. Readers of the text will progress on a journey through healing that should serve as a useful adjunct to the procedures and medications currently in use.