Why family support matters so much in treatment
A course of traditional medicine often lasts weeks, and most of it happens at home. Family members help patients keep going to the end.
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Articles by the Tam Duc doctors on nutrition, sleep, stress, musculoskeletal pain and women’s health – explained in plain language, based on traditional medicine and Applied Kinesiology.
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Normal blood magnesium but still twitching, cramps and poor sleep: why?
Eyelid twitching, night cramps and poor sleep with normal blood magnesium? Why the test doesn’t tell the whole story and how magnesium links to…
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Trying to conceive: reading your menstrual cycle and basal body temperature chart
Cycle length, mid-cycle discharge and the basal body temperature (BBT) chart: what they tell you when trying to conceive, and what they cannot.
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Carrying a bag on one shoulder, sitting crooked: spinal misalignment and back and hip pain
How a one-shoulder bag or sitting crooked can pull the spine off its axis, and why these habits are sometimes the result of a…
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Neck and upper back that tire along with your eyes after a day at the screen
Tired eyes pull the head toward the screen, and the neck and upper back brace too. How to set glasses, screen and eye breaks,…
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Drained by afternoon, wide awake at night: a body clock out of step
Heavy eyelids in the afternoon, a clear head at night? Daylight, evening screens, late meals and weekend sleep-ins can push your body clock off…
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Trying to conceive: when to see a doctor, and why both partners should get checked
When to get checked if you are trying for a baby, why your husband needs a semen analysis too, and how traditional medicine can…
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Numb hands waking you at night: usually the wrist, sometimes the neck
Numb thumb, index and middle finger in the night, eased by shaking your hand? How to tell carpal tunnel from the neck, and when…
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Pain spreading from the buttock down the leg is not always a herniated disc
Buttock pain running down the leg can come from a nerve root, the piriformis or the sacroiliac joint. How the doctor finds the source…
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Neck, shoulder or back pain that keeps coming back: where it hurts may not be where the problem is
Musculoskeletal pain often returns because its root lies in posture, the feet, micronutrients or stress. How we examine for the cause and treat it.