Follow Dr Win Huang’s Clinical Reasoning
Real Clinical Cases, Step-by-Step Assessment and the Thinking Behind Treatment
By Dr Win Huang, PhD (Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture)
Introduction
Clinical practice is not simply about giving a condition a name or deciding where to place a needle. The more important task is to understand what is really happening: which findings matter, which findings do not fully fit, and what needs to be examined next.
In Follow Dr Win Huang’s Clinical Reasoning, Dr Win Huang shares real cases from more than 40 years of clinical practice. Each article follows the reasoning process from the patient’s history and pain pattern to physical examination, differential diagnosis, treatment and reassessment.
Some patients arrive with complicated imaging reports. Others have symptoms that appear to come from one area but may be related to another. Sometimes the first diagnosis seems reasonable, yet certain symptoms or examination findings do not fit. These inconsistencies often provide the most valuable clues.
The purpose of this series is not to teach readers a fixed acupuncture formula or suggest that every patient with the same symptom has the same condition. It is to show how clinical questions are formed, how different possibilities are compared, and how a clinician gradually moves towards a more complete understanding of the patient.
Follow Dr Win Huang’s Clinical Reasoning—not simply to learn the name of a condition, but to understand how a clinician thinks through a complex case.
Follow Dr Huang to Learn Clinical Diagnosis (19)
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Why I Chose Not to Treat This Low Back Pain Patient with Acupuncture
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Why Complex Shoulder Pain Cannot Have Only One Diagnosis
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When the Whole Shoulder Hurts, How Did I Find the Original Injury?
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Why Did I Not Treat This Knee Pain as Patellar Tendinopathy?
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Finding What Can Change Within Irreversible Changes | Auckland Acupuncture Clinic
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What One Patient with Shoulder Pain Taught Me About Clinical Reasoning
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