Hello Yangsters! Kick back and relax for this is our final episode for the year! All of us at Forever Yang would like to give you our sincerest appreciation for listening and sticking with us for this year. We've all learnt a lot (and we hope you have too!) and thank you for sticking with us through tough times. Our goal for next year is to bring on lots more new content and more guests!  We wish you all a happy holiday. Stay safe and we'll see you in the next year!

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Final episode for 2020!

Welcome to the last episode of the Musculoskeletal  series! To round of these series, we've invited a special guest, Vanissa Tang, to join us!  Vanissa is a registered physiotherapist with a Masters of Physiotherapy Practice from La Trobe University. Vanissa has a clinical focus in the management of neuromusculoskeletal injury, post-surgical rehabilitation, exercise rehabilitation, movement disorders and any joint dysfunction and work-related posture and ergonomics. This week, she explains how physiotherapists treat musculoskeletal pain and problems, and its integration with traditional Chinese Medicine.  A very warm thank you again to Vanissa for join the yangsters in the podcast this week, we hope to have you on again soon! Book an appointment with Vanissa here! https://www.whitecoat.com.au/physiotherapist/vic/glen-waverley/tang/638251 Instagram: @Physio.vee  

Musculoskeletal Series: Seeing a physiotherapy Ft. Vanissa Tang

Welcome to the second last episode of the musculoskeletal series! This week we're in (k)need for the knee and ankle! We're capping down on back pain and other clinical and anatomically relevant information. Butt that's not all, we discuss ways on what tests to use and how to treat them from a Chinese Medicine Perspective. Join us this week on our second last episode for musculoskeletal series. 

Musculoskeletal Series: Knee and Ankle

We're Back with Lower Back this week! This week's episode, we break down the back into 2 segments: the lower back and gluteal region. We're cracking down on back pain and other clinical and anatomically relevant information. Butt that's not all, we discuss ways on what tests to use and how to treat them from a Chinese Medicine Perspective. Join us this week on our musculoskeletal series. 

Musculoskeletal Series: Lower Back

Need a hand? Well we're here to help! This week's episode, we break down the arm into 3 segments: the arm, the forearm and the hand. We go through clinical and anatomically relevant information to the section. Similarly, we discuss ways on what tests to use and how to treat them from a Chinese Medicine Perspective. Join us this week on our musculoskeletal series. 

Musculoskeletal Series: Arm and Forearm

Welcome back to the Musculoskeletal series! This week's topic is Upper back and shoulder! Join us this week as we cover the scapular stabilizer, rotator cuff and so much more!

Musculoskeletal Series: Upper back and Shoulder

It's time to think ahead... and a neck because this week we talk about the anatomy and skeletal problems in the head and neck region. Join us this week, as the yangsters talk about how to approach these conditions from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective!

Musculoskeletal Series: Head and Neck

Welcome back to Du with Us! This month's book is Curing IBS Naturally with Chinese Medicine by Jane Bean! This book has got it all on how to deal with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) naturally and holistically. It will cover the acupuncture, herbal formulas, and other natural remedies to empower you to treat IBS. There's also a little bit of clinical research at the end that rounds off everything she said that ties it up beautifully! You can get it here for around $30 : https://www.amazon.com/Curing-IBS-Naturally-Chinese-Medicine/dp/189184511X

Du With Us: Curing IBS Naturally with Chinese Medicine

The skeleton is out of the closet and we're back with another series! This series, we're talking about bones, muscles and all the stuff in between. We'll be splitting this up into 8 sections:  the neck and head, Shoulder, upper back, lower back, hip and groin, lower limb, and physiotherapy. We'll be going over tests that can be performed to observe which muscles to use, and what treatments you can use to treat these condition. Buckle up everyone, we're off on our next journey through the musculoskeletal! 

Musculoskeletal Series: Introduction

Fatigue is extremely prevalent during modern times, especially considering our current situation. While it can be considered not lethal, it can really debilitating on one's quality of life. The cause of fatigue is still unknown in conventional medicine but Chinese Medicine may have a possible solution. Join the Yangsters with this weeks as they go through how to tackle fatigue together!

Combatting Fatigue

Taking the first step into becoming a practitioner can be daunting and quite scary. For the Yangster, it meant more than hundreds of hours treating and seeing patients in a student clinic. In this week's episode, they'll talk about advice that they wished they gave themselves and their experience when taking their first steps as a practitioner.  Come join us this week in our talk about baby steps as a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. 

Taking our first steps into becoming a practitioner - EP 70

Welcome back to Du With Us! This month's book is Eye Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive TCM Guide for the Discerning Practitioner by Deliang Zheng, translated by Zhicheng Zheng. As if Chinese Medicine wasn't big enough. This book by Deliang Zheng, opens up a whole new world to using the eye for diagnosing patients. It's eye opening! Charlene and Tim look to review the book and give their recommendations on the book's worth and who should read it.  Charlene's also provided a great image of the sclera for review, if you choose to read it : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/674537170605965341/755758466362245170/20200916_215405.jpg You can also buy the book at: https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Diagnosis-Chinese-Medicine-Comprehensive-ebook/dp/B00M4E3ZTS  

Du with us: Eye Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine

Welcome to the last episode (for now) of the introductory series! As Bruce lee once said, "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. " That is why this week, we're applying all our previously learnt knowledge to apply and how to diagnose and examine patients. The four pillars we observe in Traditional Chinese Medicine include: Looking Listening (or as Nic call's it: Interrogation)  Smelling and Tasting Touching (and Feeling the Pulse) For your honorary time, with these last 11 episodes. We in the Forever Yang Team would like to present you with your graduation certificate.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pnqElHNglDcV1YdAcDa_ra9AezcRjiVB/view?usp=sharing

Introductory Series: The four examinations

Welcome young grass hopper! We've advanced to the next stage in our training. Now with our cups full of knowledge about the yin and yang,  and ability to differentiate between organs and their functions. It's now time to begin our training in pattern differentiation. So please, wax on and wax off, because this week we cover the 8 guiding principles on how illness can be diagnosed in Traditional Chinese Medicine.   Notes: The 8 guiding principles include: heat and cold, exterior or interior, excess (full) or deficiency (empty), yin and yang.   Sorry for the late upload, life just caught up to us for a bit!

Introductory Series: 8 Guiding Principles

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! We're talking about Extraordinary organs this week! Extraordinary organs are Fu- organs. This takes about their hollowness and will generally pertain to Yin! These include: the brain, the bone marrow, the bones, the vessels, the gallbladder and the uterus. We discuss the importance and why they're considered an extra in Traditional Chinese Medicine, compared to the Western Medicine counterparts. Similarly, we'll go over their functionality as well.  If none of this makes any sense to you, try giving the previous episodes a quick listen. 

Introductory Series: Extraordinary Organs

Four Traditional Chinese Medicine students from Melbourne Australia share their experiences, knowledge and questions about Chinese Medicine.