The paper introduces professor

ZHANG Weihua

's experience in treatment of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) with ulna-tibia needling therapy combined with decompression-loosening manual manipulation. Using "palpating

detecting and imaging observing"

professor

ZHANG Weihua

gives the accurate diagnosis for the location

the stage and the severity of the disease. According to the nature of the disease

CSR is treated in three stages. He proposes the academic thought

"taking the tendons as the outline

regarding the meridians as the essential

rooting at

qi

and blood

co-regulating tendons and bones". The ulna-tibia needling therapy and decompression-loosening manual manipulation are combined in treatment. In the ulna-tibia needling therapy

the acupuncture is delivered at the lower 1/3 of the cutaneous regions of

taiyang

and

shaoyang

meridians

on the ulnar region (belt-like distribution).

The decompression-loosening manual manipulation is operated in 3 steps

i.e. relaxing the nape region

decompressing and relaxing (includes positioning rotational wrenching

upward and backward elevation) and supination wrenching

and analgesia and regulating tendons; and the manipulation for analgesia and regulating tendons is supplemented to enhance the effect.