[Taiwan Prolotherapy Society Annual Meeting] [TAME with Regenerative Injection Therapy] [Academic Exchange] 2024-05-25/26

Author: Bow Wang, M.D.

Thank you to the Taiwan Society for Regenerative Medicine for inviting experts in various fields of pain management to the annual meeting, and thank you to each speaker for their excellent presentations.

This year's annual meeting, titled "Regeneration and Pain Management: Bridging Traditional and Modern Approaches," was an academic seminar and general meeting where many experts explored the secrets of decoding the source of pain: nerves, ligaments, tendons, myofascia, or new blood vessels?

[Dr. Li Cheng-chia] shared Neural... Prolotherapy and the findings of the National Health Research Institutes. [Physical Therapist Yan Yongzhen] shared her experience and concepts in pelvic floor therapy; [Dr. Luo Jialin] presented an excellent essential oil class, explaining the effects of various essential oils on the body and emotions; and [Minister Chen Zhenyin] discussed the relationship between nutrition and pain, particularly emphasizing the analgesic effects of vitamin C, D, and zinc (Zn) supplementation.

As mentioned in Dr. Pan Jianli's previous lecture, there are many causes of pain, and the subtle changes and effects are very extensive. For example, degeneration, injury, adhesion, inflammation, nutrition, and functional impairment can all cause pain.
Therefore, [Bow Wang, M.D.] was previously featured in the official journal of the Taiwan Pain Society (Asia... When Dr. Kai-Min Chang, editor-in-chief of the *Pacific Journal of Pain*, invited me to write a clinical treatment article on Transarterial Microembolization (TAME), he also mentioned at the end of the article that combining it with other treatments such as regenerative injection therapy, nerve blocks/unblocking, etc., could potentially bring better results for patients.