Terry Mcginley Acupuncture 2021 -

In early 2021, prior to widespread vaccine availability, McGinley published a series of guidelines (via his clinic’s blog and patient handouts) focused on strengthening Wei Qi—the body’s defensive energy in TCM. The protocol involved specific points:

Discussion This retrospective review of Terry McGinley’s 2021 practice demonstrates that, in a real-world outpatient setting, acupuncture was associated with clinically meaningful improvements in pain and symptom burden for a majority of patients, with high satisfaction and minimal adverse events. Common treatment modalities included manual needling, electroacupuncture, and cupping. Strengths: pragmatic real-world data; limitations: retrospective design, potential selection and reporting bias, missing data, absence of control group. terry mcginley acupuncture 2021

Participants: Consecutive patients receiving at least one acupuncture visit in 2021. Exclusion: incomplete records (no baseline complaint recorded). In early 2021, prior to widespread vaccine availability,

Methods Design: Retrospective case series review of clinic records and patient-reported outcome measures from January–December 2021. Methods Design: Retrospective case series review of clinic