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Upper back pain

Upper back pain is organized here as a clinical-education profile with 69 documented source sections and 18 pattern-specific sections. Manifestations, treatment principles, organs and systems, formulas, and acupuncture points are kept in separate evidence groups below. Review the documented pattern context and source relationships; this page does not diagnose or recommend treatment.

Key reference facts

Reference type
symptom
Health area
Pain & mobility
Related symptoms
pain
Pattern records
Heart Blood Stagnation; Blood Stagnation of the chest and diaphragm; Blood Stasis in children, usually when fever, pain and insomnia develop after trauma; Spontaneous sweating due to Qi Deficiency; Spontaneous sweating due to Wei Qi Deficiency; Lung Qi Deficiency

Related library records

Source reference: Condition index

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