During the last few weeks, I have seen several patients with stiff and painful backs, shoulders and necks. This has coincided with a sudden change in the weather, from a mild early autumn to cold and freezing temperatures. Could this just be a coincidence? Chinese medicine, based on thousands of years of observational evidence, would say it is not. It was during my Acupuncture training that I learnt to think of us not just as people with individual internal problems, but more