About
Hui-Lin Tsai is a clinical research assistant professor at Clemson University, providing acupuncture treatment, clinical teaching, and clinical research at the Joseph F. Sullivan Center, an on-campus clinical facility with a mission to help the community achieve optimal health and wellbeing via a collaborative model of care involving nurse practitioners, physicians, health educators, community outreach programs and student interns. Since Spring 2022, she isco-leading a Clemson-Prisma jointly funded research project studying myofascial pain syndrome. Using ultrasound imaging and machine learning, the team studies muscle tissue changes through different phases of the myofascial pain. In Summer 2022, she participated in an opioid use disorder study led by Prisma Health and Oconee County,helping collect surveys about community attitude toward opioid use disorder for 5 weeks at four primary care facilities in Seneca/Walhalla area.
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How their research is transforming health care
Her research goal isin development of quantitative imaging and relevant biomarkers for pain management. With her extensive experience in teaching and utilizing acupuncture as safe treatment for pain, her long-term goal to bring acupuncture skills to physicians in SC will improve the accessibility of non-pharmaceutical pain management options to the patients.
Health research keywords
Faculty Scholar, pain management, musculoskeletal pain, myofascial pain, ultrasound imaging, acupuncture
