In depth · lineage and sources

The lineage and sources of M-puncture — where it came from, and what can be verified

A transparent account of where M-puncture came from and which parts can be verified through bibliographic and public records. This is not a page that claims results — it is a record of the theory’s sources.

01 Roots

It came from the family of needling that treats the nerve

The direct root of M-puncture is IMS, the technique established by Chan Gunn in Vancouver, Canada — placing a needle deep in muscle to restore nerve function. Behind it sits the concept of central sensitization, reported by Clifford Woolf in 1983: the nervous system becoming hypersensitive to pain. These two are the foundation of today’s understanding of chronic pain, and the ground M-puncture stands on.

02 The books

The lineage seen through three editions

M-puncture survives in three books. Their bibliographic details are primary sources anyone can check.

2009, first edition — Jun’s M-Puncture: molecular targeting by acupuncture and pain model, by Dong Whee Jun, E-Public. ISBN 9788962245837
2010 — English edition, E-Public. ISBN 9788962245431
2013, revised 2nd edition — Jun & Lee’s M-puncture and pain model, by Dong Whee Jun & Young Jin Lee, Bummun Education, 494 pp. ISBN 9788997140688 — still available today

The revised edition’s cover divides the roles — theory and model by Dong Whee Jun, theory update and clinical application by Young Jin Lee. So the pain model’s original author is Jun, and Prof. Lee organized it into a system usable in the clinic.

The name changed. The first edition’s subtitle was ‘by acupuncture’; the 2013 revision changed it to ‘by needle-puncture.’ The ‘puncture’ in M-puncture first referred to acupuncture, and was later restated in neutral medical terms. This site does not hide that lineage — it states it plainly.

03 The editor

Young Jin Lee — what can be verified

Prof. Lee’s verifiable record is, above all, a long body of translation and writing in pain medicine. M-puncture is best read as a clinical system built on top of that accumulation.

Translator/editor of the Waldman practical pain-medicine series (Bummun Education, 2023) — eight volumes by region: spine, headache, shoulder, knee, ankle, and more
Diagnosis of the Causes of Pain (tr. of Waldman, Jeongdam, 2006) — central to two decades of pain-medicine translation
Geriatric Medicine (Koryo Medical, 1996) — the first geriatric-medicine textbook in Korea
Appointed dean of the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, CHA University (2013)

Because of that accumulation, M-puncture can be understood not as an off-hand idea but as long clinical experience organized into a theory.

04 Now

Where it stands now — and what this record is

Activity under the name M-puncture stopped around 2018. The last course notice was in late 2017, and the original site (mpun.co.kr) is gone. A few physicians who learned it still carry it on in practice (this site’s editor among them), and the 2013 revised textbook can still be obtained.

This site is therefore a public archive standing in for source material that has disappeared. It is not the advertising of any particular clinic, but a record meant to keep the lineage and materials of one clinical viewpoint available.

Where this theory sits. M-puncture is an approach grounded in the treatment theory of Prof. Young Jin Lee. Its diagnostic view — reading long-standing pain as a problem of the nerve circuit — already held, ahead of its time, what pain medicine would standardize from 2017 on as nociplastic pain and central sensitization. This site makes no claim of a particular result, and treats the theory as a viewpoint and a record.

05 Sources

Sources you can check

The 2013 revised textbook (ISBN 9788997140688) — Kyobo Book product page
Nociplastic pain — International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) terminology
Central sensitization — Woolf CJ, Nature 1983
IMS / the Gunn technique — University of British Columbia (UBC) materials