I have given this patient one treatment for the past 2 weeks. She is responding well and reports a 60% improvement. I’m still getting significant twitching and alternatively treating her back and front. Because the patient is improving, the rate of her improvement and I have treated many people for similar condition, I’m fairly certain […]
A technical way of looking at physical pain
My husband is a computer guy. He works for a financial services organization in their technical infrastructure area. They have a system of looking at things like computer crashes, outages, program failures that rings so true for medicine that I needed to blog about it. Incident or Problem. In technology circles, when a system experiences […]
Acupuncture Case Study – Patient with Severe Shoulder Pain – Part 3
I treated the patient today. I found a really tight muscle in her trapezoidal area and got a large twitch from it. This type of twitching is usually sore for 1-2 days after the treatment so we wonk know if there was any effect until then. I expect to need to do this 4-5 times […]
Acupuncture Case Study – Patient with Severe Shoulder Pain – Part 2
My treatment plan is to aggressively treat any trigger points in the shoulder area. It could be close to the actual shoulder, more towards the neck, is in area behind the arm and on the back where the arm connects to the body or perhaps even the chest area where the arm connects. It could […]
Acupuncture Case study – Patient with severe Shoulder pain – Part 1
This posting is the first in a series of postings about an ongoing case as of Early December 2013. I have a patient who has consulted Orthopedic Doctors about severe shoulder pain. The pain keeps her awake at night and she is really getting to the point where something must be done (Her words). She […]
The Mind-Body connection is visible in Acupuncture
I see it often. People have a pain. It is often the neck or back. I touch around and find a crazy-tight muscle or muscle group. The muscle is as tight as a guitar string, only bigger. I insert a needle and prob it to create an involuntary twitching and get the muscle to “release”. […]
Computer Neck
Are you a high user of a computer? Do you have pain in your neck and shoulders? You need to fix the underlying problem. You need to work on your posture, maybe your need new glasses or perhaps change your screen resolution. Maybe it’s your chair or screen height. It’s probably your posture habits. In […]