Sunday, September 11, 2011

Acupuncture ....beyond belief

Friday The back was aching so much at I eventually decided to pop into the "physical therapy" clinic in Dongguan.
Honestly speaking, my confidence in the medical care services in Chna is low.... Knowing how most things work in China is enough to make me doubtful whether the doctor in charge might have actually gained his degree properly or via some backdoor arrangement.
Also because any public institution cares about avoiding an unsuccessful handling of a foreigner, the response can drift in 2 opposite directions:
- being taken care in an utmost dedicated way and assign the best resources
OR
- at the opposite, the institution will find every possible way to get rid of you ASAP or to even not acknowledge the need of their activity, in order to navigate away from potential troubles and loss of face
These 2 approaches can happen either going to then hospital or to a police station to report a crime (my personal experience on this has been mixed...) or at a building bureau office to buy/sell a property....

Going back to my back... I was just aiming for a light massage when the therapist on duty had actually other ideas... Using the approach #1 Of deploying all the resources, she called 2 other doctors to check on my back, asking all the possible questions on how happened and firmly said that what I needed was acupuncture...
My reaction was kind of "wtf!!!" but I relented after making sure that needles were disposable single use, etc, etc...
I thought they would have places the needle somewhere in the back.....but soon I realised that I will have needles planted in my hands and head...
To make it short, to my absolute horror, I had a needle right in the Center of the forefront and others in the back of my hands...

I was even asked to walk around 15 minutes while "wearing" them...

Well, you would not believe it, but after that I was able to lift by myself from the bed without help (something which was unthinkable until 20 min earlier) and I could say there was a 50% improvement in back mobility....I even tried the bridge position without pain and effort...
I left the clinic almost in shock....

3 comments:

RICK'S RUNNING said...

Pretty cool, you should check out the work of Bruce Lipton who through his work in quoantum science can explain why this treatment works [check out the videos on my blog from a week ago].
I have a neighbour who was on the strongest pain killers after a back operation went wrong, after treatment like you had he is now pain free without drugs and can work again.

Sling Runner said...

by7,

Thanks for the comments on my blog. Will consider that thought.

About your back, have you heard about 'sacro wedgy'? It has very good feedbacks in alleviating backpains

Ewen said...

Interesting about the 1) or 2) methods of doing things in China. I've heard of other runners having good results with acupuncture for achilles tendon and heel issues. Great result for you! I've had lower back issues myself (many years ago) and still do daily preventative stretching exercises - only takes about 5 minutes.