How does this work???
This afternoon I was giving a treatment to a nice lady that has had severe chronic neck pain for the last two years. She took two falls within two weeks and has been in pain ever since.
This afternoon I was giving her an intial treatment, complete with the 10,000 questions. "And we leave no part unquestioned" to paraphrase an old Arlo Guthrie song. After the needles were in and she was relaxing on the table I decided to do "invisible needling" on her hands and neck.
Invisible needling is when the acupuncturist holds a needle over a point and manipulates it so that the patient can feel the qi at the site. This is done without actually puncturing the skin. After a couple of minutes she was able to feel the points on her hand. They got "warm and heavy." That was what I expected. Then I went up to the side of her neck where she acutally feels the pain. The sensation I felt as I worked this point was like when I try to push to magnets together of the same polarity. That mushy, repelling feeling. Not a technical term but I do not know how else to describe it.
When I started to 'work' the point she was feeling energy move through her head, over her ears and close to the back of her eyes. This was interesting and not completely what I expected. But the next point is where it really deviated from expectations.
I went to the point of her neck where she has a ruptured disck, C-6/C-7. I started to 'work' the point and noticed that the one needle I had in tyhe side of her neck, where it hurts the most was "throbbing" and "vibrating" at the same pace as when I was working the invisible needle. The feeling here was not the magnetic repelling feeling, but more like needling into a sponge. Very strange.
What does this mean? Why would an invisible needle technique create this type of a response? I wish I knew a clear answer. I do know that the energetic field of the body does extend past the physical. It was the first time I have had this strong of a response from invisible needling.
When she got off the table her neck felt better and she wanted to take a nap.
I wonder what she will be feeling in a few days when I get to see her at the facility??
How will her neck have responded to this?
Questions that I do not have answers for tonight...
This afternoon I was giving her an intial treatment, complete with the 10,000 questions. "And we leave no part unquestioned" to paraphrase an old Arlo Guthrie song. After the needles were in and she was relaxing on the table I decided to do "invisible needling" on her hands and neck.
Invisible needling is when the acupuncturist holds a needle over a point and manipulates it so that the patient can feel the qi at the site. This is done without actually puncturing the skin. After a couple of minutes she was able to feel the points on her hand. They got "warm and heavy." That was what I expected. Then I went up to the side of her neck where she acutally feels the pain. The sensation I felt as I worked this point was like when I try to push to magnets together of the same polarity. That mushy, repelling feeling. Not a technical term but I do not know how else to describe it.
When I started to 'work' the point she was feeling energy move through her head, over her ears and close to the back of her eyes. This was interesting and not completely what I expected. But the next point is where it really deviated from expectations.
I went to the point of her neck where she has a ruptured disck, C-6/C-7. I started to 'work' the point and noticed that the one needle I had in tyhe side of her neck, where it hurts the most was "throbbing" and "vibrating" at the same pace as when I was working the invisible needle. The feeling here was not the magnetic repelling feeling, but more like needling into a sponge. Very strange.
What does this mean? Why would an invisible needle technique create this type of a response? I wish I knew a clear answer. I do know that the energetic field of the body does extend past the physical. It was the first time I have had this strong of a response from invisible needling.
When she got off the table her neck felt better and she wanted to take a nap.
I wonder what she will be feeling in a few days when I get to see her at the facility??
How will her neck have responded to this?
Questions that I do not have answers for tonight...
posted by Michael Clifford, L. Ac. | 5:37 PM
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