It's always Good

Today Ihad the pleasure of meeting and treating an 80 year old man. He has had some neck pain for the last six months. No known cause, no trauma; what we call in TCM "lost pillow syndrome."

Anyway, he is a great guy. I hope I have his energy, vitality and health when I am his age.

We went through the "ten questions" (more like 100 in actuality) and he probably thought I was more than a little off my-rocker. I mean from his generational life experiences what would sores on the tip of his tongue have to do with his heart? But we had a few good laughs and made it through the questions.

He also had a "radical neck resection" about 20 years ago. Seems my new patient had developed some cancer in his lymph nodes on the left side of his neck, so they were removed. His sternocleidomastoid (neck) muscle is only scar-tissue on the left front side of his neck. I have never seen anything like this before.

I gave him a gentle acupuncture treatment and at the end of his treatment he said he felt so good he was ready to run a mile. It's always good to be able to help someone so easily. I will see him again next week, but I think that will wrap up his treatments for a while.