[Self-Care] 2 Acupuncture points Improve your Neck Pain and Low Back Pain while watching TV4/20/2021 Today I want to introduce 2 acupuncture points to improve your neck and low back. I often use these points in the clinic, so some of you may be needled at these points before. You can do this self-care watching TV or so. Let’s Improve Neck Pain and Low Back Pain within 30 seconds! One is for neck and shoulder pain tightness. The acupuncture point is called Lung-7. Check the tightness of your neck and press the point. You should feel that your neck has loosened, and you can turn your neck farther than before pressing the point. For detailed method of checking and pressing, watch Video. Another is for low back pain and tightness. The acupuncture point is called Small Intestine-3. Before pressing the point, bend your body forward and backward to check the flexibility of your low back. After pressing the point, you should be able to bend farther. This self-care is explained in the video in detail. Check the video for more information like how to find the points and how to check the neck and back before and after.
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Try these 2 methods for stuffy nose. They instantly clear up your nose. When you have tightness in your neck and shoulders, you might massage or tap the tight area and feel better and you could raise your shoulder higher right after that. Check a minute later how high you can raise your shoulder. It should back to the same height as before massaging or tapping or you can only raise your shoulder lower than before. So please try the following self-care method. But the most important thing is do it gently. If you can do this self-care gently, you should feel the improvement, but if you do it with strong stimulation, the same thing I talked above happens. If you already learned this self-care at the clinic, please review where to hold and how gentle you have to apply the stimulation to make better results. Gentle twisting of your hand loosens and strengthens the neck, shoulder and arm I often teach my patients this self-care for their homework. This self-care is easy and effective, but if you can't do it gently, it doesn't work. It is important to do this as gentle as you think it seems like not working. It is interesting to check which makes your body better, strong stimulation or light stimulation. This self-care focuses on more neck and shoulder area, but can change the tightness in your low back if you can do it gently. He came to the clinic because his brother’s groin pain got better by acupuncture treatment.
The patient is 17-year-old male who have had pain in his left shoulder since he fell down and hit his left shoulder while playing hockey 2 weeks ago. When he raises his left shoulder and stretches his left shoulder backward. [Test] I had him stand up and raised his arm horizontally and pressed the arm with my hand. The strength of his left arm was weak. When he raised his arm from the side of his body, he can only raise his arm a little above horizontal level and he couldn’t raise his arm vertically from the front and complained about pain. [Treatment] I had him lie on his right side and checked for tender points with my finger pressure. There were tender points on his neck, around his left shoulder blade and his left chest. I needled some acupuncture points, confirmed the tender points disappeared and gave subtle stimulation to the needles moving his left arm. The range of motion of his shoulder got better and pain with the movement also got better, so I left the needles in for 10 minutes. I came back to the room and checked the strength of his left, but it was still weak, so I gave the treatment to strengthen his left arm. I confirmed his left arm got stronger and asked him to move his left arm. There was no pain in his left shoulder with any movement, so I finished the treatment of his shoulder pain by this session. This is a case of acute groin pain improved by 2 acupuncture treatments. The patient is 18-year-old male who injured his left groin yesterday while playing hockey. When he bends forward and twists his back to the left, he feels pain in his left low back, and when he raises his left knee, he feels pain in his left groin. [1st Treatment] I had him lie on his right side on the treatment table and checked his left low back, buttock and groin for pressure pain with my fingers and found tender points on his left low back and groin. I needled on his head and low back and released the tender points and let him relax for 10 minutes with the needles. After removing the needles, I had him stand up and checked his movement. When he raised his left knee, he still felt some pain in his left groin, so I gave a little bit of stimulation on an acupuncture point on his foot with my finger and asked him to raise his left knee again. This time he didn’t feel any pain, so we finished the first treatment. [2nd Treatment] His groin pain was better but when he raised his left knee, there was a little bit of pain in the area. At the beginning of the treatment, I added the treatment to relax whole body from his head, leading to the improvement of the flexibility of raising his legs on the treatment table. I did almost the same acupuncture treatment as the last session and added the treatment to improve the strength of his legs. I had him stand up and confirmed he didn’t have any pain in his left groin when he raised his left knee and fished the course of the treatment for his left groin pain. Due to the current circumstances caused by COVID-19, the City of Salem requires a log of employees and customers for contact tracing purposes and requires all businesses to complete a City of Salem Contact Tracing Form (https://www.salem.com/contacttracingform) at each employee shift or customer visit.
The purpose of the Contact Tracing Form is to support possible case investigation and contact tracing should a positive COVID-19 case be traced to a particular establishment. I will complete the form after your visit for each appointment. I would appreciate your understanding and cooperation. I have introduced this method to some patients who have had sinus problems. The self-care method is rubbing the frontal suture, which is a ditch on the frontal bone (Fig. 1). The length is about a inch. Rubbing this area loosens your neck and opens your nose, and also loosens your chest and abdomen. So if you have stiffness in your neck or sinus problems, or if you feel your abdomen is tight, try rubbing this ditch. 1. Rub the ditch-like-frontal suture with your fingers of one had like rubbing not the skin but the bone. 2. Open the frontal suture with your fingers of both hands. To get more strong contact, it is better to push your head toward your fingers. If your fingers are slippery on the skin, it is more effective to place a piece of cloth underneath and rub and open the suture. Watch the video for the detail of the method.
I think a lot of people feel tight on their neck when they tilt their neck to either side because of desk work or other reasons.
This is caused by the tightness of the muscle on the sides of your neck, which is called SCM (Fig. 1). There might be a lot of people who massage the muscle of the neck, but you couldn’t quite loosen it up. So I want to share where to rub to loosen up the muscle. When you rub a part of your head, you can make this SCM softer and it gets easier to tilt to the side. Where you need to rub is the coronal suture shown in Fig. 2 as yellow lines. The location of the coronal suture is 4 fingers from the top of the head where is the center of the tips of the ears. When you slide your fingers back and forth on the suture, you feel slight bumps. That is the coronal suture. If you feel tight on your left side of your neck when you tilt your neck to the right, rub the left side of the coronal suture, moving the tips of your fingers over the suture back and forth. You don’t need to press too much. The good pressure is as strong as your nails don’t become white. This is also good if you feel tightness on the area between the neck and the shoulder. Due to the stress from the surrounded situation caused by COVID-19, there are a lot of people whose breathing become shallow.
Related to the article posted in my blog: Let’s Relieve Broken Heart Syndrome caused by Stress due to COVID-19, it is also important that your nose is not stuffy to breathe smoothly. We can only breathe deeply when you breathe in from your nose. Please compare when you breathe in from your nose to when you breathe in from your mouth. How did you feel? You should not be able to breathe deeply from your mouth. That is because in the nose, the air is mixed with NO which opens the lung and softens the capillaries, but when you breathe in from your mouth, that process doesn’t happen so the lung doesn’t accept the air from the mouth. For easier breathing, I want to introduce the acupuncture points that open your nasal passage. 1. Above the nose and about a half inch below the hair line, there is the bulge of the bone. Please massage the point (Fig. 1). 2. A half inch above the eyebrow, there may be tender points. Please massage these points (Fig. 1). 3. Please massage the base of the arms (Fig. 2). Please massage these acupuncture points when you have a stuffy nose. If you feel tightness of chest or difficulty of breathing, please also read the following article: Let’s Relieve Broken Heart Syndrome caused by Stress due to COVID-19 |
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