I want to share my experience of shingles and how I treated it.
 
Right before the Christmas of 2 years ago, below my right shoulder blade started to feel itchy with some rash. I thought I got a bug bite even though it was winter. When a few days passed, pain was added to the itchiness. I thought it was because I scratched the area. After that, the itchiness went away and the pain increased, and I also started to feel pain in my right chest with deep breathing or small movement. At this point, I was convinced that  I got shingles even though it was not diagnosed.
 
I was wondering how to heal this shingles. If it had not been mine, I would have burn moxa on the shingles, but of course I couldn’t and I didn’t want to take antiviral drugs.
 
So I decided to go on fast for 3 days.
For 3 days, I just drank water and ate one Umeboshi plum a day.
I got hangry and lost some strength sometimes, but it was very simple and effective.
3 days later the pain in my back and chest decreased by half, and in 7 days the pain and discomfort in my back disappeared.
Since then, I haven’t had the same symptoms.
 
I can’t say this in a loud voice and I recommend you to go to the doctor but I have to admit that fasting could be the best medicine sometimes.

Rounded shoulders causing stiffness in the neck and shoulders are also caused by the tightness in the chest. The following video introduces how to loosen up the chest to improve rounded shoulders, so it will be more effective if you try this method with the self-care method that loosens the back introduced in the previous post:

[Self-Care] For Stiffness in Neck and Shoulders Caused by Rounded Shoulders

This self-care method is very easy, so you can do this in a short time, within 30 seconds. 

I will share a self-care method for stiffness in the neck and shoulders caused by rounded shoulders. Rounded shoulders not only causes stiffness in the neck and shoulders but also causes difficulty of raising the arms.

​This self-care method loosens neck and shoulder area and improves rounded shoulders by correcting the location of the shoulder blades. If you feel tight around your shoulders when you open your chest, please try this self-care method.

​This is a video of Guidance of Home Therapy of a session at Cozy Acupuncture. This is the fourth part of the session after Pelvic Adjustment. If you haven't had a treatment at Cozy Acupuncture, please watch and use it as a reference to get some idea of what is done during a session.

Reference:
​[A part of a session 1] Examination and Cranial Adjustment
[A part of a session 2] Acupuncture Treatment
[A part of a session 3] Pelvic Adjustment

This is a video of Pelvic Adjustment part of a session at Cozy Acupuncture. This is the third part of the session after Acupuncture Treatment. If you haven't had a treatment at Cozy Acupuncture, please watch and use it as a reference to get some idea of what is done during a session.

Reference:
[A part of a session 1] Examination and Cranial Adjustment
[A part of a session 2] Acupuncture Treatment
[A part of a session 4] Guidance of Home Therapy

This is a video of Acupuncture part of a session at Cozy Acupuncture. This is the second part of the session after Examination and Cranial Adjustment. If you haven't had a treatment at Cozy Acupuncture, please watch and use it as a reference to get some idea of what is done during a session.

Reference:
[A part of a session 1] Examination and Cranial Adjustment
[A part of a session 3] Pelvic Adjustment
[A part of a session 4] Guidance of Home Therapy

This is a video of a part of an actual session that is a part of Examination before a treatment and Cranial Adjustment, taken during an actual session. If you have not had treatment at Cozy Acupuncture, please watch this video and use it as a reference to get some idea what is done during the session.

Reference:
[A part of a session 2] Acupuncture Treatment
[A part of a session 3] Pelvic Adjustment
[A part of a session 4] Guidance of Home Therapy

I have received a new testimonial from a patient who was introduced in the post: [CASE] Hearing Loss and Ringing in Ears​

​My experience with Ichiro at Cozy Acupuncture has been nothing short of amazing. In the fall I suddenly started to have clogged/full ears, ringing in the ear, and hearing loss. After exhausting all of my options with ENT doctors, I decided to try acupuncture and chose Cozy because of the easy online scheduling and stellar reviews. The results were immediate. Ichiro gave me something the doctors could not - relief and hope. Amazingly, he's also been able to bring back some hearing loss that I've had for over 15 years - I never in my life expected that to happen! Sessions at Cozy are truly healing and peaceful experiences. Ichiro's practice goes beyond the needles themselves and looks at healing more holistically, which has been really helpful for easing my symptoms and just making me feel better overall. I can't recommend Cozy Acupuncture highly enough!

For reference: [CASE] Hearing Loss and Ringing in Ears​

When you have low back pain at the time of standing up or sitting down, SI joint, where is painted with yellow marker on the above chart of the pelvis, is often related to the pain. This self-care method loosens the area of SI joint and makes it easier to stand up and sit down. Even if you don't have low back pain right now, you can use this self-care method when you sit for a long time and your back feels tight to prevent low back pain. You can finish this self-care method within 10 seconds, so please do it every day and improve or prevent low back pain.

The patient is 34-year-old female who is a mother of 2 kids.
She has had hearing loss and tinnitus in her left ear for 3 years and tried steroid injections, but they didn’t work. Since a week ago, clogged feeling and low pitch noise have gotten worse. She visited my clinic being afraid that she would have to use a hearing aid for her left ear because she had already been using a hearing aid for her right ear for 14 years.
 
She consulted two specialists and both of them told her that her ears were crappy and would not be improved.
 
[Treatment]
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What I try to do mainly during the sessions is relieving the tenderness around her ears and neck with my finger-pressure, and loosening the skin on the skull especially around the ears.
 
Ringing in her left ear has gradually decreased and the noise has become like wind and then computer fan, and it has become as low as she doesn’t notice, though it sometimes gets worse when she is tired.
 
Her right ear that has been using a hearing aid for 14 years also has been improved and she doesn’t need to use the hearing aid anymore, though it sometimes feels clogged and the hearing is weaker than her left ear.
 
Once she had vertigo and went to the specialist, she was diagnosed as Meniere’s disease, but she hasn’t had vertigo after a few treatments.
 
She is continuously having acupuncture treatment to improve and stabilize the condition.