​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

​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!
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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.

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

The patient is a woman in her 50s, who is a caregiver.
 
3 days ago when she tried to change the posture of a heavy person on the bed, she hurt her left low back. She feels pain when she walks and bend her back backward.
 
1st Treatment
When I checked her pulse, I thought this was a typical acute low back pain because her pulse was very tight. So I gave her the treatment for acute low back pain, removing tender spots on her low back and buttocks and attached a very short needle with sticker on her low back. She felt pain when she got up, so I added an adjustment of her rib cage. When I had her stand up and check her back, she felt much better, so I fished the first treatment.
 
2nd Treatment (2 days later)
Yesterday, when she moved the heavy person again, she felt pain in her right low back.  Today she feels pain in the center with bending backward and in each side with bending sideways.
 
Since she had pain on both sides of her low back and also the center of the low back, I chose to treat both sides of her low back with normal low back pain treatment. After the treatment, her low back was not improved at all. I added some needles to remove tender spots found when she stood up, but her low back pain didn’t change.
 
I thought she might have had another acute low back pain on her right side and asked her to lie on her side and gave the treatment for acute low back pain. When she stood up and checked her low back, her low back was not completely better, but was improved. I stopped treatment here to avoid too much amount of treatment.
 
3rd Treatment (2 days later)
2 days after the last treatment, her low back pain was much better. Only when she bend her back to the left, she felt pain on her left buttock. She was standing all day but didn’t do the work to move the heavy person. I treated her left low back and buttock and when she stood up, she still felt some pain with bending side way, so I found painful spots on her left buttock and removed them with a touch-up needle. I asked her to check her back again and this time she felt better. Since she felt much better on her low back, I finished the treatment for her acute low back pain.
 
At the second treatment, I couldn’t recognize another acute low back pain was happening on the other side at the beginning because I had no idea that 2 acute low back pain happening within a few days. I learned that I should carefully check the patient’s condition without preconceptions.

I introduced a case of a child’s stomachache before. This is a case of an adult’s stomachache.
 
A male in his 50s visited my clinic with pain in his stomach and left lower abdomen. The pain started 1 year ago. 2 weeks before he came to my clinic, he had had a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy and 2 polyps had been removed, but nothing abnormal had been found. 1 week later he had had a CT scan, but again nothing abnormal had been found. There was always a dull pain and sometimes a sharp pain occurred, especially after eating. His lifestyle was very healthy.
 
The result of acupuncture treatment is that after the 3rd treatment, pain in his stomach was gone, and after the 4th treatment, the pain in both his stomach and left lower abdomen was gone, and the course of acupuncture treatments was finished by the 6th treatment.
 
In every treatment, I mainly removed the pressure-pain on his abdomen, and the prolapse of his stomach and intestines were suspected so that I tried to move the organs up.
 
He also had his left shoulder pain, but this got better as well.

A 9 years old girl came to my clinic with her mother. She had had experienced stomachache all the time for more than a year. She had taken various kinds of tests in the hospital, but the cause of the stomach ache was unknown. She had had gall stones accumulated in her gall bladder, so they were removed, but the stomach ache didn’t change at all. Because the doctor in the hospital recommended to try acupuncture, she came to my clinic.
 
When I pressed around her navel, there were some tender points.
 
I gave her Pediatric acupuncture twice a week.
 
Her condition was up and down, and the stomachache came and went for a while.
 
At 14th treatment, she reported that her stomach ache became one tenth and the pressure pain around her navel, which had never gone away, disappeared. So from the 15th treatment, I made the frequency of the treatment once a week.
 
At 22nd treatment, her stomachache completely disappeared and after that, she didn’t complain about stomachache at all.
 
At 27th treatment, confirming that her stomachache didn’t come back, the course of the treatment for her stomach ache ended.

It led to good results that she had continuously had my treatments trusting my acupuncture.
 
What I did during the course of the treatments was mainly Pediatric acupuncture(Video), the treatment placing a round-tip needle on the pressure-pain points around her naval and giving her homework placing a penny and a rolled aluminum foil on marked acupuncture points.
 
Her mother wrote about her treatment, so please read it by clicking here.

A 7 years old girl visited my clinic with her mother because she couldn’t have fallen asleep with nervousness thinking too much before going to bed for about 2 months.
 
When I checked her neck and shoulder area, the area was tight. Before giving her the pediatric acupuncture, I shook her body from her legs laying her on her back, but her chest and above were not shaking so much due to the tightness.
 
I touched her neck and shoulder area with a round-tip needle to loosen the area in addition to the pediatric acupuncture and finished the first treatment.
 
When she came for the second treatment, her sleep was improved and when I shook her body from her legs, her chest and the above was shaking a little, but her neck was still tight.
 
After the second treatment, the tightness around her neck was gradually loosened up. When I gave her 3 more treatments, I ended the course of the treatments for her sleep and nervousness since she could sleep well and the tightness in her chest and the above disappeared.
 
It seems like this was the case that the nervousness caused the tightness in the chest, neck and shoulders, resulting in difficulty of falling asleep.

I had had pain in my right hip joint in October the last year as described in a blog post. I got the same kind of pain in my right hip joint one and a half months ago. While I was running, I was feeling some discomfort in my right hip joint and since then, I have had pain and tightness in my right hip joint, inguinal area, thigh, sin and the top of my right foot when I walk and sometimes when I sit or lie on my sides.
 
The cause of the pain is, I think, a pair of new shoes because I was wearing the same shoes when I had had hip joint pain the last time, so I wore these shoes twice only when I got hip joint pain.
 
The condition was almost similar to the last time, but was not as severe as the last time. In the case of self-treatment, where I can treat is very limited, so at the beginning, I was using a round-tip needle at the acupuncture point located in the side of the body, which helped relieve the pain the last time. But unfortunately it didn’t improve the condition so much this time.  Next, I tried some acupuncture points on my head, but they didn’t help so much either.
 
I was wondering how I could improve the condition this time. Then I chose Hand Healing and/or Energy therapy. The treatment was done mainly while I was walking because that was when to have pain in my right hip joint. I touched where I felt pain with my hand through a pocket of my pants and for where I was not able to reach while I was walking, I made an image that an imaginary hand reached and touched where was painful. Every time I did that, the pain was relieved a little. when the pain moved to another location, I repeated the same treatment until the pain didn't come out.
 
At home, I touched where I felt pain with my hand. I repeated this kind of treatment and my hip joint gradually got better, and I started running again. But I’m afraid of wearing the shoes again, though I only wore twice since I had bought them.
 
Touching therapy and making an imaginary hand seem mysterious, but actually the concept of the treatment is the same as touch-needle acupuncture, which focuses energy at an acupuncture point and sends the energy to where is painful points by the help of imagination.