No Pain Is Safe

Five of our 25 pain patients were new this week at Stroger Hospital's Acupuncture Pain Clinic. One had chronic migraines. One was a young woman 20 weeks pregnant with back pain so bad she needed a walker to steady her weak and throbbing right leg. 3 press tacks on her right ear shut down the pain immediately. The migraine will have to see the benefit of 6 needles between the toes and hot, mustard powder foot baths. Our Russian testicular and prostate pain patient skipped out with no pain after dermal needles were placed on the auricular prostate point, along with electro-stim on the Foot Shaoyin Meridian. And finally, a woman with stage 4 bone cancer, and excruciating rib pain that wrapped half around her body brought her friend and herself to tears from the total relief 4 dermal needles placed on auricular shenmen, liver, and rib points on the left ear provided. In time we will document changes to the autonomic nervous system with Heart Rate Variability monitoring before and after treatment for hard data in addition to patient feedback. We have doubled our NUHS interns from 2 to 4.