Thursday, October 14, 2010

Tennis elbow

Known among tennis players this condition is rather similar in treatment to  tendinitis 
regarding musicians problems:
http://acupunctureforsingers.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-musicians-fingers-problems.html 

As this takes place in ligaments from elbow region, the scheme in Su-jok to locate elbow:
Wind (tendons, ligaments, muscles)--->Dryness or Heat (elbow)
--- right elbow - Dryness for men and Heat for women
--- left elbow -Heat for men and Dryness for women
So for men right-handed it will be:
Wind--->Dryness: recipe for harmful energies
for women right-handed:
Wind--->Heat: recipe for harmful energies

Harmful energies involved in tennis elbow are:
--- Cold - chronic pain, calcification and all long-term degenerative effects
--- Dryness - degeneration and restriction in movements, sharp, twisting pains, 
fibrosis
--- dull pain  - Dampness
--- inflammation - Heat
The scheme may look as (men right-handed):
Wind (ligaments)--->Dryness(elbow): Cold, Dryness sedate (pain and movements restriction), Heat sedate (inflammation), Wind, Burn (opposite energies) tone up








For women the same is:
Wind--->Heat: Cold, Dryness sedate Heat sedate , Wind, Burn tone up



  





Such schemes are very comfortable for self-treatment (compared to schemes in classic acupuncture)
--- the points are on skin touching nailsfrom outside at 45* to each other, size 2 mm
--- colour of is the colour for natural crystals to tape on

--- numbers indicate sequence of work on them
For a non-professional the self treatment is:
--- to mark the points by felt-tip pen
--- massage points by something like round tip of a pencil
--- to tape natural crystals of the same colour and size 2-3 mm onto points
--- moxibustion - heating by cigar sold in acupuncture shops or just by 3 incense sticks tied together -  
in a sequence of numbers, this is critical! – holding incense stick perpendicular to points,
20-30 sec each for 1 session.
Professionals do this with moxa at certain angle which sedates and tones up energies at points.


Interesting fact demonstrating simplicity and versatility of Su-jok methods is that the same schemes do the same for knees problems, which are quite common among sportsmen.

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