[Dixielandjazz] dystonia

[Nancy Giffin]

Hi everyone,

Ginny¹s care and concern for making everyone well makes her a woman after my
own heart. And she bravely brings up a good point, however unothodox: that
acupuncture can be helpful. The average neurologist does not know about the
energy pathways upon which acupuncture and acupressure are based, so they
don¹t understand how it can be helpful (and don¹t want to risk their
professional image advocating it). MDs prefer data and formal studies --
never mind the 5000 years of study by Chinese health practitioners. I¹m from
a family of many doctors, so I understand the hesitation and resistance, but
I have also studied a lot about ³energy medicine² for the past ten years,
and I¹ve seen it be extremely beneficial to myself and many others. Don¹t
knock it till you try it.

An acupuncturist would likely tell you that a dystonia patient is suffering
from energy being blocked in the area of the symptoms, and once the blockage
is opened and flowing, the symptoms go away. I myself have found that if I
do my Qigong exercises to keep the energy channels open, I have good health
and no symptoms of carpal tunnel or respiratory problems. As soon as I miss
a week of the exercises to keep the energy flowing, then my carpal tunnel
starts to come back.

If anyone is in the New England area, my cousin Virginia Doran does
acupuncture there (Connecticut) after leaving her practice in NYC where she
worked for more than 20 years on Manhattan¹s ³rich and famous.² She can be
reached at VirginiaDoran at luminousbeauty.com

Both my parents were doctors (and now two brothers are), so I do keep an
intellectual head about these things ‹ really, I do! -- but have seen and
benefited enough over the past ten years to give much credence to the
ancient Chinese study of our energy pathways as a key to our overall well
being. It¹s at least worth looking into if nothing else has worked for you.
Well wishes and the best of health to all of you!

Love and hugs,
Nancy

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Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:04:04 EDT
> From: Gluetje1 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] dystonia
>  
> OK, I'm weird and I get weird "flashes" sometimes (other than  menopausal).
> Flash on this one was 'Look into acupuncture' --not a flash  that pertains to
> all dystonias, but rather those that may have some relationship  to musician
> overuse syndromes.  So I did a quick web search to try to  put some
> rationality 
> to the flash.
> This source mentions it if one scrolls down to "other treatments"
>> http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/dystonia.htm<
<http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/dystonia.htm>
>  
> Web search on "acupuncture for dystonia" and similar keywords lists  other
> sources to check also.
> Ginny