parkinsons

[Guest guest]

On May 21, 2004, at 10:07 AM, wrote:

> Does anyone have any thoughts on the Parkinson's Recovery at

> http://www.pdrecovery.org/

> Project said to be Santa Cruz or Santa Rosa California. what is Yin

> Tuina

>

> Does this Pakinson's recovery project have legs? or is it just a very

> narrow small outfit with a good website?

 

Its Santa Cruz

 

I took on four patients a few years ago and tried out their PD protocol.

 

The Yin Tuina may be a term that they coined, never heard of it before,

but it is actually a good description.

 

Basically what it is, as I interpret it, is a form of massage, but it

is very gentle ala cranial sacral work. The intent is moving energy

between the hands with really minor pressure changes.

 

As for the benefits of the actual protocol, and its premise, I wasn't

too impressed. The idea says that Parkinson's comes from damage to the

top of the foot which impedes the flow from the Stomach meridian to the

Spleen meridian. The Qi backs up in the stomach meridian all the way up

to the head where it magically arcs to the GB channel and creates

GB/Liver problems.

 

Its been a few years since I took their protocol seriously, so I

apologize for the obscured details. I personally could never

understand how Qi would arc from one channel to another minus a known

internal connection and found this premise to lack classical

pathomechanisms. Seems to me to be more about electrical theory than

meridian theory.

 

Anyway there are lots of people trying out this protocol and everyone

associated with the project boasts miraculous success. I myself and my

four patients were not so moved.

 

For some reason, I've had a lot of PD patients and in my own

experience, the symptoms of stiffness and discomfort are well addressed

with acupuncture. None of my patients were compliant with herbs, so I

can't really comment on that therapy. The acupuncture works for a few

days to a week or two, and then they need more. I didn't use the Santa

Cruz protocol after a while. It is labor intensive and chose, after not

really seeing any improvement after something like four months of the

protocol, to fall back on the old reliable treat-what-you-see protocols

which I found were more helpful therapeutically.

 

-al.

 

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

-Adlai Stevenson

[Guest guest]

Don't know anything about this protocol, and the description of the

disease mechs certainly doesn't sound standard, but path of qi theory

(as described in English in Bensky & O'Connor's Acupuncture: A

Comprehensive Text), meaning horizontal segmental flow of qi in any

part of the body, would/could account for transmission of qi from yang

ming to shao yang at the level of the head. Just saying that there is

good, standard Chinese medical theory for the transmission of qi from

one channel to another even if they don't share documented meeting

points or network vessel connections.

 

Bob

[Guest guest]

See the paper mentioned a few issues ago.

1. _Clinical observation of combined acupuncture and herbs in treating

Parkinsons disease_

(http://www.mdlinx.com/InternalMDLinx/newsl-article.cfm/2529240/ZZ17689243782769\

76241354/?news_id=1187 & subspec_id=159)

Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science 12/30/2008

Conclusion Linear scalp-acupuncture combined with herbs is quite effective

in the treatment of

PD

 

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