五十肩に対する反対側治療

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I shall report at this time treatment methods for periarthritis of the shoulder I have employed for several years which involve treatment of the opposite or healthy side.
When a disorder occurs in the body usually a reaction also occurs at the same point on the opposite side of the body as determined if the navel is defined as the central point of the body. By treating these points of secondary reaction then it is possible to relieve the original disorder. Moreover, this treatment method has proven more effective than treatment of the original disorder itself. For example, for periarthritis of the left shoulder treatment is administered at points on the right shoulder as well as points of secondary reaction which occur in the right gluteal area and along the anterior lateral aspect of the right thigh.
As the period of research was short I shall report at this time on only 20 cases. This small number of cases is perhaps not sufficient to draw definite conclusions about all cases however in respect to these 20 cases the following can be stated. Severe pain was relieved after 2-3 treatments and complete cure after 5-6 treatments. Results of 28 other cases not included in this report showed the average number of required treatments as 6.5. The required treatment period was half that formerly required and treatment proved effective in relieving severe pain of both chronic and acute cases.
I would now like to give a detailed report of one case which I treated in Nov., 5 years ago. The patient, a former military man was at the time president of an architecture company. He was of strong body and mind and was suffering from symptoms of typical periarthritis of the shoulder. The patient whom I shall call “S” was 50 years of age. The condition had begun 5 months previously but believing it could not be helped by doctors or medicines he had let it progress to a terrible state. He had come to my clinic on the recommendation of his wife. I asked the patient to rotate and move his head up and down and as these actions proved no trouble to the patient I realized good results could be obtained using treatment of the opposite side and thus selected this method. The first three treatments seemed to indicate progress toward relief of symptoms. On the 4th treatment I treated the afflicted side and the patient left the clinic with no pain but pain again returned the following day and I realized it had been a mistake to treat the afflicted side.
Finally after 7 treatments complete cure was obtained and the problem did not recur.
These results caused my confidence to grow in this opposite side treatment method the effects of which are not limited to periarthritis of the shoulders but can be obtained in a large range of therapy.