2011年6月25日土曜日

One of Japanese acupuncture technique

On April 5, 2011, I left my hometown Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture for Miyagi Prefecture, traveling an about 900 km (one-way) by motorcycle.

Then I worked in Miyagi as an acupuncture and moxibustion volunteer for disaster victims until April 17.



My acupuncture techniques are basically those in which the therapist touches needles on the skin of patients, and these techniques are called contact needle therapy.
The needles are made of various types of metals such as gold, silver, copper.

I sometimes rub the patient skin with these needles, and sometimes hit the head of a needle to cause vibration and convey it to the body.
This is one of the traditional methods in Japan.

In the Tohoku area, strong aftershocks continue to occur even now, more than one month after the disaster.
In an earthquake-stricken area, where aftershocks often happen, people may suddenly be shaken, shocked, or hit (they may fall down or some falling objects may hit their bodies).
If an acupuncturist uses a treatment in which a needle stays in a patient body for a certain period of time, the needle in the body may hurt the patient when an aftershock occurs. Also, if many needles stay in a patient body, it is difficult for the patient to quickly escape from dangers when an aftershock occurs.
However, the contact needle therapy eliminates the above worries because needles do not stay in the body of patients but they just touch the skin when the therapy is performed.
Therefore, the contact needle therapy can be considered safer for suffers in earthquake-stricken areas.


The contact needle therapy is also safe techniques from the aspect of good hygiene.
In disaster areas, maintaining a high hygiene level is often difficult.
If perfect sterilization of medical implements cannot always be ensured, the contact needle therapy, without pricking the skin of patients, is relatively safe from bacterial infection and other contamination.
Acupuncturists are also safe from infection through blood as long as they are using the contact needle therapy.

As I described above, the contact needle therapy is relatively safe, and it is easy for sufferers in disaster areas who say, "I'm scared of acupuncture," to accept treatment of this therapy.



JETAP
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Yo shin do
Hiroshi Yamamoto

Translator, Ichibay
http://sakeandkimono.blogspot.com/

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