First Treatment = Success!

Yesterday was my birthday, co-incidentally I was already booked at Gold's Gym here on the Illinois side of St. Louis to do a screening. I wasn't in the mood to do a pulse diagnosis screening (by the way, you HAVE to take all of Jimmy Chang's classes) so I put up a sign that read "It's My Birthday but I Have a Gift 4 U!" and "5 left!" then "4 left!" etc... As soon as I put up the sign a nice older gentleman took me up on the offer. He came in this morning and I treated him. He relayed that he just finished radiotherapy for prostate cancer. He had sacral and suprapubic pain. He mostly dribbled when he urinated. So, I examined him. His cranial nerves were all intact. He had fullness and tension above his bladder when I palpated the area. But the rest of his abdomen was fairly loose and jiggly with a noticeable vacuity sensation around the outer abdomen. His umbillical pulse was centered. I performed an Akabane Diagnosis and treated his "splits" L PC 6, SJ 5, SI 7, SP 4, LV 5, ST 40, KI 4; R UB 58. The patient said that he felt less bogged down, yet more rooted in his stance- not as wobbly. He noticed that he had less tension in his lower abdomen. I remarked to him that that result wasn't good enough. I palpated Du 19, 20, & 21 which were all tender. I needled those points. The patient rested for 10 minutes. He said that all of the tension was gone in his abdomen. The fullness and tension was eliminated according to palpation. I told the patient to go to the restroom and urinate. He was able to completely empty his urinary bladder for the first time in months. Eric Waltemate, D.C.