Paralysis recovery

[Elizabeth Ross]

The young woman I saw last year for idiopathic paralysis has been recovering nicely. She is now walking with only the assistance of a single crutch on the right side. She still has no sensation beyond pressure below the 4th rib and continues to experience bladder and bowel retention/incontinence. She doesn’t feel any urge to either urinate or have a BM, but is able to feel that’s she’s going when it happens. She is also able to “choose” to go on a toilet if she’s placed on one, but again, will not know that she needs to go. Additionally, her legs continue to “jump” on their own if they perceive something which would be painful if she could feel the pain. She describes walking on rocks and having her legs jump without her initiating the movement, which causes her to fall. During treatment, she can not feel the needles but her legs jump and recoil from me as if I’m causing her pain.

When I saw her today, she presented with LR and KI sinew pulses, 50% dispersion of the LU, and her pulses on the right wrist were not communicating well. Pulses on the left were mostly normal, communication was good, chi pulse was thin/tight at 14 beans (no hidden pulse), guan was empty at the moderate level. I asked because of her pulse and she said she had no sensation of constricted breathing or tightness in her ribs or diaphragm but that when she has to cough or sneeze it’s very weak.

I released the diaphragm at LR 14, dispersed the LU, and tried tonifying the KI and LR based on the advice in my original post months ago. The LR jing well bled when I removed the needle – in case that’s significant. Her legs and energy felt very protective of her while I was doing this, and when I checked in she agreed that was how her leg movements felt even though she did not feel pain or threatened – they have been like this since I began treating her soon after the paralysis began. I tried to send a message of safety to her channels as I was needling them, but I wasn’t sure how else to access that protectiveness so I tried treating KI luo (full) since I could see a couple of veins there. I also asked her if she was feeling deprived of anything she’d like to be doing if she were not still recovering – in case that was a source of tension for her – and she responded that she hasn’t been feeling as bad about that as she would have anticipated due to the covid shut down restricting all activities.

It seems that muscle reactivity must be somewhere in the sinews. I’ve treated so many of her channels but that and the bladder/bowel situations have not shifted. Is there something I’m missing or is this a situation where I’ve done what I can and it will shift when it’s ready? Are there any other ways for me to assist her sinews to feel safe that I’m not already doing?

Thanks!!

[Mònica Martín]

Hi Elizabeth,

What an interesting case! It sound like you’re doing a great job.I am sorry I happen to read it months later. Just wondering if you found the answer to your question yourself. I don’t have any details about this case and I am wondering if you have gone anyway beyond the sinews scenario treatment-wise. Did she present any Daimai symptoms apart from the paralysis being a major Daimai symptom here? Have you explored the avenues of Daimai treatment for the problems of incontinence/retention? Just curious…

Keep us posted! 🙂

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