Friday, February 23, 2007
As some of my dear friends would've heard. I've been running a really nasty bad luck spell. On the second last night of the year of the dog, I won in mahjong. And for then on, I've been losing like shit. Then, there was this ridiculous-non logical-never should've happened fall while blading that caused this sprain I have on my ankle now.
The ankle is really painful and I went over to Kwang Hui Zhao Hospital's Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Centre to get it fixed. I know I'm trained in Western Medicine ideas, but hey, I'm Chinese. And to think of it, when the Chinese started practising TCM 5000 years ago, the Western dudes were still running around naked!
First thing the sinseh did was prick in 3 accupunture needles onto my right wrist region. I was like huh? Left ankle sprain, poke right hand. Then, he made me stand up and walk, the normal way! And Waaaaa Laaaa!!! I could freaking walk and the pain was gone! Amazing!
Then, in all physiotherapy style, he asked me to walk around the corridor for fifteen minutes, stopping every few steps to dorsiflex then plantar flex, then invert then evert. (Basically, rotate the ankle). Still, very very mild pain. He said that the exercise could loosen the "jing1" (ligaments) for him to manipulate later.
In 15 mins, I went back into the room, and he rubbed and manipulated my ankle, it was a little painful, but bearable, the effects of accupunture was still there. Next, he put this black "muddy" thing on my ankle and wrapped it up. And I was prescribed this black solution. Eeeewwww....
Anyway, that's my first TCM experience. So far, so good... I can already exert on my ankle, with bearable pain, it's drastically better than the hopping around yesterday.
Oh yeah, about 10 minutes after the needles were removed, the pain came back, I really don't doubt the analgesic efficacy of accupunture now...
Labels: 5000 years well spent...
Posted by NuhC at 4:32 PM
