{"id":16388,"date":"2016-01-12T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/?p=16388"},"modified":"2018-04-09T02:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:51:54","slug":"oops-i-forgot-about-her-foot-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/2016\/01\/oops-i-forgot-about-her-foot-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops\u2014I Forgot About Her Foot Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll bet you’ve done this before. The patient comes in for their regular treatment and spouts off her\u00a0normal chief complaints: Upper back tension. She\u00a0also mentions she have a weird random pain on the top of her right foot for no recognizable reason<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I moved forward\u00a0with my normal appointment flow\u2013graph the patient; treat the points related to the graph; and treatment of\u00a0chronic, neck, back and shoulder pain. Finally,\u00a0I let the patient relax with needles for a bit.<\/p>\n

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When I came back to pull needles I do\u00a0a quick mental slap in the forehead…<\/p>\n

“Oh man, I forgot to focus on the foot pain, and now we are out of time.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first thought I had was to add some Zheng Gu Shui (one of my favorite liniments) to the painful area on the foot. As\u00a0I reach down to palpate the foot so I could put Zheng Gu Shui on it, the patient says:<\/p>\n

“WOW, my foot pain is gone. You didn’t even put needles there. You are amazing.”\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As I offer a quick verbal response…<\/p>\n

“Yep, that acupuncture stuff really works, huh?”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

…the wheels in my brain start turning as I try to analyze WHY the foot pain was gone. I had simply balanced the graph and treated back pain. The fact that the foot pain had disappeared didn’t make sense according to my treatment strategies. There had to be something I was missing. THEN, with a little bit of AcuGraph digging, a light bulb went on. Of course the foot pain was gone.<\/p>\n

I have two\u00a0thoughts as to why this made perfect sense.<\/p>\n

#1: The 80% Rule<\/span><\/h3>\n

Eighty percent of a patients problems resolve by simply balancing the graph. If a channel is deficient, tonify it. If it is excess, sedate it. This simple act of putting the body into balance takes care of “many” overall aches and pains, digestive issues, emotional imbalances, and general little idiosyncrasies within the body.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of this patient’s graph.<\/p>\n

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Nothing specific in this graph really pointed to the foot pain she was experiencing. That’s okay. Simply putting the body in balance takes care of many general problems.<\/p>\n

Points I used to balance the graph:<\/p>\n