I am going to say, I love Ear Acupuncture!
Like many NDs, I periodically return and reacquaint myself with older modalities. Many of you may remember my earlier days in 2010 and 2011 when I primarily used Auricular medicine as a diagnostic tool. I recently was faced with a number of chronic pain clients in my practice, and have returned to one aspect of Auricular Medicine, Auriculotherapy, for the treatment of these cases.
One patient had a case of sensitivity and pain in his legs due to a disk protrusion in his spine. While treating locally tense muscles, I focused on using auriculotherapy (or Ear Acupuncture) to treat the disk protrusion.
After his first session, he reported an improvement in pain, less nerve tingling and a very interesting phenomenon. When one of the ear seeds I placed on his ear fell out, he continued feeling a pressure there for several days.
Over two other weekly body and ear acupuncture sessions, weve been able to resolve much of the rest of his pain.
Imagine it. Ear acupuncture was able to help a pain originating from a disk bulge, which normal acupuncture owuld only have been able to temporarily relive..