Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
After extensive spinal surgery being diagnosed with six lower lumber vertebrae and spina bifida occulta in my late 20’s my current surgeon in BKK recently diagnosed and showed me on the X rays that I had arthritis of both hips, the right more pronounced, and latterly the S1 sacroiliac joint. You could see the white build up all round the joints. I am now 64 years of age.
This was starting to give me acute pain when I moved my legs, especially the right leg in the tendons that go from the leg into the groin and transference of pain to right hand side lower back.
I started reading up on the subject and taking a long list of vitamins and supplements and I read that acupuncture can go someway to easing the pain.
Living in Hua Hin now I read that there was an acupuncturist on Soi 51 Petchakasem Rd and made a visit for an initial free consultation.
The practice is owned and operated by Khun Wilawan Chanlek (Chinese Medicine Doctor) ably assisted by Dr. Napich (Kate) Boonyakiat who having spent many years in the USA speaks perfect English.
We discussed my symptoms and she first started to treat my right hip and right leg. She put several needles in various trigger points – I didn’t really feel any of them and then she connected me to electricity and asked me to tell her when I could feel the current like a tens machine. She then left me for between 10 – 15 minutes wired up.
After two or three treatments she then connected needles to certain points down my spine from mid thoracic down the right hip and again attached the current and left me for 10 – 15 minutes.
There is no doubt in my mind that the treatment is working. My mobility is better, the tight thoracic pain is not so extreme and so far it has saved me driving to the hospital in Bangkok to get cortisone and anti inflammatory drugs pumped into my hip and back at 5 times the cost of a whole course of treatments with the Terra Clinic on Soi 51 Petchkasem Rd.
I can highly recommend a visit to the two ladies at Terra Clinic and I will keep going in the hope that the pain will in time desist.
7/3 Soi 51 Petchakasem Rd., Hua Hin, PKK 77110 tel: 099-292-4922 Line @terrapyclinic [email protected]
