Sorry, it will be a long post but when this subject comes, I always speak about my experience and I know it helped many other people.
9 years ago, suddenly I felt irresistible pains on my right arm and my 4th and 5th fingers did closed in. Going to several hospitals and doctors I have learned that I had “ulnar tunnel syndrome” where the ulnar nerve was blocated on my elbow and wrist. As all the neurologists told me no other way than being operated from these 2 points, the orthopedists were telling me need to be operated from my neck. Of course I was confused and lost my confidence to the doctors.
I have read all the documents available about this problem and found out bitterly that the medical world do not have enough knowledge about nerve problems. That time I became a member of a patients forum and have discussed with hundreds of patients who had been operated and became worse.
Both operations were very risky due to having other nerves being injured and loosing all the hand functions.
I was so lucky to met a Chinese man, who made an unbelievably good massage to my arm and hand for 20 sessions during a month. I was feeling his fingers inside of my body and at the beginning tears were coming from my eyes. But after 5-6 sessions I became addicted to his treatment which gave me a good relief. I was feeling how he changed the positions of some muscles along my arm and replacing them back.
After 1 month and still all is ok with my right hand. That time he explained to me with his very poor english that he had studied this in the university and what he did was a kind of “acupuncture without needles”.
That days, I met a women on the street, with her right hand compleately closed and she was having pains. She said that happened when she gave birth a few days ago, and now the doctors tell her to get operated. This Chinese man, opened her hand with one massage session.
Many people asked from those forum the name of this massage and I scanned them some information written in Chinese, by him. Later I received 8 times “thanks” mails from Americans, who went to Chinatown with this paper to find a practiser and they really had their problem solved.
The sad point is; 4 years ago I got the same problem, this time to my left hand and I had no Chinese man here to help me. I tried lots of massage institutes with no help. Lastly I found out that they use the same massage system here in the “school of blind people” (they say blind people can make good massage because they feel through their fingers). They gave me almost the same massage but a very very SOFT version and my hand is better than before but still have continuous pains and deformation, which I got used to live with it.
When I asked them, pls pls push more hard, they said “yes we know that we make it too soft because we are not fully experts on this and making a mistake will cause bad consequences, only in China they give education on this.”
So; a good massage made by an expert is something very very important and can be solution to many problems.
