Female
I was contacted and asked for a recommendation for an acupuncturist that can treat her family member. Does any have advice about success, treatment frequency and length of treatment for this condition? I would like to pass on any info I can to her. Also, anyone want to take on this case?
Lorne
Hi Lorne,
Thanks for getting back to me yesterday. I've been looking around for a good definition of ataxia, here's a link to the wikipedia page. Our family has the SCA 2 variety of this lovely disorder. The biggest problems are really poor balance (all the time) and slurred speech (usually in the evening).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinocerebellar_ataxia
Thanks for shopping this around, I hope something can be done!
Dizzyness
Sounds like this would be a good case for a scalp acupuncture specialist. If this is a genetic disease, treatment length may have to be indefinant.
There is the Zhu style
http://www.scalpacupuncture.org/
And the Yamamoto Style
http://www.drfeely.com/acupuncture/scalp_1_introduction.htm
As well of course the PRC Chinese Scalp Acu