It relaxed the terrible nervous tension—which was particularly marked along the course of the spine—enabling her to sleep at night, and awake thoroly rested and refreshed in the morning. The writer’s cramp was also completely cleared up. A number of other conditions were also corrected, and the hearing was improved quite 50%.
This lady has since resumed her occupation as a private secretary—a position she was forced by ill health to relinquish more than two years ago—and now writes for hours at a stretch, without any return of the cramp in the hand and arm.
And, most convincing of all, she can now not only pick up, thread, and hold a needle—something she had not been able to do for years—but she can sew steadily for two or three hours, and feel no disagreeable effects from this feminine debauch.
A peculiarly satisfactory characteristic in all these cases is that the improvement is even more apparent the “morning after” than it is immediately after the treatment.
Another case of neuritis in the arm and shoulder (brachial neuritis) for more than six years had been unable to raise his arm higher than the shoulder. For the two months previous to treatment he had been obliged to carry it in a sling. The slightest movement of the arm brought about a paroxysm of agonizing pain.
A number of hollowed-out spring clothespins were clamped on the fingers of the affected arm (see Fig. [13]), and left there for twelve minutes. At the expiration of this time the clamps were removed.
The patient gingerly took his arm from its support, and after a minute or two spent in experimenting with it, moved it freely up behind his head and swung it behind his back in a sweeping motion.
It was subsequently found that this man also had an osteopathic lesion, which was reduced by Dr. Reid Kellogg, and after a few weeks’ “home treatment”—consisting of five minute applications of moderately tight rubber bands around the ends of the fingers—he reported himself as well—and has remained so for more than ten months.
For sciatic neuritis it is found that deep pressures with the teeth of an aluminum or steel comb made upon the toes are much more effective than when made upon the fingers. When pain is most severe on the back of the leg pressures should be made upon the ball (sole) of the foot. (See Fig. [18].) When the front of the leg pains also, the top of the foot should also be pressed.
While we are on the subject of sciatica, I might emphasize the importance of a careful examination of the condition of the wisdom teeth. For very frequently we have found this to be the origin of the sciatic nerve trouble.