[rscowboy, where do they place the needle in your body? Is the neuropathy in your feet? I'm very interested in leaning more about this treatment and jumping on this bandwagon....Lord knows nothing else is woking!

***She uses between 20 and as many as 40 needles in a session. Chi energy flows along certain pathways and the needles adjust the flow. At the beginning she would put a needle in my foot and I would have a twinge in my back. General placement -- on top of my head, in the ears, crook of the arm, by the thumbs (it is bi-lateral placement, so on both sides), knees, shins, tops of feet, belly. Sometimes I will be on my back and she'll place back of head, neck, lower back.

*** Because she has treated me for a while (and takes good chart notes), she's familiar with my body and even works around an old back injury (that I've always thought may be implicated).


*** Someone else said they do monthly treatments; I go no longer than a week between treatments. As you do it more (and, perhaps because of my tai chi), you become aware of your chi and its flow.

CB