Scalp Acupuncture is mostly used for treating strokes. I have treated myself for a stroke and it was the only thing that worked for me to wake up the affected muscles and to help with my vision loss as well. I found that the first 5 months were the most important, where the effects came most quickly (one muscle typically waking up every other treatment) and the effects were more pronounced/easily noticeable. After 5 months, the effects came less often and came less noticeable. The points that work the best were tender on palpation (not painful, and not that tender but more sensitive than other spots) and could also be found with a point locator (Which is useful if the patient can’t talk). Sometimes you may have to stimulate the appropriate area three or four times to see any results. You’ll see the best results right after they get out of the hospital. After 2-1/4 years after my stroke the acupuncture seemed to have quit working at all. That was very frustrating to me, especially since I lost 6 weeks of therapy since the MD at the first rehab facility wouldn’t let me do acupuncture on myself(even though I had 26 years’ experience. Something about liability.) Since I was also doing research for this book I was learning about Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM). I realized that I might be able to use FSM to make the scalp acupuncture work better or start working again. So I bought the equipment (which is quite expensive). I then developed protocols that I thought might work based on my knowledge of how acupuncture works. I then spent several days treating myself with my new protocols before trying acupuncture again. But when I did do scalp acupuncture on myself again, I got results again! In fact, I got results 6 treatments in a row when before even when it was working well I only got four in a row at most! Basically, I treated the sensory and motor area of the brain with frequencies that were supposed to deal with inflammation and chronic inflammation, then used frequencies that are supposed to increase secretions and increase vitality with the aim to make the brain more sensitive to the acupuncture. Then I treated the sympathetic nerves in the scalp which I understand are responsible for making the points tender and electrically more active so it would be easier to find the right points to treat. I also treated the parasympathetic nerves in the scalp to increase secretions and vitality since I know they are the nerves that you stimulate when doing acupuncture (usually)and they send the signals to the brain. So I can now say with some confidence that I must be right in my understanding of how acupuncture works and that the frequencies do what they say in FSM. I suspect that if you treated the brain injury from a stroke right away, you could decrease the amount of cell death by treating for the inflammation and treating for the toxins that are released by dying nerve cells that cause more cell death (and which there are frequencies for). And I believe you could use these techniques to make other acupuncture techniques work better. For example, you could treat the sympathetic nerves in a limb before you treat the limb for numbness with the drum roller, 7 star or plumb blossom. That should work well. The only precaution I know of is you can’t combine electro techniques in the same area at the same time. They will interfere with each other and neither will work. The only down side is the FSM protocols take a fair amount of time to run (the shortest protocol I’ve designed that worked well take about 2 hours and it doesn’t include treating the stroke area itself.) so the treatments will take much longer. But you can significantly speed up the pace of recovery and can get results even in chronic cases where their hope of recovery is gone. The effects of the FSM don’t last long and you must do the scalp acupuncture right after the FSM. Now you must realize that the treatment results with scalp acupuncture will be always be more dramatic right after the stroke. But with the FSM you can get even in chronic cases muscles to wake up, improve vision etc. if only a little at a time. But once a muscle is woken up a little, you can use resistance exercises in PT or OT to increase range of motion and increase strength You should use electrodes (I mostly used 2”x4” oval electrodes) that cover the whole forehead so you’ll cover the nerve foramen (at GB14) so you can get the current through the brain as well as the scalp. The other electrode goes on the back of the neck.
I have had a patient recently who had his right hand injured and he couldn’t touch his pinky to his thumb. The doctors told him he would never regain full control of his thumb. checked the thumb for mechanical problems and found none so then I so I palpated the motor and sensory lines but no tender spots, so I used a point detector and found a point on each line that were for the hand area and needled them and got good qi. I then told him to try it again and he could do it on the first try! Proof again that using a point locator really does work! And I only used the two needles in the scalp. The patient was amazed. I told him to keep on doing it so he could “lock in” that ability in.
There are a few things you probably were not taught about the visual area. For one, the visual field is mapped on the visual area where up is down, and left is, right, etc. Second, there are two more lines that correspond to “What an object is” (called the parietal pathway), and “Where and How an object is” (called the Dorsal Pathway) as shown in the figure below. Knowing this, you can better tailor your treatments. Also, I noticed tender points on a second “Sensory Line”. I sometimes used only tender points on the two sensory lines and still got good results. So even if you are only treating motor problems, use the sensory lines too. I have also used both 0.5 and 1.0 inch needles in a single treatment, especially on the “what” and “where & how” lines with good effect. I mostly did that if I wasn’t finding tender points on those lines. You will also find grooves on the scalp that correspond with the lines in scalp acupuncture.
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