Pin and needles and numbess of Toes

For numbness and tingling along with pins & needle sensation I've combined points such as Bafeng or Ba Xie (extra points) and added scalp acupuncture as well. Combining this along with certain points according to your diagnosis is highly effective. Some of my patients have reduce occasions of numbness, tingling sensations after using these points.

To prove the sciatic pain, you must do the test of "lasegue sign", before the test, you can not make any diagnosis. For my experience, sciatic pain can be anyway of feeling on the feet, you can not make a diagnosis only by the patient feeling complain, sometimes it may be a mistake feeling, because the sciatic pain on the nerve transfer could be any direction on the leg and feet, you must check the body to prove the diagosis even do the CT scan to advance diagnosis. Please google the "lasegue sign" and "sciatic diagnosis". To be a quality practitioner, please don&#39t follow the patient&#39s feeling, you should use the correct way to check and prove it and make a diagnosis!

For back sprain I have treated several patients effectively with the points H9 and Si3. For numbness and pinning sensation in foot UB66 (urinary blabber) and St41 will be effective.

Hi, Rachael:

I tell you the truth, the spinal nerve root of L5 control the feeling of first, second and third toes and shin. The Straight leg raise, also called Lasègue&#39s sign, Lasègue test or Lazarević&#39s sign, is a test done during the physical examination to determine whether a patient with low back pain has an underlying herniated disk, mostly located at L5 (fifth lumbar spinal nerve). Basic on the patient had accident on back 3 month ago, so I strongly recommend you do the Lasegue sign or Straight leg raise. With the patient lying down on his/her back on an examination table/or exam floor, the examiner lifts the patient&#39s leg while the knee is straight. If the patient experiences sciatic pain when the straight leg is at an angle of between 30 and 70 degrees, then the test is positive and a herniated disc is likely to be the cause of the pain. Sciatica ( /saɪˈætɪkə/; sciatic neuritis) is a set of symptoms including pain that may be caused by general compression or irritation of one of five spinal nerve roots that give rise to each sciatic nerve, or by compression or irritation of the left or right or both sciatic nerves. The pain is felt in the lower back, buttock, or various parts of the leg and foot. In addition to pain, which is sometimes severe, there may be numbness, muscular weakness, pins and needles or tingling and difficulty in moving or controlling the leg. Typically, the symptoms are only felt on one side of the body. Pain can be severe in prolonged exposure to cold weather. For the answer of Lasegue sign test, you should answer "positive" or "negative", this is the professional answer.

Hello

According to Traditional chinese acupuncture, in point combination the first principle is local and distal points. I have noted that you don´t even use local points.

What I´m going to propose is a different metodology to select points. Instead of choosing acupoints accordind to syndrome differentiation (that is not even the correct way in TCM) try to think in terms of nervous system.

The local points continue to be the best and extremely important points such as bafeng should be used.

Then you have other points as ST41, GB40, GB41 and the shixuan if necessary.

as distal points ST36, GB34 and BL39 are extremely importante.

If you wish to use points in lower back you should focus on huatuojiaji for the foot.

After this selection you should start think in eletric stimulation.

Hi, Rachael:

How did you do the "Lasegue Sign"? "Straight leg test" or "Straight leg raise test"? What do you mean: "This was fine, not pain at all"? What was fine? Where not pain at all? I think you should transfer the patient to M.D. for diagnosis.