Acupuncture And Hearing Impairments

By Roger Owens


The son asked his mother a question and she answered. Then he looked down at the table beside her and saw what to him was a minor miracle. The hearing aid of the mother lay there. In a span of 15 years, this was the first time she was able to hear her son's voice without any mechanical assistance.

Mother and her son were in one of the cubicles of an acupuncture center and she had just had four thin needles inserted on each side of her jaw and neck near the ears. She was lying on a medical examining table, a quizzical smile on her face. According to her, nothing was wrong. Not raising voices, you would think that her hearing aid was on but there it was on the table beside her.

From NY they went all the way to Washington after reading about the center in a local newspaper, the story was about how they used acupuncture to treat nerve deafness with the Chinese method using fine needles inserted into the body. Usually, acupuncture is meant to alleviate the onset of pain but in this case it cures deafness.

Cases of nerve deafness are the only conditions where the word cure is used. Treatment comes with audiometer results for before and after the method. Acupuncture can only be used to cure bouts with nerve deafness and 35 to 40 percent from those who suffer from hearing loss are affected with this. On the other hand, this method is not suitable for hearing loss problems resulting from diseases and the like.

No patient is accepted without being evaluated and the doctor ensures that no false claims are given to the patients, he actually became interested in the method when his entire family underwent the procedure during a trip to Argentina. Eight treatments should be accomplished for an improvement of 75 to 80 percent. Older people experience lower levels of improvement. One hundred percent of their hearing regained is possible for 7 to 12 year olds. After the initial treatment, follow up sessions done within eight months to a year is valuable.

With others in line for their respective treatments the US deputy undersecretary of labor for legislative affairs waited outside for his tenth treatment. Reports supplied by this young Montanan to the Administration consisted of precise and unemotional ones about the mood of Congress not to mention the chances for passage of legislation affecting the Labor Department. From a 1968 virus attack came about the loss of hearing in his left ear. At the beginning of his nerve deafness diagnosis, there were zero chances of recovery. Numerous hearing aids could not help him with his problem.

The undersecretary said he took the conclusions of his doctors as final and learned to adapt to deafness in one ear, shuffling people who were talking to him to his right side. But the hearing loss was distressing in such activities as hunting and there was a nagging fear of deafness in the other ear. When he read of the acupuncture center opening, he didn't believe in it. Something as simple as that for a cure is rather outstanding. Nevertheless he did not let acupuncture pass and got a preliminary diagnosis of total deafness in his left ear from the audiogram.

As the needles were being inserted in his body, his dread for needles kicked in and he backed out of the procedure. Then the audiogram machined beeped. Regaining 70 percent of his hearing after nine treatments, he vows to keep getting treated as long as further improvement can be seen.




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