For the First Time in Fifteen Years

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By Abigail Perez


One mother answered her son's question. Beside her mother was a table on which he saw what a minor miracle was. It was his mother's hearing aid on the table. It was the first time in 15 years of using a hearing aid that his mother heard his voice without any necessary assistance.

Son and mother were both in an acupuncture center where the mother was undergoing a treatment at the time with four needles ending up inserted on the sides of her jaw and neck by her ears. On the medical examining table, she was sporting a look of surprise. The mother assured that she was okay. The aid was on the table the entire time she was having a conversation and this came as a good surprise to all.

Using a couple of fine needles in the body, the Chinese method of acupuncture has been used by the center to heal nerve deafness and this was what brought the duo to Washington all the way from NY after a local newspaper published the report. Instead of simply easing one's pain, acupuncture has now become an ideal cure for bouts with deafness.

Using the term cure is only acceptable when referring to nerve deafness. It is possible to give audiometer findings before and after treatment. Only nerve deafness can be treated with acupuncture and from the population of people with hearing loss about 35 to 40 percent suffer from this. No benefit can be gained from this by a person with hearing loss that is due to diseases or punctured ear drums.

With regard to the doctor's fascination with acupuncture everything can be attributed to a family trip in Argentina where everyone experienced the procedure, he is always cautious with the patients he accepts not presenting any inflated claims. Eight treatments should be accomplished for an improvement of 75 to 80 percent. A decrease in improvement can be seen with older people. 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.

Procedures were being done on other patients while waiting for his tenth treatment outside was the US deputy undersecretary of labor for legislative affairs. Other then give precise and unemotional reports to the Administration on the mood of Congress, the young Montana also needed to give similar reports when it came to the chances for passage of legislation affecting the Labor Department. A virus attack in 1968 led to hearing loss in his left ear. From his doctors came the diagnosis of nerve deafness but they provided no kind of cure. Even all types of hearing aids were used to no avail.

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. There were times when his hearing loss proved to be much of a hassle like in hunting and he would always fear a loss of hearing in the other ear. At first, he doubted all of the abilities of the acupuncture center. A cure as simple as what they promise is unbelievable. Anyways he opted to try acupuncture out and his initial audiogram reading came out registering complete deafness in his left ear.

He had what he calls well developed dread of needles and blacked out when the first acupuncture needles were inserted. The audiogram machine began to beep. More treatments will be obtained if he sees improvements and so far there have been nine treatments with 70 percent of hearing regained.




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