ExclusiveAcupuncture Treatment on Cerebral Palsy

How are you doing? Fine, how are you? Good. Thank you. When he walked into my office, I could tell right away he has cerebral palsy, which means he has damage on his brain. Now, that's why he cannot walk, he cannot talk. And when he walks, he has very rigid muscle tone. He's been through eight surgeries, four in each leg. And then he had ear surgery, and he had four surgeries in both eyes. Now 13, because he recently had another surgery. He came with depression, so I treat him with depression first. Use energy method, which means acupuncture point, needling. We also use e-stem, which means use electricity thing to help him. So he had good response in one week. My wife was pregnant with twins. The doctor saw there was a problem, and they recommended us to have an abortion. I said no abortion. I do not believe in abortion. Unfortunately, two of the babies were born dead, but Matthew got resuscitated. And he survived, weighing a pound and a half. Matthew was alive, and he was only a pound and a half. He was kept at the hospital for three months. After those three months that he was at the hospital, we brought him home with monitors and oxygen to the house. So we had to keep, you know, there was always a nurse coming with us, checking him and all that. They told us that he was going to be a vegetable. He wasn't going to be able to move. He wasn't going to be able to do many things. From the view of treatment with acupuncture and holistic medicine, we believe energy and mind play the role in healing. So Matthew is still in his 20s. He still has tremendous energy in him to heal or to develop in the future. Can you squeeze my hand? This one? Great. Stronger, huh? Yeah. Let's see. Oh, this is much stronger than before. Yeah, it's getting stronger. Getting stronger? Yeah. Oh, you're talking much smoother than before. Yes. In the second week, he had a big response. He was happier than before. He started functioning after three months of treatment with me. He's always shown he's happy. And also, he made progress in his walking, talking, and this physical side, too. The difference between Western medicine and Eastern medicine, Eastern medicine more focused on energy side, and Western more focused on anatomical side. So for Matthew's case, the damage is mainly on the head, cerebral, which means the brain, big brain here, and damage. So to help him to recover, we use a Chinese medicine way to stimulate the nerves through peripheral, not directly to the brain tissue there, but through the body connected to the brain. My sisters, my parents, all the love that we have for him keeps us moving forward but help giving us the strength to push him go forward as well. He changed our lives. I think through him, we have become better persons and better parents. It was a new experience, a challenging experience, but at the same time, we're graceful that we have him. He's recovering now to himself. It's a whole family. His mind connected, not just how we think, also connected with environment. So environment, including people like family members, like the people who treat him, like his doctors, his rehab, nurses, and other people, even include in the college or in his playing place. So it's holistic, means it's a group who surround him, provide support, provide energy, or sometimes positive energy, sometimes negative energy, which means sometimes we see a positive word that give him a big encouragement, and that can help him. But if sometimes we see negative words, like the doctor say, oh, you don't have much progress after you turn into 20, that's going to become very depressive word for him. Luckily, he's healing very good due to acupuncture because they just did the surgery and I was left in the limbo. Like, what do I do? How do I take care of him? But thanks to acupuncture, he's coming along. He's doing a lot better and he's healing amazingly. So I'm very thankful for that and I'm very grateful for acupuncture because honestly, it has helped me as a person. I'm beginning to feel whole.