Hearing Loss In The Administration
The son asked his mother a question and she answered. Looking at the table nearby, what he saw was somewhat of a 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.
During this occasion, both of them were in a cubicle of an acupuncture center where the mother was placed under a session where four thin needles were used on her jaw and neck by the ears. With a puzzled smile on her face, the mother lay on the examining table. Nothing was the matter for the mother. The aid was on the table the entire time she was having a conversation and this came as a good surprise to all.
A local newspaper ran a report about a center which uses acupuncture, a Chinese method of healing where fine needles are inserted into the body, to treat nerve deafness and this is what caught the attention of the mother and son influencing them to go to Washington from NY. Instead of simply easing one’s pain, acupuncture has now become an ideal cure for bouts with 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. Caused by diseases and the like, this treatment cannot do anything for other kinds of hearing loss problems.
One doctor responsible for the acupuncture treatments guards his patients against false claims about the procedure, his interest in the method grew when his family was exposed to it during a trip to Argentina. They usually get 75 to 80 per cent improvement in about eight treatments. The improvement often is less with older people. Children from 7 to 12 years of age almost always regained full hearing abilities. Further acupuncture sessions may be required to heighten the benefit of the procedure.
Other patients were getting treatments done while waiting outside for his tenth treatment was the US deputy undersecretary of labor for legislative affairs. A young Montanan that he is, his job is to provide precise and unemotional reports to the Administration with regard to the chances for passage of legislation affecting the Labor Department not to mention the mood of Congress. He lost the hearing in his left ear in 1968 after a virus attack. 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 way for him to handle the situation he thought was permanent was to shuffle people to his right side when they were speaking to him. Hunting is one of the events where his hearing loss becomes distressing and there are numerous occasions when he would fret a loss of hearing in the other ear. Learning about the acupuncture center was met with much speculation. There can be much speculation with such a kind of treatment. This did not prevent him from undergoing acupuncture and his first audiogram showed how there is complete deafness in his left ear.
As the needles were being inserted in his body, his dread for needles kicked in and he backed out of the procedure. Next was the beeping of the audiogram machine. He already underwent nine treatments and he says that he will keep on coming if he notices more changes to his 70 percent recovered hearing.
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