On the Side: Treatments Given Lying on One Side

Overview

A small group of Neurotherapy (LMNT) points is given with the patient lying on one side: Acid and its mirror Fluid, the two Parkhoo points at the edge of the thigh bone, and the points named for vitamins. In this group, how the patient lies matters as much as the point itself.

Why the position comes first

A body lying on its side is a stack of moving parts. The pelvis can roll forward or back, the upper leg can drop across the lower one, and the shoulder can open or close. Move any one of these and the tissue under the therapist's sole rises, drops, tightens or slackens. Then the point that was meant is not the point that is given.

That is why, in this group, the setting-up is written out in more detail than some of the points themselves. A teaching case makes it clear. A woman with a strong acid picture lay curled up on a cold floor, with her top shoulder rolled forward, and shouted with pain when Acid was given; the point was struck off her card. Weeks later a senior simply turned her shoulder outward and raised the pillows under her bent knee, and the same point, with the same weight, was only uncomfortable.

The pillows: three rules before any point

The first rule covers every treatment in this group: a pillow goes under the head, so that the neck rests straight. Without it the head sags and the neck muscles hold a sideways bend for the whole session. For anyone with neck pain or cervical spondylosis (wear and narrowing of the neck bones), this pillow is compulsory.

The other two rules differ by point, and the difference is the lesson. For Acid and Fluid, pillows go under the bent upper knee and the shoulder is turned outward, so the lower thigh lies clear and does not roll up to meet the sole. For Parkhoo, pillows go between both knees, the knees come up close to the chest and the shoulder leans toward the chest, so the edge of the thigh bone stands out at the hip.

• Pillow under the head — in every side-lying treatment; compulsory in neck pain and cervical spondylosis.
• The upper knee is never allowed to fall below the level of the waist.
• Pillows between the knees are especially compulsory when the thighs are very thin.

Acid, and its mirror Fluid or Alkali

Acid is given with the patient lying on the right side, on the outer side of the lower thigh, travelling from the waist toward the knee with the soft middle of the therapist's sole. It is used to reduce the symptoms the therapy groups under acid in the blood — such as hard stools, a dry cough and burning urine. The thigh that is worked is the lower one, lying along the mat; the upper leg is only parked out of the way.

The instruction itself warns that this point can be very painful, so the pressure is kept very short and the patient is told before the foot comes down. The reason lies under the skin: a broad, tough strap of tissue runs down the outer thigh, and pressing it against bone leaves the tissue nowhere to go. No pressure on a thigh has been shown to change how acid the blood is; what is well known is that a short, strong sensation in one place can quieten pain elsewhere for a while.

Fluid, also called Alkali, is Acid in a mirror: the patient lies on the left side and the left thigh is worked, with the same short pressure. It is meant to reduce the symptoms of alkali in the blood — swelling, thin frequent stools, a watery nose. The therapy's own text adds one honest sentence: this point has not been used so far. That is not a ban; it simply records that the experience behind it is much smaller than the experience behind Acid.

Parkhoo: the edge of the thigh bone

Put a hand on the side of your own hip and stand on the other leg: a knuckle of bone stands out under the palm. That is the top corner of the thigh bone, and the two Parkhoo stations sit at its edge, one above and one below. Rt. Parkhoo is given on the right hip, so the patient lies on the left side; Lt. Parkhoo is the mirror. The side the patient lies on is the side not being treated.

The knees come up toward the chest for a stated purpose: so that it is easy to give the treatment at the edge of the thigh bone. Drawing them up swings that knuckle outward until it stands under the skin. Parkhoo may be given with the foot or the hand. In anyone thin, elderly, frail, on long steroid tablets or on blood thinners, the hand is the right tool. The exact method is taught hands-on in the course.

Under the stations lie tendons wrapped round the bone, with small fluid cushions (bursae) between tendon and bone. This is the commonest site of pain at the side of the hip — and that pain usually does not show on an ordinary X-ray.

The points named for vitamins — and a plain correction

Four points — Folic, Thia (thiamine), B₁₂ and Nia (niacin) — share one set-up. The patient lies on the side with the chest normal and the knees straight with the body, not drawn up, with a pillow between the thighs. They are worked over the same hip area as Parkhoo, and only two things separate them: which side the patient lies on, and whether the pressure moves toward the head or toward the knees. They are given on a set rhythm in which the rests are part of the treatment. Right and Left Vitamin Formation are a gentle clockwise circling beside the knuckle of the thigh bone, given — in the therapy's own words — to take out the pain there.

Now the correction, said plainly. Folic acid, thiamine, vitamin B₁₂ and niacin are nutrients the human body cannot make; that is what the word vitamin means. A point named for a vitamin does not supply the vitamin. What this work can honestly be aimed at is digestion and absorption — the stomach, gut and liver — which is one of the things that decides how much of a vitamin the body takes in from food.

A teaching case shows why this matters. A man on a diabetes tablet for many years came with burning, numb feet and asked for 'the B₁₂ point' so he could stop his tablets. He was sent for a B₁₂ test first; it was low, his doctor started injections, and the digestive work and vitamin-named points were given alongside them. His feet worsened only when he began taking folic acid tablets copied from the word on his card.

• Folate can hide a B₁₂ shortage: the blood picture improves while nerve damage continues. So B₁₂ is checked first.
• B₁₂ trouble can reach the nerves before the blood: numb or tingling feet, unsteadiness in the dark, a burning tongue — with a normal haemoglobin.
• Thiamine shortage is a true emergency: confusion, unsteadiness or eyes that will not move together, after long vomiting, stomach surgery, poor eating or heavy drinking, go to hospital the same day.

When the foot does not go on the thigh

Every point in this group lands on the thigh or the hip, so the same checks come first. A painful, swollen or warm calf or thigh, or one leg swollen and not the other, can mean a clot in a deep vein: nothing is given and the patient sees a doctor the same day. Thin bones, long steroid use, a past fracture from a small injury, frailty, or cancer that may have reached bone call for the hand instead of the foot, lightly, or for leaving the point out.

Key points

• In the side-lying group, the way the patient lies decides which point is really given.
• A pillow under the head is part of every side-lying treatment, and compulsory with neck pain or cervical spondylosis.
• Acid works the lower outer thigh for acid symptoms; Fluid or Alkali is its mirror and has hardly been used.
• Parkhoo sits at the edge of the thigh bone at the hip; the knees come up so that edge stands out.
• A point named for a vitamin does not supply the vitamin; the honest aim is better digestion and absorption.
• Numb feet, a possible clot or thin bones are checked before any foot goes on a thigh.

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