Ankle Point

From Uncommon Problems

Questions students ask

1. I am nineteen and this article feels like a list with nothing to hold on to. How do I learn it? By the problem, not the name. Ask yourself what walked in: an arm that will not lift after a blow → Rocket. A womb that has descended → P point and (6) WD. A leg that slipped and a sharp groin pain → Superfast, on the other side. A hand closed since a stroke → Paralysis clockwise and Shukla. The earlier articles were learnt by walking down a body; this one is learnt by walking down a list of troubles.

2. I am a retired bank manager learning this for my wife, who is seventy and has thin bones. How much of this article is open to me? Less than half, and that is the correct answer rather than a disappointing one. Shukla is closed — the material names osteoporosis and says do not give it. Katka, Motor neuron point and P point are closed, because each carries a jerk. Abdomen setting is closed if a spinal bone has already crumbled. What stays open is a great deal: Vasanti, Feather touch, Ankle point, Paralysis clockwise, Sangam, Ton 'T'. Learn those to a high standard.

1. 3. T8 has no count and Knee cap free had none either. What am I supposed to do? Two different answers, and each entry tells you which. Where the entry states an aim you can feel — the cap loose, the ankle tissue loose — the aim is the count. Where it states only press and release, as T8 does, the therapy's standing unit applies: six seconds. See also → Six Seconds, "Six Seconds".

4. I am a physician. What is actually being claimed by Down arrow and Up arrow — that a stroke along the back alters the fluid in the inner ear? Separate the parts, as you would anywhere else. The clinical distinction the entries draw is a real one and drawn more carefully than you might expect: Meniere's disease genuinely is understood as a disorder of too much fluid in the inner ear. The claim of effect is the therapy's own, made from a long clinical experience, and you are entitled to hold it as unproven. What is not in dispute is that a dizzy patient is usually a guarding patient, and that a long, slow, even stroke along the spine reliably reduces that guarding. Be honest with a patient about which of those you are promising.

5. Why is Motor neuron point called that if it is not a treatment for motor neurone disease? Because it lies over the stretch of the spinal cord from which every nerve of the arm departs, and those cells are motor nerve cells. It is an anatomical name, not an indication — like T8 or Ankle point. The material never claims the disease; it names the place and then spends most of its eight lines telling you to be careful. Never let a family hear the name as a promise.

6. I am a village therapist with one mat and no spare pillows. Can I give Katka with the usual one and a half? No. The four pillows are part of that treatment, not part of the furniture: three under the chest and one under the chin, and then the three-finger gap checked by hand. Without them the patient's chin goes down onto her own windpipe while you deliver a jerk. If the pillows are not there, the treatment is not given today. Write on the card why.

1. 7. A patient wants me to make the click come. It came last week and she liked it. Then tell her what the material says, which is sometimes a slight sound may come from this. Sometimes. It is not the treatment and it is not a measure of the treatment. A therapist adding force to produce a noise has left the instruction behind — and the same entry says only a mild jerk is to be given.

8. I have no science at all. Why does pressing a calf help a swelling in the scrotum? I will give you the honest version, because you will be asked it. The material's claim is that such a patient has a great deal of pain at that place in the calf, and that relieving it helps. The relief in the calf you will see for yourself in ten minutes. Whether the swelling changes is a separate question and belongs to a doctor who can examine it. Give the point; make the referral; do not join the two sentences together.

9. Opposite point says right hand to left leg. Why not right hand to left hand? Because the entry says diagonal and spells it out twice so that nobody takes the easy reading. Right hand ↔ left leg; left leg ↔ right hand. And its practical value is in the patients for whom the affected limb cannot be touched at all — plastered, freshly operated, too painful — where the atlas would otherwise close and this rule keeps it open.

1. 10. Our card says Ton. Nothing else. Can I just give both? No. They are two treatments with a restriction attached to one of them, and Ton 'P' is not given to a woman who wishes to become a mother. Go back and ask which was meant. A code with the discriminating letter missing is not a prescription. See also → The Record That Shows the Truth, "The Record That Shows the Truth".
2. 11. A woman came for Abdomen setting and stopped me at the third movement. Do I finish it next time from where I stopped? No — you begin it again from the butterfly. These four are a sequence and each prepares the one after it. And find out what stopped her: a movement that meets a wall has reached its end for today, and a movement that meets a wince has reached somebody else's question.
3. 12. How often should Katka and Motor neuron point appear on my records? Rarely. That is the whole force of use only after much thought. If you look at three months of your own cards and find either of them given routinely, something has drifted — not in the material, in you.

Also explained in

• Introduction Uncommon Problems

  Give Ton 'P' and Ton 'T', whose three rubs are identical and whose counts are not, the Sangam points that follow one of them, the Ankle point, and Feather touch.

• How this article is arranged, and how to stand Uncommon Problems

  Where the therapist is Named in Sitting at the patient's head Down arrow Supine Seated Sitting at the patient's waist Up arrow Supine Beside the patient, hands only, no chairs Lower shoulder blade pain Prone · Pa

• SHUKLA — the wrist and the ankle, four ways each Uncommon Problems

  Vasanti, Feather touch, Ton 'P' and Ton 'T', Sangam points and Ankle point — the tail of the atlas, with the four numbers that are the whole difference between the two Ton treatments and the counts of the three confluenc

• T8, Rocket, Katka — and how these names were made Uncommon Problems

  Ankle point.

• After the treatment is over Uncommon Problems

  Ankle point: fingers rotated clockwise all around the skin of the ankle, outside first, then inside, so that the tissue underneath becomes loose, on the leg which has the problem.

• The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand

  Code Full name / Hindi Where it is taught in this wiki Adr Adrenal Face Down Swt Sweat Face Down Back Arrow Back Arrow, or Blood supply to lungs Face Down H arrow — Face Down On the spine — Face Down Beside the spine — Face Down Round arrow —