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Shoulder pain when combing the hair. Elbow pain on release of the grip. Knee pain on the stairs. Before you choose a point, you need to know which sinew meridian the pain runs on. This lesson shows the test I use with every pain patient: six phases of movement, and the phase that fails names the channel.
- The lesson (6 minutes, English subtitles): the six phases of movement and the sinew meridian behind each one.
- A one-page chart to keep at the table: six phases, six sinew meridians, one test.
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Why a test and not a point map
The place that hurts is often not the chain that failed.
The sinew meridians overlap. When one of them is disturbed, the pain soon shows up in its neighbors, which is why the textbook point for the painful spot keeps missing. The movement test sorts the problem by function, not by location: start, turn, stop and hold, bend in, bend and turn in, hold still. Each phase has its meridian.
After the lesson you can run the test on your next patient and name the sinew meridian before you pick up a needle. Which two points to use, on which side, and how to re-test before the patient gets up is the second half of the method, and that is what the full course teaches.
Who teaches this
Dr Michal Richter, MD
Physician and acupuncturist. I have run my own clinic in Katowice, Poland, for 25 years, and I teach only what I use with my own patients. More than 500 practitioners from 17 countries have taken my English courses on smartacu.io.
Every lesson is recorded the way I would explain it to a colleague standing next to the table: what I look for, what I needle, and how I check that it worked before the patient gets up.