Deborah M Culp

US Patent:

57878994, Aug 4, 1998

Filed:

Jul 22, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/681086

Inventors:

Deborah Culp - Chicago IL

International Classification:

A61B 1900

US Classification:

128898

Abstract:

A method of treatment using applied manual pressure to certain key pressure points of the forearms of a human body, in order to relieve pain or discomfort brought on from illness. The method includes manually applying pressure by the hands of a therapist along the forearms of a patient, while the patient clasps his hands and extends his arms outwardly from the body, so as to form a substantially triangular arrangement, with his two arms serving as two legs of the triangular, and an imaginary line from the two elbows. The patient forcefully pushes his hands and arms toward each other while in the triangular arrangement, with such pushing being concentrated at the clasped hands, and specifically concentrated at the metacarpals, and in the chest, and specifically at the sternum. Thereafter, the therapist applies external pressure along the forearms of the patient, or specifically applying manual pressure along each interior forearm with a thumb along the brachioradialis muscles of the radius bone, while simultaneously applying pressure with one or more fingers along the exterior of the forearm along the extenson calpi ulnaris muscle of the ulna bones. The pressure is continuously applied along each forearm, until the elbow.