Finger exercise in treatment of local pain

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share some experience of practical medicine with you.

This springtime some colleagues in auricular medicine met in my office in order to exchane experiences with the Lee Filtre Techniques of Vigneron M.D., which were first presented in the Netherlands in october 2000 at a congress of the Goudse Academie. At the exchange occasion, Steven Hofman M.D. showed us 'in the sideline' a treatment technique, using the Vascular Autonomous Signal, investigating fingers and finally a finger exercise. This technique was said to originate from yoga medicine.

I took notice of the finger exercise technique, not so much of the theory behind it. Although it is quite an uncommon action, even now and then raising hilarity and disbelief, I had the guts to try it out in treating patients. Many times not only my patients but even I myself were quite astonished by the good results! ... No more riddles now. I try to explain:

If a patient suffers from some local pain, at least a physiological change - e.g. arousal, pain awareness - and often an anatomic disturbance may be seen. Very often, a change in the morphogenetic field around the affected area can also be detected. Moving Nogiers Nylon Filtre parallel to the body near the affected area elicits a VAS. At the point where such a change in the morphogenetic field can be detected, you can also examine it with seven (!) subsequent fingers: digitus I, II, III, IV and V as well as the dorsum and the palm of the hand. You may find that at some fingers - pointing through the morphogenetic field to the physical effected area - also a VAS can be elicited. Once you find that (e.g.) the thumb and the middle finger of your hand elicit a VAS, you examine more. It is most likely that, pointing one of these fingers, you can elicit a VAS by turning it clockwise, while pointing the other finger will only elicit a VAS on turning it anti-clockwise.

Once you found this, you know that qualities represented by these two fingers are in mutual disbalance. (I cannot fully explain, but Mr. Steven Hofman surely will at some Goudse Academie / Auriculo Platform Nederland occasion.)This disbalance may be one of the components in the local pain that was the paitents reason to consult you.

Subsequently, therapy consists of an exercise in which the patient moves his/her left thumb and right middle finger ten times one around the other, clockwise and anti-clockwise; repeated by the same movements with right thumb and left middle finger.

Note well: It is possible that on examination is found that two or even three fingers react clockwise and two or three other fingers anti-clockwise. In the exercise the clockwise fingers ought to be together turned round the anti-clockwise fingers. If e.g. the index finger reacts anti-clockwise and the dorsum of the hand clockwise, then the exercise consists of making ten circles with the index vinger on the back of the other hand.

After performance of the exercise, I often find no more reaction on Nogiers Nylon Filtre in the local morphogenetic field. Neither a VAS can be elicited any more in examination with the fingers in the morphogenetical field. Some minutes later - but now and then even instantanuously! - the local pain ameliorates or even disappears, at least in cases which respond well to this therapy.

I ask the patient to perform this exercise every morning on awakening and as much as he/she feels that it might be necessary. Usally the exercise shows to be effective during some two or four days. Then it looses action. In the best case, the condition that created or contribituted mostly the original complaint will have vanished.

In my practice nice results were yielded in case of locomotor system complaints such as frozen shoulder syndrome, subacute blunt injuries, chronical knee pain due to severe arthrosis, etc. but also in chronic sinusitis, chronic hyperventilation due to thopracal blockages, paraesthesia due to cervical blockages and phlebitis.

I hope this explanation was clear enough to try it out by yourself. I wish the knowledge pesented will be at your benefit and that of your patients. For further explanation please inform at www.iaam.nl or ask for announcements of lectures within the framework of the Goudse Academie / Auriculo Platform Nederland at: goudseacademie@iveg.nl or info@iaam.nl.

Yours sincerely,

A.C.F.M. (Toine) Korthout, M.D.