Replying to a question from the son was his mother. He considered what he saw by the table beside her to be a miracle. The hearing aid of the mother lay there. The son realized that after 15 years his mother can finally hear his voice without the need for the hearing aid she had.
Son and mother were both in an acupuncture center where the mother was undergoing a treatment at the time with four needles ending up inserted on the sides of her jaw and neck by her ears. You could say that the mother had a questioning smile on the examining table. It was her who said that things were great. At the time, they thought that her aid was worn because voices were not raised but they saw it on the table.
A local newspaper ran a report about a center which uses acupuncture, a Chinese method of healing where fine needles are inserted into the body, to treat nerve deafness and this is what caught the attention of the mother and son influencing them to go to Washington from NY. This is where acupuncture surpasses the purpose of alleviating pain and becomes a cure for deafness.
Consider that cure only applies to the condition of nerve deafness though. Treatment comes with audiometer results for before and after the method. Only nerve deafness can be treated with acupuncture and from the population of people with hearing loss about 35 to 40 percent suffer from this. There is no benefit for persons whose deafness was caused by punctured ear drums, disease and other causes.
When his family underwent acupuncture sessions in Argentina the doctor grew interested in the method, he is careful so as not to make any claims towards his patients that were larger than life. They usually get 75 to 80 per cent improvement in about eight treatments. A decrease in improvement can be seen with older people. Often possible for 7 to 12 year olds is getting their full hearing abilities back. Boosting the effects of the procedure is possible when people get more treatments afterwards.
Waiting for other patients to finish their sessions was the US deputy undersecretary of labor for legislative affairs who was waiting outside for his tenth treatment. Precise and unemotional reports were supplied to the administration by this young Montanan focusing on the mood of Congress as well as the chances for passage of legislation affecting the Labor Department. Due to a virus attack in 1968, he lost hearing in his left ear. According to him the diagnosis he was given was that of nerve deafness but there was no cure. Hearing aids were utilized but all efforts were failures.
He would shift people to his right ear in order to hear them when they spoke and this became his way of adapting to his permanent condition. There were times when his hearing loss proved to be much of a hassle like in hunting and he would always fear a loss of hearing in the other ear. Reading about the opening of the acupuncture center did nothing for him. Simple cures like this one can easily result to doubt in people. This did not prevent him from undergoing acupuncture and his first audiogram showed how there is complete deafness in his left ear.
Nothing could be done but to back out after a few needles were inserted because he had a well developed dread of needles. What happened was the audiogram machine began to beep. Focusing on achieving more improvement to his 70 percent hearing recovery he says that he will be continuing on his nine treatments done.