I will let my patient tell her story:

"I am a 79 year old woman with Stage I spondylolisthesis at L 4-5. Right spine and right ankle pain kept me uncomfortable during the day and awake at night. Worst of all was the dagger in the Right buttock at the piriformis muscle.  I also had a lot of pain at the left side of my neck below the ear.  Often I wore my surgical corset and took Tylenol and Aleve and force myself to walk in pain.  Sometimes I could not walk more than 60 feet before pain made me stop. In desperation, I scheduled for spine surgery. Then my daughter, who is a physician, gave me valuable information and advice and I decided to pursue healing with natural and alternative medicine. I cancelled the surgery and started to get acupuncture from Lok Kwan.

Lok Kwan followed a protocol used by the Mayo Clinic in an ongoing study of the efficacy of acupuncture for spondylolisthesis. Lok Kwan told me it was a tried and true protocol that involves needling the lumbar points along the Bladder Channel followed by flexion traction of the spine. The only thing he did differently was that he did the flexion traction by hand rather than with a machine. Doing it manually gave him continuous feedback so he could fine tune the treatment.

In August 2018, I started to receive this treatment from Lok Kwan 2x/week. After eight weeks of acupuncture treatment the pain in the right buttock muscle diminished from intolerable to almost nothing.  Pain in neck almost disappeared. I still see Lok Kwan twice a week. I keep daily notes to keep track of my progress and effectiveness of the treatment. I continue to gain strength, balance and comfort from treatment to treatment. I am very happy with my decision not to have the operation and chose acupuncture instead."