"When she came in, I honestly thought she was dead in the box. She was comatose. She was knocked out cold," Slater said. "I noted that she could not move one leg, and yet she could move her wings and she could use the other leg." Slater said they decided to wait and see what happened. After a week, there was very little progress. "An owl that can't move a foot can't survive in the wild," Slater said. With progress at a stand-still, it seemed the only option left was euthanasia.
Until a veterinarian friend suggested acupuncture. "I said, 'Well it can't hurt!'" Slater said. "I contacted Dr. [Karen] Hooks in Little Rock and I said, 'I got this really weird situation, you want to give it a try?' And she said, 'Sure lets try it.'" Enola rests on her back during the treatments with no anesthesia, and stays perfectly still, as if she understands. "We went for our first treatment and about a week after our first treatment I saw the foot move a little bit," Slater recalled. "I said, 'Hey we have some response!' Is it because of the acupuncture? Who knows. Is it because it's just time? There is no way to prove it."
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Enola has progressed from being unable to stand, to now being able to stand and perch on a branch. "She can actually move her foot some, and she's even self-feeding," Slater said. She wasn't even able to feed herself." Slater said it takes time for the nerves to regenerate or to be re-stimulated, but at this rate, they expect Enola to be releasable in just a few months. "Some people will be naysayers and say, 'That's just time of healing, that would have happened normally,'" Slater said. But then there's no way to test it. There's no way to prove it's one way or another. But it was worth a try."
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And there's no way of testing if it wasn't spells, angels or reiki that healed the owl, either.
Heh heh, this is true!
"It can't hurt".. I suspect if you do it wrong it bloody can. You're deliberately damaging people's nerves after all. Err.. owl's nerves.
Oh, sorry, no, I mean you're aligning their chakras or something. Don't get me wrong, I admit it does work for chronic back pain, however the reasons why it works are distinctly less than mystical.
You're not deliberatly damaging nerves with acupuncture. That's just some wild imagination, it's not how it or nerves work. I actually don't see how it could do damage to the myelin sheath or axons. Anyway, I'm not shocked. I didn't think it was a real thing but helped with my damaged nerves. After year and a half of physical therapy, and only getting worse, maybe 2 months of acupuncture and I could finally use my left arm again, like nothing had ever been wrong, and my right stopped being in the most agonizing pain I could imagine. Didn't get that one back to 100%, but it got it to around 80% from those treatments alone. I feel like this owl.
"Well, i guess stabbing it can't hurt!" - Lynne Slater, executive director of the HAWK Center, almost said.
The credulity is astounding. Quackupuncture, or 'health by a thousand cuts' as i call it, is a known pseudoscience. It's known to not work, but it also necessarily ruptures skin - the organ of the body that's crucial to keeping germs out. Last year, a Swiss Quackupuncturist gave 16 people AIDS - awful and upsetting, but not at all unexpectable!
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/puncturing-the-acupuncture-myth/
http://whatstheharm.net/acupuncture.html
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