Author: Jon Caswell for Stroke Connection Magazine

Ruth had tried acupuncture in the United States with limited results, but “after my first treatment in China, my little finger felt normal for the first time since the stroke. Within 10 days I regained some degree of feeling in my entire right side. Things would go from no feeling, to intense pain, to weighty feeling, to normal.

“When feeling began to return, I was like a kid in a candy shop,” said Ruth. “I would reach out and touch the wall, feel the bumps or the crack where the paint came together. It was remarkable to me.”

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