M shoulders have been stiff for years. I used to think the solid lump back there was simply a strange bit of bone structure I'd got somehow. In fact, I'd had my shoulder problem for so long that I had come to accept it as a fact of life.
All that began to change one afternoon a couple of weeks ago, when I had my first-ever shinkyu(acupuncture-moxibustion) treatment.
I was aware of shinkyu and knew it was all about balancing the flow of ki (the source of life), ketsu (blood), and sui (body fluid) by stimulating the body's pressure points. But I didn't really take it very seriously until a friend told me how a course of acupuncture had improved his eyesight and another said it reduced her elbow pain.