These acupuncture techniques serve to reduce the pain and restore the proper integrity, tonus, and balance of paraspinal musculature, facilitating the adjustment. Treatment of SI joint pain, because of the differing trajectory of the involved channels, leads us to a completely different combination of points. This time we select points of the Gall Bladder channel and take advantage of a peculiar deviation in its course rarely depicted in full in the contemporary acupuncture texts. The channel, however, penetrates internally to the sacrum, descends to the coccyx, passes through the genitalia and, after making a connection to the Bladder channel, resurfaces at GB 30. Only by puncturing both GB 29 and GB 30, together, can we ensure proper energetic irrigation of the SI joint.
Restricted space prohibits accurate and clear depiction of the point loci.
Sean Christiaan Valentine-Marshall, D.Ac., Dipl. All Rights Reserved, Dynamic Chiropractic, 2001.