HEART DISEASE: EXERCISE FOR HOME TREATMENT – HELP FROM ONE’S SELF
Although manipulative methods are mainly applicable only by another person, there is one limited — but usually effective — technique which the patient may apply to himself. In cases of distressing spasm in the heart region, relief from the pain can often be achieved by the following: With the fingers and thumb of the right hand slightly fanned—each separated from its neighbours by about a finger’s width — rest the tip of the thumb in the notch at the top of the breastbone. The tips of the index and middle fingers will now be found to lie in two shallow, adjacent grooves between the ribs. Pushing the tips of these fingers into the flesh, keep the pressure on firmly for as long as seems necessary to ease the distress. Usually about a minute is enough. Please be quite clear: this is not a curative treatment; it is merely a harmless method of gaining relief.
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