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I was wondering if anyone might be aware of other forms of holistic care in Korea. In particular, someone who might be familiar with treating people with hemi-paresis.

To give a brief background of myself, I had a stroke when I was born damaging the right side of my brain. It gave me a mild form of cerebral palsy affecting primarily motor skills on the left side of my body. The hemi-paresis is mild. Most people don't know I have it unless I tell them. But it has caused postural problems as well as some problems with involuntary functions (like digestion).

Chiropractic has been my main form of treatment for the past 20 years. But about 9 years ago, I stated receiving neurological adjustments. Basically, I had adjustments done to only my right side in order to stimulate the left side of my body. Strange as it might sound, it worked quite well. I was more coordinated and my left arm became less stiff.

Other forms of treatment I'd received over the years was physical therapy, orthotics, acupuncture, and more recently since living in Asia; acupressure (Japan), qigong (Taiwan), and recently tried jiap here in Korea.

Jiap seems to have potential, but I have trouble with my left side being massaged without my muscles responding defensively (because of the cp). Jiap is quite intense massage. But it's my understanding that jiap is something like shiatsu, and I have read articles that said shiatsu is used to treat cp. Not sure if anyone can confirm the similarity between shiatsu and jiap.

The other treatments listed above, I either haven't found in Korea yet (except acupuncture, though I'm looking for a better acupuncturist) or they started causing trouble for me (PT felt fine on the days I received treatment, but one or two days later, whatever muscles weren't massaged became really tight. Orthotics started giving me headaches and were not correcting my posture the way they had in the past).

Even neurological chiropractic isn't working as well as it has in the past, either because my chiropractor here isn't really able to perform some of the adjustments correctly, or because there is just an innate problem with adjusting one side all the time. I used to have periodic adjustments to the left side just to balance things out, but it always caused some problems from tightening on my left side, pain in my face, or in some cases, simple partial seizures.
So, kind of a minefield.

If anyone happens to know good practitioners in the fields I've mentioned or know of any other treatments I might look into, I'd really appreciate it. I'm always looking for things that work.

Truth be told, if there were a program like JET or GEPIK in Taiwan, I'd probably have stayed there. I had a good chiropractor and qigong seemed to help quite a bit. But it couldn't do the buxiban (hagwon) thing and life brought me here. Serendipitously, I like it in Korea and really would like to find a way to stay here. This is the most stable environment I've been in in years.

My email is [email protected] or you can pm me.

Thank you.