The major symptoms of this disease are sudden collapse, loss of consciousness, and cold limbs. In mild cases, the period of unconsciousness is short and the patient does not develop hemiplegia, aphasia, or deviation of mouth and eye after recovering consciousness. Heat stroke, hypoglycemia, coma, and psychiatric disorders are all related to shock and can be treated by the following methods.
Applications of hand therapy:
Acupuncture therapy:
At regular and extra acupoints:
Location:
Neiguan (PC6),
Hegu (LI 4) and
Laogong (PC8) acupoints.
Method of manipulation: The needles are inserted and retained for 20 minutes.
At reflective points:
Location: Heart point and liver point.
Method of manipulation: The needles are inserted for 1.6 cm and retained for five minutes.