Neck Pain Acupoints

Neck pain stinks. I know because I used to experience it a lot. Typically, the pain or energy patches used in the typical Haltiwanger Cross that comes with the brochure will produce immediate pain relief. However, there are times when you may not experience pain relief from doing that, so today I’d like to share with you specific acupoints that can be used specifically to help with neck pain. I’ve researched these because my neck pain does not respond to the typical Haltiwanger Cross, so I’m right there with you if you’re experiencing this.

Here are the acupoints to try. Unfortunately, I do not have pictures for all these placements at this time, but if you click here, you can look these points up at this website. It gives great information, and I utilize it a often.

1) You can try a carnosine patch on the CV7 acupoint. This point is
located on the back of your neck, right where that bulge is. The
carnosine patch has sedating qualities.

2) Energy or pain patches can be tried on Large Intestine 4 or 5. These
points are located on the hand between the webbing of the thumb and
index finger.

3) Pain or energy patches can be tried on Gallbladder 43 or 44. These
points run right along the top of the foot, near the outside, right
below the pinky toe.

4) Icewave or Energy Enhancer patches can also be tried on Small
Intestine 3. This point is on the outside of the hand, right near the
pinky bone on the outer hand. It’s not a convenient location to keep a
patch on, but if it works from you, use some extra tape.

Other things you can try would be to put the tan patch on the right side of the body and the white patch on the left side of the body. Normally, the patches are supposed to be worn the other way, but this can have pain relieving effects. Also, trying the white patch on the opposite side of the body from the pain.

With neck pain, there’s a lot of yang energy up in the head and neck area, so points on the feet often help because we want to draw that yang energy away from the head and neck and by extension, areas of pain. We are trying to sedate the yang meridians, so trying the carnosine patches on any of the yang meridians may also produce pain relieving results. See picture below for yang meridians.

As you can see, there is a margin of trial and error because everyone’s energy is unique, and it’s constantly flowing or moving through the body. Try these points and see if they work for your neck pain.

If you’d like further assistance, don’t hesitate to send us an email. We’d be glad to help. blitzthewave@gmail.com