Sonnalli Seygall recently shared a peek of her ongoing treatment with magnets for a wrist injury. “It would start paining after I did handstands or while I used my phone. I kept doing rehab exercises to strengthen the muscles around it, like my physiotherapist had also suggested. However, over three-four months, it became so bad that one day, my phone fell out of my hand,” she tells us.

Seygall then visited her orthopaedician and was diagnosed with tendonitis. “So, all the exercises I was doing were aggravating it,” she says, adding that she was suggested surgery, but chose to skip it: “I didn’t want to have another surgery on my hand in a span of two years.”

She chose acupuncture to treat the condition. “It helped to a great extent, but the pain relapsed once I resumed my handstands and inversions. I even lost my balance, once, because of the pain,” says the 35-year-old, who then went to a special acupuncture hospital.

“Because of certain health restrictions, we avoided needles and went for electrodes (magnets) on pain points — that is also a type of acupuncture treatment. I also did moxibustion (a branch of acupuncture from Chinese alternative medicine). They burn special herbs in the form of a stick, very close to your pain points. One session was enough to bring the pain down by almost 60%,” says Seygall.