novelraw Chapter 335 - 178: Worries and Treating on Behalf of the Teacher (Part 3)
Chapter 335 - 178: Worries and Treating on Behalf of the Teacher (Part 3)
Based on Li Jingsheng’s experience, under normal circumstances, it is quite difficult for a patient to sprain the joint between the sixth and seventh vertebrae.
This is because the cervical spine has a specific characteristic of getting thicker from top to bottom.
The top is thin, and the farther down it goes, the thicker it gets.
The cervical spine is also the most flexible vertebrae in the human body, as well as the one with the strongest bearing capacity.
It supports the entire head of the human body, allowing the head to turn flexibly, bow, or look up.
The workload is astoundingly large.
"I accidentally sprained it while sleeping."
The man’s expression was a bit unnatural.
"Did you fall off the bed? It’s badly injured, you must be careful!"
Li Jingsheng even thought the woman was lucky; with such an injury, losing her life was possible.
"I didn’t fall, he did this."
The woman spoke with a trace of sobbing.
"Did you hit your wife?"
Li Jingsheng’s tone hinted at shock, and his gaze at the man became much colder.
"No, no, how could I bear to hit her? It was just accidental."
The man hastily waved his hand in denial.
His expression didn’t seem like he was lying.
The woman blushingly.
"Xiaoli, stop asking, see if it can be treated."
Doctor Xu noticed something amiss nearby and quickly stopped his apprentice from further questioning.
He understood Li Jingsheng’s intention; if there was domestic violence, Li Jingsheng would definitely want to help the woman call the police or contact the women’s federation.
As an old doctor in his fifties, he could tell at a glance that the woman was not injured due to domestic violence.
"Sir, his wife probably needs a massage treatment. Please guide me if you can."
Li Jingsheng unabashedly asked his teacher for guidance in front of the patient and the family member.
"This massage is quite difficult; your thumbs press on this position while the other four fingers grip her neck from both sides, yes, just like that..."
Doctor Xu looked at him with slight surprise, then carefully guided Li Jingsheng on how to operate.
Initially, due to technical unfamiliarity, Li Jingsheng’s massage effects were extremely poor.
After multiple tries, he failed to achieve desirable results.
"Can you treat her or not?"
The man was somewhat impatient, his tone becoming unpleasant.
"Her injury is at the sixth and seventh vertebrae joint, which makes the treatment’s difficulty and risk quite high, please be patient." Li Jingsheng explained with a smile.
"Why not let your teacher operate? Knowing it’s dangerous and difficult, yet you let a young doctor handle it, is this not inviting trouble?"
The man’s dissatisfaction originated from this.
No one wants their wife to be a guinea pig for a doctor’s practice.
"My teacher is unwell and unable to do such strenuous work."
"How do I know if that’s true? Can you treat her or not? If not, we’ll go elsewhere for treatment."
The man apparently didn’t trust them.
"If you are willing, I can try again. If not, you may go elsewhere."
Observing the man’s attitude, Li Jingsheng directly ceased treatment.
"Why argue with the doctor? If you don’t have it treated here, you’ll need surgery elsewhere. You’ve already asked." The woman scolded her husband seeing the doctor was displeased. "Go wait outside, I’ll come out once I’m treated."
"Just worried the young doctor’s skills aren’t good enough and might hurt you!"
The husband defended himself with grievances.
"Go wait outside, do you hear?"
The woman’s tone was angry.
"Fine, fine, I’ll wait outside for you, call me if anything comes up. Be gentle, don’t hurt my wife."
Eventually, the man obediently left to wait outside.
He didn’t sit but stood outside the clinic, craning his neck to look inside.
Obviously, the man loved his wife very much.
Given his obesity and age of over thirty, unless extraordinarily rich, it’s tough to find a wife.
Li Jingsheng continued the massage under the guidance of Doctor Xu.
If it wasn’t for his serious expression and concentrated demeanor, one might think he was taking advantage of the female patient.
Time ticked away slowly, the patients outside gradually became impatient.
Nurse Li Li worked hard to appease them.
No matter how difficult, Li Jingsheng never asked Doctor Xu to operate. Previously, faced with such cases, he would’ve handed them over to Doctor Xu.
Most of the time, when it could be pushed, it was pushed.
Finally, under immense pressure, his potential was completely forced out.
After almost forty minutes, exhausted with sweat, and sore hands.
He finally mastered the basic essentials of massage.
In the skill bar on the attribute panel.
Massage Entry Level 0/10.
Finally, the Entry Level achieved.
Traditional Chinese bone setting techniques mainly involve holding, lifting, pressing, touching, connecting, rubbing, pushing, and grasping.
You can see, massage covers four of these.
It’s the most challenging technique among all advanced bone setting methods.
Its difficulty even surpasses Bone Touching Skill.
Accomplishing a significant breakthrough in such a short time and reaching Entry Level was forced out.
It also contained Li Jingsheng’s filial affection for his mentor.
"This settles it!"
A hint of a smile appeared on Li Jingsheng’s lips, having learned and mastered all eight advanced bone setting techniques.
Never again need to worry about encountering cases in the ’shortcoming’ field of bone setting.
In fact, many high-difficulty bone setting cases require massage techniques.
Spent 100 life points, upgraded massage to Master Level.
Originally planned to upgrade to Minor Achievement level, but didn’t have enough life points.
Only earned 43 life points today.
Total balance is less than 400.
After upgrading massage from Entry to Master Level, he found a leap in skill use and understanding.
Push, how much force needed, from what angles, using a finger or both thumbs or palm pressure, bi-directional cooperation, etc., he’s mostly mastered these profound skills.
Similarly for the high-level skills of grasp, press, rub.
Normally requires thousands, tens of thousands of practices to possibly comprehend.
Now, directly accomplished.
He tried again to massage the female patient’s cervical vertebrae.
Easily repositioned the dislocated vertebrae to the correct position, the local hematoma’s swelling mostly reduced after prolonged massage, neck muscles also greatly relaxed.
"Relax, relax!"
Li Jingsheng held the patient’s neck, assuming a stabilizing stance, with the other hand holding her forehead.
Based on feeling, gradually applying more force backward.
"Crack!"
Not a neck break, but the dislocated vertebrae successfully returned to position.
The female patient’s husband rushed in.
The heart reached his throat upon hearing the crisp "crack".
"Wife, are you alright?"
"Alright, my neck is finally healed! I can look up at things again. Always keeping my head down was dizzying."
The female patient beamed with extreme delight.