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New Low Level Laser Therapy Book

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:19:38 +0000

A great new low level laser therapy book has just been published. It is co-authored by two men who produced the first complete laser therapy book for doctors and clinicians over a decade ago.

The title of the new book is: “The New Laser Therapy Handbook“. The authors are Drs. Jan Tunér and Lars Hode. These fellows have been leaders in the the international advancement of this amazing bio-stimulating technology for over a decade.

http://www.prima-books.com/NewLaserTherapyHandbook.php

The New Laser Therapy Handbook

LLLT = Low Level Laser Therapy

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:48:45 +0000

LLLT = Low Level Laser Therapy

Let’s review:

LLLT has been demonstrated to be both safe and effective in cases where biostimulation is deemed helpful. Biostimulation is the stimulation of biological elements and systems. I focus on chronic conditions, as opposed to acute conditions. I have very little experience with acute conditions, because my early personal experiences increased scar tissue deposition, and I only use LLLT for scratches and cuts, but not for anything worse. The same goes for strains and sprains; I do not use LLLT for new strains or sprains. This is because of the risk of too much scar tissue deposition. I know the research shows that it is helpful for such, but it should be done by a sports-related healthcare provider who has experience and training in the use of LLLT on acute conditions.

I don’t usually see those kinds of cases. Regarding the spine, I generally stay away from the spine with LLLT because of the relatively small risk of an aggravation of osteoarthritis. I know that the research says otherwise, but I find that OA generally becomes aggravated when illuminated with LLLT. I must say that I don’t have the best and latest equipment.

Soft tissues are much easier to illuminate with no negatives and reliable positives. Since I am a chiropractor, I am limited to using treatments such as the one below on only myself. It is interesting to me, because I have already treated myself in the past for the same problem.

This is a synopsis of a Russian research paper which demonstrated that LLLT and famitodine was a good combination for treatment of Primary chronic gastroduodenitis (PCG):

[Laser therapy and famotidine in complex restorative treatment of primary chronic gastroduodenitis]

How Dare the Government Interfere With “God”

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:02:22 +0000

OK, the title is “tongue in cheek”, and a bit misleading. Let’s start at the beginning…

In most cases, when you go to a doctor, you are going there to get help for a physical problem. You may not have thought about this, but as a living being, you know deeply that if you are going for healing, you want, must, perceive the goodness and honesty of your doctor. Intuitively, you feel that if you don’t like a doctor, you may have bad luck with him/her. People are in awe of doctors, and awe should be reserved for God only. I am not in the same boat. Because of over 100 years of negativity against chiropractic, most of my new patients come in to me in a cautious way, and I must prove to them that I am “OK”.

The reason we have separation of powers is because our founding fathers were wise enough to know that you can’t trust man with great power, (at least you can’t trust his subconscious.)

I believe that some group outside of medicine should oversee medicine and health-care in general.

Case in point:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100407/ap_on_he_me/us_med_back_surgery_6

The above link goes to a news article which says that Medicare is taking surgeons to task for unnecessary complex back surgeries.

The graph to the right illustrates the numbers of simple vs. complex back surgeries over a six year period.

Here is a quote from the article:

“What’s more alarming is that the findings suggest these more challenging operations are riskier, leading to more complications and even deaths.

“This is exactly what the health care debate has been dancing around,” said Dr. Eugene Carragee of Stanford University Medical Center.

“You have one kind of operation that could cost $20,000 and another that could cost $80,000 and there’s not good evidence the expensive one is being used appropriately in the majority of cases,” Carragee said.

Add to that the expense for patients whose problems after surgery send them back to the hospital or to a nursing home and “that’s not a trivial amount of money” for Medicare, said Carragee. He wrote an accompanying editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association where the federally funded study appears Wednesday.

The cost to Medicare, just for the hospital charges for the three types of back surgery reviewed is about $1.65 billion a year, according to the researchers.”

All year, and longer, radio show hosts all over the country have the conservatives in an uproar about the government stepping in and overseeing this huge drain on our economy. The clarion call: “Nobody should step in between the sanctity of a patient and his/her doctor!”

I am not attacking or accusing here, (I don’t think.) What I do believe is that while people, (and doctors are people,) consciously attempt to do the best thing, they subconsciously make decisions based on subconscious needs.

I believe that some group, outside the field of health care, should step in and control this. If the government is paying the bill, you can bet they will eventually root out a lot of the waste, over time.

Those that say that the government can’t do anything right are blind to their roads, police, municipal maintenance, buses, schools, Medicare, Social Security, fire departments, etc…

There are two types of people in this world: the peacemakers and the finger-pointers. They are inside of each of us. The professional finger-pointers will tell us that the schools are no good, Medicare is in the red, (it’s not supposed to make a profit,) Social Security is going broke, and the list goes on and on.

The extreme of this is that we would have no taxes, none of the above amenities, and survival of the fittest. They are in awe of capitalism, and believe that capitalism and charity would fill the gaps that would be left behind, and we would all be wealthier. Maybe that is somewhat true, but I believe many would be left in abject poverty. We are talking about going back two hundred years in how this country takes care of its citizens.

Without federal re-distribution of wealth, Arkansas would be more like it was one hundred years ago.

Even they, and certainly their offspring, would hate such a situation in short time, if actualized. Such a world may have been good two hundred years ago, but we know a country can do better for its citizens now.

I just read today that 47% of Americans pay no income tax.

A national sales tax to replace the income tax would be more equitably spread, but would increase smuggling. How much? I don’t know, but the taxes on cigarettes have gone up astronomically over the years, and I have heard of almost no smuggling issues.

One more thing about government involvement in health care, there are those who make their living capitalizing on fear to control others. The radical clergy around the world will serve as one example. They whip people up into a frenzy about imagined enemies and threats. I remember sitting in a pretty fundamentalist church in the 1970′s, and the preacher was going on about the “Equal Rights Amendment”, and how we were all going to have to use “unisex” bathrooms. People just eat that stuff up. (No pun intended.) It gives them something to get angry at, and we apparently need that.

But the sky is not going to fall, and you are not going to have to deal with “death panels”. Unless you want something imaginary to get angry at.

Post-Surgical LLLT

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:19:18 +0000

LLLT and Wound Healing

In my book, I make a number of “predictions”. Among them is this one: within 100 years, all surgeries will be preceded or followed by a short illumination with low level laser (LLLT). Here is just one more new salvo:

The role of laser biostimulation in early post-surgery rehabilitation and its effect on wound healing.

I think they should have used lower dosages though.

The Resurrected Cross

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:25:55 +0000

I divurge…

As I was home today because of the snow, I had some time on my hands. I have been thinking about finding a good symbol of the cross. One that segways from the fearful focus on the means, to a joyful focus on the ends > The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who continues to pull for us.

I haven’t pulled out Photoshop for anything creative lately, so I did. I am happy with the result, so I figured I would place it in my blog:

Resurrected Cross

Please feel free to copy or link to the above image if you find it useful for your project. It is public domain, free to use.

Nobel Prize for Phototherapy, (Light Therapy)

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:23:25 +0000

Phototherapy

Light Therapy

If you would like to read about the man, Niels Ryberg Finsen, who received a Nobel Prize in 1903 for his discoveries and achievements in Light Therapy (Phototherapy,) here is a nice synopsis:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1903/finsen-bio.html

How To Give A Safe Spinal Massage

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:27:02 +0000

Although I occasionally use my therapeutic low level laser when going through the procedures I just posted to youtube.com, these spinal neuromusculoskeletal re-education procedures work extremely well on their own. With chronic cases, it takes repeated attempts. Two or three sessions per week will speed things up. Improvement in neck and back pain, with related headaches and such, is felt immediately, and improves with each week, peaking out within 4 weeks, on average.

I made this video, (split into two parts for youtube.com,) about 5 years ago. I was 15 pounds heavier then, but that’s another story.

In this video, I give you the culmination of what I know about removing muscle memory passively. Muscle memory involves millions upon millions of sensors around the body reporting to your cerebellum. Your cerebellum is your 3D processor for your body. This is very important, although you may not realize it. Muscle memory is a huge part of what brings people to my office eventually, and it is exactly what helps Tiger Woods hit that golf ball so well. Muscle memory. Sometimes that “memory” is guarding against some spinal injury that happened as a child, teenager, or adult. Depending on how “reactive” a patients’ muscles are, the areas of stress can distort the spine. This results in “balancing” compensations elsewhere in the spine. Defense networks start forming in those compensatory areas, becoming stiff, irritated, and because of faulty bio-mechanics over many years, they can become unevenly arthritic and degenerative. Joints can wear out unevenly, like tires that are out of alignment. This can result in irratic nerve impulses, which have become distorted because of local joint irritation, inflammation, and dysfunction. These all contribute to, and are caused by misalignment, subluxation, etc… It can become a vicious cycle. It needs to be interrupted. It should be reversed.

You have an answer here to the above problems. Is it the whole answer? No. Is it a big answer? Yes.

Enjoy!

Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT)…How Much Is Enough? Too Much?

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:10:08 +0000

Low Level Laser Therapy

LLLT

Researchers who are involved in low level laser therapy are producing more knowledgeable information. What I mean is that they have learned from past research, and are coming up with more knowledgeable questions, and more detailed answers. The early researchers weren’t exactly sure about dosages and protocols, and we still aren’t sure today. We are, still, narrowing it down, bit by bit.

One of the classic cells that can be counted on to respond to LLLT is the fibroblast. Fibroblasts are cells that lay down a microscopic framework of a thin web, if you will, of tough tissue. They also vary, and produce other types of tissues as well. They are called into action when there has been injury and cell destruction. They are called into action with repetitive stress.

The researchers of this study chose injured fibroblasts to work on, and used a red (HeNe) (632.8 nm) laser for two consecutive days. The cells received 2.5, 5,, and 16 J/cm2, in three different groups. Three treatments at 2.5 J/cm2 or 1 treatment at 5 J/cm2 produced significant cell multiplication and movement. 16 J/cm2 inhibited the same functions, as well as decreasing ATP production. This is interesting because one of the things LLLT is known for is that it typically increases ATP production.

I feel that 1-2 J/cm² (10-20 seconds) is a good range to use for a 100 mW therapeutic laser. With small 5 mW lasers, it is different. Because of the high time of illumination factor, we can see results with as little as 0.3-1.0 J/cm2. A 5 mW laser pointer moved against the skin, covering 1 square centimeter, will put out up to 0.3 J/cm2 every 60 seconds.

Effect of Multiple Exposures of Low-Level Laser Therapy on the Cellular Responses of Wounded Human Skin Fibroblasts
Denise Hawkins, Heidi Abrahamse. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. December 2006, 24(6): 705-714. doi:10.1089/pho.2006.24.705.

Vent-Free Fireplaces…Not So Free

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:37:06 +0000

Vent Free Fireplaces

CO Poisoning

Here’s a very interesting page of anecdotal stories regarding the use of vent free fireplaces:

http://www.chimneysweeponline.com/hovflett.htm

Here’s an excerpt:

# 1: Serious ongoing health problems

My Name is Kim, I am trying desperately to locate other people who have suffered the long term effects of CO. My Family of four was poisoned for over two years, before we found out why we were all so sick. My five year old daughter was having many illnesses, eventually led to seizures. This all stemmed from a ventless gas fireplace we installed in our basement. Three months after it was installed my daughter had her first seizure. Husband began having severe headaches, trembling, memory loss, and numerous other ailments. Neurologists diagnosed daughter as epileptic!!!!! They now know they were wrong.

This began in January 1995. Husband still on oxygen every day, and medication, and extreme memory loss, and other problems. Daughter is having no more seizures, and last EEG done three months after gas shut off, was normal. First normal EEG in two years. We have been through it all!!! If anyone knows about CO, it’s me and family. I have found a support group based in the United Kingdom that is helping us deal with this mess. And we are in search of other people who need our help. We are also trying to find a way to inform the public about this silent killer. Would you be able to help us in any way? Your concern could save a life. We have had a forensic scientist in our home doing tests on fireplace, and the final result was determined that you cannot put a combustible gas in an airtight home and not vent it. I have done much research on this situation and talked to toxologists, chemists, and other specialists, and not one of them can believe we are still alive, they are all behind us all the way. I’ll be waiting to hear from you.
Thanks,
Kim

There are 116 such posts at the above link.

Canola Oil: Choose Something Else

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:51:42 +0000

Canola Oil

Rapeseed Oil

When I was in chiropractic school, (about twenty-eight years ago,) I remember constantly having my fellow students work on my mid-back. It would cramp up, off and on, and releasing my spine would give relief…sometimes. I always thought it was a rib-head problem. (It was probably inflamed as well.) My perspective on it, as a student, was that the abdominal sick-ache and cramping was result of the back pain and nerve irritation. This is one description of a chiropractic subluxation. This is also known as somato-visceral complex/pain. This went on, particularly in those school years. I was dead wrong. It turned out to be viscero-somatic complex/pain, as I will explain here.

Fifteen years ago, I had another attack after eating a bunch of Hostess chocolate covered donuts. I thought the same thing that anyone would think: I ate too many donuts. That attack lasted a month. I just looked up the ingredients for this post, and canola oil is used in them.

Now, years later, I have run into the same thing. My wife bought some soft butter that had canola oil added. Three months ago I smeared a goodly amount on some banana bread, and later went into cramping like I haven’t seen in years. I didn’t put two and two together, and about a week later, I had some more of that butter on something else. I started cramping up again, with the gas pocket I had not identfied before. Then it occurred to me that the butter said “Canola Oil” on the front label, as if it were an attribute.

I know, as a doctor, that any number of things can cause the symptoms I am describing, such as a gallbladder problem. However, I know when my gallbladder is acting up, and that is not this. I laser my gallbladder, it passes the stone, and that’s that. It’s in the book.

This is in the my upper left quadrant, and not the gall bladder. It is an intestinal gas pocket and inflammation.

I thought about it, and when I was in school, (twenty-eight years ago,) I read an article about this new thing called “canola oil”, and that it was great for health, because it was a monounsaturated oil, like olive oil. I didn’t like olive oil much, and it burned easily, so I opted for the canola oil, and bought it from then on. I did this for about 4 years straight.

After I graduated, my wife did the buying, and she bought corn oil. As I am human, and humans usually don’t notice when things are better, I didn’t notice that the severe mid-back pain and cramping went away.

I’ve checked it out, and canola oil comes from a genetically engineered form of the rapeseed plant, which comes from the mustard family. If you read the de-bunking websites, everything is rosy, and this healthy oil is just great. It is also major money maker, (read MAJOR,) as it is relatively cheap to make, even with the processing:

“The procedure involves a combination of high-temperature mechanical pressing and solvent extract, usually using hexane. Hexane! Even after considerable refining, traces of the solvent remain. Like most vegetable oils, Canola oil also goes through the process of bleaching, degumming, deodorizing, and caustic refining, at very high temperatures. This process can alter the omega-3 content in the oil, and in certain conditions bring the trans fat level as high as 40 percent.”

From: http://www.naturalnews.com/026630_canola_oil_olive_oil_saturated_fat.html

There is a great de-bunking article at:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcanola3.htm

If you have been researching canola oil on the net, the author nicely picks apart the rumors and work done by others. You will recognize some things you have read there.

Even so, when there is smoke, there may be fire. Also, I have learned that research almost always contradicts itself, in spite of the fact that this idea defies logic. I have learned that research isn’t everything, (even though I love reading it,) because you will almost always find disagreement.

For example, from the last web address given, here is an excerpt:

““Studies with lab animals were disastrous. Rats developed fatty degeneration of heart, kidney, adrenals, and thyroid gland. When canola oil was withdrawn from their diets, the deposits dissolved but scar tissue remained on all vital organs.”

This was a disastrous circumstance indeed. Why? Because the natural diet of a rat is made up of grains, raw fruits and vegetables and is very low in fatty acids. Introduce a load of heavier fats into a critter’s diet and sure all sorts of health problems might develop. Later studies demonstrated that cooking oils other than canola (specifically, sunflower seed oil) produced the same results in laboratory rats, as well as demonstrated that the digestive system of a rat is rather different from that of a human.“

Gee, I wonder who did the follow-up study and stuffed rats with enough of the various oils above to cause problems? Who sponsored it? I am sorry if I sound skeptical of this statement of the skeptic, but I know how I feel, and I am looking for evidence to back it up. I am biased towards finding evidence against canola oil. Now, I am not on a quest. I am not writing a book about it, I am just musing about it on this blog in an informal manner, without spending much time on my own research.

Why post this then? Because we still have some of that butter in the refrigerator, (it doesn’t seem to bother my wife,) and I am afraid to try it again and see. It hurts too much. I think that a large concentration of it makes the symptoms more clearly recognizable.