OFF TOPIC: Parkinsons' Patient & EECP

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The following is a statement by a Parkinsons' patient

whose Neurologist wrote an off label prescription for

him and some others to receive 55 hours of EECP

treatment. Off course this procedure does not have an

FDA approval so its a near certainty that you would

have to pay the $5-7,000 out of pocket! Still, there

are many who are now doing just that.

If however, you know of a Parkinsons' patient who also

has chronic stable angina, please tell them ASAP

because their insurance will pay and if they're on

Medicare, they will pay all of it and then pay for a

second treatment in two years! The marvels of

nutritional protocols notwithstanding, this technology

is simply amazing and most people still don't have a

clue as to what it is.

" Underwent EECP for Parkison's. Should have a page up

soon

PP4EECP (Parkinson's Patients For EECP). Took two one

hour

sessions per weekday, weekends off. Only near the end

did I

discover I was the only one taking two per day. I did

devise some

tolerance exercises in the process. It's a little

gruling early on;

the contractions of the leg and butt " cuffs " are

sudden and

strong. Harder on a thin person like myself than a

well muscled

or fat one. Also, the instinctive reaction to stress

by a Parkinson's

patient is to clench muscles whereas on EECP one

strives to be

relaxed, go with the flow. For a cardio-vascular

patient of normal

build one session a day is very do-able and the

fifteen or so

heart patients I mingled with all had from significant

and steady

to spectacular improvement, sometimes on a daily

basis. For

cardio-vascular EECP is a slam dunk. In my case

improvement

was weekly with a sudden breakthrough on all levels,

physical,

mental, emotional, creative, you name it, after

session #29. It

was like a wall going down. I was flying everywhere I

went. I was

ready to return home after 45 sessions; the extra ten

(to 55) were

unneeded, possibly retrograde. EECP reduced my

symptoms by

about 80%. About the same for another Parkinson's guy.

100%

in the case of a third guy who'd had a two year total

remission

after which a re onset of his symptoms occurred. All

Parkinson's

therapy is symptomatic so it is not disparaging of

EECP to say

its effects are symptomatic. For a couple of months

after the

EECP I exercised and ran/walked a mile a day but let

things

slide after a while which was a mistake. I understand

cardio

patients are now being put on exercise routines after

completing

EECP. It should either be that or one session of EECP

per week

as a maintenance program. Today, a year later I have

retained

about 20% improvement of symptoms, but now I know how

to

get the 80% remission and how to retain it. The only

other

feature of my history is fifteen years ago a sonogram

of my

carotid artery(s)found zero plaque. Suggests you don't

have to

have blockages or partial blockages to get benefit

from EECP.

Under the heading Time Is Money I note the machines

were in

use for only about six hours per day, five days a

week. Thirty

treatment hours per machine. That could easily be

doubled. If

Medicare is rating 35 sessions at $5,400 that's $154

per

session. At 60 sessions per machine per week = $$9,240

per

wk. gross. Say $36K per machine per month gross. Say

$360K

per machine per year gross. No wonder we kept

encountering

visiting delegatios from investrors/doctors. It was

fun watching

them try to find some flaw in the setup. There isn't

any. "

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