Re: cold laser (apologies)

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Joyce,

Sorry if I offended, but I since I didn't remember who had posted, I

didn't know what country the posting hippie was in. Maybe different

names in different places (?); and from your description, I knew it

to be a cold laser in the US. (It's not that I didn't know Kentucky

was in the US...just that I didn't realize you were in Kentucky)

You are lucky to have found anybody in this country who does cold

laser treatments...outside of pro-sports trainers. (Suggest you check

the archives of the Boston Globe sports section from this past

Jan/Feb to see how well it worked for the New England Patriots) As

of April, cold laser was only FDA-approved for medical application in

the US for treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome, though it seems to

work in a number of applications. (Does this sound like any surgical

resurfacing procedure you've tried recently?)

Given my own limited chance to try it, I'm not the least surprised it

has worked well for you. I've been able to watch real-time

thermagraphic imaging of my own " hot " left hip flexors cooling and

relaxing (actually changing color on the screen as I watched). You

have also answered my question about whether the metal implant would

react in any negative way with the cold laser. This is all very good

news.

Curious, though, was this a treatment you surgeon recommended...or

one your chiropractor took upon him/her self? I know there's a lot

of literature on it for chiro's and " alternative " practioners. Maybe

someday " real " medicine will get the clue.

(Did you know, though, that there are actually websites that will

sell you your own hand-held cold laser device?)

Alan

> Hi, folks. Of course you must know that my message that said " cold

blazer "

> was a typo and I meant to type " cold lazer. " Having said that, the

lazer

> treatment has helped immensely in my recovery. Not only in

loosening the

> flexors, but also in helping the brain/muscle connection renew

itself. My

> chiropractor was telling me that the cutting of the sinovial (sp?)

sac also

> cut many, many small nerves that make that mind/body connection.

As it

> heals, and with the cold lazer TX, I'm improving all the time. In

regards

> to the restrictions on squatting -- I was told not to squat, never

mind

> stand up from it unaided. I was working outside in the garden and

spaced

> out the restriction. Squatting actually relieves my lower back

ache.

> Anyway, I'm here in the Northern Kentucky area and, as far as I

know, the

> chiropractor that I'm seeing is the only one around who uses the

cold

> lazer. He uses it just about every time I see him. Each week I

see/feel

> improvement. Joyce (Dr Gross, LHR, 2/2/04)

>

>

> sungold518@e...

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> cold laser

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>

> Hello again, Surfin' hippy kids...

>

> There was a post a couple of days ago...by a lady who talked about

> a " cold blazer " a doc was using. Rather than respond directly,

> because of a couple of misperceptions, I thought this the best way.

>

> The treatment is actually a " cold laser " ... I've had it. In a way

> for me, it was a blessing...in a way a curse. In all ways a

> revelation. It is a laser...but even directly applied skin, it

> creates virtually no sensation. (I know. I've had it done to me.

> Twice.)

>

> History: (In an earlier post, I mentioned this, but these things go

> by so fast, and there are so many of us now.) For the past 8 years,

I

> had thought my problems were injuries and tears to the hip flexors

> and the IT band from a handball accident. I found a doc who

offered

> a treatment called " cold laser " , which he assured me would relax

the

> flexors.(It had worked incredibly well on at least 10 of the New

> England Patriots, who, I believe, won the last Superbowl, and there

> are newspaper articles to prove it). In the U-S, though, at this

> point, it's approved by the dunderheads at the FDA...only for

> treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. (If you have someone who

needs

> to know about another aspect of cold laser, ask me about diabetic

> neuropathy).

>

> But I digress. I went to the doc, he did two cold laser treatments

> on my hip flexors...and they went into near complete relaxation. A

> curse. A blessing. Because the flexors relaxed, it seems, my hip

> joint bones ground on each as they'd been doing, or trying to do; a

> condition apparently only delayed because my hip flexors were in a

> state of constant flexed protection of the joint. That's actually

> how I got to my sports doc who told me my only hope was THR...and I

> refuse to believe there such a thing as an " only hope " . Thus did I

> find Peggy ...and surfacehippies...

>

> This goes much longer than I'm sure anybody has the patience

> for...and I'm sorry for that, but the whole cold laser thing speaks

> such condemning volumes about American medicine. It's been used in

> Europe for years, with remarkable success. We can't get it if we

beg

> for it here. Why? If I really had a clue, I might be -- or run

for -

> - President. THANK GOD I HAVEN'T A CLUE.

>

> So..look for cold laser in the distant American medical future. If

> anybody wants to know more, I can provide a website that will

answer

> many more questions than I can. It's really just the website of

the

> doc who put the cold laser on me. Nothing mysterious here...and

I'm

> really not selling anything. Just fed up with American medicine,

> which really sucks, though...given what we spend on it, should be

the

> best in this universe...or any other.

>

> Hobble on, hippies...

> Alan

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