RE: cold laser

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Alan

So I have a question or two. . . What happened from there with your hip

flexors? Did they stay relaxed? Were they still able to help you in motions

like

rolling up from a lying position(sit-up)? Does the laser numb them or just

relax them?

As part of my hip. . .and a few other hipstrs I communicate with the hip

flexor is a big topic.

Curious to know your Doc's website if you would provide it?

Alan? Are you looking at hip resurfacing now?

Alyce

AlC2K Kennedy 5-23-03

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Alyce,

Since I've gone away from the cold laser, the flexors have gone

tighter again. It was when they relaxed that the pain actually

proved to be in the joint. Dr. Len Saputo is the guy who introduced

me to the cold laser therapy. The Health Medicine Institute is in

Lafayette, Ca.... in the East Bay near San Francisco.

Actually, Len had originally planned to do a series of ten sessions,

but after the second, when the joint pain became pronounced, he

agreed when I said I thought I should stop and get some x-rays. Now,

with the flexors in some tension, again... there's a bit less pain

the hip joint itself.

Not sure what might be the implications or complications of using the

cold laser in an area where the's a metal implant. I do know that

the cold laser has actually be used in Europe for some years with

considerable success.

The HMI website is:

http://www.healthmedicineinstitute.com/

If you trade mail with Dr. Len, tell him Alan Ray recommended you

make the contact...and that Alan says " hello " .

My own personal take on cold laser and the flexors... if there's no

complicating factor the the metal implant, anybody who has the chance

to get the cold laser treatments is getting a great head start on

recovery.

(Please note, however, that I'm not a doctor, and am not endorsing

the cold laser for anybody other than myself.)

All the best...

Alan

> Alan

> So I have a question or two. . . What happened from there with your

hip

> flexors? Did they stay relaxed? Were they still able to help you

in motions like

> rolling up from a lying position(sit-up)? Does the laser numb them

or just

> relax them?

>

> As part of my hip. . .and a few other hipstrs I communicate with

the hip

> flexor is a big topic.

>

> Curious to know your Doc's website if you would provide it?

>

> Alan? Are you looking at hip resurfacing now?

> Alyce

> AlC2K Kennedy 5-23-03

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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@...

cold laser

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