cold laser

[Guest guest]

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