by David Rindge. All rights reserved. Acute pain inadequately treated frequently becomes chronic. Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability. We spent $2.6 trillion on health care in the U.S. in 2010, 75% of it ($1.95 trillion) to “manage” chronic inflammatory conditions. A growing body of science and clinical experience has shown that energy-based [...]
September 8, 2011 – 2:11 pm
“The Swedish Torpedo” Swedish swimmer Anders Olsson is paralyzed from the waist down. Nonetheless, he swam a 2.6 kilometer race in 13 degree Celsius water from Alcatraz in San Francisco bay to the California mainland in the record time of 24 minutes, 32 seconds, leaving in his wake an astonished field of hundreds of experienced [...]
August 19, 2011 – 3:53 pm
Photomed Laser Surg. 2011 Apr;29(4):233-7. Epub 2010 Dec 23. Effect of photobiomodulation on vinblastine-poisoned murine HERS cells. Hodgson BD, Pyszka B, Henry MM, Buchmann E, Whelan HT. Source Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. brian.hodgson@marquette.edu Abstract OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of near-infrared (NIR) photobiomodulation on the proliferation and glutathione [...]
August 15, 2011 – 4:24 pm
updated 7/26/2011 “I am a 45 yo female who had very healthy, non-problem ears until my first vertigo attack, 6 years ago (2004). It happened in the spring when the pollen came out. I was very congested in my right ear for about a week before it happened. One night, around 3 o’clock in the [...]
Postepy High Med Dosw (Online). 2011 Feb 17;65:73-92. The role of biological sciences in understanding the genesis and a new therapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s disease. T?gowska E, Wosi?ska A. Zak?ad Toksykologii Zwierz?t, Wydzia? Biologii i Nauk o Ziemi, Uniwersytet Miko?aja Kopernika w Toruniu. Abstract The paper contrasts the historical view on causal factors in Alzheimer’s [...]
Photomed Laser Surg. 2006 Jun;24(3):410-3. Brief report: embryonic growth and hatching implications of developmental 670-nm phototherapy and dioxin co-exposure. Yeager RL, Franzosa JA, Millsap DS, Lim J, Hansen CM, Jasevicius AV, Heise SS, Wakhungu P, Whelan HT, Eells JT, Henshel DS. School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. rlyeager@indiana.edu OBJECTIVE: [...]
Photomed Laser Surg. 2006 Apr;24(2):121-8. Clinical and experimental applications of NIR-LED photobiomodulation. Desmet KD, Paz DA, Corry JJ, Eells JT, Wong-Riley MT, Henry MM, Buchmann EV, Connelly MP, Dovi JV, Liang HL, Henshel DS, Yeager RL, Millsap DS, Lim J, Gould LJ, Das R, Jett M, Hodgson BD, Margolis D, Whelan HT. Department of Clinical [...]
Acupuncture Today, October 2011 by David Rindge, DOM, LAc, RN e-published here in advance Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. For the last 30 years, management of acute spinal cord injuries has usually included high dosages of the steroid methylprednisolone. Perhaps the rationale for [...]
Neuroscience. 2008 Jun 2;153(4):963-74. Epub 2008 Mar 26. Near-infrared light via light-emitting diode treatment is therapeutic against rotenone- and 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion-induced neurotoxicity. Liang HL, Whelan HT, Eells JT, Wong-Riley MT. Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. Parkinson’s disease is a common progressive [...]
Mol Neurodegener. 2009 Jun 17;4:26. Reduced axonal transport in Parkinson’s disease cybrid neurites is restored by light therapy. Trimmer PA, Schwartz KM, Borland MK, De Taboada L, Streeter J, Oron U. University of Virginia, Morris K Udall Parkinson’s Research Center of Excellence and Department of Neurology, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. pat5q@virginia.edu. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: It has been [...]