tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40239514774453662672024-03-12T17:26:33.206-07:00Journal of Modern HealingNYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-15606142756594953012023-10-16T08:36:00.018-07:002023-10-26T19:41:46.270-07:00NY Cancer Resource Meetings get a Global Network Boost <p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Meet the new INTEGRATIVE CANCER RESOURCE SOCIETY! With recently elected Executive Director, Dr. Leslie Valle-Montoya (Sta Barbara, CA), the group is a much expanded platform that started from the NY Cancer Resource Alliance. ICRS is an all-volunteer self-funded (Linkedin Based) independent volunteer group of non-profit foundations/charities, clinical professionals, researchers and community leaders joined under the spirit of collaboration and partnership. Meetings and collaborative connections are conducted to explore new ideas in support to cancer patients, survivors and all those seeking current information about cancer care. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFS3aF-fjCAncq8OyRc5ZSNyjBc7k4JpiMVxzgS1oiDOzLd10ggokCt0gk-wC8x4jFqkyCvN556dUrHh3aD4lOkkP8KQ5JX1IcEOvdCiGSZO_BWpG1MD_x30ae3wJa8HuBV8TKCMDZZmilzS8ewVZ7OjObep9CnnVHaqXobsVJdfEIC-n1AFlUc9-2gh9/s402/icra-logos.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="402" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFS3aF-fjCAncq8OyRc5ZSNyjBc7k4JpiMVxzgS1oiDOzLd10ggokCt0gk-wC8x4jFqkyCvN556dUrHh3aD4lOkkP8KQ5JX1IcEOvdCiGSZO_BWpG1MD_x30ae3wJa8HuBV8TKCMDZZmilzS8ewVZ7OjObep9CnnVHaqXobsVJdfEIC-n1AFlUc9-2gh9/w112-h108/icra-logos.jpg" width="112" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">New
ICRS Brand Pursues Borderless Collaboration for Research & Advocacy</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Dr. Robert Bard, one of the founding clinical advisors of the NY Cancer Resource Alliance, "forging a global alliance of clinical professionals allows for a much wider scope of collaborative exchange from the international community of clinicians and researchers. I have always enjoyed different scientific approaches from abroad alongside my extended training from other countries. Decades later, I have amassed a significant network of collaborative minded health specialists from Australia, Europe and Asia (remotely), arming me with new technologies and methodologies. Decades in (and thanks to the world wide web), the trend of globalized connectivity is (just) now becoming more commonplace in our healthcare system- but we have ways to go for ideas from other continents to align with ours. The future is clear; formalizing a BORDERLESS coalition brings more resources and concepts for consideration when it comes to resources and patient care modalities- especially when it comes to cancers and any other health disorders. And having our California partners (like Dr. Montoya) build our bi-coastal presence was a great start."</div><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJ8koF_cNHqaM1eb5w0ZHvlXBneCHzbjO_Cl6LrsNOGb2BAN26wgdFHA_EfsclwhR-NkOpi9UsNGA7VguRK8ar2Y86rOAKL1pNidCdhudZMlOMjpoQzGRKI-9KL5P9PEZNuW4d_Px3IxBxtn7zTQ4HWu9F3DYTwC-UcFvpacpPxv2z_ZQY9yQnSPs-Zjm/s1268/hands%20up.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="1268" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJ8koF_cNHqaM1eb5w0ZHvlXBneCHzbjO_Cl6LrsNOGb2BAN26wgdFHA_EfsclwhR-NkOpi9UsNGA7VguRK8ar2Y86rOAKL1pNidCdhudZMlOMjpoQzGRKI-9KL5P9PEZNuW4d_Px3IxBxtn7zTQ4HWu9F3DYTwC-UcFvpacpPxv2z_ZQY9yQnSPs-Zjm/s320/hands%20up.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Meeting #1 about Women's Cancers</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><b>MEETING ABOUT WOMEN'S CANCERS</b></div></b></span><div style="text-align: justify;">9/21/2023 - A new collaboration concept introduces THE COALITION OF WOMEN'S CANCER ORGS, uniting a round table discussion with public advocates, educators and clinical experts in support of new cancer research programs and resource initiatives. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ICRS Women's Powermeet* Series was originally was spearheaded by Dr. Noelle Cutter & Dr. Roberta Kline in 2021 as a digital mixer that brought together advocates and dedicated experts from various sciences during the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Powermeets tradition invites only 9 speakers per meeting to fill what was formerly known as the "9 Squares of Care"- to account for a well-balanced and manageable number of introductions and collaborative exchange. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgYgLrvENG8xFGKtdGNCNcWktJbKN2SLKUeK9uzU4QG6Cv5pMeZZwF51lTF2CIAcFO-A4K1gfM9_IUy_PDlKcLO-ZNAejYvXRbEw07d29grvuP6o78Djcbfmn0EkfzGj9zHU_cBbf3TvHmqmjZdKaCgPi8mizd2_uc02R2r3JvXS0-Ce-Wyrht0KENhgk/s368/gidla.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="368" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgYgLrvENG8xFGKtdGNCNcWktJbKN2SLKUeK9uzU4QG6Cv5pMeZZwF51lTF2CIAcFO-A4K1gfM9_IUy_PDlKcLO-ZNAejYvXRbEw07d29grvuP6o78Djcbfmn0EkfzGj9zHU_cBbf3TvHmqmjZdKaCgPi8mizd2_uc02R2r3JvXS0-Ce-Wyrht0KENhgk/w206-h181/gidla.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We had many attempts at formatting... both time management and getting the right number of invitees was important. The success ofo network building is about learning about everyone and making the time to explore synergy", stated Joe Cappello of "Are You Dense?" Foundation.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This season's mixer was managed and co-moderated by Lennard Gettz (founder of NYCRA). The first half of the event presented 2 cancer clinicians- Dr. Robert L. Bard & Dr. Noelle Cutter speaking about UPDATES IN CANCER CARE. Dr. Cutter is an assoc. professor at Molloy University, a clinical researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Labs and is part of research programs about Dense Breasts and its link to Breast Cancer. Dr. Bard is a seasoned NYC-based cancer researcher & imaging specialist focused on Breast, Ovarian, Skin and Prostate. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs-qVZlOLJI1OkbGs2YN65tTPA4xyJxIzgR6EI9lXJuXeARFa0mwEWNm28J4fJO7O6LZ3uaB86C6wyEmEpjCjXYAi-sYExYLu38gcLTIG5JMvwDvzNFBLnnt2x3_CQeyiNmXdjbAByf0PqlMa2rLyggEzvdZlZ65Ce_Zo3Fqk1pdtWwIevQsqp2am6uPU4/s215/CSC_Greater_NY__CT_At_GC-215x57.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="57" data-original-width="215" height="42" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs-qVZlOLJI1OkbGs2YN65tTPA4xyJxIzgR6EI9lXJuXeARFa0mwEWNm28J4fJO7O6LZ3uaB86C6wyEmEpjCjXYAi-sYExYLu38gcLTIG5JMvwDvzNFBLnnt2x3_CQeyiNmXdjbAByf0PqlMa2rLyggEzvdZlZ65Ce_Zo3Fqk1pdtWwIevQsqp2am6uPU4/w160-h42/CSC_Greater_NY__CT_At_GC-215x57.png" width="160" /></a></div>“It is incredibly
important for Cancer Support Community Greater NY & CT at Gilda’s
Club (formerly Gilda’s Club Westchester) to collaborate with community
partners to empower cancer
patients and their families”, says Debbie Vincent, Director of Outreach and Clinical Partnerships. "Opportunities to join with other
cancer-focused individuals and organizations, such as those provided by
the ICRS Powermeet virtual conferences, enable us to learn from one
another, consider new ways to advocate for those impacted
by cancer, and join forces to launch important initiatives.”<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQh6VZH5iGFKgYbxmWq3X62nyLZg1ZgvG8DNQJa-vR_B5T5r2WMHp37Ir_DlvyTQerrd0mBXWClPedhN_dURhmail2bF8-doxSdpsXpYnR_YQzbzpmowvxToSgJbGnbFgwL_LpTpNHW803o1eqv6DzODSs8QuuSmQmUO2lgS6S81eI0Vr9jgSaLHz_Nk_/s2846/logo-large.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="2846" height="64" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQh6VZH5iGFKgYbxmWq3X62nyLZg1ZgvG8DNQJa-vR_B5T5r2WMHp37Ir_DlvyTQerrd0mBXWClPedhN_dURhmail2bF8-doxSdpsXpYnR_YQzbzpmowvxToSgJbGnbFgwL_LpTpNHW803o1eqv6DzODSs8QuuSmQmUO2lgS6S81eI0Vr9jgSaLHz_Nk_/w177-h64/logo-large.png" width="177" /></a></div>The second half of the virtual event was moderated by Dr. Roberta Kline, co-founder of the Women's Diagnostic Network, Mommies on a Mission (dot org) and Editor of the Women's Health Digest. Dr. Kline is an OB/GYN and a Genomics specialist with vast experience in women's disorders. She invited some of the most recognized advocacy groups including "GILDA'S CLUB WESTCHESTER" (with Debbie Vincent & Andrea Markowitz), "ARE YOU DENSE? FOUNDATION" (with Joe Cappello), THE NY STEM CELL INSTITUTE/Ovarian Cancer Research (with Laura Andres‐Martin) and Dr. Leslie Valle-Montoya, recently elected as the Executive Director of the Integrative Cancer Resource Society.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">*<a href="https://cancerresourcealliance.blogspot.com/2021/10/underdiagnosed-women-part-1.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Underdiagnosed Woman"- published by the NY Cancer Resource Alliance: 10/27/2021- Written by Graciella Davi & Lennard Gettz.</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzKGeUhvSQYNcwk6kPMkdSM68mllSygju-8rRjQ4MsNREJ2xb5C0M7061ket1IozROmmDdVQ14TnPKHMTS6e16G-ns5JncZpEscvGFXJJXj8GbjiDqU6O3I6MA89mZlyw1O-juEhn1bED5Qpz4nvO8yr-hzM324ijicfrwKYnHZUL6hkw6ANDeRC7LU4e/s275/NEWS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="275" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzKGeUhvSQYNcwk6kPMkdSM68mllSygju-8rRjQ4MsNREJ2xb5C0M7061ket1IozROmmDdVQ14TnPKHMTS6e16G-ns5JncZpEscvGFXJJXj8GbjiDqU6O3I6MA89mZlyw1O-juEhn1bED5Qpz4nvO8yr-hzM324ijicfrwKYnHZUL6hkw6ANDeRC7LU4e/w168-h45/NEWS1.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">WHO IS NANCY NOVACK?</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">NANCY'S LIST: The Power of Compassion and Loving Help</h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1061284733049414009" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 660px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-P7WgSzSpVbR0Ywpll0iM1ii_PcTpmzH2S5Qu_tK_4fjvu8zI97oXIPZIzj59mKhYLlB9GtBKH-xwfSwgH6SeXwhsTUW59D2Q_rBCWyNmrdBzbNvfjKU88vzcKOw_Q7Zu7wd8ZvYuPlQWrAvNkbhVmB7a4LKtgPo1qQSF-1oLReOKWmCk-rBsAeL7jdVE/s1024/roses-2746116_1920-1024x683.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #0043ee; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-P7WgSzSpVbR0Ywpll0iM1ii_PcTpmzH2S5Qu_tK_4fjvu8zI97oXIPZIzj59mKhYLlB9GtBKH-xwfSwgH6SeXwhsTUW59D2Q_rBCWyNmrdBzbNvfjKU88vzcKOw_Q7Zu7wd8ZvYuPlQWrAvNkbhVmB7a4LKtgPo1qQSF-1oLReOKWmCk-rBsAeL7jdVE/s320/roses-2746116_1920-1024x683.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">INTRODUCTION</div><div style="text-align: justify;">10/12/2023- For so many in the cancer community, it is rare to spot a bouquet of white roses and not think about the kindness and the giving spirit of <a href="http://dr./" style="color: #0043ee; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr.</a> <a href="https://nancyslist.org/" style="color: #0043ee; text-decoration-line: none;">Nancy Novack</a>, founder and CEO of Nancy's List (<a href="http://nancyslist.org/" style="color: #0043ee; text-decoration-line: none;">NancysList.org</a>). This year, Nancy (as she prefers to be addressed) was inducted unanimously by the collective board of the Integrative Cancer Resource Society (ICRS) as "the Top 2023 Cancer Crusader" during the Fall Women's Roundtable Powermeet Conference. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This meeting, hosted by the Coalition for Women's Cancers aligned a special grouping of community leaders, clinicians and advocates working together to share information about the current state of cancer care. "It was such an honor to finally be connected with Nancy", starts Dr. Leslie Valle-Montoya- recently elected executive director of ICRS. "You couldn't be in the cancer awareness community and not hear about Nancy's List. To hear firsthand HER story (with that soft and genuinely loving voice) including how it all started truly hits you deep into your soul- and makes you want to be part of her mission!"</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6TbAuQeXLDN77S-XeOLd_q-0wf5-LThOQeq76jK2lLfCd-Sozhycogu_O4ORWVVY1Fa9IXGamX7F32_uCxdlU8AVFLMxwYlVKg7Ra3DAGZbmDf6-hwsPyn0Zz6SkNscKnZNSlUVWCPvoTBIZ62k_-9NatS6W0G3SMR0I0SEca5iiUUkwPQva_dEMV2et-/s645/fyi-cause.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #0043ee; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6TbAuQeXLDN77S-XeOLd_q-0wf5-LThOQeq76jK2lLfCd-Sozhycogu_O4ORWVVY1Fa9IXGamX7F32_uCxdlU8AVFLMxwYlVKg7Ra3DAGZbmDf6-hwsPyn0Zz6SkNscKnZNSlUVWCPvoTBIZ62k_-9NatS6W0G3SMR0I0SEca5iiUUkwPQva_dEMV2et-/s320/fyi-cause.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="223" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nancy's List is a free website that started in 2008, researching, organizing and publishing resources for cancer patients and survivors. According to the website, it's core beliefs "inspire community-wide support system for children, teens, and adults who are living with, through, and beyond cancer. Nancy's List is a compassionate grassroots effort committed to significantly improving the quality of life for these individuals, their families, and their caregivers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">INSPIRING OUR COMMUNITY "TO BE THE VERY BEST IT CAN BE" - From an interview by: Nancy Novack</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am a survivor of 20 years of stage four ovarian cancer. I knew nothing about cancer at that time, and just was complaining of what I thought was an appendicitis attack. (Of course) that didn't turn out that way. I was swept away to Stanford where I was treated pretty traditionally by a wonderful man whom I have a tremendous amount of respect and trust in- and I haven't had a recurrence in 20 years. I love being Stanford's poster poster child, but I think in the process I learned a great deal about the psychology (which I'm a psychologist) of cancer. I don't have the medical knowledge, but I certainly understand the psychology within my work with so many cancer patients. <a href="https://breastcancerblognews.blogspot.com/2023/10/nancys-list-power-of-compassion-and.html">(see complete spotlight on Nancy Novack of Nancy's List)</a></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><hr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0WIYX3Z7Kzt_ox7ubDTIxgIhPMsBgRtXrA8ttKoJoPyzSBrmozGJFxiZL7bZV3ezKUQZphsLMtD9oLdvOVDKgahdkN-8CkIHV8VRp7Ytf7hbvedV_Ifs3sOnlxX76rjiOIjKVGM2Oxu3DRZT11JGe_yTh6X_uwihz1R5AAcNmkDJ1f_MaqSgen2wRhMx/s6840/V.jpg" style="clear: left; 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High risk professions like law enforcement, military service, healthcare and emergency response are known to have exposure to some of the most extreme levels of trauma - both physically and psychologically. They range in effects from manageable symptoms to crippling disorders. Over time, most people overcome disturbing or traumatic experiences and continue to work and live their lives. But others who get affected by traumatic experiences may trigger a reaction that can last for months or even years. This is called Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Proportionately, studies have shown a lower percentage of retirees from such challenging careers acquire PTSD (from 15-20%) while an estimated 30-40% who suffer from PTSD associated symptoms go undetected or do not register as full cases. A larger percentage ‘on the job’ might be able to maintain the expected work standards throughout their career and even make it to retirement without visible signs. But “POST traumatic recall” leading to fully blown PTSD occurs when repeated exposure to trauma compounds on the tolerance capacity that eventually, one’s coping ability collapses. The individual may feel stages of grief, depression, anxiety, guilt or anger from uncontrollable issues like recurring flashbacks and nightmares. [1]<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">REVIEW OF POST TRAUMATIC RECALL</span> </b>(A field report by: <a href="https://mywellbeing.com/jessica-glynn">Jessica Glynn, CSW</a>)<br />
PTSD can occur in all different extremes with at-risk professionals (like cops, responders and veterans). The trauma that they experience are above the ordinary that they could cause extreme flashbacks, anxiety and depression—heavily affecting their quality of life. The average civilian is also prone to this disorder starting with MICRO-TRAUMAS that can happen to everybody throughout any point in their lifetime. Usually stemmed from childhood issues, micro-traumas actually shape the way an individual reacts to other people. As an example, child bullying may lead to developing a protective or defensive personality disorder. Anytime they feel disrespected or embarrassed by others, feelings of extreme uncontrollable anger may arise without knowing the source of the hurt or why they're acting in that way. This dilemma often causes problems in relationships.<br />
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Similarly, a first responder who experiences extreme traumas like horrendous disasters may stick with them in a much harsher way that could lead to flashbacks that are hallucinatory. If gone unchecked or untreated, these symptoms (including auditory hallucinations) can get increasingly more intense and expand to other symptoms that can affect their daily functions. A common way that anxiety can debilitate a sufferer is from recurrent lack of sleep disrupted by bad dreams triggered by the traumatic event.<br />
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Enduring trauma is different and unique for everyone. Some cases are event-specific (having intense auditory impact or visual intensity of a terrifying event) while other cases are contingent upon the tolerance of an individual. There are people who are more emotionally expressive than others- and that might help with if they talk about the trauma that they've been through. A latent emotional disorder like PTSD symptoms can come out over time just like anything that is suppressed or repressed. It could take some time for somebody who came back from combat or a first responder who has been in a traumatic event to show signs of disturbance. They could be holding it in and repeatedly thinking about it privately (or ruminating over it) allowing the disturbing memories to get more intense by the day. This can often be a coping mechanism- protecting themselves from dark or negative feelings for a while, but eventually it builds up and can become symptomatic like flashbacks and anxiety, then leading to an eventual explosion. Meanwhile, some people just have flashbacks right after the experience because of the way that everybody's brain processes differently. Others obsess over thoughts that keep popping up over and over again. It really just depends on the person.<br />
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From <o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml">The National Institute of Mental Health</a> [3]</div>
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ongoing (chronic) or even short-term (acute) PTSD. Not everyone with PTSD has
been through a dangerous event. Some experiences, like the sudden, unexpected
death of a loved one, can also cause PTSD. Symptoms usually begin early,
within 3 months of the traumatic incident, but sometimes they begin years
afterward. Symptoms must last more than a month and be severe enough to
interfere with relationships or work to be considered PTSD. The course of the
illness varies. Some people recover within 6 months, while others have
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>HOW STRESS CAN MAKE YOU SICK</b></span></div>
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By: <a href="http://drjessestoff.com/">Dr. Jesse A. Stoff</a></div>
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For our well-being, stress is so powerful that it can affect just about every function in our bodies right down to our cells. Stress can cause major weight gain, headaches, hair loss, dental problems, major fatigue, respiratory issues, digestive problems, psychological & focal disorders. <b>It is also known to affect the performance of our immune system </b>- allowing for skin issues, colds, allergies and a host of chronic diseases. Stress management is important for more than psychological health; stress can greatly affect immune functioning, inflammation and even hormonal balance. Studies have shown that stress can reduce natural killer cell function. These are normally the cells that attack foreign invaders including viruses, bacteria and fungi. They are also the cells that patrol the body as the first line of defense against the development of cancer. </div>
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When stressed, the body responds to physical, mental, or emotional pressure by releasing stress hormones (such as CORTISOL, EPINEPHRINE AND NOREPINEPHRINE) that increase blood pressure, speed heart rate, and raise blood sugar levels. When chronically elevated, these stress hormones can corrupt the performance (and even paralyze) our immune system which can lead to osteoporosis, weight gain (especially the dangerous visceral fat), high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and cancer. These stress hormones are known to bind with cancer cells and stimulate angiogenesis, cell migration and invasion, leading to increased tumor growth and progression. Long term stress also increases blood supply that adds to the growth of cancerous tumors.<br />
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<a href="https://integrativemedicineofny.blogspot.com/2017/01/overcoming-stress-prescription-to.html">See complete article at IMMUNOLOGY TODAY</a><br />
Also see video on "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxbeHY9F2ak">THE PITTS- 5 Elements that Affect the Immune System</a>"</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">TRANSCRANIAL NEURO-IMAGING FOR STRESS RELATED DISORDERS</span></b><br />
By Dr. Robert L. Bard<br />
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Emotional traumas and stress influencers are scientifically aligned with anxiety, depression, behavioral disorders, drug/alcohol abuse and a wide list of physiological health issues. These symptoms are typically diagnosed by mental health professionals through observational science and behavioral analysis. But within the past 15 years, global advancements in transcranial imaging pioneered the ability to detect trauma-related issues in the brain through neurological imaging. Now, neurological stress can be identified clinically by monitoring chronic imbalance and changes in the neurochemical structure (or circuitry). The shift in memory performance - specifically the hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex is one indicator of this imbalance whereby a stressful event can show images with signs of neuronal dysfunction.<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euE8crhr-z0/XVbhZOgJxVI/AAAAAAAAECQ/lhM5GiqLzt4ffJbaM-d-bXu45a3sX-z0gCLcBGAs/s1600/84106260_s.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="565" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euE8crhr-z0/XVbhZOgJxVI/AAAAAAAAECQ/lhM5GiqLzt4ffJbaM-d-bXu45a3sX-z0gCLcBGAs/s200/84106260_s.jpg" width="200" /></a>Neuro-imaging measures brain thought activity which has known chemical tissue changes by observing the alterations in capillary blood vessels in the retina located in close proximity to the main emotional center of the anterior brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) is currently used to show brain chemical changes with cognitive commands such as “death vs freedom.” Most recognizable patterns with suicide occur in the anterior cingulate cortex of the brain which lies directly behind the globe and is vascularized by orbital branches of the anterior cerebral artery. Functional near infrared imaging (fNIR) devices show changes in brain oxygenation linked to suicide.<br />
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Another imaging innovation is the TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER (TCD) - a type of sonogram that is a non‐invasive, non‐ionizing, inexpensive, portable and safe technique that uses a pulsed Doppler transducer for assessment of the blood flow in the anterior cerebral arterial circulation. This technology has been used to evaluate intracranial steno‐occlusive disease, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and extracranial diseases (including carotid artery disease and subclavian steal syndrome), detection of microembolic signals and acute strokes. [5] The Transcranial Doppler has been used to examine the mean speed of blood circulation of patients to validate and monitor treatment efficacy by tracking cranial blood vessels and vertebrobasilar flow vasospasm. (See complete report from Military Medicine)<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-of2MCvVD380/XVcJyveHqZI/AAAAAAAAECk/ZTCtfNlct8UCT6C8ToGQzz9J9X06Kk6aQCLcBGAs/s1600/20540914_s.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="497" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-of2MCvVD380/XVcJyveHqZI/AAAAAAAAECk/ZTCtfNlct8UCT6C8ToGQzz9J9X06Kk6aQCLcBGAs/s200/20540914_s.jpg" width="200" /></a>Another device used by imaging specialists to detect mental distress is through an EYE SONOGRAM or Real Time Sonofluoroscopy of the orbital soft tissues of the eyes. This process is performed in multiple scan planes with varying transducer configurations and frequencies. Power and color Doppler use angle 0 degrees and PRF at 0.9 at the optic nerve head. 3D imaging of optic nerve and carotid, central retinal arteries and superficial posterior ciliary arteries performed in erect position before & after verbal communication and orbital muscle tissue contractions may be observed as a precursor to visual changes in facial expression. Retinal arterial directional flow is also measured with peak systolic and diastolic values. Bulging of the optic nerve head is checked as increased intracranial pressure may be demonstrable in this condition. Other innovations such as the TRANSORBITAL DOPPLER, 3D/4D VESSEL DENSITY HISTOGRAM and the RETINAL OCT (optical coherence tomography) are also being explored in the pursuit of studying brain performance through the eyes. An expanded review on these solutions will be available in part 2 of this report.<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fXAMfQQ08c0/XVgHXFTYAMI/AAAAAAAAEII/qdmvpiu5kyMeyB98paLZKdeZzBUxq2ePQCLcBGAs/s1600/BARD2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="71" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fXAMfQQ08c0/XVgHXFTYAMI/AAAAAAAAEII/qdmvpiu5kyMeyB98paLZKdeZzBUxq2ePQCLcBGAs/s1600/BARD2.jpg" /></a><b>ROBERT L. BARD,</b> MD, PC, DABR, FASLMS - Advanced Imaging & Diagnostic Specialist<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Having paved the way for the study of various cancers both clinically and academically, Dr. Robert Bard co-founded the 9/11 CancerScan program to bring additional diagnostic support to all first responders from Ground Zero. His main practice in midtown, NYC (Bard Diagnostic Imaging- <a href="http://www.cancerscan.com/">www.CancerScan.com</a>) uses the latest in digital Imaging technology has been also used to help guide biopsies and in many cases, even replicate much of the same reports of a clinical invasive biopsy. Imaging solutions such as high-powered Sonograms, Spectral Doppler, sonofluoroscopy, 3D/4D Image Reconstruction and the Spectral Doppler are safe, noninvasive, and does not use ionizing radiation. It is used as a complement to find anomalies and help diagnose the causes of pain, swelling and infection in the body’s internal organs while allowing the diagnostician the ability to zoom and ‘travel’ deep into the body for maximum exploration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Stoff is a highly-credentialed medical expert studying all medical remedies in pursuit of resolving the most challenging health issues of our time. In many circles, he is recognized for his 35+ years of dedicated work in immunology and advanced clinical research in modern CANCER treatments. He has spoken worldwide in some of the most sought-after medical conferences about his experiences and analyses on the study of human disease. His integrative practice (INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE OF NY, Westbury, NY) has been continually providing all patients with the many comprehensive clinical options and modalities available- including "ONCO-IMMUNOLOGY", the science of battling cancer cells and reversing pre-cancerous conditions through a complete prevention program that has earned him great success in this field. For more information, visit: </span><a href="http://www.dr.jessestoff.com/" style="font-size: small;">www.Dr.JesseStoff.com</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As a therapist and coach, a lot of my work with clients is helping to manage symptoms of anxiety and panic- that which manifests in physical, often frightening and alarming ways. We can experience things like racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, numbness in arms and legs which can all make us feel like we are out control of our bodies and our surrounding world. When we have experienced a traumatic event in our lives, these feelings can be even more severe and heightened. The trauma and residually related fear is one that is very close to my heart and a reason I can provide empathy and understanding to clients that have been affected by the horrific day. When we work to process physical emotions that arise from trauma, the hope is that one day we can be less affected by it and live more presently to enjoy life’s fulfilling moments. I work with clients to slowly pull apart the physical emotions we experience from the thoughts that we are having and process them in a more self-aware and grounded way., visit her website-<a href="http://www.jagtheracoach.com/"> www.jagtheracoach.com</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/problems-disorders/post-traumatic-stress-disorder</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cop-doc/201811/cops-and-ptsd</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml">https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>4) <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729089/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729089/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>5) Transcranial Doppler: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659960/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659960/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>6) Transcranial Doppler 2: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11725323">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11725323</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>7) Design and Validation of an FPGA-Based Configurable Transcranial Doppler Neurofeedback System for Chronic Pain Patients <a href="https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc6069097">https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc6069097</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>8) <a href="https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/166/11/955/4819466">https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/166/11/955/4819466</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>9) PTSD Diagnosis Aided By New Imaging Techniques <a href="https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/anxiety/ptsd-trauma-and-stressor-related/ptsd-diagnosis-aided-by-new-imaging-techniques/">https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/anxiety/ptsd-trauma-and-stressor-related/ptsd-diagnosis-aided-by-new-imaging-techniques/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>10) <a href="https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/12/02/imaging-studies-differentiate-ptsd-mild-brain-injury/78060.html">https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/12/02/imaging-studies-differentiate-ptsd-mild-brain-injury/78060.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>11) <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-many-faces-anxiety-and-trauma/201904/how-do-we-diagnose-ptsd">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-many-faces-anxiety-and-trauma/201904/how-do-we-diagnose-ptsd</a></i></span><br />
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NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-71898991827750467052022-12-07T20:51:00.029-08:002022-12-09T08:38:05.046-08:00NEUROPLASTICITY: Eight Reasons We All Need to Learn About Brain Health <p style="text-align: justify;"> Written by: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilyn-abrahamson/">Marilyn Abrahamson, MA,CCC-SLP - CBHC</a> (Certified Brain Health Coach)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>NEUROPLASTICITY</b><span style="background-color: white;"> is defined as </span><span style="background-color: white;">the ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, functions, or connections after injuries</span><span style="background-color: white;">, such as a stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI) - <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557811/#:~:text=It%20is%20defined%20as%20the,traumatic%20brain%20injury%20(TBI).">NIH.GOV</a></span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TLgM0ACNcG0LWRlI3hrHRg7gFTiq5SWZMnhQnbhmg-gCHsy2ooU-HR_D1FmSB67y9IGQmxhQS607a_1bh6OCTgeqI7dPInUtsT6pUOFKeqq6WgzxQL6HkcJJr3F-5Or0a8ux3ov7raTR9WdLVbQr3-kTvhcsEloHrC6VwzdOeYOHufiivyPTK1ZeMA/s2082/dreamstime_m_128516373.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2082" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TLgM0ACNcG0LWRlI3hrHRg7gFTiq5SWZMnhQnbhmg-gCHsy2ooU-HR_D1FmSB67y9IGQmxhQS607a_1bh6OCTgeqI7dPInUtsT6pUOFKeqq6WgzxQL6HkcJJr3F-5Or0a8ux3ov7raTR9WdLVbQr3-kTvhcsEloHrC6VwzdOeYOHufiivyPTK1ZeMA/s320/dreamstime_m_128516373.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The word Neuroplasticity ignites a feeling of hope. For clinicians and therapists working with patients with all types of brain injuries, understanding neuroplasticity is crucial. Because neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change and adapt in response to new learning and new experiences, it can change both a clinician's choice of therapeutic techniques as well as the duration of the patient’s therapeutic program. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We now know that, even in the absence of brain injury or illness, teaching people how to help their brain to more easily adapt, change and grow as we age is the key to maintaining cognitive health. That’s how we remain sharp and resilient into our advanced years, but there’s more to it than that. The answers to the following seven questions will help us to better understand why brain health education is so very important to all of us. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Why is it so important for people to teach others about brain health? </b>The brain is what makes us who we are, producing our every thought, and every action. It stores all of our memories, feelings, and experiences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbaahM7MyaFUemKw1143F3LhJFq8i0Dg_J0Zdv_jQ1_UnIvuQ9By_XST64UBrxOCxFD6ixZ1SkqnuclXneCtwNY1kSTM5hGF2BqkpRYEal7IvVS-JBkexDC5CiOKe9urUxOmGP8WN_YPENOrZuJre_6J4lxz3pIi6AiTFRf7cJ7F56u_v8_bX34fEBuQ/s800/dreamstime_s_110376151.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbaahM7MyaFUemKw1143F3LhJFq8i0Dg_J0Zdv_jQ1_UnIvuQ9By_XST64UBrxOCxFD6ixZ1SkqnuclXneCtwNY1kSTM5hGF2BqkpRYEal7IvVS-JBkexDC5CiOKe9urUxOmGP8WN_YPENOrZuJre_6J4lxz3pIi6AiTFRf7cJ7F56u_v8_bX34fEBuQ/s320/dreamstime_s_110376151.jpg" width="320" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The brain resides quietly in our heads, is relatively low maintenance, and is grossly taken for granted. Teaching people about brain health raises their awareness of the need to take a more active role in preserving the health and wellness of this amazing resource.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Knowing that there are actionable tasks, such as adjusting lifestyle choices and habits to support a healthier brain, can offer the clarity and the direction people need to begin to make those adjustments.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Decline is a natural aspect of normal aging, but how do we know what’s normal and what should spark concern? </b>Age-related decline is normal for any part of the body, but when talking about normal brain-aging, many believe that the word “decline” implies the presence of impairment. With that in mind, a more appropriate word to use could be “change” to describe the process of brain aging. People with brain injuries, memory disorders and neurodegenerative diseases may ultimately enter a state of “decline”, where functionality gradually wanes over time. If a person in decline is going to improve, it takes exceptionally hard work for rehabilitation of skills to take place.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With general age-related “change”, many of us can simply compensate and adjust how we use our brain by implementing strategies and targeted techniques for better memory, organization and completion of more complicated tasks. Compensatory strategies and techniques allow us to work around change by doing tasks differently, more mindfully and more efficiently. By adjusting our habits and learning to roll with the changes, we can help our memory and thinking skills to work well again - in many cases, as well as they worked before.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQg_yKqxDzmhp8Cbjp-yZIo-fRR0QswZFYDqTcuWY1H_Xv_KGerd7aBou1tKMSw7N06rkwNWYf48wqJEiZhXbOXVg3dfZSVQZMIEp1R3O_TvNxE98tsqxJG3CmSEGuMbo8rRUCyiKAyUGBQjpPbEvg9dCxmcisvhKlbpAnczMYciZ7p9ZNxHO2_5aLbg/s697/22.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="697" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQg_yKqxDzmhp8Cbjp-yZIo-fRR0QswZFYDqTcuWY1H_Xv_KGerd7aBou1tKMSw7N06rkwNWYf48wqJEiZhXbOXVg3dfZSVQZMIEp1R3O_TvNxE98tsqxJG3CmSEGuMbo8rRUCyiKAyUGBQjpPbEvg9dCxmcisvhKlbpAnczMYciZ7p9ZNxHO2_5aLbg/w189-h156/22.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With that being said, there are aspects of cognition that do naturally change with age, and one of the first is processing speed. For example, if you’re watching a game show, such as Jeopardy and you know the answer, but the buzzer rings before you can say it, your processing speed may be starting to slow down. This is considered normal. Attention also becomes more elusive as the brain ages and it may become more difficult to focus and pay attention. Reduced attention may cause us to miss parts of conversation, particularly if we’re in a distracting environment. This can also be contributed to by other sensory changes that occur as we get older such as problems with vision and hearing, both of which allow us to acquire information from the environment around us.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When do “lapses in memory” become more of a concern? </b>People generally worry about things that should be less of a concern. Word finding and name recall are the most bothersome aspects of brain-aging, and what people complain about the most. This problem tends to start at a young age, with many beginning in their 40’s. It is considered normal, especially if we’re able to retrieve the correct name shortly after. Problems with word finding and name recall become more of a concerning issue if we find ourselves persistently calling people and objects by generic names such as “honey” or “whatchamacallit”. But if this is not a pattern, it’s generally nothing serious.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People also tell me that they are concerned because they frequently misplace personal items.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Misplacing items, even if this happens frequently, is not necessarily a cause for concern. This habit is not exclusive to the aging population. We’ve been misplacing things since childhood. If you have children, you know they misplace things every day. After putting in minimal effort to find their lost belongings, they called you (their parents) to find the items for them. Interestingly, as parents, we generally always knew where they were!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, if misplacing items occurs persistently, AND the objects are ultimately found in locations that show a mindful placement of the item in a grossly inappropriate place, it may be a sign of something more serious. Taking the time to place a basket of freshly folded laundry in the kitchen pantry would likely not occur unless there was cause for concern. This would warrant a visit to the doctor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Misplacing items, and later finding them placed mistakenly on a table or in a jacket pocket, would likely just call for mindfulness exercises, a memory strategy and better habits to help keep track of them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>(To be continued)</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoedvqM60PURL2rw4kXphJRo0zPIO8Qcl4WywpCAXSPTu1yyhlMuBRuZIIoCEp0kKVVU5pO2GghmyMUNlLA6__HuS4V5eMV6NvO-GvNVxcpKVFFYm9pQM4lQVgcU03Oxj-MDkvyc6NRYoPbhe9r5OmX2uYavYgZawqhObzAes09ZzS-KadMTZ3vFR0LQ/s177/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="177" height="41" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoedvqM60PURL2rw4kXphJRo0zPIO8Qcl4WywpCAXSPTu1yyhlMuBRuZIIoCEp0kKVVU5pO2GghmyMUNlLA6__HuS4V5eMV6NvO-GvNVxcpKVFFYm9pQM4lQVgcU03Oxj-MDkvyc6NRYoPbhe9r5OmX2uYavYgZawqhObzAes09ZzS-KadMTZ3vFR0LQ/w145-h41/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="145" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">"5 Negative Antigen Tests Do Not Match How OFF I Feel..."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>An IPHA Editorial Submission</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-align: right;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #2288bb;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cancerresourcealliance.blogspot.com/2021/06/long-haul-syndrome-post-covid-dilemma.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2520" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpvhPh68u0rAdLdNOdBDTEqsw5raz_eJdh9zKhNhwdM3SZuyS1Dx1OtW6QmgM83goEhGcJHfL4cRb5yxuEMDcny8GvwThGTtCllc7cd5L8jzVTiu7J-am24d6qb51hldkapfOKY2q7L8hIh08M5-_C2VgHctWCLRbnWkQWOIA490C90j_sKOf-1gLNDQ/w184-h142/me11.jpg" width="184" /></a></div>In August of 2021, David (last name withheld) arrived home from his job at the local hardware store and within minutes of entering the front door, collapsed with a most unusual set of symptoms including acute exhaustion. Following the national guidelines, taking a PCR test showed that he was </span></span><span style="color: #2288bb; text-align: right;">hit with the Coronavirus Delta Variant! The flu-like symptoms all hit simultaneously in full force. David saw stars for most of his recuperation period while taste and smell were completely shut down. For 1 week, David quarantined in his office - armed with every super-food, every kind of soup and immune booster his support team could find. Being fully vaccinated only meant he had a better chance of NOT DYING, but as the world was only a year into the data collection, there was still so much left to understand about the recuperation period as well as its long standing effects.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-align: right;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-align: right;">FAST FORWARD to the fall of 2022. Life goes on and regular rapid (home) testing says David was negative every time. Tracking the latest in covid news reports, the idea of lingering symptoms is in the back of everyone's- especially those who got hit at least once with the virus. But HOW or WHERE in the body is it? To over-think this does not make one a hypochondriac- only someone surrendered to the realities of our times, meaning 'if it doesn't kill you, the viral load may have the tendency to linger, causing potential organ damage, failure or dysfunction.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #2288bb;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #2288bb;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cancerresourcealliance.blogspot.com/2021/06/long-haul-syndrome-post-covid-dilemma.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4414" data-original-width="4380" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OM1Vzoy1hSpnDmqm3c4jUD2Psu9pPROF0RHO4Qgy9ovPn8XE9tp6KPn1Zi4401VCL5Xx2vmAWIbI8FUxYkrUhixQAxiQqVi_YpYX35YQ3SuHVpEf3W4lh5YysbElo8gU7pInIayGZSADGVpyC9R8L-LIw8S3pbKBj6kgmJNN5cJ0GUw_otAXq2E4QQ/w358-h360/Figura%20english%20Scientific%20Reports.jpg" width="358" /></a></div><br />MEMORY LOSS: </b>They say that you shouldn't worry about getting dementia or Alzheimer's- once you have it, you won't know it. Well this is not completely true. We can attribute forgetting a name here and there as a natural, normal age-related wear down. But forgetting EVERY name is not the same. It's as if someone stole or deleted specific data from your brain, and when it's time to withdraw those names to compose a sentence, all there is is an empty shelf where that name was expected to be. The simplest proper nouns that David once quickly referenced and freely spoken about all his life- including names of product brands, movie and song titles, artists- even celebrities are now GONE- or perhaps buried in the back yard somewhere!<br /><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; text-align: right;">If "it is (in fact) what it is", David expressed his disbelief that the CDC or the WHO are pressing to come up with Long Haul therapies. "There's still so much to go with perfecting the vaccination to control the global surge. We can choose to fight the erosion in our brain with mind optimizers, exercises, better sleep and every protocol to improve brain performance. But this very insidious aftermath of the virus that buried itself into my brain is now aging me, starting with my memory, my processing speed and if the data out there is right, my waning cognitive functions. "</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2288bb; font-family: times; text-align: right;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2288bb; font-family: times; text-align: right;"><a href="https://cancerresourcealliance.blogspot.com/2021/06/long-haul-syndrome-post-covid-dilemma.html">(An excerpt from Prevention101.org "LONG HAUL SYNDROME: THE POST-COVID DISORDERS"</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Continued from top feature)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Can we control or change our risk for getting Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia? </b>Yes, and this is what brain health education is all about. Engaging in brain-healthy lifestyle habits can help to reduce the risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Age-related cognitive changes are directly influenced by brain size. Keeping neural pathways active, and engaging in habits such as lifelong learning, can help sustain healthy brain volume and contribute to the development of cognitive reserve.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What is cognitive reserve and how can we get it by modifying lifestyle choices? </b>Cognitive reserve is the brain’s ability to be resilient against damage or disease. A prestigious longitudinal research study showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle and had no apparent symptoms of dementia were found to have brain changes consistent with dementia and advanced Alzheimer's disease on autopsy. This is likely to have been a result of high levels of cognitive reserve, which served to offset the damage, allowing them to function well in life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Would these people have eventually developed symptoms of dementia had they lived long enough? </div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a high probability that they would have. Cognitive reserve offers the gift of additional years before the onset of symptoms. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzfgEajM75s6q-FjjEx-te20e1F-qgwzLYY1B8yQJ9X-iUK542In20rHRIQ6xaGT9scNmFAYhMTdsedEpB0qvoRx5h9g0DJkFg9zVHT75hJPEunk3EDwnbf6H28i-kSoCk9aXBT7holTz2jLjvMp4Z-bxba7hI3xsYzgs0XC4aajGDlccRLY-QyG8XQ/s1950/4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1950" data-original-width="1922" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzfgEajM75s6q-FjjEx-te20e1F-qgwzLYY1B8yQJ9X-iUK542In20rHRIQ6xaGT9scNmFAYhMTdsedEpB0qvoRx5h9g0DJkFg9zVHT75hJPEunk3EDwnbf6H28i-kSoCk9aXBT7holTz2jLjvMp4Z-bxba7hI3xsYzgs0XC4aajGDlccRLY-QyG8XQ/s320/4.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><b>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What lifestyle habits facilitate the development of cognitive reserve and how do they reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <span> </span>○<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Exercise: The brain is the greediest organ in the body in terms of the need for blood flow and oxygen. Exercise helps to provide the brain with those nutrients, and also facilitates the release of a protein called BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor). BDNF is instrumental in supporting the birth of new neurons in the hippocampus, the brain region primarily responsible for new learning and memory storage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span> </span><span> </span>○<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>A Brain-Healthy Diet: </b>The Mediterranean Diet and the MIND diet ( a combination of the Mediterranean Diet and the Dash Diet) have been proven to support healthy brain function. This is most likely because of their generous inclusion of antioxidants and Omega 3 fatty acids.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>○<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Sleep: </b>Sleep is important for optimal brain function and for consolidation (movement into storage) of information acquired during the previous day into long term memory. Additionally, sleep is the time that the brain is cleared of plaques that build up throughout the day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span> </span><span> </span>○<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stress Management:</b> Effectively managing stress is essential to maintain healthy levels of cortisol which, in large quantities, is destructive to the brain and organs throughout the body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>○<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Lifelong Learning:</b> Learning something new and interesting every day is essential to activate existing neural pathways and connections throughout the brain and for development of new ones. The more activated neural connections and pathways you have, the bigger and more voluminous your brain will remain!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>○<span style="white-space: pre;"> <b>Enjoyable Activities: </b></span>As a bonus, finding something that you love to do and getting excited about it will give your brain an instant boost of motivation to keep learning and growing, in addition to adding a spark of joy each time you do it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Changing life-long habits</b> is undeniably hard, especially when there are several changes that need to be made. <b>What’s the best way to tackle them and how do we decide what to do first? </b>Change is difficult for people, even when they are keenly aware of the benefits of following through.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To begin, you need to have clarity for why you want to make these changes. Knowing your reasons for doing something is essential before starting. Otherwise, you’re likely to give up if things get tough. Once you’re ready to begin, it is important not to attempt too many changes at once. Make a list of the lifestyle habits you want to change and then choose the most do-able first. Giving yourself the boost of dopamine associated with accomplishment will be helpful to get the ball rolling. As you begin to engage in these new habits, gradually add one, then another and another.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR-</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WFctO4lA-EXbxVp0goRvS0tth0Vx1_Vyt2Yuh0gjKjvcYmvyyHDH7LsCyfNCBwFk2SgLFp5D23MwnGneOZGV8LAtg4p6T7ASXTO8xoe38S-nRvX8jMSUdNxH6c_Mx_K337OsqpGy6E791mUgRW1QCsOfS1QXXFkglxDOCEyanIJdvgDWXJZZ9mkfXg/s721/1595960912664.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="721" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WFctO4lA-EXbxVp0goRvS0tth0Vx1_Vyt2Yuh0gjKjvcYmvyyHDH7LsCyfNCBwFk2SgLFp5D23MwnGneOZGV8LAtg4p6T7ASXTO8xoe38S-nRvX8jMSUdNxH6c_Mx_K337OsqpGy6E791mUgRW1QCsOfS1QXXFkglxDOCEyanIJdvgDWXJZZ9mkfXg/w86-h86/1595960912664.jpg" width="86" /></a></div><p class="normal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><i></i></span></p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><i>MARILYN ABRAHAMSON, MA, CCC-SLP
: As a Brain Health Education Specialist at Ceresti Health, Marilyn offers initiatives
that supports education and empowerment of family caregivers. She also writes
for and edits the Ceresti’s monthly newsletter and produces all brain health
education and brain-health coaching programs for caregivers. Marilyn's prior work is as a NJ Licensed
Speech-Language Pathologist since 1987 and is an Amen Clinics Certified Brain
Health Coach.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><i></i><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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This analysis should also offer a comprehensive breakdown of the body's HEALING capacity- which includes our hormones, digestive system, immune system, brain, heart-- all the way down to our cells and mitochondria. Stress is part of life, and comes in many forms including physical, emotional, mental and environmental. Foods we eat, unhealthy relationships, difficulties at work, toxins in our environment, even poor posture or lack of sunshine can all create stress on our bodies. (</span><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/10/guided-meditation-for-newbies.html" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">See complete report by: Dr. Roberta Kline</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">)</span><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/09/excerpt-from-live-calm-with-cancer-and.html" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="302" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghp-S_i7HwqtJi5N4-T3ycHj0u0FLKTX5tTbA4wU90Tb5FXaM3Jue2yjKgu3_XrjnB2WW4WbXShkcNq3k4NULx2lUsI6R9eR4grUibr10PROc8Lz6ZeJJPwphKtoR1K-bt3UDNXb0M9Td4yAxRiAnu6BEwaGBb8X6dIxmAE05VZrobq-Ls3C1og68hFw/w140-h104/tired.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="140" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">9/14/2022 - </span><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/09/excerpt-from-live-calm-with-cancer-and.html" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">ADDRESSING BURNOUT: RECHARGING FOR CAREGIVERS:</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"> During the Covid-19 surge, interviews with emergency medical professionals showed dramatic cases of ICU and ER responders exposed to major signs of advanced fatigue and risk of burnout. This significantly raised major risks to their work performance where lives are to be affected, including theirs. Over time, double and triple shifts resulted in "a different type of pandemic" on a national scale- where this level of exhaustion and overwhelm. 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Whereby the medical community touts the recommended (and legal/billable status) of getting a mammo scan should be between 40-50, what happens to the many women who do not fit this age criteria? How would they even know to get checked without the support of their clinicians or an alarm from family history?</span></div><p></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7436191054731063547" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 774px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>Decades into the battle against breast cancer, clinicians and the public are much more educated about EARLY DETECTION, PREVENTION and the current protocols and modalities available to save lives. Recent headlines on DENSE BREAST and the advancements in ULTRASOUND SCANNING supports a major part of this battle.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">UNDERSERVED AGE FOR EARLY DETECTION</span></p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">By <a href="http://www.drrobertbard.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. Robert L. Bard</a> and Joe Cappello of <a href="http://areyoudense.org/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">AreYouDense.org</a></div></span></div></div></span><p style="color: #222222;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">According to </span><a href="https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/ultrasound-may-be-alternative-to-mammo" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: times; text-decoration-line: none;">Breastcancer.org,</a><span style="font-family: times;"> "Where mammography is available, ultrasound should be seen as a supplemental test for women with dense breasts who do not meet high-risk criteria for screening [with] MRI and for high-risk women with dense breasts who are unable to tolerate MRI... but if mammography isn’t available, then ultrasound seems to be a good alternative for breast cancer screening."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: right; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwx8FZrNA1BEJorh06_Ywi7xiNI1Gd72F9GgCgCxcWg2gL-xt_7tKZnC3qDAkmieqoac7jTj5EsqqvBuYcFTQvoS-ZmjFyQAeZ4oiQ27_SPzLi-cQ8I46QHwkqymowfHO0wWulnMjMDb17l5nfU36u81xbL8Pceb2qWustjjcoBoO6K1gUxhiFpC7ZTQ/s827/SCR.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="827" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwx8FZrNA1BEJorh06_Ywi7xiNI1Gd72F9GgCgCxcWg2gL-xt_7tKZnC3qDAkmieqoac7jTj5EsqqvBuYcFTQvoS-ZmjFyQAeZ4oiQ27_SPzLi-cQ8I46QHwkqymowfHO0wWulnMjMDb17l5nfU36u81xbL8Pceb2qWustjjcoBoO6K1gUxhiFpC7ZTQ/s320/SCR.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Doppler Sonography offers clinical accuracy and access<br />to breast imaging evaluation (<a href="http://www.breastcancernyc.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">www.breastcancernyc.com</a></i>)</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A recent cohort study is underway under a partnership between Molloy College and <a href="http://areyoudense.org/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">AreYouDense.org</a> to publish new findings about low BMI patients and younger women about the presence of dense breast tissue. This same review also covers the advantages of ultrasound use where mammography is not available.</div></span><p style="color: #222222;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Mammography is the current standard for breast cancer early detection for women 40 & older. Recent studies have shown nearly half of all women who get mammograms are found to have dense breasts, exposing this population to the risk that mammograms may miss potentially cancerous tumors concealed by dense breast tissue. Dr. Cutter's initial concepts to target LOW BMI (bet 12-22% body fat) was personally inspired. As an active TRIATHLETE, her own diagnosis sparked her survey and inquiry throughout the athletic community where she uncovered a significant trend that became the basis for this research. She wishes to target younger women, athletes and members of underserved communities. "Younger women may be more likely to have dense breasts... also I find athletes with LOWER BMI (body mass index) or those with less body fat are more likely to have more dense breast tissue compared with women who are obese." (<a href="https://360healthalert.blogspot.com/2022/02/ny-cancer-alliance-to-launch-first.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">See complete feature article</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"></p><hr style="color: #222222;" /><p style="color: #222222;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.25in;">VIEWPOINT </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeGQhE2wd2kkljEDIjS7yodzEXHHS4yNSKFPBoaN95OrLp7D8BiLHW125KWGKzsfErnWMv3pIrE2nqkCZDj8LQPdGne8OxEekY7PW3HTkdK5wr0JqW1QOz1-JRFmjJEH3GcBk8oL3gNI__n_AV54iXXXCt0kHvJ4vySCesaxPb9tE-yQL-wwqtpDMaNA/s2248/headshot2.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2248" data-original-width="1665" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeGQhE2wd2kkljEDIjS7yodzEXHHS4yNSKFPBoaN95OrLp7D8BiLHW125KWGKzsfErnWMv3pIrE2nqkCZDj8LQPdGne8OxEekY7PW3HTkdK5wr0JqW1QOz1-JRFmjJEH3GcBk8oL3gNI__n_AV54iXXXCt0kHvJ4vySCesaxPb9tE-yQL-wwqtpDMaNA/w77-h104/headshot2.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="77" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24px;">WHAT ABOUT IF YOU'RE TOO YOUNG FOR A MAMMOGRAM? </span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24px;"><i>I went to my doctor for a lump I felt in my breast and she gave me a response that set off red flags: "don't worry about it". Being a researcher involved in breast density and breast cancer, I knew that I had to take action; I was fortunate enough to have my breast ultrasound training with Dr. Robert Bard (cancer imaging specialist, NYC) upcoming in the next week. Dr. Bard showed me how to use the ultrasound to help me find two benign tumors in my breasts, and it was there that he reported that I have dense breasts. Had I not taken action in getting screened at the young age of 22, I would have never known that I should be getting screened via ultrasound every 6 months (because having dense breasts puts me at a higher risk for breast cancer), nor would I have known that I had benign breast tumors. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">- ALEXANDRA FIEDERLEIN, 22</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24px;">Cancer Researcher/ Graduate- Molloy Univ.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br style="text-indent: 24px;" /></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></div></span></div><p><br /></p><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13px;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-indent: 0.25in;">NEWS FROM</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-indent: 0.25in;"> THE FIELD </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; text-indent: 24px;"><br /></span></div><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: right; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/spotlight-on-america/millions-of-women-have-this-breast-cancer-risk-factor-why-arent-they-being-informed-breast-cancer-awareness-month-dense-breast-tissue-xray-mammograms-cdc-dr-bard-suzanne-mcdonald" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="484" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdq3GVsqY_T_MSF8zTQtwDWLetgEl7F4JDDSZfpPM3BFaRYVyUPvpXi3kSyeodOp3cOnt4uU0lMe_8wmI0oHbnK499QPgCDCinaLDPWH7eGlWNMnYNRXcCPMKem7hjEJQ-1QzfwacuLD2QqRAtm3MWCsEgR_7-C4hzYKCygU42wR7IAiN4JX7expddYQ/s320/COLLAGE.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/spotlight-on-america/millions-of-women-have-this-breast-cancer-risk-factor-why-arent-they-being-informed-breast-cancer-awareness-month-dense-breast-tissue-xray-mammograms-cdc-dr-bard-suzanne-mcdonald" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Click to see NEWS</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span><span style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">The DENSE BREAST TISSUE / CANCER CONNECTION is a topic that has finally achieved proper recognition in our community. Thanks to organizations like The 'ARE YOU DENSE?' Foundation, awareness of this health concern has now shed light to the risk to 40+% of the national women's population whereby more clinicians are now recognizing the need to state a patient's dense breast status. Research crusaders like Dr. Noelle Cutter and research associate Alexandra Fiederlein from Molloy University are underway the 2022 National Survey of Dense Breast Studies by bringing ultrasound access to underserved members of the women's community. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.25in;">In a recent episode of SPOTLIGHT ON AMERICA, Dr. Bard spoke as the clinical expert in the report "Millions of women have this breast cancer risk factors... why aren't they being informed?" -- TND REPORT/</span><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Spotlight on America is pressing to ensure women have access to a crucial health fact that could save their lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40% of women have dense breast tissue, which is a risk factor for cancer. The TND</span></span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 24px;"> team first highlighted this issue in October 2021, and more than a year later, we expose how some women are still being left in the dark about their density, and federal health bodies are failing to make sure they’re informed.</span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px; text-indent: 0.25in;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><p style="color: #222222;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLGUBWBkCbXBzphNhhUv9lbkwM7GBi38eWqKe_68BrbFfqCZlCkWAu4Verr8QuUndeFGeJgZI-8T3yiSJq-9AlvbC4Q9hdLtEbRM1mGWvDLy-cBBytMzDwfD_QnpySTzG7x4A0Po9JEuVqHpLzT90X8gWjEIkgDcHXHHB0iU4QZ-xbviCS0TJPo9UBw/s177/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="177" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLGUBWBkCbXBzphNhhUv9lbkwM7GBi38eWqKe_68BrbFfqCZlCkWAu4Verr8QuUndeFGeJgZI-8T3yiSJq-9AlvbC4Q9hdLtEbRM1mGWvDLy-cBBytMzDwfD_QnpySTzG7x4A0Po9JEuVqHpLzT90X8gWjEIkgDcHXHHB0iU4QZ-xbviCS0TJPo9UBw/s1600/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="177" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2022 REVIEW ON WOMEN'S EARLY DETECTION STANDARDS </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Excerpt from the 2021 NYCRA Dense Breast Diagnostic Conference <span style="text-align: justify;">By: </span><a href="http://www.robertaklinemd.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. Roberta Kline</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9KX7buVFs-Jdw1nzs2-6hkEJs5wsuu8jLQEOb2p_BoEGMoDznkeINOK5Dq0lIvbLPXNT1FMNJdUYmV0YnA7Ltd4qSMDKkJ9gfSBVr22sKZ5XBA72beT1WyLIEOiz2pqLZ_3bYyYcCoPiwDoy8ncysWl5vvtepQRMsySjf4HySE2rQzLI10gTPU0Crw/s800/dreamstime_s_104389297.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9KX7buVFs-Jdw1nzs2-6hkEJs5wsuu8jLQEOb2p_BoEGMoDznkeINOK5Dq0lIvbLPXNT1FMNJdUYmV0YnA7Ltd4qSMDKkJ9gfSBVr22sKZ5XBA72beT1WyLIEOiz2pqLZ_3bYyYcCoPiwDoy8ncysWl5vvtepQRMsySjf4HySE2rQzLI10gTPU0Crw/w254-h169/dreamstime_s_104389297.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="254" /></a></div>Breast cancer is still one of the most common cancers in women, and the leading cause of cancer mortality. While mammography is considered the standard imaging for early detection, it falls short for many – including those with dense breasts. Approximately 40% of women have dense breasts, which we now know is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. On top of this increased risk, mammogram is less sensitive for early detection – up to 50% less for women with the highest breast density. [1] As a result many women are not diagnosed until they have a much later stage cancer – and a worse prognosis. [2]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The State of Connecticut passed legislation requiring notification of breast density in 2009, after having passed legislation requiring insurance coverage for ultrasound for dense breasts in 2005. As an ObGyn physician practicing in CT at the time, I remember the discussions with colleagues and patients around this issue although at the time there were no formal efforts to raise awareness or update guidelines from our national specialty organization, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />PERSPECTIVE: PERSONAL FINDINGS BY A CLINICAL PROFESSIONAL</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was fortunate to have benefited personally from this effort when I had my first screening mammogram shortly after the law went into effect. The reading radiologist personally informed me of my high breast density immediately after the mammogram, and after recommending a breast ultrasound for further evaluation this was done right then and there. I walked away from my appointment feeling well informed, and any potential anxiety relieved by the prompt additional imaging and results. I also knew that I needed a different approach for my screenings going forward.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTrzupAjpigNE2iV8Gf-Ek1hsTk98zY3fscLnC7m90USIo5z-KdFWtCpvbJh4DTsCcEcQKgZk_XL9qL-FN6K4g5x3Ol0c-675_OJqASMUbae2Zsfbi3WElTY0GHelX2_w6gB8GlFlJHtZpE6BwCXfg5x0uCDHU82pL8nEg9gJveAGXmjB2z8ewwqCQA/s800/dreamstime_s_34664571%20(1).jpg" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="800" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTrzupAjpigNE2iV8Gf-Ek1hsTk98zY3fscLnC7m90USIo5z-KdFWtCpvbJh4DTsCcEcQKgZk_XL9qL-FN6K4g5x3Ol0c-675_OJqASMUbae2Zsfbi3WElTY0GHelX2_w6gB8GlFlJHtZpE6BwCXfg5x0uCDHU82pL8nEg9gJveAGXmjB2z8ewwqCQA/w248-h174/dreamstime_s_34664571%20(1).jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="248" /></a></div>Between 2009 and 2019, 37 other states and D.C. passed legislation requiring notification of breast density, one of the last being my new home state of New Mexico. In 2019 a federal law was passed to require both clinician and patient reports contain plain language around the woman’s breast density, and to discuss with her provider. The FDA then created standard language that has now been implemented, requiring reporting on a woman’s individual breast density, and recommendation to discuss with her provider.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHi1nre-0dlXgJgOA6L5wL4mqFI2jHSAK3_sgdRu9dEVu6SS8VmoBv55_XgcRdBwP-pYiEsQBIwFS5UMMBeB0Izg33eCCmHrCz9wVqE9Gy0BiZ7WqOemiqViB6yjLfCb5YDbww3CvxVBNGqv_8COGKo76_FzVG0gVxKQiazjTYtqKonWeys0Tnrf6Lw/s1100/INSERT2.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1100" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHi1nre-0dlXgJgOA6L5wL4mqFI2jHSAK3_sgdRu9dEVu6SS8VmoBv55_XgcRdBwP-pYiEsQBIwFS5UMMBeB0Izg33eCCmHrCz9wVqE9Gy0BiZ7WqOemiqViB6yjLfCb5YDbww3CvxVBNGqv_8COGKo76_FzVG0gVxKQiazjTYtqKonWeys0Tnrf6Lw/w247-h159/INSERT2.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="247" /></a></div>There is still much to be learned about what causes dense breasts and why women with dense breasts have an increased risk of breast cancer, and our ongoing study is one of many that are seeking to answer these questions at the molecular and genetic level. But the evidence that supplementing mammograms with other imaging modalities can increase the rate of early detection is substantial, and provides us with tools we can use right now to make a difference. [3,4] Despite this progress, there are still significant hurdles in changing the standard of care. A recent experience with my routine breast cancer screening highlighted the ongoing challenges. When I had asked to schedule an ultrasound with my screening mammogram, I was informed that it was not done this way – I could only get a mammogram. After my mammogram, I had to wait to receive my letter in the mail approximately one week later to be able to take any additional steps. The interpretation included a description of breast density and recommended to discuss any additional care with my physician. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When I called to schedule an ultrasound, I was told that since the radiologist did not recommend it in the report, I could not schedule it. I then had to speak with my primary care provider, educating her on dense breasts and why I needed an ultrasound. Luckily, she agreed to order one. While the radiology facility still questioned the order, eventually I was able to have this done. When the radiologist came in to discuss my results, she too was confused as to why I was having the ultrasound, and was not aware that this should be standard for women with dense breasts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://360healthalert.blogspot.com/2022/02/ny-cancer-alliance-to-launch-first.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="334" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJG_XJGSmBb3kgSRGxITh0Qw8atZPMnHmzeqmLuaIh6vwArzSq1NeXEpcxacL19aWKqU2SZ_JfvcwDpMsIUB1Eh6SieHsVAwAu2FkuHbKDKb23XPojZjYEyEg69LuvCgmE92EqYZkOu3MgWZ8XoWUHF9E-6OpiLcasCVm5Ojd-ufb6UpQ2oHue71EJg/s320/SCR-DENSE.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://360healthalert.blogspot.com/2022/02/ny-cancer-alliance-to-launch-first.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">See 2022 Dense Breast Ultrasound Study</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Fortunately all was fine, but had I not been a physician that was fully aware of this issue, I would very likely have had only a mammogram and walked away with a dangerously false sense of security. This experience highlighted for me how much still needed to be done more than 20 years after my first experience. Legislation is only part of the solution. Clinician education and public awareness are the keys to changing how the intention behind these laws gets translated into actual change in health care.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As I experienced, many clinicians are ill-informed about the nature of dense breasts, and options for adjunctive screening including ultrasound or MRI. This means that many of these reports end up being filed away with no further action being taken that could make a significant difference in early detection and saving lives.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">EPILOGUE: CURRENT STANDARDS VS NEEDS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">ACOG still officially does not recommend any further imaging for women with dense breasts on mammogram, despite the significant body of evidence suggesting that mammogram alone is insufficient and adjunctive imaging with ultrasound or MRI increases rate of early detection. [5] The U.S. Preventive Task Force [6] does not recommend routine adjunctive imaging for screening women with dense breasts. This leaves many healthcare practitioners, from ObGyns to other primary care providers, unprepared to discuss this with their patients or provide sound recommendations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The American College of Radiologists, who also publishes the BIRADS standards for breast cancer screening, acknowledges awareness of breast density detection issues with mammography but stops short of recommending routine adjunctive imaging. Instead, they list ultrasound and MRI as “may be appropriate”. [7] We have enough evidence to know how to better serve women with dense breasts, and we can do better. Now we need to push for better education of all primary health care providers, including ObGyns, and continue to raise awareness for women around current knowledge and best practices. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br style="text-indent: 24px;" /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">References</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1) Gordon PB. The Impact of Dense Breasts on the Stage of Breast Cancer at Diagnosis: A Review and Options for Supplemental Screening. Curr Oncol. 2022 May 17;29(5):3595-3636.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>2) Chiu, S.Y.H.; Duffy, S.; Yen, A.M.F.; Tabár, L.; Smith, R.A.; Chen, H.H. Effect of baseline breast density on breast cancer incidence, stage, mortality, and screening parameters: 25-Year follow-up of a Swedish mammographic screening. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomark. Prev. 2010, 19, 1219–1228</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>3) Harada-Shoji N, Suzuki A, Ishida T, Zheng YF, Narikawa-Shiono Y, Sato-Tadano A, Ohta R, Ohuchi N. Evaluation of Adjunctive Ultrasonography for Breast Cancer Detection Among Women Aged 40-49 Years With Varying Breast Density Undergoing Screening Mammography: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Aug 2;4(8):e2121505</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>4) Mann, R.M., Athanasiou, A., Baltzer, P.A.T. et al. Breast cancer screening in women with extremely dense breasts recommendations of the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI). Eur Radiol 32, 4036–4045 (2022).</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>5) Management of Women With Dense Breasts Diagnosed by Mammography. ACOG Committee Opinion. CO Number 625 March 2015</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>6) https://uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>7) American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening Based on Breast Density. 2021</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Copyright Notice: The materials provided on this website/web-based article are copyrighted and the intellectual property of the publishers/producers (The NY Cancer Resource Alliance/IntermediaWorx inc. and The AngioFoundation). 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This analysis should also offer a comprehensive breakdown of the body's HEALING capacity- which includes our hormones, digestive system, immune system, brain, heart-- all the way down to our cells and mitochondria. </div><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjMHzwsIdJr9DVNTnqS2MBNRgPKDaEuGVDMiHk2dsT6mBFuzLeYXVHb-9du3NA5j5Bqj3cwys8D0qUPlLYrmpI4Uk97QP5CZN4GTZt04jQHRKl7ND2k7lNAkgvJPBuEqWSyMusFl1519SsuEU1H-0FgwaDt6TcXnLx1Z1vCEnfg0E6SXJauuWbFgngw/s480/dreamstime_xs_128003350.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #cd3778; float: right; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="480" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjMHzwsIdJr9DVNTnqS2MBNRgPKDaEuGVDMiHk2dsT6mBFuzLeYXVHb-9du3NA5j5Bqj3cwys8D0qUPlLYrmpI4Uk97QP5CZN4GTZt04jQHRKl7ND2k7lNAkgvJPBuEqWSyMusFl1519SsuEU1H-0FgwaDt6TcXnLx1Z1vCEnfg0E6SXJauuWbFgngw/w240-h164/dreamstime_xs_128003350.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Stress is part of life, and comes in many forms including physical, emotional, mental and environmental. Foods we eat, unhealthy relationships, difficulties at work, toxins in our environment, even poor posture or lack of sunshine can all create stress on our bodies. But when stress is catastrophic or becomes chronic, it creates imbalances in this functioning that are much more likely to promote disease while at the same time preventing healing from taking place. [1]</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With people under record levels of chronic stress, it is no wonder we have an epidemic of people suffering from all sorts of health issues and chronic diseases. Heart disease, diabetes, obesity, pain, anxiety, depression, infertility, cancer, autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s …. These are just some of the many health conditions that have been linked to diet and lifestyle including chronic stress. [2, 3] But how does this work? And is meditation the answer to reversing this trend? Science is revealing some interesting clues.</p><p></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE NERVOUS SYSTEM</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;">One big connection is our nervous system. Our nervous system is our superconductor network of information exchange throughout our bodies, and consists of two main parts. The first is the central nervous system (CNS). As it sounds, it’s our command center where all data comes to be processed, and is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. The second is called the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and it connects every part of our body to our CNS through individual nerve cells called neurons and clusters of neurons known as ganglia.</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgry4eZUPpq7MnoM2ClNDjGMnZWbYIKGar9x-Hln_viDsI0WV_CDQllv33U4eFjMUB8_k0MmB9Z_CscRyAQRotspNBzxonny6S5QP_PJEZdAZdeQaT4blrvP47zc_viBkoAhRFv8-QD02yN06sh-pvoYTowz7SPEEd-F6diAgEKAORQWvvyfFgRpRqHmw/s463/65348892_s.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #cd3778; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="463" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgry4eZUPpq7MnoM2ClNDjGMnZWbYIKGar9x-Hln_viDsI0WV_CDQllv33U4eFjMUB8_k0MmB9Z_CscRyAQRotspNBzxonny6S5QP_PJEZdAZdeQaT4blrvP47zc_viBkoAhRFv8-QD02yN06sh-pvoYTowz7SPEEd-F6diAgEKAORQWvvyfFgRpRqHmw/w247-h247/65348892_s.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="247" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The PNS is further divided into the Somatic Nervous System, also known as the voluntary nervous system, and the Autonomic Nervous System. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) manages all bodily functions that are not under conscious control. This includes heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, respiration, cellular activity, immune system, hormones, brain function, sexual function, and even body temperature.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The ANS is further divided into two parts: the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS), which regulates our “fight or flight” response, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS), which controls our “rest and digest” response. They work closely together in a complex dance, maintaining our bodily functions and ensuring our survival every second of our lives.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many health issues, including most chronic diseases such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, diabetes, depression and anxiety, and cancer, are related to an imbalance of our autonomic nervous system. Most typically, it is too much of the “fight or flight” and not enough of the “rest and digest” that leads us into this imbalance. [4]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/09/healing-stress-and-parasympathetic.html"><b>See complete feature by Dr. Roberta Kline</b></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4220547867856940946" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 806px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70WL2FJY7fLGAEheFAxy2PhWjEMP9jy6Fg-t1mibABhqR5rPa1ka-Y1c7B2h1x_qGbH-JNFI3t84fKvvqT1SHlvA5zmKI1JYdMXpJQXUbzIeGxj_g_b1aJ-TICkzNMELzlTCk-6rTitsWtvunsd-k6HgE_vGyE1-4N55jBnkVWYHipNE8Vvs6Jjpq/s177/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="177" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70WL2FJY7fLGAEheFAxy2PhWjEMP9jy6Fg-t1mibABhqR5rPa1ka-Y1c7B2h1x_qGbH-JNFI3t84fKvvqT1SHlvA5zmKI1JYdMXpJQXUbzIeGxj_g_b1aJ-TICkzNMELzlTCk-6rTitsWtvunsd-k6HgE_vGyE1-4N55jBnkVWYHipNE8Vvs6Jjpq/s1600/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; 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More than a comical quip, </span><span>STRESS is (by all definitions) a KILLER -- and unbridled ANXIETY can spiral into physiological disorders </span>causing rapid heart rate, high blood pressure and heart disease - elevating the risk of coronary events. Rooted from a lifestyle imbalances in our emotional state calls us to address an upgrade in the mind-body connection. </i></div></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">GUIDED MEDITATIONS are a way to let go of your worries for the moment and bring you back to your true, authentic self. It helps re-align the chakras of your body to their natural state of vibration, –where you can live more fully, love more abundantly, and react in a peaceful state of mind. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Your mind, body, and spirit are the essential parts of you. You are God’s precious gift to the world and there is nothing more beautiful than a soul in the state of peace. Guided meditation is one of many holistic healing modalities that has many benefits. The practice of guided meditation is dated back to the beginning of time, we all need to quiet the mind, to let go of all the chatter of everyday life, –to recharge, replenish and rejuvenate the soul. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Meditation can be implemented for long and short periods of time. We live in a world that is constantly cluttering our lives. We need to take time out for ourselves. When we do that, –we feel more relaxed. We can give more of ourselves and to others in positive ways because we are refreshed. Meditation lifts our spirit to a higher level of vibration so that we can handle life’s troubles and triumphs to our best capability. While working at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Northport, Long Island, –I would always include guided meditations as part of my practice with my patients. Many patients felt the soothing music and aromatherapy used in conjunction with the guided meditations made the experience even more pleasant, so it’s important to take note of what works best for you.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-6uCBo0_iR3AKZnWZamifSDb0Xso7aQeG2P_VdJ-vZgTqT_W5Poc_YBZTjdE2SNLXGhb66B2_n8OEimfx5gU0b0pFQt4nYWqhIedC7XrYxUaBO0rOvh8VVmcIRytW_qror-CWSiFRdMqUu7TseMATW47RdKMd0h9rPaTBDmbbp6U6rauMSmM-MYUbog/s2772/wrist.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2772" data-original-width="2772" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-6uCBo0_iR3AKZnWZamifSDb0Xso7aQeG2P_VdJ-vZgTqT_W5Poc_YBZTjdE2SNLXGhb66B2_n8OEimfx5gU0b0pFQt4nYWqhIedC7XrYxUaBO0rOvh8VVmcIRytW_qror-CWSiFRdMqUu7TseMATW47RdKMd0h9rPaTBDmbbp6U6rauMSmM-MYUbog/w142-h142/wrist.jpg" width="142" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Meditation is a practice known to man since the beginning of time. The history of meditation is rooted back in religion and spiritual practice; however, as cultures and societies changed, –so did its practice. The English word “meditation” comes from meditatum, a Latin word meaning to “ponder.” When we ponder, –we reflect, we think. But instead of thinking in haste, –we think with clarity. We let go of toxic thoughts, –calming the mind, body, and soul to lead a more peaceful and happy life. There are many benefits to prayer, meditation, and guided imaginary. </p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Meditation has proven benefits to reduce anxiety and depression; fear and apprehension; stress and tension; calming your mind and nerves; and improving your physical health. There are various forms of meditation and differences in how people respond to meditation. Each time you practice meditation, –you are generally, –able to let go more easily, and may go into a deeper meditation. You become light itself. Meditation increases your concentration and ability to stay focused. Ultimately, it increases your wisdom and intuition. Meditating in the morning provides you with inspirational energy for the day, –and meditating in the evening encourages a restful sleep.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Meet our newest contributor:</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.dianecalabrese.com/"></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.dianecalabrese.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="296" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-yGsg3uAGL7mzDDniM7h-PBSe8FcL1TfNpz3SSpMymCR3Gyu-j1nCbuy2yE_3UM_FAnQaDldrTPfhltaHgdFbni1JAdLcp5BL9lFMtMz4TtOpPKXo2y_Hd6GGvg9ce9LBdyFeju4mQtV4pOvkXiS3AWbrulZOdBePYq4u2G8gJFRTkJMSut88DLhgw/w67-h89/diane-calabrese.jpg" width="67" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.dianecalabrese.com/"><b>Diane Calabrese</b>, MS, CTRS</a> is the author of<a href="https://www.dianecalabrese.com/about-the-books/"> Meditations for the </a><a href="https://www.dianecalabrese.com/about-the-books/">Mind-Body-Spirit</a> and is an adjunct professor for Florida International University. Diane was practicing as a recreational therapist for 30 years. She holds a master’s degree in Healthcare Policy and Management Sciences and a bachelor’s degree in Recreational Therapy. In addition, she has worked in a variety of healthcare settings. Diane's passion led her to continue her education in various holistic healing modalities. </div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">RECHARGING FOR CAREGIVERS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>By: <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-clinicians-modality-review-on.html" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. Leslie Valle</a> & the Prevention101 Editorial Team</i></span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></div></span></div></span><span style="font-family: times;"><div><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDEEf8HUFVT_oPQJhdAz84dSRyREE4X-hzEVaRvDSrMhx4rJxe3-XP2SlOrVPFsgzcG4jDqJL8644Q7gghsU1hl9aHSUr6UGwlxFr_8duNu9_-EeObWyzb51N3uu1FYVxpQY0UK0YptllxGDPLEBFx8LZ7I8Ymxbxn2f07uZ8aXMjftcOiYzJgfklguA/s1600/tired.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #cd3778; float: right; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 0.25in;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1187" data-original-width="1600" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDEEf8HUFVT_oPQJhdAz84dSRyREE4X-hzEVaRvDSrMhx4rJxe3-XP2SlOrVPFsgzcG4jDqJL8644Q7gghsU1hl9aHSUr6UGwlxFr_8duNu9_-EeObWyzb51N3uu1FYVxpQY0UK0YptllxGDPLEBFx8LZ7I8Ymxbxn2f07uZ8aXMjftcOiYzJgfklguA/w302-h224/tired.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="302" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">During the Covid-19 surge, interviews with emergency medical professionals showed dramatic cases of ICU and ER responders exposed to major signs of advanced fatigue and risk of burnout. This significantly raised major risks to their work performance where lives are to be affected, including theirs. Over time, double and triple shifts resulted in </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">"a different type of pandemic" on a national scale- where t</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">his level of exhaustion and overwhelm. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">Where a leave of absence, a vacation or regular rest is not an immediate option, we can start with addressing BRAIN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH. Modern meditation solutions (like <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-clinicians-modality-review-on.html" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">BrainTap</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-clinicians-modality-review-on.html" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">®</a>,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"> <a href="https://lovingmeditations.com/loving-meditations-app/" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">Loving Meditations</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a href="https://lovingmeditations.com/loving-meditations-app/" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">®</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"> and other such technologies) are now available for exactly this emergent case as a portable personal "Rescue" dose. By tap ping the mind/body connection</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"> into a Vital Re-charge mode, we can induce a "Refresh- Revitalize-Renew" condition. As with conventional meditation, bringing you into a regenerative meditative state offers that level of rest, clears the mind for renewed focus and new energy to continue with the 'battle' at hand. </span></span></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70WL2FJY7fLGAEheFAxy2PhWjEMP9jy6Fg-t1mibABhqR5rPa1ka-Y1c7B2h1x_qGbH-JNFI3t84fKvvqT1SHlvA5zmKI1JYdMXpJQXUbzIeGxj_g_b1aJ-TICkzNMELzlTCk-6rTitsWtvunsd-k6HgE_vGyE1-4N55jBnkVWYHipNE8Vvs6Jjpq/s177/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="177" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70WL2FJY7fLGAEheFAxy2PhWjEMP9jy6Fg-t1mibABhqR5rPa1ka-Y1c7B2h1x_qGbH-JNFI3t84fKvvqT1SHlvA5zmKI1JYdMXpJQXUbzIeGxj_g_b1aJ-TICkzNMELzlTCk-6rTitsWtvunsd-k6HgE_vGyE1-4N55jBnkVWYHipNE8Vvs6Jjpq/s1600/IPHANEWS.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="177" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">2022 TRENDING INTEREST IN BRAIN HEALTH</span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: justify;">By: David Dachinger & Joshua Schueller</div></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHA804zkrPvzgQn0R7V9ybYAq9C8ZlPh2e6TNBR1A6_96x5RlvJgtzztb94NJwlQ20hKqcrxITPtOVg1dDk8IH-NZ3MMJIdv_5X7T56MD0CosVuee1JmF-sFqhBZPfy8XJrsK1sQNFfzIdy3nkyp_KqVmvGfS0GUDE04aCTVes1Qlh4R_uG1UZd1A/s272/dreamstime_xs_91269852.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="256" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHA804zkrPvzgQn0R7V9ybYAq9C8ZlPh2e6TNBR1A6_96x5RlvJgtzztb94NJwlQ20hKqcrxITPtOVg1dDk8IH-NZ3MMJIdv_5X7T56MD0CosVuee1JmF-sFqhBZPfy8XJrsK1sQNFfzIdy3nkyp_KqVmvGfS0GUDE04aCTVes1Qlh4R_uG1UZd1A/s1600/dreamstime_xs_91269852.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="256" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Within the recent decade, a higher level of focus on brain health has been a trending topic in headlines throughout medical community news. Public concerns about Alzheimer’s, Dementia, MS, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases has driven advanced research in their diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention. According to <a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/06/neurodegenerative-diseases-and-vascular.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. Jay Lombard</a>, “One of the most exciting opportunities in neuroscience research today is the use of strategies that protect the brain which may potentially prevent, delay or inhibit the progression of neurodegenerative diseases… this opportunity rests on our ability for early diagnosis. Research has shown that the likelihood of success for a given treatment-whether lifestyle changes or pharmacological approaches- is highly dependent upon early intervention, before the disease process has become too severe and potentially irreversible.” <a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/06/neurodegenerative-diseases-and-vascular.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">In addition, growing reports on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy/CTE (identified from head concussions) has prompted significant attention to this progressive brain condition. According to the National Health Service (UK), this disorder “is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head and repeated episodes of concussion. It's particularly associated with contact sports, such as boxing or American football. Most of the available studies are based on ex-athletes”. [2]</span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4Lrt3jSpR5m-dHvuc_QyhDeUpYLBn_UM87cARcXd0ndfM7NxpFY-PhcvSXuVyHEAyguAhCUUniJsdzxTgkyGXU7AQsU9nuZnf_jqUtIApDBLwgT-jt5TqA3_gyORRkB6q5S2V5Dftb4JG-3KcEwq8yjGYqXfEtQvfAg6t0GMCwr5l5QHlzs5ZABz/s559/3pix.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="559" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4Lrt3jSpR5m-dHvuc_QyhDeUpYLBn_UM87cARcXd0ndfM7NxpFY-PhcvSXuVyHEAyguAhCUUniJsdzxTgkyGXU7AQsU9nuZnf_jqUtIApDBLwgT-jt5TqA3_gyORRkB6q5S2V5Dftb4JG-3KcEwq8yjGYqXfEtQvfAg6t0GMCwr5l5QHlzs5ZABz/s320/3pix.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">More concerns of brain function and performance is widely seen in the current pandemic and post-covid infection sequelae cases, where over 50 prevailing symptoms and disorders (known as LONG HAUL) are now under global review. Clinical researchers state post-acute COVID—affects a multitude of organ systems- including neuropsychiatric issues like BRAIN FOG, a form of cognitive impairment. This may be linked to a wide range of pathologies such as anxiety and depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and recurring headaches and migraines. [3] In a recent meta-analysis study on long term effects of covid-19, <a href="https://cancerresourcealliance.blogspot.com/2021/06/long-haul-syndrome-post-covid-dilemma.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. Sonia Villapol</a> (Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Center for Neuroregeneration in the Houston Methodist Research Institute & Asst. Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine) recorded significant long haul cases pertaining to brain health and functions including 44% headaches, 27% attention disorders, 13% anxiety, 12% depression. <a href="https://cancerresourcealliance.blogspot.com/2021/06/long-haul-syndrome-post-covid-dilemma.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></span></div><p></p><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: times;"><hr style="text-align: justify;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="102" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIhyZAZtsoDHR-urWAB3jmaJsb2DRVmjd8jnhpl4UwPZYhk4QlO-jJoEvF6DO65xmchs4cclIIiWEHv0dcXEIn201AhV2098qSExR3NYVzCptRdVw1MNTa7YnD-G0wemxlBCWn-N9a4sXNRWySXOfC3lz2npaIsEyVuinIk6jesh3cqzRwWwxzOK_75Q/w69-h69/bobbi.jpg" width="69" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/">ROBERTA KLINE, MD</a> (Educational Dir. /Women's Diagnostic Group) is a board-certified ObGyn physician, Integrative Personalized Medicine expert, consultant, author, and educator whose mission is to change how we approach health and deliver healthcare. She currently serves as Education Director for several organizations including the Women’s Diagnostic Health Network, Mommies on a Mission. </span></div></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.biomedlifesb.com"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="102" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7SlIJCGL_F43xKpgQ7qerhWv3QNU55HFnn4AyIuqxARm480aK_j9lDnbDjKoA9cAZe-6BZVONg5dp3fciT8rfjAnWUd3JMxO1l9xSDXQVGrqk5QH3Nc2UetokjKsYx-shXQqDcP3DSOKga8aNqjEbY5v-xf-223dPmCEUAyz7keqOt9HU98nThbuDww/w68-h68/lesl.jpg" width="68" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.biomedlifesb.com">LESLIE VALLE, MD</a> - is the founder of Biomed Life/ Santa Barbara Longevity Center. </span><span style="text-align: start;">After medical school, Dr. Valle focused on managing chronic disease starting with its links to poor nutrition and then introducing them into the world of energy frequencies. She explores and includes non-invasive modalities such as: frequency therapies (including biofeedback), PEMF, proper detoxification, nutritional guidance and binaural beats as needed.</span></span></span></div><p></p></div></div><div style="color: #222222;"><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://ipha-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/overview-defining-types-of-pain.html"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ipha-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/overview-defining-types-of-pain.html"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="102" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTOOZXLReMrblk4I59maVndc7j3EWFPCqAXh2re6lChTt1k1QUIemVZGaX59Nf1ZDOrPlxvttDvi3ZqYaHOU2BkmWC4jt9ciAbIkgntrIxt60WtDAx-YVuflvzp00AoRgKUcQMqTSWpsArltpsMjcjIhVWZ7ba_ng8XD-iwRFUkQxoIDJfbB9pljaYA/w68-h68/jos.jpg" width="68" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ipha-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/overview-defining-types-of-pain.html">JOSH T. SCHUELLER</a> is a licensed Physical Therapist supporting and treating chronic pain and disorders with non-invasive, treatment solutions. He is the current VP of Clinical Operations and Business Development at <a href="https://www.axiobionics.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">AxioBionics LLC</a>. and is formerly the Clinical Director for Orthopedic Physical Therapy Clinics (Rockford, MI). He has over 20+ years experience in the treatment of neurological conditions such as Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, CVA, Cerebral Palsy etc.</div></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.respondertv.com/"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="102" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDw-gn3iYBN5OLb9eet26RAXSjXlDMR0lIOK-_50KbBmmPeYV3VuOHB7tTybFdHhtQbeBPqgygR1CRUEKPnIV9EWWaZJzXaCHgA7NZs4X7KuChfHE5iQ6In6UsuSg_yjhiJSMmB4tTz2TXVwYf007gN2qahchsfiEaLXHUf_s_RkvSYHWKbCpQ6GDlYQ/w68-h68/dav.jpg" width="68" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.respondertv.com/">Lt. 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This analysis should also offer a comprehensive breakdown of the body's HEALING capacity- which includes our hormones, digestive system, immune system, brain, heart-- all the way down to our cells and mitochondria. <p></p><p>Stress is part of life, and comes in many forms including physical, emotional, mental and environmental. Foods we eat, unhealthy relationships, difficulties at work, toxins in our environment, even poor posture or lack of sunshine can all create stress on our bodies. But when stress is catastrophic or becomes chronic, it creates imbalances in this functioning that are much more likely to promote disease while at the same time preventing healing from taking place. [1]</p><p>With people under record levels of chronic stress, it is no wonder we have an epidemic of people suffering from all sorts of health issues and chronic diseases. Heart disease, diabetes, obesity, pain, anxiety, depression, infertility, cancer, autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s …. These are just some of the many health conditions that have been linked to diet and lifestyle including chronic stress. [2, 3]</p><p>But how does this work? And is meditation the answer to reversing this trend? Science is revealing some interesting clues.</p><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjMHzwsIdJr9DVNTnqS2MBNRgPKDaEuGVDMiHk2dsT6mBFuzLeYXVHb-9du3NA5j5Bqj3cwys8D0qUPlLYrmpI4Uk97QP5CZN4GTZt04jQHRKl7ND2k7lNAkgvJPBuEqWSyMusFl1519SsuEU1H-0FgwaDt6TcXnLx1Z1vCEnfg0E6SXJauuWbFgngw/s480/dreamstime_xs_128003350.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="480" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjMHzwsIdJr9DVNTnqS2MBNRgPKDaEuGVDMiHk2dsT6mBFuzLeYXVHb-9du3NA5j5Bqj3cwys8D0qUPlLYrmpI4Uk97QP5CZN4GTZt04jQHRKl7ND2k7lNAkgvJPBuEqWSyMusFl1519SsuEU1H-0FgwaDt6TcXnLx1Z1vCEnfg0E6SXJauuWbFgngw/w240-h164/dreamstime_xs_128003350.jpg" width="240" /></a></b></div><b>THE NERVOUS SYSTEM</b><br />One big connection is our nervous system. Our nervous system is our superconductor network of information exchange throughout our bodies, and consists of two main parts. The first is the central nervous system (CNS). As it sounds, it’s our command center where all data comes to be processed, and is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. The second is called the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and it connects every part of our body to our CNS through individual nerve cells called neurons and clusters of neurons known as ganglia.<p></p><p>The PNS is further divided into the Somatic Nervous System, also known as the voluntary nervous system, and the Autonomic Nervous System. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) manages all bodily functions that are not under conscious control. This includes heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, respiration, cellular activity, immune system, hormones, brain function, sexual function, and even body temperature.</p><p>The ANS is further divided into two parts: the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS), which regulates our “fight or flight” response, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS), which controls our “rest and digest” response. They work closely together in a complex dance, maintaining our bodily functions and ensuring our survival every second of our lives.</p><p>Many health issues, including most chronic diseases such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, diabetes, depression and anxiety, and cancer, are related to an imbalance of our autonomic nervous system. Most typically, it is too much of the “fight or flight” and not enough of the “rest and digest” that leads us into this imbalance. [4]</p><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOaTb6joc3uki7G6fJEGBjoiOxF9wf1-grw3fEUtBYWB5shcE0ml2umwuV_GAR2TLX0kyw9RraLZyHbaSzSHfBlngEoJPc8LltuUeo9tcy4hul1wyx7ew1ShDK4bpr5zlP7Gmi3rESEW_BiZn_VaOYtsPrX8n5J_UwyNTf7R3qHtVoH3RZY_cuabnOg/s3000/shutterstock_141168937.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2101" data-original-width="3000" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOaTb6joc3uki7G6fJEGBjoiOxF9wf1-grw3fEUtBYWB5shcE0ml2umwuV_GAR2TLX0kyw9RraLZyHbaSzSHfBlngEoJPc8LltuUeo9tcy4hul1wyx7ew1ShDK4bpr5zlP7Gmi3rESEW_BiZn_VaOYtsPrX8n5J_UwyNTf7R3qHtVoH3RZY_cuabnOg/w315-h222/shutterstock_141168937.jpg" width="315" /></a><b></b></div><b>FLIGHT OR FLIGHT</b><br />The Sympathetic Nervous System is located in the CNS, and in the spinal nerves from T1 (the thoracic region) down to L3 (the lumbar region) out to the neurons in the regions of the body supplied by these nerves. This sympathetic response is designed to keep us safe in the face of immediate danger. It signals the brain to turn up the volume on any physiological function crucial to staying to fight or running away from the source of the danger. Catecholamines such as epinephrine (adrenaline), norepinephrine (noradrenaline) and dopamine are released and a cascade of events happens rapidly – before we are even consciously aware that there is a threat. These include:<p></p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Blood flow diverted to the heart, lungs and skeletal muscle</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Increased heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enlargement of bronchioles (in lungs)</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dilation of pupils</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rapid conversion of glycogen to glucose for fuel</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Activation of immune system</p><p>All other functions, including digestion, urination, higher level thinking, even sexual function and cellular repair, are temporarily turned off, so that all of our energy and resources go only toward ensuring our immediate survival. If the threat goes on for a longer period of time, a secondary system called the HPA (Hypothalamic – Pituitary – Adrenal) Axis takes over and relies on elevated cortisol and other hormonal changes to continue the high alert state.</p><p>But our bodies are not designed to be in this activated high-alert state for long periods of time. Once the immediate threat is gone, we are supposed to go back to our normal state of relaxation. This is the job of the Parasympathetic Nervous System.</p><p></p><p class="Body" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div><p></p><p class="Body" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></p><hr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6QXEQyLn9WZhJB8gvW_kAqDNZ1JcAf-0jcOZOTueTbAZY_W5hjNI4fIH-tuoG8z6yqjTfWfsSsKLONubJ5-dJHg-cdnRXoGNHvuxuRRL8njOyE1nVpY4pKvVHpbgBPjkJeqkT3p_x47c138hrCf1t1YxC_Fch1qrCfbzVQVJSIgjeu84BdDZD76ysw/s800/dreamstime_s_34155478.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6QXEQyLn9WZhJB8gvW_kAqDNZ1JcAf-0jcOZOTueTbAZY_W5hjNI4fIH-tuoG8z6yqjTfWfsSsKLONubJ5-dJHg-cdnRXoGNHvuxuRRL8njOyE1nVpY4pKvVHpbgBPjkJeqkT3p_x47c138hrCf1t1YxC_Fch1qrCfbzVQVJSIgjeu84BdDZD76ysw/w217-h145/dreamstime_s_34155478.jpg" width="217" /></a><b></b></p><p><b><b>REST AND DIGEST</b></b></p>The Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS) is located in the brain stem, includes nerves to the eyes and face, vagus and 10th cranial nerves, and sacral nerves (S2-S4). Regulated in large part by the vagus nerve (75%), it impacts a vast array of crucial bodily functions. When the parasympathetic response is triggered, it counteracts the fight or flight response primarily through release of acetylcholine.<p></p><p>Parasympathetic activation results in production of tears, saliva, and constriction of the pupils; lower and more variable heart rate, lower blood pressure and respiratory rate. It enables creative and critical thinking, normal kidney function and urination, improves immune function, enables sleep, sexual arousal and replenishment of fuel stores in organs; plus everything involved in digesting and utilizing our food including elimination and insulin production. Even mood and social bonding and connection are linked. </p><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-0za6rsAehXqgGXgUm8MCLyGwNc_Tx6iV70VTvhW31q6tjfdPnh-p9PoYsI8n1ozSx-zJJNDX14l6GxWCeIY3rnW17bkA_bppXv_yRPdyMLENNTHIO8TckHgNJU7rIwahssglOcbRA2ONjx0-QwonyOwkIJkgugNML1XtEoPkEBCJ1JzMN6FD_jKkA/s5760/shutterstock_247411303.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="5760" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-0za6rsAehXqgGXgUm8MCLyGwNc_Tx6iV70VTvhW31q6tjfdPnh-p9PoYsI8n1ozSx-zJJNDX14l6GxWCeIY3rnW17bkA_bppXv_yRPdyMLENNTHIO8TckHgNJU7rIwahssglOcbRA2ONjx0-QwonyOwkIJkgugNML1XtEoPkEBCJ1JzMN6FD_jKkA/w206-h137/shutterstock_247411303.jpg" width="206" /></a><b></b></div><b>HOW STRESS IMPACTS HEALTH AND HEALING</b><br />Healing requires coordination of a complex array of biological functional and systems. Research is rapidly expanding our understanding of the importance of the parasympathetic response, and how meditation helps to restore balance. While this impacts every biological system, here are some key areas:<p></p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><p><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> Digestion</b><br />Nutrients must be properly digested to extract them from our food and into our cells, where they are critical to every function our bodies must carry out. From vitamins and minerals that are needed in every biochemical reaction, to energy production in our mitochondria, to building blocks of our proteins that form our enzymes, neurotransmitters, hormones, even our DNA - all of our cells need these basic materials to function. Stress shuts down our digestion, and if it goes on long enough our cells become depleted of the very nutrients needed to function and repair. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI4jQMe87pEAxgzldDNCkdB0m3Lt-PWvy6FvSxQiJhgjk1qQlsuI1IzUUXtjTQz_-XuXtRYXnZ5suFisJrl1kkgPOXJh88weT40HD0oawN44HAQg2d7vQnK8aCvkuGY4n58SL7LnYiTv7_b-FdVmkpsxsF0HTgpR1R6YkJZe7dhwb3MKAeh4AtvQsYA/s2930/shutterstock_86219221.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2874" data-original-width="2930" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI4jQMe87pEAxgzldDNCkdB0m3Lt-PWvy6FvSxQiJhgjk1qQlsuI1IzUUXtjTQz_-XuXtRYXnZ5suFisJrl1kkgPOXJh88weT40HD0oawN44HAQg2d7vQnK8aCvkuGY4n58SL7LnYiTv7_b-FdVmkpsxsF0HTgpR1R6YkJZe7dhwb3MKAeh4AtvQsYA/w126-h123/shutterstock_86219221.jpg" width="126" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> Immunity</b><br />Approximately 90% of our immune system resides in our gastrointestinal tract. While it is needed to defend us against invaders such as bacteria and viruses, it can also go awry if unchecked. This “runaway” inflammation is linked to most chronic diseases, and paradoxically also reduces the ability to respond to infections. Our immune system has other functions, including being a cleaning crew. It removes debris left over from battling invaders. It also removes our own dead or badly damaged cells, and signals new and healthy ones to replace them. Stress results in an imbalanced immune system, making us vulnerable to infections as well as chronic disease.<p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> Mitochondria</b><br />These tiny structures exist within every cell in the body, and as the “power plants” of the cell they are responsible for producing all of the energy needed for every single function. This energy is produced as ATP and to make it requires key nutrients from food to be digested and absorbed from the gut. But producing this energy also creates toxic molecules, which are neutralized by antioxidants which also come from our diet. If the demand for energy is too great for too long, the mitochondria – and its cell – become damaged. Without healthy mitochondria, cells become damaged, dysfunctional and even die.</p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIESPydwE20bffvDqjMu9UAAnw0W8CM37qyc3Zs5DZeeWnrdDpht3b_RrPxJdkbz8qV879pbdG1p7gk8qVz2eE5sOaQhC0Woj6qUrXbzDzDvXswOdZOrdeL3xOJH6l22P30VLj8hr2sT4Pi77PmdlcLX6DiMLPyoN28XpiP7KZr93zZa_5rBRbjoO3zA/s4541/shutterstock_390249514.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4541" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIESPydwE20bffvDqjMu9UAAnw0W8CM37qyc3Zs5DZeeWnrdDpht3b_RrPxJdkbz8qV879pbdG1p7gk8qVz2eE5sOaQhC0Woj6qUrXbzDzDvXswOdZOrdeL3xOJH6l22P30VLj8hr2sT4Pi77PmdlcLX6DiMLPyoN28XpiP7KZr93zZa_5rBRbjoO3zA/w156-h103/shutterstock_390249514.jpg" width="156" /></a></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> </b><b>Brain</b><br />The brain normally utilizes about 20% of our energy supplies, primarily in the form of glucose or ketones. This requires good digestion and healthy mitochondria to keep the brain supplied with fuel to function. <p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> </b><b>Acetylcholine</b> is a major neuro-transmitter in the brain and in nerve endings through the peripheral nervous system; it is also anti-inflammatory. It is made in the mitochondria using some of the same ingredients needed for ATP production. </p><p><b>Serotonin</b>, a major neurotransmitter impacting mood, is mostly produced in the gut. When the stress response is prolonged, this depletes the brain’s capacity for creative and critical thinking and mood regulation, often further impairing the ability to deal with stress.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgY48UFkVVAbg1xMdZhcMXua2QSPc_bkID2B50mw4X_bXCZa3OmIq3GCIqNbQeMtXhKnsqOzIcp6YfPL-Mu9PuI1XNPa5YekNLKE25Sf8xX2bYZjTn0sdtsDkZZe9wzZ7J0CXlrzCU0l0_147p8HMJ3G2Sh_YVBT0jVXfwaRRiHsNX06LA2rgACe3eA/s4528/shutterstock_439217647.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3030" data-original-width="4528" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgY48UFkVVAbg1xMdZhcMXua2QSPc_bkID2B50mw4X_bXCZa3OmIq3GCIqNbQeMtXhKnsqOzIcp6YfPL-Mu9PuI1XNPa5YekNLKE25Sf8xX2bYZjTn0sdtsDkZZe9wzZ7J0CXlrzCU0l0_147p8HMJ3G2Sh_YVBT0jVXfwaRRiHsNX06LA2rgACe3eA/s320/shutterstock_439217647.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>MEDITATION AND HEALTH</b><br />While meditation has been practiced in various forms for centuries, and has long been associated with many parameters of improved health and well-being, science is only recently starting to understand the mechanisms by which it works. Studies are demonstrating the positive impact of meditation practices on various disease conditions, and the potential power for it to change the trajectory of this epidemic of chronic disease. Research findings on HOW it works are not all consistent though, as ways of meditating can be quite varied and this seems to impact the results. However, some common threads are emerging; two main mechanisms are outlined below.<p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> Default Mode Network</b><br />One mechanism by which meditation works is by altering connectivity in the brain – the so-called Default Mode Network, or DMN. This is a network of brain regions that is active when the brain is restful but awake. Meditation seems to decrease this DMN activity, leading to increased cortical connectivity [5] - in other words, there is activity connecting areas of the brain that aren’t normally part of this network that enables us to take a different, more detached perspective on things in our life. When we aren’t so attached to events, the sympathetic response is less likely to be triggered, or if it is triggered it is to a lower extent that is easier to recover from.</p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj466lDIRsBAQOeeNGgMHPWUxzgFS53VDDqtm589UB0vu4fROJ_yBkAE0wWAChYzWplvXxfQa_beoolEwdwtIPbaJzTyn9wnF1-o2qkZanSpH67rBmBFmVw2emVNgEzMBA7kTOpBZqbPZGhhO0RT8S0xisdMdHq5pF3lIxZxBcHUyeAZfE6xm5KraIZxQ/s5000/shutterstock_283907009.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3331" data-original-width="5000" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj466lDIRsBAQOeeNGgMHPWUxzgFS53VDDqtm589UB0vu4fROJ_yBkAE0wWAChYzWplvXxfQa_beoolEwdwtIPbaJzTyn9wnF1-o2qkZanSpH67rBmBFmVw2emVNgEzMBA7kTOpBZqbPZGhhO0RT8S0xisdMdHq5pF3lIxZxBcHUyeAZfE6xm5KraIZxQ/w143-h95/shutterstock_283907009.jpg" width="143" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span> Vagal Nerve</b><br />Meditation also activates the parasympathetic response, in large part through the vagal nerve. This not only impacts heart rate and other vascular parameters, it also connects our gastrointestinal tract to our brain. There is now a growing body of evidence that this bidirectional communication through the “brain-gut axis” is a complex system that is key to our health, and when it is out of balance is linked to many health issues. [6]<p></p><p>Meditation has been shown to increase vagal nerve activity, or tone, and restore normal functioning of these many systems including digestion, immune response, and brain neuroplasticity/resilience. [6] It is thought that one way this occurs is through deep breathing, although there may be other mechanisms in play. As we learn more about how meditation works and how it influences our biology, we can develop more targeted and personalized approaches to maximize its potential – while making it easy and accessible for people to integrate into their daily lives.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>EPILOGUE</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJXVvzSKO7t2hYa0PU-ZVvZBH_FviMkwOo7Cm1d6Jt1qmNN3COl0Uk9NiQ2xxUiVcfAC3bo6mqvIzbYjqkDuMOYf1OMeE6F4Nq8QKzKrn_htXPzjjKaSuDSxwl1paw6S0dqrbQ1M12DmAyxyrQOIqDZXFh7o6ic-KDPgWbaM23qt68JpVGAKcVZp_6tw/s241/LES3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="236" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJXVvzSKO7t2hYa0PU-ZVvZBH_FviMkwOo7Cm1d6Jt1qmNN3COl0Uk9NiQ2xxUiVcfAC3bo6mqvIzbYjqkDuMOYf1OMeE6F4Nq8QKzKrn_htXPzjjKaSuDSxwl1paw6S0dqrbQ1M12DmAyxyrQOIqDZXFh7o6ic-KDPgWbaM23qt68JpVGAKcVZp_6tw/w133-h136/LES3.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>In a recent MeedTech Review of a meditation and brain optimizing device called <span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;">BrainTap</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">®</span>, Dr. Kline and her colleagues took on the task of assessing its ‘active ingredients’- binaural beats, isochronic tones, holographic music and blue/red light. <a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/08/medtech-review-case-study-portable.html">(see complete tech review) </a>It is found that these neurosensory applications have had a long history in other devices also supporting the science and wellness communities for their reactive properties. Having collected the vast majority of user testimonials online, and clinical reports from fellow team mate, Dr. Leslie Valle (Santa Barbara, CA) who had already spent the better part of 3 years with the device on her patients, these reviews added greatly to our peace of mind about consumer safety. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>Academically, the appeal in assessing this specific product is partly due to the diverse and multiple points of wellness that the device was designed to target. A wide range of brain and mental health-related specialists alike may truly enjoy conducting their own independent case study of this device, each using their specific level of science to assess its array of claimed benefits. Areas like the parasympathetic nervous system, brain optimizing and stress & anxiety are just some of the key points of interest worth exploring. If the device in fact aligns and supports Dr. Kline’s multi-layered physiological roadmap to wellness and the user’s reaction(s) in the meditation state, a fair and comprehensive tech review of this device should be best achieved under multiple streams of evaluators. Reporting on its assessed benefits would then be a matter of the collective team trading notes for all areas of common ground.</div><div><br /><p></p><p></p><hr /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYyhY6z7ro2JLPIk261PBVE-nrPnAoMCyP1FTcY5BXQ9xMRdCSHD1l-pFVv1afrQ-XjIoRslnp4TL8fd9uEm0qpyAZEwLUi73WRqCVPnXhyAwCGgjfqAuDnHHU_jWIllQrIrUhBBtFaE5_bZeaOPtVhmDMwndG3vxP8wjbFYxVI9AUo0an1muqRRcrw/s253/booboo.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="253" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYyhY6z7ro2JLPIk261PBVE-nrPnAoMCyP1FTcY5BXQ9xMRdCSHD1l-pFVv1afrQ-XjIoRslnp4TL8fd9uEm0qpyAZEwLUi73WRqCVPnXhyAwCGgjfqAuDnHHU_jWIllQrIrUhBBtFaE5_bZeaOPtVhmDMwndG3vxP8wjbFYxVI9AUo0an1muqRRcrw/w104-h104/booboo.jpg" width="104" /></a></div><i>ROBERTA KLINE, MD (Educational Dir. /Women's Diagnostic Group) is a board-certified ObGyn physician, Integrative Personalized Medicine expert, consultant, author, and educator whose mission is to change how we approach health and deliver healthcare. She helped to create the Integrative & Functional Medicine program for a family practice residency, has consulted with Sodexo to implement the first personalized nutrition menu for healthcare facilities, and serves as Education Director for several organizations including the Women’s Diagnostic Health Network, Mommies on a Mission. Learn more at <a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/">https://robertaklinemd.com/</a></i><p></p><p><br /></p><p>References:</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Furman D et al. Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span. Nat Med 25, 1822–1832 (2019).</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cohen S et al. Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk. PNAS April 2, 2012: 109 (16) 5995-5999</p><p>(3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vancampfort D et al. 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We are proud to announce our latest ROLE MODEL, Mr. Ray Ciancaglini of Geneva New York for his tireless crusade in reaching our youth and sharing his wisdom and experiences about sports related brain injury.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></i></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgodPF7yeAzXUMbux4NU4QtsUSoajm_aGbGxhUB7mR6ZmWDkcTjgxTl8vNoUW_tm3ZlVQ1VW6JyvHHfzAaWIYxyeWFyyHjWo_P0fkW7AlO7F3VbJLrtPw9yr5wkFi8LpaHe3XS4Mfd93alD-hUJwHOVRguDmzRNjiTMslCQsYaEET2FQXvHveZJTsAag/s3004/111.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3004" data-original-width="2512" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgodPF7yeAzXUMbux4NU4QtsUSoajm_aGbGxhUB7mR6ZmWDkcTjgxTl8vNoUW_tm3ZlVQ1VW6JyvHHfzAaWIYxyeWFyyHjWo_P0fkW7AlO7F3VbJLrtPw9yr5wkFi8LpaHe3XS4Mfd93alD-hUJwHOVRguDmzRNjiTMslCQsYaEET2FQXvHveZJTsAag/w251-h299/111.jpg" width="251" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">JUST CALL HIM 'RAY!'</span></span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: justify;">In an exclusive interview with Ray, he shared his launch as an up-and-coming boxing champ, his plight with CONCUSSION and his life-saving educational crusade to his road to advocacy. </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><i>"...when you're tough and you think you're tough- that's a boxer's heart that keeps you going. I dealt with the punishment that I was receiving (on and off the ring)- I had no idea that concussion was cumulative." </i></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;">I started out getting involved in some local amateur fights- and then by the age of 16, I pretty much had everything going for me. I'd vibe for two golden glove titles and seemed to be on my way. As an amateur, I think I ended up 31 or 33 and nine with four draws. Then I ran into some trouble and I failed an EEG test by the New York State Boxing Commission. They didn't want to give me a boxing license in NYS till I passed that test and went before another hearing, which was a one year suspension along with it. I took the advice of some old-timers who told me to go down south where they didn't have some boxing commissions or these rules and regulations. They suggested to change my name and then when I came back to retake the test, I'll be sharp as ever- and be on top of my game. But that didn't happen because I carried a lot of symptoms with me. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKryHcHW_CC-sSyS7KKD7FIIAh1xDUkVOS66wkEQ-BMfqssX2s7RzlO0HNKW6j8dksfqLa6jzHgrDieeM7BNo51z06rdU2l225vWZSPnaCx7u4_AEPMpNVtfdaiK_vEfoFKz-skNf3sos83FBEyBJ40X0i8KF789KPnikgULVWpmGjkrsL18epdzo-OA/s1995/North%20Rockland.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="1995" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKryHcHW_CC-sSyS7KKD7FIIAh1xDUkVOS66wkEQ-BMfqssX2s7RzlO0HNKW6j8dksfqLa6jzHgrDieeM7BNo51z06rdU2l225vWZSPnaCx7u4_AEPMpNVtfdaiK_vEfoFKz-skNf3sos83FBEyBJ40X0i8KF789KPnikgULVWpmGjkrsL18epdzo-OA/w254-h184/North%20Rockland.jpeg" width="254" /></a>"Many athletes do not understand or take seriously the possible repercussions of hiding or playing though a concussion. They sometimes feel that they are invincible or that they are tough enough to gut it out. I was once one of those athletes. For many years, I have been battling Dementia Pugilistica and Parkinson's Syndrome. These progressive disorders are the direct result of my not addressing concussions properly as a young boxer. Athletes need to be honest about any concussion symptoms with their coaching staff and Athletic Trainer and not attempt to hide a concussion. Through my talks, student athletes will understand the importance of addressing a concussion promptly and properly. I strongly recommend that they follow their school concussion program and their doctor's instructions to ensure a safe return to play. Education is the key." See: <a href="http://www.thesecondimpact.com">www.thesecondimpact.com</a>.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>*Interviewer: Josh Schueller, PT (editorial team @ <a href="http://HealthTechReporter.com">HealthTechReporter.com</a>)</i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is Concussion-Associated</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ANXIETY DISORDER?</span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;">By: Ray Ciancaglini </span></div></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">The first concussion was mild and it was a little bit of a headache and some fatigue. I got stunned but never been knocked out or knocked down, so that kind of fooled me here. Um, and then one week later in Syracuse, I got my bell rung again for the second time in one week. Only this time, it was a little bit more serious. And from being a well behaved high honor student, things changed. After that night, I started failing on all my courses, started sleeping excessively, and then I developed an attitude especially toward authority figures, and couldn't explain why. And, uh, this just lasted with me till I retired from boxing in 1974. From here, it got progressively worse.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj28Xg5ITfiGR9GEl975nSFE4PcE2wFZDBe2k8tdZr6AKRwML830TpFrLC4-s0A6qKgIK6-OUN0Y2Nn8t_8xB4sDXuPwUdrxmHp5KSkSFOqb4Sr6PiLE44SYXplQJOISSVo2ot1F0jK5-zS-fuUwCdGUL3jZOro3UpBlEJt9qMgk08_xAh-vyjmH8MfQ/s800/dreamstime_s_104503816.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="800" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj28Xg5ITfiGR9GEl975nSFE4PcE2wFZDBe2k8tdZr6AKRwML830TpFrLC4-s0A6qKgIK6-OUN0Y2Nn8t_8xB4sDXuPwUdrxmHp5KSkSFOqb4Sr6PiLE44SYXplQJOISSVo2ot1F0jK5-zS-fuUwCdGUL3jZOro3UpBlEJt9qMgk08_xAh-vyjmH8MfQ/s320/dreamstime_s_104503816.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>TESTING THE MEDS: </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">After enough medical evaluations and care, everything was going well until one day, I wanted to adjust being under these meds. I felt I can do it now, so I did a dangerous thing which is to stave off the medicine without telling anybody. Luckily, my wife picked it up right away. She said, "--you're a different person... I could tell right away from your eyes, what she called <b>SHARK EYES! </b> You have this glare like you're in a pre fight weigh in, like you're staring the opponent down. Everyone was afraid of this and so was I. I could hurt somebody out of impulse and I never would want to do that." I was easily angered, unreasonable, stubborn and defiant. Nobody could tell me what to do. I was short tempered and irritable such that one day, I walked to the next room and a door swung back and hit me on the wrist-- and by some heated impluse, I punched a hole right through it! </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Needless to say, I got back on the medication after those outbursts. If punching a hole through a door meant a lack of self control, this was enough to point out that there's definitely something wrong with me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><hr /></i></div><div class="separator" hr=""><br /></div><div class="separator" hr="" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">FROM THE DOC: </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">HEAD IMPACT IN SPORTS</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">By: Dr. Michael Gruttadauria</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbT4ODbH2n7fkV3JX0NnBza5NfEbCJzdn4Ia2ug0rRdsv7N9DneioJrrQ8mlsYrEJpi0g72l4KxahU0Itft-Xca2ui0lXQ-YcqSm6coozZ_Pzsd1E95XjNaJzX5Rb1vXldTRM_JDSLYkrMPxSwQf1q9N9UXWEfABz61Ur-a_hgG4t_W3yDJ7kYaQFNQ/s800/2_dreamstime_s_156638716.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="800" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbT4ODbH2n7fkV3JX0NnBza5NfEbCJzdn4Ia2ug0rRdsv7N9DneioJrrQ8mlsYrEJpi0g72l4KxahU0Itft-Xca2ui0lXQ-YcqSm6coozZ_Pzsd1E95XjNaJzX5Rb1vXldTRM_JDSLYkrMPxSwQf1q9N9UXWEfABz61Ur-a_hgG4t_W3yDJ7kYaQFNQ/w389-h272/2_dreamstime_s_156638716.jpg" width="389" /></a></div>Most people believe that you need to be knocked unconscious to have a concussion- and that's just not the case. Even a “small” impact injury, what they call mild traumatic brain injury or mild concussion affects thousands and thousands of people every month. From falls accidents, sports, assaults-- many different things can cause concussions. Something called POST-CONCUSSIVE SYNDROME can happen from these mild traumatic brain injuries that may appear to resolve themselves. As far as the symptoms go, most people end up with headaches, blurry vision, dizziness or lightheadedness. After about a week, these symptoms tend to usually go away. But up to 30% of people have persistent symptoms. And those persistent concussion symptoms can be the same things like headaches and dizziness, but it actually can progress into anxiety and depression and changes in personality and so on. This is really when we need to get involved.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With high impact sports like boxing and football and soccer, where you have repetitive blows to the head, there are studies that are actually show that repetitive concussive forces can actually be additive. You can have an additive effect. It doesn't have to be one giant impact where you might see a wide receiver going over the middle and catching a soccer ball. Getting violently laid out by a linebacker may not even be as bad as the offensive and defensive linemen that are banging their heads against each other for 60 plays a game, per se. We we're all differently susceptible to concussion. Somebody could have what would appear to be a more minor concussion and have greater symptoms for a longer period of time, as opposed to a really significant concussion. <a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/10/post-concussive-syndrome-brain-gut.html">(See complete article)</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><hr /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEIajNlPBzthp1tRnHvAFpWNunVcYUJS26ZuCu0TweNTKpg0_62NIyv4aap_NJHc0toIUj-JiZNKFmT-yiBraEoEO3qY3k1tXE13GnX-ZLlb3tQ_BDelsU_cGX9E7Aa9-zSgoUs4cLIRGH9vgG3dSmePyC13P2cFZRU_7R6eGqk7F6DKw8TI5kl130w/s275/EXTRA1.jpg" style="background-color: white; clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="275" height="39" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEIajNlPBzthp1tRnHvAFpWNunVcYUJS26ZuCu0TweNTKpg0_62NIyv4aap_NJHc0toIUj-JiZNKFmT-yiBraEoEO3qY3k1tXE13GnX-ZLlb3tQ_BDelsU_cGX9E7Aa9-zSgoUs4cLIRGH9vgG3dSmePyC13P2cFZRU_7R6eGqk7F6DKw8TI5kl130w/w148-h39/EXTRA1.jpg" width="148" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT TBI & POST-CONCUSSIVE SYMPTOMS </span>By: Dr. Robert L. Bard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-maDc_xWz_AdPnefBxaRZXdYNspldH4pFZ7hmaDNBLXl8KiHHwyzZJ-IsVbzFCQwAWvREe-PJuV-yYrwRqa3jiyYTWlgIr26oKmcQ2gR1F7yThh5hyi3lIAchOXEAfeaNY9w7XvxSIlIUVN5bz_X7govkWOU5AYAG8_UBiGwy9qKlbGBS-xtAEs-XkQ/s2048/work11.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1631" data-original-width="2048" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-maDc_xWz_AdPnefBxaRZXdYNspldH4pFZ7hmaDNBLXl8KiHHwyzZJ-IsVbzFCQwAWvREe-PJuV-yYrwRqa3jiyYTWlgIr26oKmcQ2gR1F7yThh5hyi3lIAchOXEAfeaNY9w7XvxSIlIUVN5bz_X7govkWOU5AYAG8_UBiGwy9qKlbGBS-xtAEs-XkQ/s320/work11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Brain trauma is recognized as a ticking time bomb for a growing list of progressive disorders. The medical community is stepping up with new diagnostic strategies and even more advanced research to detect POST-CONCUSSIVE DISORDERS. One protocol is identifying irregularities through DOPPLER BLOOD FLOW IN THE RETINAL , BASILAR AND TEMPORAL ARTERIES and detecting asymmetry of the OPTIC NERVES with 3D Ultrasound. Here, we monitor the blood flow of certain key areas of the body, offering some answers to the immediate post-impact status and long term post traumatic pathology of our patient. This data also helps us with the possibility of detecting future disorders like cognitive decline, neurodegenerative issues and the gut-brain axis. <a href="https://bardcancercenter.blogspot.com/2022/08/cognition-testing-and-concussion.html">(See complete report on Dr. Bard's Concussion imaging)</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><hr /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: start;">The Mind-Body Connection: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: start;">HEALING, STRESS AND THE PARASYMPATHETIC SYSTEM<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: times;">Written by: </span><a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #cd3778; font-family: times; text-decoration-line: none;">Roberta Kline, MD</a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4220547867856940946" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: start; width: 806px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgry4eZUPpq7MnoM2ClNDjGMnZWbYIKGar9x-Hln_viDsI0WV_CDQllv33U4eFjMUB8_k0MmB9Z_CscRyAQRotspNBzxonny6S5QP_PJEZdAZdeQaT4blrvP47zc_viBkoAhRFv8-QD02yN06sh-pvoYTowz7SPEEd-F6diAgEKAORQWvvyfFgRpRqHmw/s463/65348892_s.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #cd3778; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="463" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgry4eZUPpq7MnoM2ClNDjGMnZWbYIKGar9x-Hln_viDsI0WV_CDQllv33U4eFjMUB8_k0MmB9Z_CscRyAQRotspNBzxonny6S5QP_PJEZdAZdeQaT4blrvP47zc_viBkoAhRFv8-QD02yN06sh-pvoYTowz7SPEEd-F6diAgEKAORQWvvyfFgRpRqHmw/w247-h247/65348892_s.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">Analyzing STRESS & ANXIETY from a holistic point of view means identifying the body’s interconnected systems (ie. circulatory, cardiovascular, nervous, lymphatic, endocrine etc.) and its many touch points for stimulation. This analysis should also offer a comprehensive breakdown of the body's HEALING capacity- which includes our hormones, digestive system, immune system, brain, heart-- all the way down to our cells and mitochondria. </span><span style="font-family: times;">STRESS is part of life, and comes in many forms including physical, emotional, mental and environmental. Foods we eat, unhealthy relationships, difficulties at work, toxins in our environment, even poor posture or lack of sunshine can all create stress on our bodies. But when stress is catastrophic or becomes chronic, it creates imbalances in this functioning that are much more likely to promote disease while at the same time preventing healing from taking place. </span><p><span style="font-family: times;">With people under record levels of chronic stress, it is no wonder we have an epidemic of people suffering from all sorts of health issues and chronic diseases. Heart disease, diabetes, obesity, pain, anxiety, depression, infertility, cancer, autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s …. These are just some of the many health conditions that have been linked to diet and lifestyle including chronic stress. B</span><span style="font-family: times;">ut how does this work? And is meditation the answer to reversing this trend? Science is revealing some interesting clues. <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/09/healing-stress-and-parasympathetic.html">(See Dr. Kline's complete report on the Parasympathetic System)</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: justify;"><hr /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KpUD1vE4HE_y9VsDrIt2-dTvtvAkGOXb2-HnymxUCbzMllY5h-Nwxyeg7g-ATdvt85IchNiG3TEYIT4eybazJIicSo4q2r_goeMQoK9qveG0l80fGSPlof7rAQ5MtqEYvxElpSrBls0d-uP51juHbQ72n2KW-FjJ-Pggh-CFJe9DjmBKIFAUgutXcA/s415/wilder1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="415" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KpUD1vE4HE_y9VsDrIt2-dTvtvAkGOXb2-HnymxUCbzMllY5h-Nwxyeg7g-ATdvt85IchNiG3TEYIT4eybazJIicSo4q2r_goeMQoK9qveG0l80fGSPlof7rAQ5MtqEYvxElpSrBls0d-uP51juHbQ72n2KW-FjJ-Pggh-CFJe9DjmBKIFAUgutXcA/w180-h176/wilder1.png" width="180" /></a></div>Ringside Review: Why the Boxing Commissioner Called to "</span>STOP THE FIGHT<span style="font-weight: normal;">" ?</span></h3><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">The photo was a stunning one-in-a-million shot of a moment in time (as captured by the sports photographer, </span><a href="http://www.trappfotos.com/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephanie Trapp</a>)<span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">. Standing at the right place and at the right time, her lens managed to freeze multiple streams of explosive action that comprised Deontay Wilder completely obliterating Stiverne. The empty, worn out 'rag-doll' form of Stiverne's flacid body laid melted and dangling senselessly from the bottom rope. Center frame was the referee (Arthur Mercante Jr.) airborne on top of the highly charged and powerful Wilder, desperately grappling on the aggressive champ with his own unremarkable body. "Mercante responded vigorously to my raising the hand in the air at ringside-- that's the signal to 'STOP THE FIGHT!'... any more than this would be unconscionable". <a href="https://ipha-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/op-ed-why-boxing-commissioner-called-to.html">(See complete OP-ED feature)</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><hr /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sponsored AD:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.respondertv.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="135" data-original-width="892" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdbAESuh-HyEa5sZQbtpHfzQov5rl2SmD_BKDlOfmdtB-Josk-oe53LJADPkfpINFdxJhqXxrBPU3RudCDkSphyXqWyPP7rWGXfSG-b1AnHkGGzzFztF3lkPfAhCwqbCZgdbMiDYc6Y9q5rQDkW6-qDa55aUOk-TXTzCwETCvHKPHe_1XeQE1P0IG49A/w663-h99/rev-%231-mental-health-b.png" width="663" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">q</div></div></div></div></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-29740972988433491622022-09-14T20:16:00.042-07:002022-10-22T06:54:42.053-07:00APP & BOOK REVIEWS: MODERN MEDITATION 101<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPoSqigBSKkWSQyZ7Yu-Hc1aJgYflMzf5kbXGTOjKuv_z1A8v_vozZLzBYocYbPtqyN0kwS4s5u_J_xHJkaFqlmisfeKnuRcv3oVOMYMLabkFn6Y6jXwXkTNv6WUnvOc3VlqFVYnLJ5_V0ttd40at8_FdKS_eSfHtGMIoUt8ihX3GDwyCGkStmcnSKQ/s327/live-calm-with-cancer-300.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="300" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPoSqigBSKkWSQyZ7Yu-Hc1aJgYflMzf5kbXGTOjKuv_z1A8v_vozZLzBYocYbPtqyN0kwS4s5u_J_xHJkaFqlmisfeKnuRcv3oVOMYMLabkFn6Y6jXwXkTNv6WUnvOc3VlqFVYnLJ5_V0ttd40at8_FdKS_eSfHtGMIoUt8ihX3GDwyCGkStmcnSKQ/w256-h279/live-calm-with-cancer-300.png" width="256" /></a></div><b>FOREWORD: </b><span style="text-align: left;"><b> The Next Wellness Drivers of Meditation (part 1)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By <a href="http://www.lennardgettz.com/">Lennard M. Gettz, Ed.D</a> / <a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/">Roberta Kline, MD</a></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Experience dictates that life will throw you an occasional brow-raising REPLAY of a prior landmark experience- what can only be called "no such thing as coincidences". By this, a significant situation may re-occur when you least expect with one difference; you are older, more self aware and you look at experiences to be a profound source of wisdom. This REPLAY may just be the universe trying to teach you an important lesson (and take it from Ferris Bueller), "if you pay attention, you might just learn something".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Such is the case about MEDITATION. </div><div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was introduced to the idea of meditation for restoring life balance, mental health and a wide range of personal benefits. But sadly, the concept never took flight with me- as I could never get to that state of effect- turning my my failed attempts into a frustrating brick wall. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then one day, I met an unassuming Dave Dachinger during the launch of my online NYCRA group (NY Cancer Resource Alliance) around 2018- who successfully changed my entire perspective on what is apparently a centuries old medicine. Mr. Dachinger is a retired firefighter and cancer survivor- with a body of knowledge that fit our cancer advocacy membership perfectly. But what caught my attention about him was inventing an APP called LOVING MEDITATIONS for cancer patients undergoing the physically taxing discomfort of infusion therapy (infusion therapy or chemo trickle). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr19mZ6BNmC_uXGvuWq5OdaOtKOPsaZjwV7QlqtaV4acJ3uLmwrT0Zr0e3iuPAM-2ieuoj1MX2Y8juDyV-ofeHi9TGLATkj_1ARv1d_3Hr81QnVYFN1q4-WZ3XZJmLIYyhjczH-d_s4Gio0EFcQvBL6iO1BU32EZjiTHwtNE5n6Tk4wbboL8jgzolRjA/s2342/INBOX%20103943.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2299" data-original-width="2342" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr19mZ6BNmC_uXGvuWq5OdaOtKOPsaZjwV7QlqtaV4acJ3uLmwrT0Zr0e3iuPAM-2ieuoj1MX2Y8juDyV-ofeHi9TGLATkj_1ARv1d_3Hr81QnVYFN1q4-WZ3XZJmLIYyhjczH-d_s4Gio0EFcQvBL6iO1BU32EZjiTHwtNE5n6Tk4wbboL8jgzolRjA/w146-h143/INBOX%20103943.jpg" width="146" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Dave receiving infusion<br />therapy (2014)</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Dave himself had stage four cancer and found a calling for his creative brilliance during his "very stressful chemo "drip" sessions. Implementing his talents as a professional musician, Dave built tracks for his IPod and incorporating meditational audio tapes to help him endure chemotherapy sessions. The stress management effect of meditation is well supported in the scientific community and is further expanded by endocrinologists and mental health professionals. "By lowering his cortisol and epinephrine levels, he is able to more safely endure the therapeutic experience. But more importantly, those stress hormones that raise the sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream and elevates other physiological changes can actually alter the effects of any therapeutic intervention", says Dr. Howard Prince.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With a little kickstarter funding and a lot of entrepreneurial spirit, Loving Meditations was launched, earning significant international following in many circles including the functional health and wellness markets. Meanwhile, Dave's digital harnessing of the fruits of meditation became a major reference of how brain health and stress reduction could both help the end road of any therapy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br style="text-indent: 24px;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><hr /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRzKX1mylnT4T6FKm_9XvDrl_0rtT50bHhdbuIecr5QrM_b-WhK1TW01lsk_-SwbC0wqRMP-dQpsvdRWayavXHQ7cicChvEMM3_OJnGdFLHBIjynCtbXsOWXj96wvfXJLOPa-f6E9WLKO5klyrZUNJpmdmdrUwrdQkavZP-fuqLp-kFkqzf4jyOINPw/s2556/meditation-coalition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="2556" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRzKX1mylnT4T6FKm_9XvDrl_0rtT50bHhdbuIecr5QrM_b-WhK1TW01lsk_-SwbC0wqRMP-dQpsvdRWayavXHQ7cicChvEMM3_OJnGdFLHBIjynCtbXsOWXj96wvfXJLOPa-f6E9WLKO5klyrZUNJpmdmdrUwrdQkavZP-fuqLp-kFkqzf4jyOINPw/w738-h118/meditation-coalition.jpg" width="738" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="Body" style="line-height: 24px; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"></p><p></p><p class="Body" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">EXCERPT FROM "LIVE
CALM WITH CANCER (<span face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">…</span>AND
BEYOND)" </span><span style="text-align: justify;">By: Tamara Green, LCSW & David Dachinger</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZpyZXdTXolHMlUGmKqBfDf0673e-aeJE3bUvd8Ao9U6XKALh0kL0nvW-9GDyEiAR1TmUpmma3sdyboEQqGrbZcwxhYTAMiGhfKKoXvPxLI6dmohen6fl92aThh0v6OwlIqdU7MX8G9iLomAujogwCweGMP2uGz2FrMnya0BZ7LZ-VsBqnd2xIQKc0w/s480/dreamstime_xs_54978836.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZpyZXdTXolHMlUGmKqBfDf0673e-aeJE3bUvd8Ao9U6XKALh0kL0nvW-9GDyEiAR1TmUpmma3sdyboEQqGrbZcwxhYTAMiGhfKKoXvPxLI6dmohen6fl92aThh0v6OwlIqdU7MX8G9iLomAujogwCweGMP2uGz2FrMnya0BZ7LZ-VsBqnd2xIQKc0w/s320/dreamstime_xs_54978836.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>DECISIVE
DOCTOR VISIT</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">About a year after my initial
diagnosis of stage IV head and neck cancer, I had a follow-up visit with my
oncologist "Dr. C." After my vitals were taken and blood drawn, we had a brief
wait in the bleak exam room. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">During this exam, Dr. C. announced
that my scans were clear and I was now officially cancer-free. He commented, </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">That was not an easy regimen (chemo,
radiation and surgery) you just had, but you did phenomenally well!” He asked
if there was actually something I did which helped me get through treatment in
such good emotional and physical shape. I replied that I</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">d used a mindful wellness practice,
listening to programs at the infusion center. His eyes lit up as he suddenly
proclaimed, </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">That</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s what I want for all of my patients!”
He desired a way his patients could become calm before their exams or
treatments.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As Dr. C. talked, Tamara</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s
eyes and mine met and a light bulb lit up. We</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">d been creating the Miracle Mondays
guided meditation series for seven years, and we</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">d also recently lived through the
cancer experience as patient and caregiver. Now my oncologist was pointing out
a pain-point within his practice. As we exchanged huge smiles, we had our a-ha!
moment: Loving Meditations was born.</span></p><p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></p><p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b>RESEARCH-BASED RESULTS</b></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Meditation has deep roots in research-based
results. CancerNetwork.com, home of the journal Oncology, reported that
mind-body practices like mindfulness meditation have been shown to </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">positively affect quality of life and
biological outcomes” when used by cancer patients and healthcare professionals.
[1] </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Let</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s face it. Cancer and other major
illnesses are scary, overwhelming, and stressful. How can we handle them with
more ease?</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">[1] CancerNetwork.com, home of the
journal Oncology </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Mindfulness Meditation” </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">by Susan
Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Oct 19, 2010
http://www.cancernetwork.com/oncology-nursing/mindfulness-meditation</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPt8rtkQDIiQ_rjBWTevutoI0OArLgOk7GyBNbJJgqH8QAzQ7J84hwCFp8nafzAtAGFvxsXLNwAKq0drJYgKEdwmyOxz_UHoQo0Wpiw_0mhqbzi7DwKwqnfivt0JE0ECStyRnIYAf4oU2clXNyG2zZzHIHGLW9kcq6v2e-fW-KbtRWsi0xAPX5KQFTA/s278/24.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="278" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPt8rtkQDIiQ_rjBWTevutoI0OArLgOk7GyBNbJJgqH8QAzQ7J84hwCFp8nafzAtAGFvxsXLNwAKq0drJYgKEdwmyOxz_UHoQo0Wpiw_0mhqbzi7DwKwqnfivt0JE0ECStyRnIYAf4oU2clXNyG2zZzHIHGLW9kcq6v2e-fW-KbtRWsi0xAPX5KQFTA/w176-h176/24.jpg" width="176" /></a></b></span></div><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>HOW IT WORKS: </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.25in;">The Loving Meditations App is
available on two platforms, iOS (for iPad and iPhone) and Web App (for any
device). For the free app download, go to <a href="http://www.calmcancerstress.com/">http://www.calmcancerstress.com/</a> The
mindful wellness programs are delivered via the App to empower cancer patients,
survivors and caregivers with self-love, self-care and self-discovery on their
healing journey, from diagnosis to survivorship.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As you watch Loving Meditations,
Tamara</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s
calming voice, David</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s
expansive music and spectacular images shift you to a state of more calm. Our
mindful techniques worked beautifully for us and also have helped thousands of
people in over twenty countries.</span></p>
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hooked up to a cocktail of IV medications. You are expecting to be sitting
there for a few hours, anticipating discomfort and with time on your hands.
Then you remember you have the Loving Meditations app on your device. Finding
the right meditation is as simple as opening the app and answering a few
questions with the Adviser feature. For example, when the Adviser asks, </span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Do you feel pain or discomfort?” you
may choose to swipe right for yes, and the Adviser quickly guides you to
helpful programs. Next, press play and enjoy the meditation. Whether you close
your eyes and zone out or watch the beautiful images on the screen, you</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">ll
be transported to a state of relaxation and tranquility.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; text-indent: 0.25in;"><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">RECHARGING FOR CAREGIVERS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>By: <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-clinicians-modality-review-on.html">Dr. Leslie Valle</a> & the Prevention101 Editorial Team</i></span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></div></span></div></span><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDEEf8HUFVT_oPQJhdAz84dSRyREE4X-hzEVaRvDSrMhx4rJxe3-XP2SlOrVPFsgzcG4jDqJL8644Q7gghsU1hl9aHSUr6UGwlxFr_8duNu9_-EeObWyzb51N3uu1FYVxpQY0UK0YptllxGDPLEBFx8LZ7I8Ymxbxn2f07uZ8aXMjftcOiYzJgfklguA/s1600/tired.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.25in;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1187" data-original-width="1600" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDEEf8HUFVT_oPQJhdAz84dSRyREE4X-hzEVaRvDSrMhx4rJxe3-XP2SlOrVPFsgzcG4jDqJL8644Q7gghsU1hl9aHSUr6UGwlxFr_8duNu9_-EeObWyzb51N3uu1FYVxpQY0UK0YptllxGDPLEBFx8LZ7I8Ymxbxn2f07uZ8aXMjftcOiYzJgfklguA/w302-h224/tired.jpg" width="302" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">During the Covid-19 surge, interviews with emergency medical professionals showed dramatic cases of ICU and ER responders exposed to major signs of advanced fatigue and risk of burnout. This significantly raised major risks to their work performance where lives are to be affected, including theirs. Over time, double and triple shifts resulted in </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">"a different type of pandemic" on a national scale- where t</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">his level of exhaustion and overwhelm. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;">Where a leave of absence, a vacation or regular rest is not an immediate option, we can start with addressing BRAIN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH. Modern meditation solutions (like <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-clinicians-modality-review-on.html">BrainTap</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-clinicians-modality-review-on.html">®</a>,</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"> <a href="https://lovingmeditations.com/loving-meditations-app/">Loving Meditations</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span><a href="https://lovingmeditations.com/loving-meditations-app/">®</a></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"> and other such technologies) are now available for exactly this emergent case as a portable personal "Rescue" dose. By tap ping the mind/body connection</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 0.25in;"> into a Vital Re-charge mode, we can induce a "Refresh- Revitalize-Renew" condition. As with conventional meditation, bringing you into a regenerative meditative state offers that level of rest, clears the mind for renewed focus and new energy to continue with the 'battle' at hand. </span></span></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
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SURVIVORS: </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Imagine you</span><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">re scheduled for a follow-up scan and
are beginning to feel anxious about the procedure and results. Looking at your
device screen, you notice an inspiring quote there from Loving Meditations.
Opening the app, you navigate to one of the Mindful Minute videos called Total
Focus Breath, a super easy technique to use anytime, anywhere to quickly calm
and quiet the mind. You follow the breathing technique for the next several
minutes. Quickly, a sense of </span><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">I</span><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">ve got this” replaces panic.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ZH-TW; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><b>WHAT, ME MEDITATE? </b></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">We</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">ve
heard folks say, </span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Yeah, but I have no time to meditate!”
Looking at it another way, we don</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">t
realize how many hours we actually spend watching the news, TV programs, or
digital content on social media. Many of us devote significant time to this, sometimes
to the point of addiction. Another common problem people mention about starting
a mindful practice is that they can</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">t
stop thinking and their mind is too </span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">active</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">” to meditate. They may have tried
meditating in the past and found it difficult to sit and do nothing. Barraged
by thoughts, they can</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">t
shut them out. What if it was as easy as putting in earbuds and pressing play
on the Loving Meditations App?</span></p><p></p><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/08/medtech-review-case-study-portable.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent: 0.25in;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="1950" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1D0EDD92x0p8bN9BxtC8SLLEC5PlD6k0S7GiZUonJ002k_RqvyC9ePcIN_jLqUKpKOWbeb9C2qUp40rGj4n_m-ZjZahUOAc7y2L3QsU5Gi9rRAK5met7SjYTCJ3W7lKSLIKw77TsCgx_T_Qb0kFRivV04AYrRG0hykK4Ivwx4yJBCYKIfH0peOYTKSg/w669-h150/kleepo.jpg" width="669" /></a></span></div></div><p></p><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" /></span></div></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></p><p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXsfL8Lrxom2qtDPhTaniCXEv8b7elMNqjh22R2A__VzTemY5BtDs_EChJdS_xUglq9cylWiLZxERO3IdESRdOvUuAGRdnp5Bx7poVOShFT-pZP_4CdWxh0A27IQpUrBc_eulBGYwZNs2VRltmidV5fdUc52qQ0zL5Me5Hsv1iGERosayJ-E_G6Z7uw/s631/2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="631" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXsfL8Lrxom2qtDPhTaniCXEv8b7elMNqjh22R2A__VzTemY5BtDs_EChJdS_xUglq9cylWiLZxERO3IdESRdOvUuAGRdnp5Bx7poVOShFT-pZP_4CdWxh0A27IQpUrBc_eulBGYwZNs2VRltmidV5fdUc52qQ0zL5Me5Hsv1iGERosayJ-E_G6Z7uw/w137-h137/2.jpg" width="137" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>HOW TO QUIET THE MIND: </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Refrain from giving meaning or
judgment to the thoughts, beliefs, fears, emotions, and feelings that will pop
up during meditation. When they arise, don</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">t judge yourself. Gently smile and let
them float away. Know that what emerges is ready to leave your system. That</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s
right, all thoughts, beliefs, fears, emotions, and feelings that surface are
actually trying to leave your mind and body, so let them. To help them release,
be the witness and observer of what arises and watch it gently float away. Even
for the most seasoned meditator, thoughts come up. It</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s no biggie. Just notice them with
curiosity and let them drift away. Then return your attention back onto the
guided meditation.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">What self-care solutions are available
to reduce this harmful distress? Several easy and simple mindfulness meditation
techniques can help. You can even do some standing in a checkout line, awaiting
the doctor or while sitting in traffic. Along with yoga and repetitive prayer,
mindful practices are known to evoke the </span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">relaxation
response”, which is the counterpart to the stress response. Meditators enjoy
greater emotional clarity and mental resilience, and meditation can actually
increase the amount of gray matter in your brain (which is a good thing!)</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>What is MODERN MEDITATION? </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">In today</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s relentless hyper-speed world of
soundbites and snapchats, traditional practices like sitting and meditating for
an hour in a quiet room are no longer practical. Modern Meditation reaches more
people by adapting traditional meditation techniques to suit the needs and
lifestyles of people today.</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EdS5JKoMUesm_dwdsntLJCOg5D86YNMVDe3RKdHxohGDMbK08osmfMtjjVICg1RzECMKpYkXlVez45Y44YqI4ivrl2BC9Nor1-z7sZEyP11p0bkiNEEU-4DpBLfgJ7gCtvKKhraEXD-vk0SwaHstX1PDnbZK7RJGoDaVYuhJFPsDEGqkI4Eiz6yXvQ/s392/PIX1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="392" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EdS5JKoMUesm_dwdsntLJCOg5D86YNMVDe3RKdHxohGDMbK08osmfMtjjVICg1RzECMKpYkXlVez45Y44YqI4ivrl2BC9Nor1-z7sZEyP11p0bkiNEEU-4DpBLfgJ7gCtvKKhraEXD-vk0SwaHstX1PDnbZK7RJGoDaVYuhJFPsDEGqkI4Eiz6yXvQ/w112-h104/PIX1.jpg" width="112" /></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SCIENCE BACKED RESULTS: </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Researchers from Johns Hopkins
University examined almost 19,000 meditation studies and found 47 trials on stress
and anxiety which they deemed well-designed studies.1 The results of this
meta-study were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s
Internal Medicine, and suggest that mindful meditation brings calming benefits
to psychological stresses like depression, anxiety, and pain. Meditation has
been demonstrated to reduce insomnia and help lower blood pressure. The
benefits of the relaxation response have also been shown to increase
mitochondrial resiliency, which may reduce vulnerability to disease.2</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In another study at the University of
Maryland, 63 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients used mindfulness meditation.3
They reported a 35% reduction in psychological distress and increased sense of
well-being after an eight week period of mindfulness.</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In the field of psychoneuroimmunology
(the study of how the mind affects health and the body</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s resistance to disease), research is
showing that thoughts influence the immune system, and stress makes you sick.4
If that</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s
compelling enough to motivate you, why not launch a new healthy habit of
mindfulness and meditation?</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>EAST MEETS WEST: </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.25in;">One does not have to sit in a full
lotus pose on a Nepalese mountain to meditate or be mindful. Modern Meditation
delivers a new approach to meditation based on scientific research by combining
Eastern philosophy with Western science. As little as 5 to 10 minutes per day
can deliver benefits. Although some meditation techniques, like Transcendental
Meditation®, have specific routines – there are no set rules for meditating.
The aim is simply to develop present moment awareness.</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A variety of meditation apps make it
easy, by blending user-friendly technology with meditation techniques. They
feature deep breathing or guided imagery to help relax your mind. Using an app
for mindfulness makes the process simple, is completely portable and keeps you
on track with your practice. One app company, Headspace, is now seeking FDA
approval as the first prescription meditation app with clinically validated
meditation programs. Its rollout date is 2020.</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVC_JbRl1bX8KYibcgItlD-SXJd3sNi0l0QSznF8gfZV-tlokByqV0MQafgEeE0oji2pd_HszZqkvrqOK4SQ4UEvX5XcSHSe163bext8VuS_JJW1rMjmGVW_2r_gFB6pQQefGWRBDxk_HEs1KL_LnDG2AF7lo37GXKv-uO9qrq5lHlgd828vs2VIgxw/s4528/shutterstock_439217647.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3030" data-original-width="4528" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVC_JbRl1bX8KYibcgItlD-SXJd3sNi0l0QSznF8gfZV-tlokByqV0MQafgEeE0oji2pd_HszZqkvrqOK4SQ4UEvX5XcSHSe163bext8VuS_JJW1rMjmGVW_2r_gFB6pQQefGWRBDxk_HEs1KL_LnDG2AF7lo37GXKv-uO9qrq5lHlgd828vs2VIgxw/w196-h131/shutterstock_439217647.jpg" width="196" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>NO TIME TO BE MINDFUL? </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Let</span><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s keep it really simple and focus on
one form of mindfulness: breathing. Respiration is actually the only automatic
body function we can voluntarily control. You can shift into a present moment
state of calm quickly and easily by intentionally focusing on your breath.
Breath work is the fastest state-changer available, it can soothe your nervous
system and deliberately move you from fear to calm.</span></span></div></span>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><b>GET ADDICTED TO THE HEALTHY MED! </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">Get hooked on meditation, not social
media or medication! If you spend a chunk of time immersed in social media
feeds every day, why not shift some of that time to receive positive benefits
of meditation? Or, the next time you have difficulty sleeping or feel anxious,
try five minutes of relaxing breath work to see if that helps. It</span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-indent: 0.25in;">s
easy to get started by adding present moment awareness to your life. Building a
mindful breathing practice into a meditation practice can be a simple as
establishing a small, manageable routine and expanding it as you become
comfortable.</span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .3in .6in .9in 1.2in 1.5in 1.8in 2.1in 2.4in 2.7in 3.0in 3.3in 3.6in 3.9in 4.2in 4.5in 4.8in 5.1in 5.4in 5.7in 6.0in 6.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">1.
<a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mindfulness-meditation-may-ease-anxiety-mental-stress-201401086967">https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mindfulness-meditation-may-ease-anxiety-mental-stress-201401086967</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">2.
<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062817">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062817</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">3. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17907231">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17907231</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">4.
<a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec01/anewtake.aspx">http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec01/anewtake.aspx</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">5.
<a href="https://www.drweil.com/videos-features/videos/the-4-7-8-breath-health-benefits-demonstration/">https://www.drweil.com/videos-features/videos/the-4-7-8-breath-health-benefits-demonstration/</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">6.
<a href="http://www.diy-stress-relief.com/equal-breath.html">http://www.diy-stress-relief.com/equal-breath.html</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">7. <a href="https://cmbm.org/blog/mind-body-medicine/soft-belly-breathing/">https://cmbm.org/blog/mind-body-medicine/soft-belly-breathing/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-67338640280574484952022-08-26T20:52:00.031-07:002022-09-12T05:48:21.409-07:00A CLINICIAN'S MODALITY REVIEW: BINAURAL BEATS THERAPY<p><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Introducing the experience-based review and observational case study of Dr. Leslie Valle of Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Valle is the clinical director of BIOMED LIFE, a comprehensive integrative medical program comprised of biological, energy and lifestyle medical practice. Dr. Valle incorporates her fundamental medical training and expanded knowledge in advanced healing arts including a Cancer Wellness and Chronic Disease program in support of helping people activate their own healing mechanism. Her avid research in modern modalities and alternative innovations led to the implementation of binaural beats and blue/red light therapy- elements she found efficacious in a device called "</i></span>BrainTap"<i style="font-family: times;">.</i></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">CLINICIANS' LOG: REPORT ON CASE STUDIES & PATIENT RESPONSE ANALYSIS<br /></span><i style="font-family: times;">Dr. Leslie Valle / Edited by: Dr. Roberta Kline</i></p><span id="x_x_gmail-docs-internal-guid-7178161d-7fff-65c1-c15e-f1395d3dc27e"><span style="font-family: times;">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6vO2D9tHzbnLAq0d-eKD5vxS-wWQCI1x6dwWqMO9SL-5e6IkGh0ISk-j-paK7W9ao3hO1RLgtz1_5T1cyk20Q1X8JMZTpKKKO9c8vvRYJ0xLrZkLGONbeibmz-oD1dpf8wzhLn7IDGjYEiMxBnNaoUBCvVCcESp3n7tVlHms6i2r5He0mEwEgXg9vg/s320/image1.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6vO2D9tHzbnLAq0d-eKD5vxS-wWQCI1x6dwWqMO9SL-5e6IkGh0ISk-j-paK7W9ao3hO1RLgtz1_5T1cyk20Q1X8JMZTpKKKO9c8vvRYJ0xLrZkLGONbeibmz-oD1dpf8wzhLn7IDGjYEiMxBnNaoUBCvVCcESp3n7tVlHms6i2r5He0mEwEgXg9vg/s1600/image1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most people have two underlying health issues as a common denominator, sleep deprivation and stress management. Sometimes this comes hand-in-hand with one another. If we allow it to control our lives, stress can become a silent killer. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> is why as an initial consultation I make sure I get an analysis of everyone's heart rate variability (HRV). I prefer to have a measurement of function and dysfunction before I read patients complaints and concerns, so I can scientifically show patients their </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">levels of stress, sleep health and brainwave patterns. The majority of the population firmly believes stress is present in their day-to-day life but never plays a dominant role. I’ve had patients tell me they are not that much stressed - just “normal” stress. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Until I show them their own HRV analysis, at that point they have acknowledged they adapted to their level of stress and they believe it's normal. </span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 107%;">HOW LACK OF SLEEP IMPACTS PRODUCTIVITY</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lack of quality sleep (7-8 hours of sleep) contributes to the following:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> - </span>Weight gain<br /></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>- B</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">rain dysregulation<br /></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>- </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Diabetes<br /><span> </span>- </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">High blood pressure<br /><span> </span>- </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Inflammation<br /><span> - a</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">nd the possibility of increase risk of cancer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">If we don’t sleep we can’t regenerate. Quality sleep allows our bodies to restore, regenerate and recharge. And the solution should not push patients to seek more medication. The answer is binaural beats. </span><span>Unlike</span><span> meditation apps, binaural beats produce brainwave training without discipline effort. Most of us don’t know how to meditate and with the use of BrainTap we can begin to experience the benefits of meditation; which improves energy levels, memory, quality sleep</span><span> and a boost in their parasympathetic state (where we rest, recover, rebuild, restore and heal). Not all mediation apps have the neuroscience technology that BrainTap can offer. BrainTap relies on four key elements that enable the sessions to induce brainwave</span><span> training: Binaural beats, guided visualization, 10-cycle holographic music and isochronic tones. The overall goal with the use of binaural beats is to decrease stress and improve your sleep quality.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJ6bu4J_TKwv9D0-S4XcfkcnnZYTU2MTVVrI5_29HMWN39NpYa-SnX4wFKc7IxcrmeisulVjyy41k7D8jWWjXpDnUpG86UMDgGxk1UmFyAUqJYDNFecGijhX9WiZvAzQQVIESOkv06kYbqOzRUl94UpGpm0iUNiEml6fjBA5q_28c5MbCIG_A07DhJg/s1389/3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="1389" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJ6bu4J_TKwv9D0-S4XcfkcnnZYTU2MTVVrI5_29HMWN39NpYa-SnX4wFKc7IxcrmeisulVjyy41k7D8jWWjXpDnUpG86UMDgGxk1UmFyAUqJYDNFecGijhX9WiZvAzQQVIESOkv06kYbqOzRUl94UpGpm0iUNiEml6fjBA5q_28c5MbCIG_A07DhJg/w671-h207/3.jpg" width="671" /></a></div><p></p></span><p></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A potential remedy for loss of sleep</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I used to work night shifts and I was always concerned that I would never recuperate from those sleepless nights. Many of us suffer from sleepless nights; whether it is from jet lag or late night study hours in college or suffering from a chronic disease or simply being under constant stress - now we have a tool to help us have better sleep health. And the solution is a drug-free treatment called Binaural Beats.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One thing I ask from patients is commitment and patience. Patients have noticed it took more than one session to get used to guided meditation and dual voice. But with patience and commitment, users have learned to love BrainTap and found it to be easily accessible to add it as part of their healing modalities. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Here, I present</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> 3 cases of how I was able to measure before and after in patients with the use of BrainTap.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI854TtuylaI7Exp4yE4IRT2qLu6inN2lHPUZKC6Q0SlzY5k_AnKkxJVeX0uj2zkLE9einQ2fEoJDSMtfP4ngmcWixSLYV78WxTW8s-6lI_cGw0IZuuHEUqrWwZjnawJztxx4eVFb87p1YHgtvQnLnBOytGq7Lq3gC6OsReup0V8I3sirko-fRFm3a1g/s4219/shutterstock_124018549.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2995" data-original-width="4219" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI854TtuylaI7Exp4yE4IRT2qLu6inN2lHPUZKC6Q0SlzY5k_AnKkxJVeX0uj2zkLE9einQ2fEoJDSMtfP4ngmcWixSLYV78WxTW8s-6lI_cGw0IZuuHEUqrWwZjnawJztxx4eVFb87p1YHgtvQnLnBOytGq7Lq3gC6OsReup0V8I3sirko-fRFm3a1g/w189-h134/shutterstock_124018549.jpg" width="189" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">CASE EXAMPLE 1: </span></b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Managing Stress</b></span></span><p></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A 67 year old female was referred for stress management late January. Her stress index was over the normal range and she was aware of it but not to the extent that she could visually see it graphed in front of her. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Her</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> heart rate variability analysis showed dominance in sympathetic nervous system, sleep patterns disturbed; high percentages in Delta brain wavelength and her biological age reading her only one year younger to her actual age. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My main focus to help her regulate and manage her stress was to help her build her nonexistent brain wavelengths. For the following 6 months she learned to change her lifestyle but implemented fasting once a week, the use of PEMF therapy and the use of binaural </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">beats to help manage her stress levels. She was aware that stress will always be present in her line of work at this stage in her career but learned how to manage it. She used binaural beats four times a week and learned to love guided meditations.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At her six month consultation and after the use of binaural beats 3-4 times a week her HRV analysis brought much relief to her mind. Her stress index lowered 70 points and her sympathetic nervous system was reduced back to normal. Her brain entrainment was regulated and her biological age was now reading her a young 53 year old. She was ecstatic to see with the simply use of binaural beats and without medication she was able to bring her body out of adrenal fatigue and able to regulate and manage her stress.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">87 year old female with cancer diagnosis and PTSD along her lifetime presented in a hopeless state to help diminish her stress levels. Her HRV analysis showed poor regulation, psychoemotional stress present and a biological age of 96. She understood having a cancer diagnosis did not help alleviate the sense of pending doom of end of life. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After one short month of daily sessions with PEMF and Binaural beats, not only did her stress levels reduce 500 points but her biological age reversed to 84 years of age. She knew a shift had occurred in her biology and her psychoemotional state but was also excited to feel the beautiful side effects of binaural beats of regulating her sleep health. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She continues to thrive and build courage in my practice as she turned 88 this year going on 80. She happily drives herself to my office for daily sauna and cold plunges. She wants to make sure she stays youthful and able to maintain the stresses of life in a tolerable state that we can’t avoid. but only learn to manage. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">56 year patient began her consultations in desperate help in stress management. She began losing her hair 4 months ago and believes her biggest common denominator is stress related. Her HRV not only showed off the charts stress index but non-existent neurohormonal levels, low brain wavelengths and a biological age of 69 years of age. She was terrified with the analysis but not surprised. She continued her sessions for adrenal support, stress management and brain entrainment. She was not a big fan at first of BrainTap as she learned to let go and listen. Her daily sessions and commitment help fell in love with the voice on the other side of the binaural beats. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In four months her stress levels were manageable as her stress index decreased into the normal range (10-100), her energy resources were abundant and her biological age decreased from 69 to a healthy 45 year old. She was very pleased to see the drastic change with the use of BrainTap in combination with Ondamed. She can now manage her stress and can focus on working on her sleep health.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_nJ35Td_shhir-okZnnLQWrX336flS1uDBf7f7p63Wri-m_7h0gUbKihlvzDQzpDQebtHW-KPEGtG1RW9-WfS39aNX80cHykIQRWZmw1msw-8qZVjOXr4BilTxopYbnhpPytbC2Fs1c_Qt7HHfTtrPEcDhVYA6UNmMUqnXYfdXgxC10hWIkhBMp6JA/s275/NEWS1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="275" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_nJ35Td_shhir-okZnnLQWrX336flS1uDBf7f7p63Wri-m_7h0gUbKihlvzDQzpDQebtHW-KPEGtG1RW9-WfS39aNX80cHykIQRWZmw1msw-8qZVjOXr4BilTxopYbnhpPytbC2Fs1c_Qt7HHfTtrPEcDhVYA6UNmMUqnXYfdXgxC10hWIkhBMp6JA/w203-h54/NEWS1.jpg" width="203" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/08/med-tech-review-wellness-through.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="247" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinuCgEJalusudKFhACQBeBjKGrgYhQZvCpnfVqmfwf3fgEgOZecHWkuftErZU0zw9P-jSTfTr7h7rnllWVA5QCi_brVHEnm4761DkOXKSzwPiVnkLi3jBgbo5PCnKVd_gQbN_jDJeHcNhGkAsSKc903saNBtTWZVP_hVaL91XBCKE-6MfVHDSSZJ8lhQ/w132-h131/LES1.jpg" width="132" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/08/med-tech-review-wellness-through.html">IN-OFFICE BIOHACKING</a><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;">Another common advantage to this energy therapy is managing ANXIETY within the younger generation. I've seen a lot of teenagers in my office recently for just anxiety purposes, which I think has been amplified during this recent era. To introduce the <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">BrainTap</span> device while on an infrared bed, or sitting in ONDAMED® session has opened up that possibility that they can be able to manage their anxiety, which is sometimes not easy to do with a counselor or a psychologist. The use of <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">BrainTap</span> has been extremely beneficial for the young population. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;">There are numerous ways to incorporate different methods of biohacking your mind and body into your daily routine. <a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/08/med-tech-review-wellness-through.html">(See complete article)</a></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Disclaimer: The information (including, but not limited to text, graphics, images and other material) contained in this article is for informational purposes only. 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Schueller, PT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1C6KVVMeHR7m472nuvkyfGxjvdhCfLj4u-JOodEUVlw-knb-RObg16Learb9tWYas9OukP0pNYRbr2lOVpXOjAB3iFRxYHqP1DbqrFb1xo15MGeGH2ZS8TW_Na_JYHkoFS3Ib3wqmIbLWciDoWHilk2tEjU_vRxhdUXs1L8URz4ul6-VfUut2bx3Q2w=s2225" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2225" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1C6KVVMeHR7m472nuvkyfGxjvdhCfLj4u-JOodEUVlw-knb-RObg16Learb9tWYas9OukP0pNYRbr2lOVpXOjAB3iFRxYHqP1DbqrFb1xo15MGeGH2ZS8TW_Na_JYHkoFS3Ib3wqmIbLWciDoWHilk2tEjU_vRxhdUXs1L8URz4ul6-VfUut2bx3Q2w=w401-h233" width="401" /></a></div>Since the advent of ultrasound scanning in the 1950's, the global movement to develop and expand its diagnostic features continue in its appeal with the medical community today. The ultrasound design use of sound waves and echo reflection became widely accepted for being the safe (non-radiation), inexpensive, repeatable and non-invasive alternative in medical imaging. Early clinical upgrades included the development of the pulse Doppler paradigm (1966) to enable scanning layers of the heart via blood flow. This offered diagnostic advantages to its application in the mid-seventies for live-action scans of the human fetus. These qualities earned its place as the standard in pediatric use while continuing to earn the confidence of radiologists and imaging specialists for a wide range of diagnostic applications from emergency critical care to supplemental cancer screening. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZKqUGuKup5OMCVFJoRD_V1NmvBa9BgrP4BuLm5h9pJJeykfspoBLxUN4BBq0Od3pHeuXerPse2Jo9diKQbf33CnDs5lt34yjAj4mT6mfMos4g-gkMXJ6cxwKe_jdDQOfCg8UDaRqxj6fsr14tzpnKxvK_GaG4YlH7kG3eD6fnCfz2LvX8iyj6QCFVLw/s185/MEDTECH1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="61" data-original-width="185" height="51" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZKqUGuKup5OMCVFJoRD_V1NmvBa9BgrP4BuLm5h9pJJeykfspoBLxUN4BBq0Od3pHeuXerPse2Jo9diKQbf33CnDs5lt34yjAj4mT6mfMos4g-gkMXJ6cxwKe_jdDQOfCg8UDaRqxj6fsr14tzpnKxvK_GaG4YlH7kG3eD6fnCfz2LvX8iyj6QCFVLw/w156-h51/MEDTECH1.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">MEDTECH SPOTLIGHT: TCD FROM RADIOLOGY TO VASCULAR STUDIES</span></p><div><p style="text-align: justify;">From an interview with Maty Torres, BHSc, RVT</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoN4TwdH8IBPT-zc-QrDFp_yBonDHPxwbLoPquPfnI-WLZtFhjPEnN_gQFpl72acOpm3d9YuH9O1PIzCA0Pn2eOObvBGTdigz_t5qMAWVK9ZRdlIvUDP_OwnWXSBolj6UTQZITk1N08zuX0InpTeawCUtuEs50pumh1Hs8opLRPMZcGgpVWGHbvTNrOQ/s4671/shutterstock_1056829181.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3193" data-original-width="4671" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoN4TwdH8IBPT-zc-QrDFp_yBonDHPxwbLoPquPfnI-WLZtFhjPEnN_gQFpl72acOpm3d9YuH9O1PIzCA0Pn2eOObvBGTdigz_t5qMAWVK9ZRdlIvUDP_OwnWXSBolj6UTQZITk1N08zuX0InpTeawCUtuEs50pumh1Hs8opLRPMZcGgpVWGHbvTNrOQ/w382-h261/shutterstock_1056829181.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><br />In our ongoing study of non-invasive diagnostic modalities, we connected with Chief Vascular Technologist & Technical Director of <a href="https://www.rwjbh.org/saint-barnabas-medical-center/">Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center's (CBMC)</a> Non-Invasive Vascular Lab, Ms. Maty Torres. Her vast experience on the use of the Transcranial Doppler provided extensive insight on its many advantages in patient care for both Radiology and Vascular units.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a career technologist, Ms. Torres started in vascular sonography (1990) then received her first exposure to the field of TCD scanning 1998. In the early part of her tenure, she performed Transcranial Doppler Imaging on a patient population from the Valerie Fund Children’s Center (A NJ based non-profit group providing support for the comprehensive health care of children with Cancer and blood disorders) for pediatric sickle cell patients. By 2011 her expertise with cerebral doppler scanning were called to new challenges.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a team-supporting service, Ms. Torres advanced to the next stage of TCD utility in non-imaging TCD exam where this protocol provided great data-gathering advantages in emergent and post-surgical cases for medical collaboration between residents and neuro specialists by monitoring subarachnoid hemorrhage patients for new onsets of vasospasm in Neuro ICU cases. She expresses the major LEARNING CURVE behind being proficient at operating TCD scanning. "This is not a test that you could cross train in a short period and perform it adequately. Without an image for guidance, you are using audible sounds, waveforms, and direction of flow, thus relying on the technologist’s expertise to find the correct arteries. I have seasoned technologists that range from 11 to 20 years of experience in the field; however, only few perform this study because it’s very specific.” </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGpJ_T-2NHFpcSFfJZlB6ynekR2yC1P2WPiAzFhxTckYpuomcpAaDsTWcAPGYC4UHNoUspxdDgnRG4FBUoIOwbAYiJ_JS3SY8dEp1S3wcfUC0_Aeie99WXsvyUPL4m_fAe3SQVUZbTpQxxT5S2C9zmuUqd6-nN8e39yNGS-2KkqT09sGZ9jBKz0Z2Eg/s2100/STOCK1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="2100" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGpJ_T-2NHFpcSFfJZlB6ynekR2yC1P2WPiAzFhxTckYpuomcpAaDsTWcAPGYC4UHNoUspxdDgnRG4FBUoIOwbAYiJ_JS3SY8dEp1S3wcfUC0_Aeie99WXsvyUPL4m_fAe3SQVUZbTpQxxT5S2C9zmuUqd6-nN8e39yNGS-2KkqT09sGZ9jBKz0Z2Eg/s320/STOCK1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Ms. Torres adds, “When a patient is admitted with a subarachnoid hemorrhage, the goal is to search for the source. Some patients might require Endovascular Coiling (treatment to block blood flow/bleeding throughout the body) and recover in the Neuro ICU. We support the neuro team by providing scheduled monitoring by daily TCD’s evaluating increases in ratios that could detect an increased risk of an onset of vasospasm." <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Her facility currently uses the <a href="https://www.lifehealthcare.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/169-439300.04%20SONARA-tek%20page%20press.pdf">Nicolet® SONARA® TCD system</a>. While these hospital-grade devices can be used for Emboli detection or interoperate scanning for PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) closures, Ms. Torres' current assignments are primarily focused on neuro-monitoring for the detection of increased risks of vasospasms. As a seasoned technical expert in various levels of TCD field use, Ms. Torres shares field insight on the medical applications of this diagnostic protocol. "I see an opportunity to use TCD for patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis at our facility.” </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Transcranial-Examinations-Alexandrov-Paperback/dp/B011DB6GB6" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="374" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVrauIlpBCrLndiI0VaNXlKmrdckFdSoh2NEheoXPA7ZBKJjnF6_dF3ZGuh71iz0xTXT9nnRhmZvlg6M6koZPw09RqLab6XR7lAyTa4EN2yaHfvXtyIlaa7gTr5QuI84qH_2jzSg-rmkfyXOJW4ZHYXyjV0CXdeaRLkxKjtIxQrl8D8UjNJCjQt-Gd3g/w154-h198/a-practical-guide-to-transcranial-doppler-examinations-15.jpg" width="154" /></a></b></div><b>SPECIAL TRAINING</b><br />Her training on TCD imaging first started in 2001 with an intensive training course presented by Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine led by <a href="https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Adams-Robert">Dr. Robert J. Adams currently at the Medical University of South Carolina</a> working directly on Sickle Cell patients. Dr. Adams is considered a pioneer in using transcranial doppler (TCD) and transcranial Doppler imaging (TCDi) to assess stroke risk in children with sickle cell anemia (SCA). He also helped discover that regular blood transfusions can reduce strokes by as much as 90 percent in these children.[4] Additional training came from Natus training experts who come from many areas such as the <a href="https://www.swedish.org/services/neuroscience-institute">Swedish Institute of Neurology</a> and a comprehensive text: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Transcranial-Examinations-Alexandrov-Paperback/dp/B011DB6GB6">Practical Guide to Transcranial Doppler Examinations by Dr. Andrei Alexandrov.</a><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0vvPVcwTT_wlr9H25f3xROLjgivyIZxOA3LmH_cV7ATqipggq4lzd_9Gi1IGdv1VSG3BATxHMHNqWMKrWWvvi9rZb1v7MHyDPKts3ydPY3lb1iKV_vURgCbiNiP64q2aVfYmcW8GCNqw14nsjMe-ZE7H6xgqGlXRzCWuNy_m5CEtdsMatNa1VCnUpnw/s164/MATY.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="164" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0vvPVcwTT_wlr9H25f3xROLjgivyIZxOA3LmH_cV7ATqipggq4lzd_9Gi1IGdv1VSG3BATxHMHNqWMKrWWvvi9rZb1v7MHyDPKts3ydPY3lb1iKV_vURgCbiNiP64q2aVfYmcW8GCNqw14nsjMe-ZE7H6xgqGlXRzCWuNy_m5CEtdsMatNa1VCnUpnw/w107-h107/MATY.jpg" width="107" /></a></div><i>Maty Torres</i></b><i>, BHSc, RVT, Chief Vascular Technologist/Technical Director, Non-Invasive Vascular Lab. Seasoned Vascular Technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and health care industry. Skilled in Vascular Sonography, Data Analytics, Health Informatics, and Peer Mentoring. Strong information technology professional with a B.H.Sc. focused in Health Care Administration from Nova Southeastern University, currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration from William Patterson University.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>REFERENCES:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">1) <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=fEwhsrcAAAAJ&alert_preview_top_rm=2&citation_for_view=fEwhsrcAAAAJ:QIV2ME_5wuYC">Journal of neurosurgery </a> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">1.5) <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7143059/">Noninvasive transcranial Doppler ultrasound recording of flow velocity in basal cerebral arteries</a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7143059/">R Aaslid, T M Markwalder, H Nornes</a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">1.7) <a href="https://esnch.org/in-memoriam/">About Merrill P. Spencer, MD</a>: </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1926257/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">3) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_autoregulation">Autoregulation/ wikipedia</a>: </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">4) <a href="https://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2006/04041/Robert_Adams__Preventing_Strokes_in_Children_With.4.aspx">NeurologyToday (Robert Adams - preventing Strokes) </a></span></i></div></i></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><hr /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE SCIENCE OF BLOOD FLOW AND DOPPLER TECHNOLOGY</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hemodynamics is defined as the study of blood flow in relation to the status of the circulatory system and homeostatic mechanisms of autoregulation. Through the monitoring of blood flow, diagnostic analysis can provide many answers to the health and physiological status of the target area scanned as well as cell-level metabolism, the regulation of the pH, osmotic pressure and temperature of the whole body, and the protection from microbial and mechanical harm.[1] Assessing injuries, inflammation or mutative growths (like cancer tumors), assessment of blood flow provides diagnostic answers about the severity of tissue disorders or tumor malignancy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDMcvnHOz60lkW_rkKiJG1N5Nj_cx4X_Jgirl_MROPy0jXtgfSYI4Yw0Sj0tzwtNEitFLwZNJgWIWMpHB32OkpQa_KHW0rN5zvoF6wQCmUw0_Jl-3oX3-cgMijDoSup4kec7aPVFU4K9b2DUoPTxs9sK7Y4P9v66RPiabbeH8kb50pnh9qbd0l1pfzTQ=s512" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDMcvnHOz60lkW_rkKiJG1N5Nj_cx4X_Jgirl_MROPy0jXtgfSYI4Yw0Sj0tzwtNEitFLwZNJgWIWMpHB32OkpQa_KHW0rN5zvoF6wQCmUw0_Jl-3oX3-cgMijDoSup4kec7aPVFU4K9b2DUoPTxs9sK7Y4P9v66RPiabbeH8kb50pnh9qbd0l1pfzTQ=w111-h111" width="111" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The expansion of ultrasound research and development broke new ground in 1982 when Dr. Rune Aaslid (Norwegian Neurosurgical researcher) first introduced Cerebral Hemodynamics with the implementation of Transcranial Doppler science to offer noninvasive transcranial recorded imaging of flow velocity in basal cerebral arteries. His report detailed that placing an accurately configured Doppler ultrasound transducer in the temporal area (just above the zygomatic arch)offers quantitative data of the blood flow velocity in the middle, proximal anterior and posterior cerebral arteries.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1.2] </span>This scan is critical for detecting vasospasms and for reviewing circulation in the brain for potential disease of the carotid and vertebral arteries. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[1.5] </span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVxlWruVADOwL9KlSaM2Jwvz5_MxTt0PBdLUoBGttwSltRyPkn0iG4Se5qLDVDUccNzSLwddy9s0Ud5p_GzfhiFovSE6vcJAf4FUvo_NATepZxbZrdt_BkZLDTE-6PAHxFBIUER8tgnNT1LYPmx9TKrnhURX-J1ONiPYX8AHX48JxPMAbyaFtI3hK9Tw=s977" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="977" data-original-width="836" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVxlWruVADOwL9KlSaM2Jwvz5_MxTt0PBdLUoBGttwSltRyPkn0iG4Se5qLDVDUccNzSLwddy9s0Ud5p_GzfhiFovSE6vcJAf4FUvo_NATepZxbZrdt_BkZLDTE-6PAHxFBIUER8tgnNT1LYPmx9TKrnhURX-J1ONiPYX8AHX48JxPMAbyaFtI3hK9Tw=w356-h415" width="356" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1989, Dr. Aaslid published the first study on dynamic cerebral autoregulation in humans - a biological and metabolic function dedicated to stabilizing cerebral blood flow. TCD detects the slightest change in perfusion-- the volumetric measure at which blood is delivered to tissue, or volume of blood per unit time per unit tissue mass. Alongside the study of blood pressure, Cerebral Autoregulation is vital to maintaining life as it supports proper delivery of adequate oxygen (in the blood) and nutrients to the brain and the removal of CO2 & other waste products.[2] As Dr Aaslid used the TCD by scanning through the transtemporal approach, others explored the intracranial arteries through the orbital (eye socket) window. By the early 90's, the next generation of development teams (Spencer, Seidel, Dobson & Moehring) improved on the Doppler innovation to detect microemboli and hemodynamic physiology. Today, TCD is widely accepted and utilized for an expanding set of clinical and research applications including ischemic stroke, sickle cell disease, subarachnoid hemorrhage and vasospasm. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to cancer diagnostic imaging expert Dr. Robert Bard, the introduction of 4D Doppler technology aligned with the ultrasound's base design concept of providing instantaneous, real time readings. "Let's take the case of breast cancer screening, the technician simply puts the probe on the breast, finds the area, pinpoints it, presses a button and seconds later you have the map showing the types of vessels, volumetric arterial density and spatial location of the vessels in relation to the adjacent organs. You have functions that give you a vessel density measurement which shows how aggressive this is. Instead of genetic markers (which are very popular), visually displaying tumor aggression performed in a matter of seconds to show cancer vessel invasion is a game-changer for any early detection or monitoring facility. Tumor aggression by blood flow evaluation is used worldwide in nuclear medicine, CT scans and MRI technology, however, one of the simplest and most cost-effective alternatives is the non‐invasive 3D Doppler breast procedure."</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWQG6h9-nVaN39jeNDFyTV4JyTkOUMv50OuodZPqQf6g37K0uIZ5OSBkBOv7xfJNeM8a30uToAqx29nn1V5ctBmNvLft-5J--9hkY9WK6PTH-vbkP7DSmUCR3JALiAh-u_yahgsp9ThYr5dcJNR-wOymP1YuNZzA_NjLIM1OzeCeqrLrs58vDKKhpCWQ=s2020" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnU3gVuruN5H9vaWfdZEsZ5fbxAU-4uCdn59rVaZqkjB4u9OgweHcNekGgyfRXM86Sgan3X_0Xy2xsFSNptLC9crdsbgZjEAca0bhIPhpquGYs3E81DjqJ-JPpwb6HpJhWmQfrDvB4104iEs8M9lZJMzIQ_qgmKjvIvNIjSbfe9YNEer5ZyeHGGfomUQ=s2020" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="2020" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnU3gVuruN5H9vaWfdZEsZ5fbxAU-4uCdn59rVaZqkjB4u9OgweHcNekGgyfRXM86Sgan3X_0Xy2xsFSNptLC9crdsbgZjEAca0bhIPhpquGYs3E81DjqJ-JPpwb6HpJhWmQfrDvB4104iEs8M9lZJMzIQ_qgmKjvIvNIjSbfe9YNEer5ZyeHGGfomUQ=w393-h253" width="393" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>INTRACRANIAL SCANNING WITH DOPPLER ULTRASOUND</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1982, continued advancement led to the Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography for outpatient and inpatient settings. By integrating the ability to study BLOOD FLOW into a low-frequency transducer, placing the probe on the temporal area measures the cerebral arteries to detect and quantify cerebrovascular activities, diseases and brain injuries. Other applications include the diagnoses of vasospasm (VSP) after an aneurysm rupture, hemorrhage or hemodynamic changes after ischemic or cryptogenic stroke. It also enables the study of cranial pressure fluctuations. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">TCD also offers significant clinical benefits in the monitoring of sickle-cell disease by scanning brain stem death and elevated raised intracranial pressure (ICP). Added features allow for surgical and post-op monitoring of vasomotor functions as well as detecting critical disorders like a microembolism.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">SUMMARY OF TARGET CONDITIONS FOR TCD APPLICATIONS</span> </b></div></span><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">• Vasospasm /aneurysm</span></i></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">• Sickle cell anemia, to determine a patient's stroke risk</span></i></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">• Ischemic stroke</span></i></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">• Intracranial stenosis/ blockage of the blood vessels</span></i></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">• Cerebral microemboli</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><hr /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAoKt0_bwnGrsbg62oNrz5tq-XQJnlU78qgnyXB1994Y-8km2XzSc5qzs6g8DMEaKR6W7gcnYQBthgh6g-HDPo7xUvoxFpZdL3wbj7qOzzYEh27orp5-x1xWq8oNfcwALtJxI3Z9VohlhjK0nvtuLHk9wqgXmmDsyLAJC-8bhRAwOnmC1esZsTb5fuw/s310/NEWS.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="86" data-original-width="310" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAoKt0_bwnGrsbg62oNrz5tq-XQJnlU78qgnyXB1994Y-8km2XzSc5qzs6g8DMEaKR6W7gcnYQBthgh6g-HDPo7xUvoxFpZdL3wbj7qOzzYEh27orp5-x1xWq8oNfcwALtJxI3Z9VohlhjK0nvtuLHk9wqgXmmDsyLAJC-8bhRAwOnmC1esZsTb5fuw/w236-h65/NEWS.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">PART 2: VERIFYING SIGNS OF COVID-19 STROKE THROUGH IMAGING</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By: Robert L. Bard, MD and Dr. Pierre Kory, MD</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Early detection and prevention of arterial and venous disease is key to minimizing the effects of arterial obstruction & hemorrhage, brain aneurysms, and strokes from venous thrombosis. The association of trauma to PTSD is now followed by advanced Doppler ultrasound and functional MRI. This abnormal physiology may also manifest as arterial dissection, collagen disease, inflammatory arthritis, dermatitis, ocular disorders, GI disturbances, limb pain, aneurysms of the brain and aorta. Devastating strokes in the Covid-19 era occur in the younger age group and the Latin population who are at higher risk.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH_pcZy7o0zBQhzkhnJARjCYzcj7zEmc-SOgaZ39UTPjfv8CApwsnjChrFTcRtp7i0zMKJ6QLo9LcpOdu7t-ocg2xt5K3jnRt9K4RKunYV5qnsmW42CFCY1pk7FB2of-A8zugFWm1lGwvKXMt2ZhZflGm6UhCXeEtaZ4MY6TxsPZINcbJNlBZoZazA6Q=s1170" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1170" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH_pcZy7o0zBQhzkhnJARjCYzcj7zEmc-SOgaZ39UTPjfv8CApwsnjChrFTcRtp7i0zMKJ6QLo9LcpOdu7t-ocg2xt5K3jnRt9K4RKunYV5qnsmW42CFCY1pk7FB2of-A8zugFWm1lGwvKXMt2ZhZflGm6UhCXeEtaZ4MY6TxsPZINcbJNlBZoZazA6Q=w399-h217" width="399" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>INTRODUCTION</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Interest in arteritis was elevated with the study of Tayakasu’s disease in the 1970's when advances in contrast arteriography diagnosed diffuse vascular involvement causing strokes and aneurysms in multiple sites. While this arterial inflammation is more common in Asians, in the US, blacks are nearly three times more likely to have a stroke at age 45 than whites. The pediatric population seems to be at higher risk for this arteritis as evidenced by their unusual rate of Covid-19 affliction affecting the vasculature and called “MULTIPLE ACUTE INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME“. Birth control pills is a distinct cause of such disease in younger women while cancer, alcoholism and obesity raise the incidence at all ages. [3]</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We have learned over the last century that blockages of coronary arteries to the heart and carotid arteries to the brain are precipitated by inflammation of the inner walls of the vessel, called the “intima”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCPVSCPxDQnQJ5gaKzIucN-XMVs58wmr4QTj9bJaKbg3P2NjVlkGJIK4VVjoxFhA5QgSHLzEAYfSsQfvyY2ecUA3Ut85sho7-zgWhg9wjHWNxgwEFG3Dt-Tlo0Dej0Fi3rdmpQeXEK3Q-JPc66pqAtfhx-hQEJMtaSUO2JhyxcUat6c3jrCDnNF-tk2w=s2875" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="2875" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCPVSCPxDQnQJ5gaKzIucN-XMVs58wmr4QTj9bJaKbg3P2NjVlkGJIK4VVjoxFhA5QgSHLzEAYfSsQfvyY2ecUA3Ut85sho7-zgWhg9wjHWNxgwEFG3Dt-Tlo0Dej0Fi3rdmpQeXEK3Q-JPc66pqAtfhx-hQEJMtaSUO2JhyxcUat6c3jrCDnNF-tk2w=w421-h293" width="421" /></a></div><br />While thickening of the interior wall of vessels gradually occurs over time and is aggravated by diet, stress and hypertension (high blood pressure), the acutely disabling event occurs when there is an abrupt tear of the overlying plaque which ruptures debris which then forms a blood clot which blocks blood flow or the clot travels deeper into the brain and blocks blood flow. Similarly, abnormal heart rhythms such as “atrial fibrillation”, causes the pooling of blood in the heart which predisposes to clot formation and the clots can then travel into the brain causing a stroke. In Covid-19, the virus causing severe inflammation in the blood which then promotes clot formation which can travel through the vascular system and affect almost every organ system in the human body, with the brain and lungs being the most vulnerable. An article in September NEUROLOGY reported by Medscape documented the incidence of large artery stroke as the presenting symptom of COVId-19 was highest in men under the age of 50 years. [4]</div></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial;">HISTORY</b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A medical research team at Metropolitan Hospital in New York first noticed unusual neurologic symptoms in young and middle aged patients in the late 1960s. As a division of the NY Medical College system, they were fortunate to have an active interventional radiology department specializing in neuroimaging and arteriography. The observation of distortion and occlusion of arteries supplying the brain, kidneys, GI tract and lower limbs to various degrees from single to multiple locations was closely linked to the Japanese disorder known as Tayakasu’s arteritis at the time and recently renamed “arteritis.” A clinical finding of this arterial inflammation in the abdominal aorta was pain in the upper abdomen by the great vessels by palpation. Astute physicians were successfully treating this with commonly available “aspirin.”</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, the chronic and diffuse nature of arteritis often weakened the vessel wall producing aneurysmal dilation and rupture. Today we find sophisticated non-invasive or minimally invasive modalities to be the first line of interrogation of vasculitis. [5]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdNv0jYYGaUfDcAwsn1KbVzl7pc2g93_06YTRzOidaeym7F2bofByfWkSR8KjKIrJMDCWMKnZs7OLSjKJIQN0ZOVsSpaPv-6y0ziQVlUCDyoxpId5ztZN1kXeSEMEYQk-5sXeZL6TFCyvn4K13-HW-eCnZVYG5BBV42co8LIyUmUJjY0sMEyR9G4vOCg=s449" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdNv0jYYGaUfDcAwsn1KbVzl7pc2g93_06YTRzOidaeym7F2bofByfWkSR8KjKIrJMDCWMKnZs7OLSjKJIQN0ZOVsSpaPv-6y0ziQVlUCDyoxpId5ztZN1kXeSEMEYQk-5sXeZL6TFCyvn4K13-HW-eCnZVYG5BBV42co8LIyUmUJjY0sMEyR9G4vOCg=s320" width="249" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>COVID AND STROKE</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">COVID-19 was rapidly understood as a disease caused by severe and widespread inflammation and “hypercoagulability” (a tendency to spontaneously form clots in the blood vessels.) Autopsies have revealed extensive small vessel strokes, with such strokes often occurring despite aggressive blood thinner treatment and regardless of the timing of the disease course, suggesting that it plays a role very early in the disease process. In one autopsy series, there was a widespread presence of small clots with acute stroke observed in over 25%. In a recent review of the incidence of stroke in COVID-19, almost 2% of all hospital patients suffered a stroke, which is 8x higher than in patients with influenza. More worrisome is that this is almost definitely a gross underestimate given the many likely missed strokes in patients who died on ventilators who were too ill to obtain imaging, the general restrictions on and lack of autopsies, and the well-recognized decrease in the number of patients with acute stroke symptoms seeking medical attention in the COVID-19 era. Another worrisome finding from a recent study of COVID-19 cases found that 45.5% of patients reported neurologic symptoms [6,7]. This under-recognized epidemic of neurological symptoms and strokes in COVId-19 highlights the need for more intensive imaging and investigation to achieve not only earlier recognition and improved treatment of patients but in furthering understanding of COVID-19 effects on brain function.</div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial;">DIAGNOSIS BY IMAGING</b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Blood flow abnormalities in the arterial system are best study by Doppler imaging like the weather Doppler showing tornadoes. Multiple options exist for blood flow analysis including:</div></span><p></p><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify; width: 577px;">
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<td valign="top" width="273"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Carotid Sonogram<br />
- Carotid Doppler<br />
- Eye Sonography<br />
- Transorbital Doppler<br />
- Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound<br />
- Transcranial Doppler<br />
- Hybrid Imaging</span></td>
<td valign="top" width="264"><span style="font-family: arial;">- 3D/4D Vessel Density Histogram<br />
- Endoarterial 3D Doppler<br />
- Retinal OCT<br />
- Soft Tissue OCT<br />
- Reflectance Confocal Microscopy<br />
- Small Coil MRI<br />
- 7 Tesla MRI</span></td>
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A useful measure of the risk of coronary and cerebrovascular disorder is the carotid intimal thickness (CIMT). Standard depth of the inner wall thickness is a measure best obtained by high resolution sonograms since a reading over 0.9mm indicates increased risk. The newer sonogram units have depth resolution of 0.02mm making this a preferred non invasive option.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #444444;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DOPPLER IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">- COLOR DOPPLER - most common application where red is flow towards the probe and blue is flow away from the probe</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">POWER DOPPLER - higher spatial resolution without directional flow correlation</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">3D POWER DOPPLER - allows volumetric analysis of vessel density used in treatment correlation where more vessels means increased neovascularity and fewer vessels correlates with clinical improvement</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">ANGIODOPPLER – similar to color Doppler with higher spatial resolution</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">MICROVASCULAR DOPPLER-images capillary flow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444;">B-FLOW DOPPLER-not true flow technology but observes motion of red blood cells directly</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CAROTID DOPPLER: Flow abnormalities of turbulence and absence are commonly evaluated with this modality. Plaque forms more readily in aberrant flow patterns and high velocity regions accompanying narrowing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">EYE SONOGRAPHY: Sonofluoroscopy of the orbital soft tissues and eyes is performed in multiple scan planes with varying transducer configurations and frequencies. Power and color Doppler use angle 0 and PRF at 0.9 at optic nerve head. 3D imaging of optic nerve and carotid, central retinal arteries and superficial posterior ciliary arteries performed in erect position before and after verbal communication. Retinal arterial flow is measured. Optic nerve head bulging is checked as increased intracranial pressure may be demonstrable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">TRANSORBITAL DOPPLER: R/L ciliary arteries have normal Doppler flows of 10cm/s which is symmetric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND: Widely used European nonionic contrast injection allows imaging capillary size vessels and perfusion characteristics</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER: This measures the flow in the anterior, middle and posterior cerebral arteries as well as Circle of Willis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">3D/4D VESSEL DENSITY HISTOGRAM: Multiple image restoration and reconstruction shows retinal vessel density of 25% at the optic nerve head and adjacent region with quantitative accuracy.[8]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ENDOARTERIAL 3D DOPPLER: Microcatheters inserted into the arterial or venous system provide measurement of wall thickness and presence of inflammatory vessels inside the intima.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">RETINAL OCT: Subtraction techniques done with OCT optical coherence tomography may show changes in the caliber of the retinal vessels with verbal ideation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">SOFT TISSUE OCT: The depth of penetration may be extended to 2-3mm allowing for analysis of vascular changes in erythematous or erythropoor dermal areas. Thrombosis may be observed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY: This microscopic analysis of the cells also quantifies microvascular pathology and is a potential modality for studying vasculitis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">SMALL COIL MRI: High resolution systems used for animal study and superficial organs can image the intra-arterial anatomy including dynamic contrast imaging on standard 1.5T and 3T units.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">7 TESLA MRI: High field systems analyze signal abnormalites rapidly with high resolution.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">HYBRID IMAGING: Hybrid imaging refers to combining diagnostic modalities to assess disease and monitor therapy. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer: The information (including, but not limited to text, graphics, images and other material) contained in this article is for informational purposes only. 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<p class="qaqa"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">INTRODUCTION</span></div><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;">IPHA's MedTech Reviews program is dedicated to the constant search for the most current advancements in health innovations. We report, review, beta-test and challenge the efficacy of these inventions for public awareness of what works, and how they work. </div></span><p></p>
<p class="qaqa"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are just some of the latest non-invasive therapeutic technologies in our catalog of medical devices:</span></div><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">• </span><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/10/medtech-reviews-2-introducing-tms.html">TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)</a> </div><span class="qaqa"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">• </span> <a href="https://ipha-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/essentials-on-shockwave-technology-for.html">SHOCKWAVE therapy</a> </div>
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">• </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/12/medtech-review-autofluorescence-for.html" style="background-color: transparent;">BIOLUMINESCENCE</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> probes</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">• </span> <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-is-pemf-therapy-pulsed.html">PEMF (Pulse Electromagnetic Frequency)</a> </div>
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">• </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><a href="https://bardcancercenter.blogspot.com/2021/04/axiobionics-report-part-1-tester-device.html" style="background-color: transparent;">Wearable NEUROSTIMULATORS</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">• </span>Electronic <a href="https://ipha-news.blogspot.com/2022/02/groundbreaking-new-solution-for.html">low-frequency INCONTINENCE devices</a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;">• </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">RadioFrequency (RF) Therapy</span></div></span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div class="qaqa" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxRdcLSrJSCbKMAJ62nZb9Be4VbKPVNOXbDWld-6ImKKaFCyqyxnnO-Ae93wnJE8fo6OTuuO8uPew7cOZP76zWayTcokKUPQt7selDpLVQ4HybRgGW9QdJDHBAAgewwhhSMAE0AuyJwzmdtOMOzV3C_m1o8fqbj8GD7fs1HInYaLkaRD3mLKFMqfW-5Q/s1364/Ondamed%20with%20patient2_rev.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1301" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxRdcLSrJSCbKMAJ62nZb9Be4VbKPVNOXbDWld-6ImKKaFCyqyxnnO-Ae93wnJE8fo6OTuuO8uPew7cOZP76zWayTcokKUPQt7selDpLVQ4HybRgGW9QdJDHBAAgewwhhSMAE0AuyJwzmdtOMOzV3C_m1o8fqbj8GD7fs1HInYaLkaRD3mLKFMqfW-5Q/w273-h286/Ondamed%20with%20patient2_rev.jpg" width="273" /></a></span></span></div>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;">Our next tour in our search for non-invasive health innovations is the science of BIOFEEDBACK—and we start our review with the internationally recognized pioneers from ONDAMED. Uniquely integrated with the features of PEMF/Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapeutics, this device offers localized tissue stimulation by induction of microcirculation within tissue. While the ONDAMED is approved by health authorities outside of the U.S. for pain relief, soft tissue injuries, and wound healing, the U.S. FDA regulates health claims to only include treatment for stress and stress related disorders.</span></span></p>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;">An historically recognized electronic device earned its mark in progressive wellness, muscle relaxation and the alleviation of functional medical disorders (Jacobson/Harvard, 1938)- and evolved into the core of self-regulating therapeutics. In the early 1920's, a community of researchers founded the biometric readings as part of the early works of EEG, visceral learning & electromyography as the major functions of the biofeedback paradigm. EEG studies the basic principle that brain processes can be brought under voluntary control. Pursuit of the meditative, alpha dominant states continues to be part of today's EEG neurofeedback movement- supporting applications of brain wave control and the therapeutic signal of the device.[1]
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<p class="qaqa"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the 1970's the science of biofeedback dug its heels into the treatment of headaches and migraines, high blood pressure, urinary incontinence and lower back pain - among a list of other functional issues. Other devices and neurodiagnostics identify the use of biofeedback as an effective driver of self-regulating scanners of biodata.</span></div><p></p>
<p></p><p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>- ELECTROMYOGRAPH (EMG):</b> measures muscle fibers & neuromuscular studies. Neurofeedback may sometimes be used as a non-invasive treatment for ADHD, pain, addiction, anxiety, depression, and other disorders. [2]</span></span></p>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>- THERMAL FEEDBACK: </b>reads migraine headaches & Raynaud's disease</span></span></p>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>- GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE METER (GSR):</b> measures electrical changes in the skin (sympathetic nervous arousal) supportive of psychotherapy & behavior therapy to track anxiety and cognitive/emotional threat response</span></span></p>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM02jdErjMoBHv_iYz1iOf11cK8gxMfnM1weVmWqUgptTXdSifyv3e0_Ukj58U_hy39DiLwZnRNtnQfg1AEiOADD72kK-aFVZd1OGbL-83htFgu0veSvsO6xQCxMrSWe6-v2qR3gGEnT0SmYxPB95DWd3n0aNm6-PgnqtXsJ7MHt4JFpi4rA2ijX13Zw/s731/PIX-WORK-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="731" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM02jdErjMoBHv_iYz1iOf11cK8gxMfnM1weVmWqUgptTXdSifyv3e0_Ukj58U_hy39DiLwZnRNtnQfg1AEiOADD72kK-aFVZd1OGbL-83htFgu0veSvsO6xQCxMrSWe6-v2qR3gGEnT0SmYxPB95DWd3n0aNm6-PgnqtXsJ7MHt4JFpi4rA2ijX13Zw/w362-h257/PIX-WORK-1.jpg" width="362" /></a><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Rolf Binder, chief engineer/inventor of the ONDAMED device and owner of the Ondamed Companies, and Dr. Silvia Binder, CEO of the Ondamed Companies, biofeedback is a mind-body process of electronic signals designed to send-then-receive (feedback) information about a person's physiological state, aimed at restoring control over involuntary bodily functions such as heart rate, muscle tension, blood flow, pain perception, and blood pressure. The (diagnostic) device sensors acquire feedback about specific aspects of your body. Once that information arrives, the goal of the device is to make subtle changes to the body that results in the desired effect. This might include relaxing certain muscles, slowing heart rate or respiration, or reducing feelings of pain. By doing this, people are often able to improve their physical, emotional, and mental health. For example, biofeedback can also be used to help people better manage the symptoms of a condition including insomnia, anxiety, depression, and pain.</span><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;">The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback defines biofeedback as a process that allows people to alter their physiological activity in order to improve health or performance. Utilizing precise measurement instruments, information about the body's functions are provided to the user. [2]</span></span></p>
<p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjid14ICrH_TPIC4J8SV1_kg8f69sIvW1AIeWbnH8_TZZNzySQlEfWNEDUn9kZ48Q3jj1-sEprbU9fccfN9bWGf5YtdSeYGjYvNTABFirL44LzoqwruPSux1YP6hRwJ0o5KcGofvEevNn0cUx_nMHeOMcGdPpD2TydD6ia9RS_7KnNOVM_HdjhhbXvL_Q/s773/@.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="773" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjid14ICrH_TPIC4J8SV1_kg8f69sIvW1AIeWbnH8_TZZNzySQlEfWNEDUn9kZ48Q3jj1-sEprbU9fccfN9bWGf5YtdSeYGjYvNTABFirL44LzoqwruPSux1YP6hRwJ0o5KcGofvEevNn0cUx_nMHeOMcGdPpD2TydD6ia9RS_7KnNOVM_HdjhhbXvL_Q/s320/@.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY </b>(e.g., ONDAMED) stimulates the body with gentle focused pulsed electromagnetic fields/PEMF in stressed areas that the biofeedback 'reports' to need help. This therapy is especially helpful to balance parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, impacting the psyche, immune system, and endocrine system.</span></span><p></p><p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>HOW DOES IT WORK: </b><span>The biofeedback sensors "learn" about your specific physical signs and symptoms of stress and anxiety (ie. increased heart rate, body temperature, and muscle tension) through electrical sensors that are connected to specific areas of your body. During your session, your therapist will guide you through different mental exercises that may involve visualization, meditation, breathing, or relaxation techniques. The ONDAMED Biofeedback System combines stimulation of gentle focused pulsed electromagnetic fields with Biofeedback. The feedback from the patient is done by monitoring the pulse rate and SpO2 displayed on the device. In addition, the practitioner palpates the patient’s radial pulse (aka vascular signal). This method allows personalizing stimulation of frequencies and sound along with placing applicators on most reactive stressed areas on the body for the patient’s fastest and lasting recovery.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="qaqa" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgr7AROoCa4uapA5Bexw7j6cUYI1XrSG1Cd5L2dj0Rrym6umS447AmSWxotGJ7d_-crFejB25UxJN_qyue388Pw6XHmbFXWg5pbhvs7LVtjlYY_DsqkAAurz3m6Y1W61QOPyEsoTriiv_TqG3P_p-WEMA9IgqXR2vvts7iqP9fcQRW1MRzMYRzXfBFw/w173-h129/Ondamed-Sensor.jpg" width="173" /></span></span><span class="qaqa"><span class="qaqa" style="font-family: inherit;">"The ONDAMED device is an intelligent approach to providing stimulation with your body’s own communication language, which is electromagnetic. The brilliance of the ONDAMED method is the personalization of targeted localized frequency stimulation raising awareness to the patient to overcome stress and stress-related disorders."</span></span></p>
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</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div style="line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><p class="qaqa" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5iK2IADk1uE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </span></i></p><p class="qaqa" style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">"The ONDAMED device is an intelligent approach to providing stimulation with the body’s own communication language, which is electromagnetic. It’s not just going by symptoms or pathology or by what one knows about one frequency, but rather it is about combining a physical stimulation with biofeedback to personalize healthcare. Connecting with the patient by palpating the patient’s radial pulse while she/he receives ONDAMED’s therapeutic stimulation will give us the information as to what frequencies and where on the body these frequencies are needed most. It is overriding what we know or don’t know about the patient’s life health story. This method is comparable to a lie detector; we are accessing the individual’s innate wisdom by tapping into their communication pathways, and perhaps into part of their subconscious. Within minutes, the applicators can be placed on select areas for treatment. With biofeedback, we make the patient aware of what it is that they respond to—and where it is on the body that they need treatment. The patient’s autonomic nervous system is teaching the patient about their state of mind, their emotions, and biological consequences; this is all occurring while therapy is already running." </span></i></p>
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</div></div></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-55837136517589420912022-02-15T05:32:00.010-08:002023-03-17T21:13:03.035-07:00A PEMF SUCCESS STORY: "GETTING MY LIFE BACK FROM CFS" <p>Interview by: <a href="http://www.lennardgettz.com/">Lennard Gettz, Ed.D</a> & <a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/">Roberta Kline, MD</a><br />Edited by: <a href="https://drrobertbard.com/">Dr. Robert L. Bard</a></p><p><b>Introduction</b></p><p>In support of personal leadership and proactive health, The Integrative Pain Healers Alliance applauds Ms. Suzanne Wheeler of Minneapolis, Minnesota as our Researcher of the Month. After years of suffering a life-altering disorder that currently continues to challenge the scientific community of its root causes, Suzanne explored “outside the conventional box” of opioid prescriptions until she uncovered the one remarkable solution that got her back on her feet and joining life again. Invoking CHANGE against all odds by diligently searching for what’s beyond the convenient takes courage and conviction. It is this level of leadership that defines Alternative Health and Wellness to educate others about new answers that offer better results.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguvj7u4WjwYHxHbAxNDeV03d_YRfzNjKBi5eaoJTxXhL_zWdfLwZHyYR_wS_pP1uZHCp-Rz4QMCcztbOz1EYR2q0B__BLAsTs1iYsSRPknVLmi3t5ZyeNZkx-bq2fmA8cKEHM5l7UM08syy0t9oh-u0inlMvpsrwYLEvKewT1ayL6-of11bpp279U4cQ=s1352" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1352" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguvj7u4WjwYHxHbAxNDeV03d_YRfzNjKBi5eaoJTxXhL_zWdfLwZHyYR_wS_pP1uZHCp-Rz4QMCcztbOz1EYR2q0B__BLAsTs1iYsSRPknVLmi3t5ZyeNZkx-bq2fmA8cKEHM5l7UM08syy0t9oh-u0inlMvpsrwYLEvKewT1ayL6-of11bpp279U4cQ=w411-h240" width="411" /></a></div><p>SHOT DOWN BY CFS<br />In 2017, I was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I had been essentially home bound for about two years and probably bed bound about 50% of my time. CFS was found to be the source of my 'all over body' pain- and so started my road to seeking out more targeted treatments. </p><p>Life before CFS was very active. I worked in corporate America for 17 years as a regional manager for a large building facilities company and managed a team of about 3000 people. Prior to that, I was in the United States army for a decade. I was a Blackhawk pilot and a C 12 airplane pilot in the military before I entered corporate America. </p><p>I started to feel significant pain after the birth of my 3rd daughter in Oct 2002. I had a traumatic delivery due to a condition called placenta previa. I lost over half my blood volume during the birth and received extensive blood transfusions. I never felt the same after that experience. About a week after delivery, the pain throughout my body started. Over the years – it became worse and worse, and the fatigue became debilitating. I kept pushing through with my job and family responsibilities which may have damaged my body even further. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIsjIWGCalBl5M6ceDuEWETMnSA74BDdh6jjpmITm85VDz13XzWz5xdVLOlKPltThOn2RPJ-yTi5TSuDmexfb_uwsWa72-aCdGd33mWZmiXgnmDNaFQyWnkBIusM1ZZwW98SU_jOn47Nf_eTeXtn4tpUuN6U1ofZFeLP12MVJzpizr1-N9GvcSPTB_Bg=s1698" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="1698" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIsjIWGCalBl5M6ceDuEWETMnSA74BDdh6jjpmITm85VDz13XzWz5xdVLOlKPltThOn2RPJ-yTi5TSuDmexfb_uwsWa72-aCdGd33mWZmiXgnmDNaFQyWnkBIusM1ZZwW98SU_jOn47Nf_eTeXtn4tpUuN6U1ofZFeLP12MVJzpizr1-N9GvcSPTB_Bg=w612-h94" width="612" /></a></div><br /><p>CFS is not an easy problem to resolve. I spent extensive time at Stanford University's chronic fatigue clinic with some of their top specialists. I was also sent to the Workwell Foundation (CA) where I underwent a two day CPET (image insert) a cardiopulmonary exercise testing where they were able to determine what my anaerobic threshold was my VO2 max. It was there that the clinicians found the extent of my metabolic dysfunction; my reports showed a VO2 reading equivalent to that of about a 95 year old. </p><p>I had the kind of pain that radiated all over- throughout my spine, throughout my hips, legs, my knees, ankles, feet also throughout my arms. I had, peripheral neuropathy in my hands. I had trouble moving my hands and trouble typing and then also trouble walking. It developed to the point where in 2015 I was using a cane in my late forties to walk. I was desperate to get pain relief for more than a decade. I also had compression in my lower spine and my L4, L5, and also in my thoracic region (T 11 & 12) that caused extensive pain. It wasn't an easy thing to figure out but through MRI, you can see the physical deformities- where imaging helped make everything pretty clear. But as to why it radiated through my body like it did, it took a lot of years to find out. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRJEe08I0v4RcuPYAheH3b8ykPt5U4KQrZ7MYWU-wUPSf_pnM09RyzvBX5DqIPzBSOzn9aG7IdpIx1gh2yIG423eFDHmGPq79zLqCm6701k76XuknP2M8ixiqftynmw0qTUUX4w-Jk89cQMNCKagc85WCk-NeRhwkAp2X1LL84ndaUkRLcYZMzVRHr9g=s1935" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1935" data-original-width="1290" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRJEe08I0v4RcuPYAheH3b8ykPt5U4KQrZ7MYWU-wUPSf_pnM09RyzvBX5DqIPzBSOzn9aG7IdpIx1gh2yIG423eFDHmGPq79zLqCm6701k76XuknP2M8ixiqftynmw0qTUUX4w-Jk89cQMNCKagc85WCk-NeRhwkAp2X1LL84ndaUkRLcYZMzVRHr9g=w155-h232" width="155" /></a></div>DESPERATE FOR PAIN RELIEF<br />Since 2002, I tried everything- modalities from opioids to hip injections to spinal injections from a pain clinic. I saw chiropractors, I had acupuncture, tens units, electrical stim, laser treatments, extensive cranial psychotherapy, massage, a lot of ice and heat, a massage chair and a hot water Jacuzzi (which was the one thing that I responded to the best).<p></p><p>All pain relief from this point was temporary. The base pain would eventually return and continue to get progressively worse. Years into this, it didn't seem like there was a lot left for me to try. I learned that my condition was based on a specific virus that destroys your metabolic system and your body doesn't have the ability to oxygenate for energy. I was extremely tired all the time with post exertional malaise and my anaerobic thresholds became very low. Our body builds up lactic acid with any exertion, with even minimal amounts of exertion. </p><p>TAKING CHARGE: RESEARCH OUTSIDE THE BOX<br />In 2017, I learned about PEMF and its concepts of getting to the cellular level by helping my cells oxygenate. Reading the many testimonials about it, it seemed to make better sense than the other modalities I tried so far. User stories matched up with my symptoms and what I had been told by doctors was happening to my body. My sister introduced me to the idea upon seeing a presentation at a horse event, believe it or not. I became intrigued and acquired a rental and eventually purchased my own model.</p><p>ALTERNATIVE HEALTH<br />I have HAD some wonderful physicians who are experts in their lane. At the height of my illness, I was seeing six different doctors who had me on so many medications (10 or 12 prescriptions) and I was still bed ridden- hence, nothing was working. </p><p>Before I started using the PEMF, I had been essentially home bound for about two years and probably bed bound about 50% of my time. And if I was not in bed, I was seeking pain relief, usually in a hot bath. I would say within two weeks, the pain throughout my body had significantly subsided. I still had a little bit of joint pain but the overall soft muscle pain was GONE. I had been taking opioids for over a decade prior, and I practically eliminated all that. It was, it was pretty unbelievable. Pain was a huge factor. I wasn’t changing my doctors - but the one thing we all agreed on is that they found sudden improvement in me. In my gut, I was confident of the changes were from the use of PEMF.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSvsm9uFKn3r7zF_n5W04f75MRV_Jbev7qSxUyfsODs8Bg6zVVaag-4HRPAIMcXLE4okRwAmboOcgp_p9Mlt5k8tcfSOv4t5wpEAlpB6Hnk2YuA01IMiUgHjCf2WaoUoHectD5iTQ_P_2UrKQhEy8z_3ydcw64F4NkWiIFXQk69NQe7D_tmvTVDO-cUg=s4032" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSvsm9uFKn3r7zF_n5W04f75MRV_Jbev7qSxUyfsODs8Bg6zVVaag-4HRPAIMcXLE4okRwAmboOcgp_p9Mlt5k8tcfSOv4t5wpEAlpB6Hnk2YuA01IMiUgHjCf2WaoUoHectD5iTQ_P_2UrKQhEy8z_3ydcw64F4NkWiIFXQk69NQe7D_tmvTVDO-cUg=s320" width="240" /></a></div>SUZANNE TODAY<br />I live a completely different life. To be clear, I'm not healed. I still have to live a more gentle life- certainly nothing like I used to do back in my army days or my early years working in corporate America- running and teaching aerobics and doing things like that. I still am not there to be able to do all that. The disease is still there, but the symptoms are managed and I have eliminated all the harsh, addictive medications. I am definitely getting so much more out of life without pain pills as opposed to being bed ridden and walking with a cane.<p></p><p>For anyone suffering like this, it's worth looking into. You want the expertise from the medical world, but you should blend the holistic treatments that are available- and then research it. If you search PEMF- read up on it! You'll find so many clinical studies and user testimonials that are coming up on that for all different ailments (not just mine) and they're seeing results. </p><p>Thanks to PEMF, I'm able to participate with my family. I'm able to travel, go to the beach and take wonderful walks again. My sisters and I started my own business helping horses and people (with PEMF) be more pain-free and traveling again. It's hard not to be passionate about something that has that effect on your life. My husband says he got his wife back.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>SPECIAL THANKS<br />The editors of this spotlight proudly gives thanks to Ms. Suzanne Wheeler for her generosity in sharing her story and her resources with us. Additional thanks to Dr. Jerry Dreessen of the AOPP (Association of PEMF Professionals) and Pat Ziemer of <a href="https://magnawavepemf.com/">Magnawave Inc.</a> and <a href="https://aurawell.com/">Aura Wellness PEMF</a> for coordinating our interviews, shared countless materials and conducted unending support to help our educational program bring new light to PEMF technology for chronic disorders and supportive testimonials in alternative therapeutics. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div><hr /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ScienceNews Extra</span></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Commentary on CFS/ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiC_f_YGPhwFvoh0VVjhXjoBqPXBhYlYsGupHDP9uaBX-IBMzItLyaAlHXais146J5YCQ6yZrxauqRe6FHkTeb7mJ6hkB7IUyA4YRGk4WGD509uBcp28-9HlyzxwBMjvgDhDhSTQJx8j2xtBdKGSghW_NnJRnV29Gj8YIAHLL60klxxRozWS4NWMn2qg=s470" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="470" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiC_f_YGPhwFvoh0VVjhXjoBqPXBhYlYsGupHDP9uaBX-IBMzItLyaAlHXais146J5YCQ6yZrxauqRe6FHkTeb7mJ6hkB7IUyA4YRGk4WGD509uBcp28-9HlyzxwBMjvgDhDhSTQJx8j2xtBdKGSghW_NnJRnV29Gj8YIAHLL60klxxRozWS4NWMn2qg=s320" width="320" /></a></div>By: Dr. Bobbi Kline</div><br />One of the key underlying findings in conditions causing chronic mental or physical fatigue is dysfunction of the mitochondria. Mitochondria are small structures located in the nucleus of every cell, and every cell contains thousands of them. These powerhouses produce the energy our bodies need to carry out every function in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate). When mitochondria don’t function at their best, or too many of them are destroyed, our energy levels suffer. While this can be due to inherited genetic disorders, most often it is seen as the result of chronic damage over time.<br /><br />Many of the biochemical reactions in our bodies produce toxic versions of oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, including how we make ATP. These toxic molecules, which we call free radicals, have to be neutralized so they don’t damage the mitochondria. Our bodies have powerful antioxidant defenses to keep these in check. But when these protective systems become overwhelmed by too many free radicals, oxidative stress results and mitochondria are damaged.<br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://healthresourcedigest.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-support-of-personal-leadership-and.html">SEE COMPLETE MEDSCIENCE REVIEW</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">IN THE NEWS</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://360healthalert.blogspot.com/2022/02/news-release-2022-post-military.html" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="349" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEswVBoQoDI9jm_Yg5Gzv5sRp_HPcOnN14E-fIWug-BmEagIQjuSAnNdnPFntJMla27ER144Pyc10zB6uvPgfezEqSP9aJoYGwwz6HuuRzT-fLwqCz_FE_zJmuQVnFVh3B6-OTtspJSwi810kKZlkBm1QXXduGPxlNan7G_gqSGUVLwWiHPSIK3CX1=w193-h123" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="193" /></a></div><a href="https://360healthalert.blogspot.com/2022/02/news-release-2022-post-military.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">THE 2022 POST-MILITARY CRUSADERS COALITION</a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">2/11/2022- A 2022 initiative by community leaders launched the PMCC or Post Military Crusaders Coalition to launch an action plan for health resources for injured American veterans. 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BARD, MD </b> (Diagnostic Imaging Specialist)</div></b></div><div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Having paved the way for the study of various cancers both clinically and academically, Dr. Robert Bard co-founded the 9/11 CancerScan program to bring additional diagnostic support to all first responders from Ground Zero. His main practice in midtown, NYC (Bard Diagnostic Imaging- www.CancerScan.com) uses the latest in digital Imaging technology has been also used to help guide biopsies and in many cases, even replicate much of the same reports of a clinical invasive biopsy. 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Bard</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8514995085572169152" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 770px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBCc5BWLjDkc5V7hfZA325sVasiToeXAdTKFWnv91wu5qTpn5DsOohsH1OTXB6wziG0ZZOOPjW0PLxs7qBIsTXk32-vHR07ZyO3tw-2OpJ6hnx0ctx6QqlMwYTlF5UEcJHlRzZ3_ZDkJDvBeeUy8iSmCOzjbzrgey-omkJErixmfvLnP-VHR2Z7KSpIQ=s377" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="377" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBCc5BWLjDkc5V7hfZA325sVasiToeXAdTKFWnv91wu5qTpn5DsOohsH1OTXB6wziG0ZZOOPjW0PLxs7qBIsTXk32-vHR07ZyO3tw-2OpJ6hnx0ctx6QqlMwYTlF5UEcJHlRzZ3_ZDkJDvBeeUy8iSmCOzjbzrgey-omkJErixmfvLnP-VHR2Z7KSpIQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Since the advent of Covid-19 Long Haul studies in 2021, the medical diagnostic community shifted into overdrive- seeking out all available screening and examination protocols to assess health problems called POST-ACUTE SEQUELAE (PASC). One of the recent Covid-19 related headliners is the rise in cases of MYOCARDITIS in children 16 years and under. CDC Reports link the pathological impact with covid infection since it is proven that Viral infections are a common cause of myocarditis. <p></p><p></p>Between early 2020–2021, patients with Covid-19 had nearly 16 times the risk for myocarditis<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">[1]</a>. According to the CDC, in a study of myocarditis cases, 2,116 (41.7%) had a history of Covid-19. In addition, cases of myocarditis reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) indicated links between Myocarditis and Pericarditis to come from the mRNA Covid-19 vaccination (especially in male adolescents and young adults) more often after the second dose.<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">[2]</a>.<p></p><p></p>Myocarditis is defined as an inflammatory disorder of the heart muscle (myocardium) leading to cardiac dysfunction. It is also recognized as myocardial cell death <a href="https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rg.335125722" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a>. Checkups for this also reviews for PERICARDITIS (the inflammation of the outer lining of the heart). Various causes of myocarditis includes: Viral Infectious including adenoviruses, echoviruses, enteroviruses like the coxsackie viruses. In addition, predisposition can occur from those with Autoimmune diseases such as Celiac disease, Churg-Strauss syndrome, Crohn disease, Kawasaki disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis etc. (See NIH chart for full list of causes- <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352488/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a>)<p></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><div><b><br /></b></div>STANDARDIZED DIAGNOSTICS</b><br />As with any critical disorder, detecting early stages of myocarditis allows for a higher opportunity to treat and even eliminate the health risk. In children, symptoms include: Fever, Fainting, Breathing difficulties, Rapid breathing, Chest pain and Rapid or irregular heart rhythms <a href="https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2021/07/09/17/31/diagnosis-and-management-of-myocarditis" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">[5]</a>. In adults, symptoms range from chest pain, shortness of breath, at rest or during activity and fluid buildup with swelling of the legs, ankles and feet. To prevent possible heart damage, a cardiologist may order one of a number of imaging options:<p></p><p>▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)</a><br />▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Chest X-Ray</a><br />▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Heart MRI</a><br />▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Blood Tests</a><br />▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Doppler Ultrasound for Acute Myocarditis</a><br />▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Cardiovascular MR Elastography (MRE)</a><br />▪ <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Ultrasound Elastography</a></p><div>See expanded details on diagnostic protocols, visit: <a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pediatricscan.com/myocarditis.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="1066" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwQ1Gr-0FmjybvoC4OD1CUoZbmEtMk-t026NqgKU4zJtnf-i8CV-IviYErGLeYiw8S-fIWL6DhveI7uLLy1Qz2hArRF8jaQOjDVvBT4KNczvIEkPqNU1VRBmm284p43GrRWM6hcPfpS-P4orL7WR348-Nl5FCvsdsYFvQO9Qo4j19XxRAWZxEY7Bz9YQ=w715-h129" width="715" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><b></b></p><b>MedNews Extra</b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Saving Lives Through Advocacy & Research:</span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;">FOR ELYSA FOUNDATION</div></span><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiovk5B6ialB-gEJFRUEmtW30NISu8IiWqe0ms_RhkVgScU3h8_ESwY9k82pNkuRfFDMl1PDzf8aPbS-yXFBNz2ybF85_aNYlhLX7J4_FFTAhbOy3XiY5opvcDCnfQu8szPwp9Vmzh_qtyLr_rh0kGGJYrhNdOExRHzXSW3xbx_ZdLsOtznjcsIcFyg=s482" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="482" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiovk5B6ialB-gEJFRUEmtW30NISu8IiWqe0ms_RhkVgScU3h8_ESwY9k82pNkuRfFDMl1PDzf8aPbS-yXFBNz2ybF85_aNYlhLX7J4_FFTAhbOy3XiY5opvcDCnfQu8szPwp9Vmzh_qtyLr_rh0kGGJYrhNdOExRHzXSW3xbx_ZdLsOtznjcsIcFyg=s320" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br />Around the first week of Feb, 2022, our clinical diagnostic researcher, Dr. Robert Bard launched his PediatricScan.com 2.0 in NYC‐ which included a Pilot program for Myocarditis Screening through the use of advanced Doppler Ultrasound Imaging. To establish the clinical network for this program is to connect with ICU specialists & Cardiologists as well as all associations supporting Myocarditis research.<br /><br />We met the directors of a remarkable national advocacy foundation called FOR ELYSA FOUNDATION‐ a non‐profit organization dedicated to promoting Education, providing Light, and supporting Research in the areas of viral myocarditis and pediatric sudden cardiac arrest. (www.ForElysa.org). Mrs. Jana Rojas and husband Jaime Rojas from Kansas City developed this organization inspired by the loss of her vibrant little girl, Elysa Louise Rojas who passed away at the tender age of two years old. " In Elysa’s case, a common childhood virus was responsible for her myocarditis. The virus either attacked Elysa’s heart directly or caused her immune system to attack her heart muscle in a “friendly fire” fashion while trying to fight the virus. The inflammation in her heart increased drastically and very quickly to the point of sudden cardiac arrest. Doctors and scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms within the body that cause a virus to “go haywire” in the immune systems of individuals with myocarditis. There is currently no way to predict when/if this will occur."</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjU4iHr5DOpdryYoMOsO6SQoMYCFi5dO_dLl3oYjo-UFUhwc8Yu78ceDq5pd8UojW3oQgR6pxK7AuMPgiw0E6HxT3lhiPCoIapzushkQ3VcWmX-dm6EFVA152G9Fm-zFmggGRGiZpzRyTYUjaGtNezA76JaPbri662IsKaynBnH08Hn6gFXEbq5cHR=s470" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="310" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjU4iHr5DOpdryYoMOsO6SQoMYCFi5dO_dLl3oYjo-UFUhwc8Yu78ceDq5pd8UojW3oQgR6pxK7AuMPgiw0E6HxT3lhiPCoIapzushkQ3VcWmX-dm6EFVA152G9Fm-zFmggGRGiZpzRyTYUjaGtNezA76JaPbri662IsKaynBnH08Hn6gFXEbq5cHR=w158-h240" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="158" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">The FOR ELYSA FOUNDATION is one of our first advocacy friends in pursuit of bringing national awareness and supportive clinical research for myocarditis diagnostics and prevention. According to the ForeElysa.org website, Myocarditis is a disease marked by inflammation and damage of the heart muscle. There are many causes of myocarditis, including viral infections, autoimmune diseases, environmental toxins, and adverse reactions to medications. The most common cause of myocarditis in North America is viral infections. Myocarditis usually attacks otherwise healthy people. It is believed that 5 to 20% of all cases of sudden death in young adults are due to myocarditis. Although the exact incidence of myocarditis is not known, it is estimated that approximately 343,000 people die of myocarditis and its major complication, cardiomyopathy, each year. The prognosis is variable but chronic heart failure is the major long term complication. Myocarditis and the associated disorder of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy are the cause of approximately 45% of heart transplants in the United States. <br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Materials in this excerpt are published with express consent from The For Elysa Foundation. </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">For complete Information, visit <a href="http://www.forelysa.org/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">www.FORELYSA.org</a></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></b><b>HOW & WHEN TO CHECK FOR PEDIATRIC MYOCARDITIS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By: Jana Rojas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyA2Gdx3t-5GDJp0Qy_m-Xv8vbxVpVBsU5we0XhyTrAfMBMXN0Qo5iQxZZj_scu0r839UfTt0G8479_xCtBaVNghV3vLiaTFadZZ04glcLVBAFDu3ws7y_DzigXf9Lv7S8IC4IKkygrvuyNKzvEJ2ygxVfE9-QxujiXop46tZfqJlokrXr4I_b3Nhe=s326" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="326" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyA2Gdx3t-5GDJp0Qy_m-Xv8vbxVpVBsU5we0XhyTrAfMBMXN0Qo5iQxZZj_scu0r839UfTt0G8479_xCtBaVNghV3vLiaTFadZZ04glcLVBAFDu3ws7y_DzigXf9Lv7S8IC4IKkygrvuyNKzvEJ2ygxVfE9-QxujiXop46tZfqJlokrXr4I_b3Nhe=w147-h144" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="147" /></a>The tricky thing with myocarditis being virally mediated is that Elysa could have had a heart scan a week before she died (the day before she contracted the virus that wrecked her heart), and it would have been normal. I am hesitant to insinuate that imaging could "clear" a patient and provide a clean bill of health without noting that this can and does occur spontaneously after viral infections, and so testing while ill or post-virally is actually the key message and window of opportunity for myocarditis detection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In my mind, the primary role for cardiac diagnostic imaging as it related to myocarditis specifically would be for: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1) acutely ill children in ED/urgent care/hospital inpatient settings</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2) children exhibiting the signs and symptoms you have outlined (fainting, sudden fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations), </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">3) after known Covid or other viral infection with prolonged or delayed healing (ie ongoing fatigue, shortness of breath, etc) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">4) and possibly PRE-PARTICIPATION SPORTS PHYSICALS. The pre participation screenings would be enhanced cardiac screenings in general to ideally pick up congenital heart defects and other concerns as well as myocarditis. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">TROUBLESHOOTING MYOCARDITIS</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By <a href="https://www.bobbiklinemd.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Bobbi Kline, MD</a> (Integrative Physician / Genomic Research Specialist)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSeuNnlsW6bUkGQ-HV9CiZuCb-2VUGh0St9bdeiE0i_LpQcnnjMyqCsi6h9VwZ36lRrue8lZVT_IVMbZ-O_0sm0lEwHJx5hVSNqartaCfeqD2H6vE8U9HdNLJSdQ8LpobATWIc1Y6lXa4uVwjevlg3eLc97cSPRij1AdhKsryAwDVwl-fI7scm6zWO=s1056" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="745" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSeuNnlsW6bUkGQ-HV9CiZuCb-2VUGh0St9bdeiE0i_LpQcnnjMyqCsi6h9VwZ36lRrue8lZVT_IVMbZ-O_0sm0lEwHJx5hVSNqartaCfeqD2H6vE8U9HdNLJSdQ8LpobATWIc1Y6lXa4uVwjevlg3eLc97cSPRij1AdhKsryAwDVwl-fI7scm6zWO=w91-h129" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="91" /></a></div>As a mom, my heart grieves for parents, including Elysa’s, who suffer such devastating tragedy. It’s the worst thing you hope never happens to your child, and I truly admire parents who turn a tragedy into something positive. It requires such amazing strength, courage and grace. As a physician, I find my self immediately asking "Why do these things happen? How can we predict or prevent them?" As clinicians, we look for patterns to help guide diagnosis and treatment. We know what to expect, but sometimes they can lull us into a false sense of security. Childhood viruses, as any parent knows, are an expected part of those early years. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8-epz_3meroerb5spog4Yc8oDVjJ1pBto_XO9xcRqRJR532BiaTMsduHllVHpDSIwdT3noPikC63Yo0nZ1D5FB1DdN37qz5T05_fARNmW5DF4A_rMC8B61WVM1cBcqLi9XicP-J4WEM_xA52oUle9y2PLcuIX5EWEyCWivbcTHMWTo7EwMlk9epjx=s480" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8-epz_3meroerb5spog4Yc8oDVjJ1pBto_XO9xcRqRJR532BiaTMsduHllVHpDSIwdT3noPikC63Yo0nZ1D5FB1DdN37qz5T05_fARNmW5DF4A_rMC8B61WVM1cBcqLi9XicP-J4WEM_xA52oUle9y2PLcuIX5EWEyCWivbcTHMWTo7EwMlk9epjx=w185-h126" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="185" /></a>But what happens when they turn out to be something more? That’s where pattern recognition is crucial. When something obviously falls outside those patterns, it’s a signal to question and go deeper. But what happens when you don’t even recognize that deviation? What if something is so uncommon or so subtle that it’s hard to detect among all the noise? Post-viral myocarditis is one of those conditions, and I’m glad to see it now in the spotlight. Raising awareness is a key first step. While COVID-19 has certainly helped to highlight this condition, it goes further than COVID. Many common childhood viruses have been implicated in causing myocarditis, but most people are completely unaware. I admit that it was not something I ever really thought about as my kids were growing up. And I am not alone. Educating clinicians as well as parents on what to look for, when to be alarmed, when to go deeper is crucial. This alone will save lives. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://mommiesonamission.org/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="620" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJjPuWxlsDCd3un3-EiRv0VWjmqsIC5b9C4e4WLXnrcj8ZK2QvdnXZQuqhe4Dlo0oONI9mu4tZMMIyzk20uqEUmeACzPTW5611GcrPD7zT_TfgL2Db4FLu82PVBsK7NAXXb4-AKFrtQIbMMj1D1BRmREDbPEL-FBHUn-82B0zKTzK_ZWMLoy0a0h1L-Q=w202-h229" width="202" /></a></div>But it’s only the first step. We also need better tests and tools to quickly and easily identify who is at risk, and better treatments for helping these children. This requires a multidisciplinary approach that includes better diagnostics including noninvasive technology, along with effective medications and other treatments. It also includes the burgeoning field of genomics and personalized medicine, both to provide a better understanding of the why, as well as a powerful tool to predict and prevent. For, at the heart of this, is understanding each child’s uniqueness in a way that empowers. Two studies have been published this year that have the potential to leverage the power of DNA to identify who is at risk for developing myocarditis after a viral infection. Not only that, but also which of those children are most likely to recover, and therefore need fewer interventions, and which of those children are most at risk for sudden death and require much more intensive treatment and support. And, in today’s world, we also need the power of legislation to make sure everyone has access to this higher level of care. There is much promise to change the trajectory of this devastating illness, and it is only through advocacy such as this that it will happen. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Association Between Covid-19 and Myocarditis Using Hospital-based Admin Data 3/2020-1/2021)<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2) Myocarditis and Pericarditis: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3) MR Imaging of Myocardial Infarction | RSNA-Radiological Society of North America / <a href="https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rg.335125722" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rg.335125722</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4) The Diagnostic and Clinical Approach to Pediatric Myocarditis: A Review of the Current Literature (NCBI/NIH) <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352488/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352488/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5) Diagnosis and Management of Myocarditis in Children (American Coll. of Cardiology) <a href="https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2021/07/09/17/31/diagnosis-and-management-of-myocarditis" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2021/07/09/17/31/diagnosis-and-management-of-myocarditis</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer: The information (including, but not limited to text, graphics, images and other material) contained in this article is for informational purposes only. 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Genes carry the instructions to make proteins, which do much of the work in our cells. Certain gene changes can cause cells to evade normal growth controls and become cancer. For example, some cancer-causing gene changes increase production of a protein that makes cells grow. Others result in the production of a misshapen, and therefore nonfunctional, form of a protein that normally repairs cellular damage. </div><div><br /></div><div>Inherited genetic mutations play a major role in about 5 to 10 percent of all cancers. Researchers have associated mutations in specific genes with more than 50 hereditary cancer syndromes, which are disorders that may predispose individuals to developing certain cancers. Genetic tests for hereditary cancer syndromes can tell whether a person from a family that shows signs of such a syndrome has one of these mutations. These tests can also show whether family members without obvious disease have inherited the same mutation as a family member who carries a cancer-associated mutation. <a href="https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics">[1]</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cqCa-bKPUU/X8HV2i8BUoI/AAAAAAAAPt0/MFTMA0R638EPocJzsjgnY2xRYCyGV403gCLcBGAsYHQ/s595/BUNNIES.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="595" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cqCa-bKPUU/X8HV2i8BUoI/AAAAAAAAPt0/MFTMA0R638EPocJzsjgnY2xRYCyGV403gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BUNNIES.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Everyone has two copies of each set of genes from both parents. If a person inherits a mutation in a Lynch syndrome gene, they still have the normal copy of the gene from the other parent. Cancer occurs when a second mutation affects the normal working copy of the gene, so that the person no longer has a copy of the gene that works properly. Unlike the inherited Lynch syndrome mutation, the second mutation would not be present throughout the person’s body, but would only be present in the cancer tissue. However, not everyone with Lynch syndrome will get cancer. You and your family members are more likely to have Lynch syndrome if your family has a strong history of colorectal cancer. Family members who inherit Lynch syndrome usually share the same mutation. If one of your family members has a known Lynch syndrome gene mutation, other family members who get genetic testing should be checked for that mutation. (source: CDC.gov)</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="height: 48px; width: 759px;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#CCFFFF" width="605"><p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">GENETICS & GENOMICS: SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT</span></span></p><p>Excerpted from <span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/">https://robertaklinemd.com</a></u></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ee;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ILTfXuUYks4/X6R03hDHRQI/AAAAAAAAPoM/ya-dC8l6XhEm5CqkofmCeMsUCL4UJMOUACLcBGAsYHQ/s193/heredity1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="176" height="190" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ILTfXuUYks4/X6R03hDHRQI/AAAAAAAAPoM/ya-dC8l6XhEm5CqkofmCeMsUCL4UJMOUACLcBGAsYHQ/w173-h190/heredity1.jpg" width="173" /></a><span style="color: #351c75;">Genetics and genomics sound alike and are often used interchangeably. While they both deal with changes in our DNA, there are important scientific and clinical distinctions.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="text-align: justify;">GENETICS CAME FIRST<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">The science of genetics is classically defined as the study of heredity, or how traits are passed on from one generation to the next. While modern day genetics evolved from Gregor Mendel’s pea experiments in the mid-1800s, it wasn’t until James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the actual structure of DNA in 1953 that we began to understand exactly how it works. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">DNA contains the genetic code, the blueprint for everything that happens in our bodies. DNA is short for deoxyribonucleic acid, and it is composed of long strands made up of four different nucleotides called adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine, or A, G, T, and C for short. It exists as two long strands that are paired in a specific manner. The DNA is grouped into functional units called genes, which can comprise either a small or large section of DNA.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">This DNA code is incredibly complex, and in order to contain all this information, the amount of DNA we each have in our cells is tremendous. In fact, every cell contains about 6 feet of DNA. That’s enough DNA in one person that, if stretched out, it would be long enough to go to the sun and back more than 300 times… or go around the earth’s equator 2.5 million times!</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">That’s where chromosomes come in. The DNA is compressed into tightly coiled structures called chromosomes in order to fit into our cells. We each have 23 pairs of chromosomes, and they are stored in a special compartment of the cell called the nucleus. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">While that solves the storage problem, it creates a different problem – how to access the instructions encoded in the DNA. Every time that cell needs to replicate itself to replace dead cells in an organ or tissue, or we need to make a certain protein, portions of the chromosome need to be unwound to expose the needed genetic code. But sometimes during that process mistakes are made, and the change in the DNA can be mild or catastrophic.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span>GENETICS: BLACK & WHITE<br /></span><span>Genetics traditionally deals with changes in the DNA sequence called mutations that are inherited in a predictable manner. These can involve small sections of DNA all the way up to whole chromosomes. Medical genetics has traditionally focused on health conditions that are due to inherited mutations in single genes (Huntington disease), in whole chromosomes (trisomy 21 or Down syndrome) or are associated with birth defects or developmental disabilities. </span></span></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nySI7xhnGyU/X8HXuHsffXI/AAAAAAAAPuA/UKaoX-_z7R0XLupB-bnDJi17yFRsfcO2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s509/dna.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="509" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nySI7xhnGyU/X8HXuHsffXI/AAAAAAAAPuA/UKaoX-_z7R0XLupB-bnDJi17yFRsfcO2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/dna.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">With a traditional, single-gene disorder such as Tay-Sachs disease, genetic information is obtained from a patient as well as his or her immediate family members and relatives. The information is then used to diagnosis or predict the risk of an inherited genetic disorder passing from one generation to another. For many single-gene disorders, there are very limited medical interventions available. Genetic disorders are individually rare, and they account for about 5% of all human disease.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">That meant 95% of the diseases were due to some other mechanism. In an effort to better understand how DNA contributes to health, scientists realized that genetic mutations were only part of the story. The Human Genome Project was conceived in the late 1980’s to provide answers.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">One of the biggest take-aways from the Human Genome Project was that humans share 99.5% of their genome. But while this means we are far more alike with all the genes we have in common, that 0.5% difference is significant. The small differences are what make us each unique.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ee;"></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Genomic Medicine: </b>It is now possible to use results from clinically-based genomic testing to evaluate a person’s disease susceptibility, and develop evidence-based, personalized intervention strategies to reduce those risks. These strategies include DNA-directed lifestyle modifications, dietary recommendations, nutritional supplements and/or exercise, all of which influence how these genes function to create health or disease. Biomarker testing can then be used to evaluate whether the intervention is efficacious. With this approach, the guess-work and inefficiencies of trial-and-error strategies are greatly reduced, leading to better health more quickly and cost-effectively.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A comprehensive test can provide gender-specific reports to create personalized programs for many health conditions, including:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>Prevent ER+ breast cancer or its recurrence in women diagnosed with the condition</li><li>Reverse osteopenia and osteoporosis</li><li>Prevent or treat Type II diabetes, heart disease, stroke, metabolic syndrome and obesity.</li><li>Optimize athletic performance</li><li>Customize nutrient requirements and resolve nutritional paradoxes</li><li>Prevent, treat and manage depression and anxiety</li><li>Plus many more health and wellness issues</li><li>Genomic Medicine is personalizing healthcare with precision. </li></ul><p></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">To see complete article, visit: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/genomicmedicineworks/about/">https://robertaklinemd.com/</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>About the Author</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://robertaklinemd.com/" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="126" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFuBO5BUOmgxXsD7OodH4S3GKxGdnx_VZl-Z3IxjzrWfXxhDqjO0oIniLAhqV-0csjnYdttPUT9RpkOBVYaJkNvpsOkd9Xck9Q5FsLkOT_k2orzXizfKY5WBb3mNgKSQI_16gsh840_YauFGZ9NcvZMRbjce8K1TYfbIunTPFIxrW67L568Vn9X-j/w71-h71/BK.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="71" /></a></div>BOBBI KLINE, MD </b>(Educational Dir. /Women's Diagnostic Group)</div><div>Dr. Kline is a board-certified ObGyn physician, Integrative Personalized Medicine expert, consultant, author, and educator whose mission is to change how we approach health and deliver healthcare. She helped to create the Integrative & Functional Medicine program for a family practice residency, has consulted with Sodexo to implement the first personalized nutrition menu for healthcare facilities, and serves as Education Director for several organizations including the Women’s Diagnostic Health Network, Mommies on a Mission. Learn more at <a href="https://bobbiklinemd.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">https://bobbiklinemd.com</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div></div></span></span></div></span></div><p><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; width: 758px;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#DDFBE1" colspan="2" style="line-height: 30px; text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 18px;">Directory of Inherited Cancer Syndromes</b> <a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/diseases-by-category/28/hereditary-cancer-syndromes" style="text-decoration-line: none;">source: NIH LINK</a></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#DDFBE1" style="line-height: 30px; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="372"><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/12351/brca1-hereditary-breast-and-ovarian-cancer-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• BRCA1 / BRCA2 - breast & ovarian cancer</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6202/cowden-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Cowden Syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10072/diaphyseal-medullary-stenosis-with-malignant-fibrous-histiocytoma" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Diaphyseal medullary stenosis</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10543/duodenal-carcinoid-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Duodenal carcinoid syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/9270/endolymphatic-sac-tumor" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Endolymphatic sac tumor</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6408/familial-adenomatous-polyposis" style="text-decoration-line: none;">• Familial adenomatous polyposis</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10959/familial-isolated-pituitary-adenoma" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Familial isolated pituitary adenoma</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6482/gardner-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Gardner syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10900/hereditary-diffuse-gastric-cancer" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/2695/hirschsprung-disease-ganglioneuroblastoma" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Hirschsprung disease ganglioneuroblastoma</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6858/langerhans-cell-histiocytosis" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Langerhans cell histiocytosis</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6902/li-fraumeni-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Li-Fraumeni syndrome</a></td><td bgcolor="#DDFBE1" style="line-height: 30px; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="386"><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/9905/lynch-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Lynch syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/3829/multiple-endocrine-neoplasia-type-1" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Multiple endocrine neoplasia:<br />- (type 1</a> | <a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/4881/multiple-endocrine-neoplasia-type-2a" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">type 2A</a> | <a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10225/multiple-endocrine-neoplasia-type-2b" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">type 2B</a>)<br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10805/myh-associated-polyposis" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• MYH-associated polyposis</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/4129/oslam-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Oslam syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/9415/paraneoplastic-neurologic-disorders" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/3936/perlman-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Perlman syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7385/pheochromocytoma" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Pheochromocytoma</a> | <a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/4321/pheochromocytoma-islet-cell-tumor-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">islet cell tumor synd.</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/4478/premature-aging-okamoto-type" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Premature aging Okamoto type</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8706/stewart-treves-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Stewart Treves syndrome</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7855/von-hippel-lindau-disease" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• Von Hippel-Lindau disease</a><br /><a href="https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/5528/wagr-syndrome" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">• WAGR syndrome</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="ree" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">LYNCH SYNDROME </span>is
a hereditary cancer condition in which a mismatched repair gene, which
ordinarily repairs errors in DNA duplication, is defective. As a result,
individuals are predisposed at a very high lifetime risk of cancer,
including an up to 85% risk for colorectal cancer, 65% risk for uterine
cancer, 19% risk for gastric cancer, 13% risk for ovarian cancer and a
higher than average risk for other cancer including cancers of the
liver, gallbladder, kidney, bladder, prostate, pancreas, skin, brain and
breasts. With genetic testing, there is hope...once diagnosed, annual
cancer screenings take place and cancers can be treated or removed
before becoming life threatening. By knowing our family history and
having a great medical team, we live longer than ever before...as long
as anyone else!</p><div><br /><br /></div><p class="ree" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CnatsiNpjz4" width="560"></iframe></p><div><br /><div>An Introduction to <b>Lynch Syndrome</b></div><div>By: Lindy Bruzzone</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_bacLG4tyXs/X6Xa1rF3V4I/AAAAAAAAPoY/nqBGGN0q9MMm6E5U8eWjL0WihPSwQcQjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s230/41GQ6opC8GL._US230_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="230" height="108" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_bacLG4tyXs/X6Xa1rF3V4I/AAAAAAAAPoY/nqBGGN0q9MMm6E5U8eWjL0WihPSwQcQjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w108-h108/41GQ6opC8GL._US230_.jpg" width="108" /></a></div>I was diagnosed in 2007 with colorectal cancer which was tied to my having Lynch Syndrome. There are tens of thousands of people now diagnosed with this genetic disorder which means this is NOT a RARE disorder like most might think. It came from a defective mismatch repair gene, where instead of repairing errors in DNA replication, it puts in different proteins and create more errors than it tries to keep doing. </div><div><br /></div><div>I produced this video 10 years after I lost lost my father. It was just so difficult for me to lose him that way. The day before he died, he said to me, "the doctors think it's hereditary, go get checked and tell your brother and sister, to get checked." After his funeral, my brother and I started looking for the right cancer center to get help. Knowing my father's reports, my surgeon and other doctors jumped in to get me tested, and sure enough--- it was positive. </div><div><br /></div><div>That's why Lynch Syndrome International was developed because nobody was getting diagnosed. NOW they are! And then when Color Genomics was developed (a Steve Jobs startup offering for FREE genetic testing), suddenly everybody started getting tested because they could finally afford it. They didn't want insurance companies involved. It took care of every barrier that we have to testing for hereditary cancers. </div></div><p>tbc<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>References</p><p>1) Cancer Heredity / NIH: <a href="https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics">https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics</a></p></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-66916609696727714772022-01-18T22:29:00.013-08:002022-01-31T12:40:23.695-08:00TEMP PLACEHOLDER: LIFE EXTENSION & THE HYPERVIGILANT RESEARCHER<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-89433477416259857702021-12-16T14:02:00.030-08:002022-11-20T05:19:21.439-08:00MEDTECH REVIEW: Fluorescence Imaging for Inflammation and Infection (official)<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Written by: </span><a href="https://drrobertbard.com/" style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Robert L. Bard</a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmz6V97k4v46NNnFZyRn3wZ8z5HK9Tv4sNWa4A_fv1-5IVz6zWdlUMlBRtI1aCP_tItmJgiq_8mjkMlzxp60ZF_imlJoyWNj_VVMn6idYysV0GyxSfoFrojolO4d_kUU0V35xJ5AAegIUBseVb8RXp9KQyR9hiX71uHD_iR-fI_ylLVQDS9_C1oo5Ebg=s1214" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1214" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmz6V97k4v46NNnFZyRn3wZ8z5HK9Tv4sNWa4A_fv1-5IVz6zWdlUMlBRtI1aCP_tItmJgiq_8mjkMlzxp60ZF_imlJoyWNj_VVMn6idYysV0GyxSfoFrojolO4d_kUU0V35xJ5AAegIUBseVb8RXp9KQyR9hiX71uHD_iR-fI_ylLVQDS9_C1oo5Ebg=s320" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span>Upon review</span> of all the imaging technologies available, clinicians are constantly in search for what provides us the most accurate quantitative data from the standpoint of non‐invasive safety. In the case of diagnosing cancers and bacterial infections, we are now exploring <span>the potential</span> of the intelligence behind bioluminescence and fluorescence (or autofluorescence) probes.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">From a 2019 study (by Raizman et al) about use of this technology (<a href="https://moleculight.com/">MolecuLight i:X</a>) with debridement, scans of 22 wounds were conducted under standard and violet light in patients after debridement. Scans, performed non-invasively at the point-of-care, demonstrated remaining bacteria/biofilm signal in 100% of wounds after sharp debridement, triggering additional removal of tissue. [1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Re-scanning demonstrated a marked decrease or complete removal of bacteria in most wounds, yet a subset showed persistent or increased bacterial signals post debridement. The authors, aided by the knowledge gained from this technology, proposed “the subgroup with persistent bacterial fluorescence post-debridement was at increased risk of deep compartment infection and required more frequent debridement and/or antibiotics.” [1]. See example of this in figure 2 (tissue in green, bacteria in red). Others have demonstrated ability to markedly decrease antibiotic usage using this technology, showing great potential for stewardship efforts [2].</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWD3x4BcaPPzjrxCygwfbcU4e_1od9CqLypckzN_jpYir0mD9zFAaMCPiJLxniLfYVJKKiX-LXKYX95MMbBCWxpnrBn6OodYE2WFS-b_2LQG0xN_P5-SvvPqFCegiL8eVBadGLwnxVArNHDwA--khIo5a9VTdFs2KdQVpcOxFt-aig_XyY52VBR4WP5g=s1104" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="1104" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWD3x4BcaPPzjrxCygwfbcU4e_1od9CqLypckzN_jpYir0mD9zFAaMCPiJLxniLfYVJKKiX-LXKYX95MMbBCWxpnrBn6OodYE2WFS-b_2LQG0xN_P5-SvvPqFCegiL8eVBadGLwnxVArNHDwA--khIo5a9VTdFs2KdQVpcOxFt-aig_XyY52VBR4WP5g=w431-h207" width="431" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Currently, the technology can take direct images of the skin or mucosal surface to indicate bacteria on the tongue or oral lining. <span>Exploratory reviews</span> of this imaging device also <span>shows possible benefits</span> in scanning potential biopsy material with violet light at the tissue and see if it's <span>suggestive</span> for cancer or inflammatory disease. </span><p></p><p></p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgES4-29tfTzGiKwR9qFd1sI25qp7v6opveYX9EhxmljEABC9OoDaZADbjnzZG8Jqdo4OqIjZ5_0a4YCqkjJ6EVkhRIbg7RqtfLKFhtPIM0opx4E0ZTXS3H9mbTrk1mux3A_39MStQX9V_XC27AcsnvIifqvMLf63T29tgeg0E_A7_FtfAcbHfMiISzzA=s550" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="550" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgES4-29tfTzGiKwR9qFd1sI25qp7v6opveYX9EhxmljEABC9OoDaZADbjnzZG8Jqdo4OqIjZ5_0a4YCqkjJ6EVkhRIbg7RqtfLKFhtPIM0opx4E0ZTXS3H9mbTrk1mux3A_39MStQX9V_XC27AcsnvIifqvMLf63T29tgeg0E_A7_FtfAcbHfMiISzzA=s320" width="320" /></a></div>SCAN 1: The Test Drive</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: arial;">A</span><span style="font-family: arial;">utofluorescence </span><span style="font-family: arial;">has been proven and used worldwide to show inflammatory changes and bacterial infection. It's used to find both Gram‐negative bacteria and Gram‐positive bacteria, aerobic and anaerobic. (Fig‐1) The illustrated scan shows the normal skinfolds as green and the skin image is homogeneous (there's nothing dark). (Fig‐2) The scan of the finger on the opposite hand which the <span>patient expressed chronic irritation</span>. <span>Upon initial observation</span>, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">it <span>appears that </span>Autofluorescence <span>may</span> detect inflammation through the upper dermi</span><span style="font-family: arial;">s, a change documented visually and by ultrasound imaging as minimal epidermal thickening associated with inflammatory skin disease (mild type). When we turned on the fluorescence scan, the exact one centimeter area of redness on the skin corresponded to the one centimeter darkened area on the finger.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">SCAN 2: CLINICAL IMAGING & OBJECTIVE DATA MEASURING WITH ULTRASOUND </span><br /></b><span style="font-family: arial;">(Fig-3) For my diagnostic research projects in dermal lesions and infections, one of my "weapons of choice" is the doppler ultrasound. From tumors to traumas, radiologists and clinicians rely on feature-rich computerized systems that provided remarkable patient data for its non‐invasive and real-time view of inflammatory disease to align with our study of the Autofluorescence for its work on atopic dermatitis and other viral diseases (ie. Covid-19) which <span>may affect </span>the skin and be sampled with this noninvasive technology. Since it hasn't been clinically documented in the dermal tissues, t<span>his is an opportunity to form</span> a new type of imaging that is non-invasive to<span> consider</span> avoiding biopsies on children.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp-1TqTjdztXqKZZborn5egh5X2j1UCwCER1oFTJ6ZSjbCyoTTSG9-oenGXajPLV0wkGy3do3C3PUq44_45LtoRYJWrj5vrnk-YoURFchQ3AH4aL5ELSp_2Uu65kdK5IRAU_44F4jpNKSA6KKnmIAIuAgaJX0Mn5vMDxCbe_z6eB6rExzOaDzJaBv_lg=s1356" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="1356" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp-1TqTjdztXqKZZborn5egh5X2j1UCwCER1oFTJ6ZSjbCyoTTSG9-oenGXajPLV0wkGy3do3C3PUq44_45LtoRYJWrj5vrnk-YoURFchQ3AH4aL5ELSp_2Uu65kdK5IRAU_44F4jpNKSA6KKnmIAIuAgaJX0Mn5vMDxCbe_z6eB6rExzOaDzJaBv_lg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">In the case of Fig-3, I used a high-frequency setting on a popular handheld point of care ultrasound probe to recognize a 0.3cm depth scan of the same area of the finger that was previously scanned by the fluorescence device. The top right arrow (1a) shows the enlarging dark stripe indicating inflammatory thickening or the epidermis. The middle grey area (arrow 1b) represents subdermal inflammation of subcutaneous tissue or mild inflammatory skin disease - confirming the prior evaluation.</span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>EXPANSION POTENTIAL: RESEARCH <br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Fluorescence imaging <span>is proven</span> to have a four‐millimeter depth of diagnostic accuracy in the tongue or mucous membranes‐ similar to the cervix or the vagina or the intestine lining. There is a rich literature of its use in skin wounds and wound infection. However, it's use in skin diseases <span>has not been fully explored</span>‐ so this is a beta test to see if and how it will work in non‐invasive diagnosis of inflammatory skin disease, especially in children. Exploring this technology is of great importance because dermatitis <span>is recognized as</span> a major pediatric disorder. Also disabling inflammatory chronic skin disease (psoriasis, rosacea) are a major focus of successful treatment by pharmacology companies.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicTou5IiTS6II4oTJ02D0QsS_GkF0aTeuQMxyTliATo5dA-DqebIlz9-nuDisuB768CB6ThA5cUopj4cuIS7qClrsoiUmvxk-rxDv3XzcioGywtMOjZI5-9dTyYNpoXtsjnwgLPUgsAscvP8HN_juCwywh8kUYL5YKo_12POXpOyAT0vOT6dHczkKoWw=s2864" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2864" data-original-width="1936" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicTou5IiTS6II4oTJ02D0QsS_GkF0aTeuQMxyTliATo5dA-DqebIlz9-nuDisuB768CB6ThA5cUopj4cuIS7qClrsoiUmvxk-rxDv3XzcioGywtMOjZI5-9dTyYNpoXtsjnwgLPUgsAscvP8HN_juCwywh8kUYL5YKo_12POXpOyAT0vOT6dHczkKoWw=w186-h275" width="186" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>AUTOFLUORESCENCE FIELD TEST <br /> </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">by: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/laserhygienics/">Randall Weisel, DDS</a> (Excerpt from Journal of Dentistry and Oral Sciences/ "Auto Fluorescence Allows Us to Detect Early Signs of Oral Cancer and Much More")</i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Review of autofluorescence enables us to objectively examine the oral cavity for inflammation and infection. Many systemic diseases are perpetuated by microorganisms that colonize in the oral environment. They enter the cardiovascular system by enzymatic processes that open the oral mucosa to allow their entry. A majority of the microbes are anaerobes and/or facultative anaerobes. When they enter the host, they metabolize blood. Their waste by products contains iron elements within a compound called porphyrin. Porphyrin will fluoresce when exposed to certain wavelengths of light. Healthcare providers can utilize this natural occurring process to objectively see these harmful pathogens. This may indicate that the host has a Sleep Related Breathing Disorder (SRBD). Sleep apnea is a primary disorder of SRBD’s. This technology offers medical and dental fields a screening tool for a pandemic healthcare problem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Pathogenic microbial presences and the size of the colony (the bioload) can be relatively determined [19]. Fluorescence visualization of red-orange means bacterial pathogens are present. Presence of bluish green/bright white indicates presence of Pseudomonas [19]. The conditions for these pathogens to exist can occur within individuals with Sleep Related Breathing Disorders (SRBD). Sleep Apnea is the most prevalent of these disorders [20]. Researchers should focus their attention to the dorsum of the tongue ecosystem. Autofluorescence, performed with technology that utilizes electromagnetic spectral ranges and special filters that are components of the Velscope, allows visualization of pathogenic microbes. Scientific research demonstrates that oral pathogens (Pg, Aa, and Fn) may be direct and/or indirect causative agents of systemic diseases. These oral pathogens cause inflammation and infection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><hr />SPECIAL THANKS to Dr. Monique Rennie, Director of Scientific Affairs and Global Engagement at <a href="https://moleculight.com/">Moleculight </a>for her generous technical support and assistance greatly added to the quality and integrity of this feature article. <br /><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">REFERENCES:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>1) Raizman R et al. Use of a bacterial fluorescence imaging device: wound measurement, bacterial detection and targeted debridement. J Wound Care (2019). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31825778/</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">2) Price N. Routine fluorescence imaging to detect wound bacteria reduces antibiotic use and antimicrobial </span><span style="font-family: arial;">dressing expenditure while improving healing rates: retrospective analysis of 229 foot ulcers. Diagnostics 2020;10:927.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>19) Le, L.; Baer, M.; Briggs, P.; Bullock, N.; Cole, W.; DiMarco, D.; Hamil, R.; Harrell, K.; Kasper, M.; Li, W.; et al. Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Fluorescence Imaging for the Detection of Bacterial Burden in Wounds: Results from the 350-Patient Fluorescence Imaging Assessment and Guidance Trial. Advances in Wound Care. 2021. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32870774/</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">20) Sleep-Disordered Breathing.chapter 23.Thoracic.org. 237-247. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Boillot A, Demmer RT, Mallat Z, Sacco RL, Jacobs DR, Benessiano J, et al. Periodontal microbiota and phospholipases: the oral infections and vascular disease epidemiology study (INVEST). Atherosclerosis. 2015;242(2):418-23. PubMed | CrossRef</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>21) Bale BF, Doneen AL, Vigerust DJ. High-risk periodontal pathogens contribute to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Postgrad Med J. 2017;93(1098):215-20. PubMed | CrossRef</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>22. Boillot A, Demmer RT, Mallat Z, Sacco RL, Jacobs DR, Benessiano J, et al. Periodontal microbiota and phospholipases: the oral infections and vascular disease epidemiology study (INVEST). Atherosclerosis. 2015;242(2):418-23. PubMed | CrossRef</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>23) Desvarieux M, Demmer RT, Jacobs Jr DR, Rundek T, Boden-Albala B, Sacco RL, et al. Periodontal bacteria and hypertension: the oral infections and vascular disease epidemiology study (INVEST). J Hypertens. 2010;28(7):1413. PubMed | CrossRef</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer & Copyright Notice: This article/website does not provide medical advice. The information, including, but not limited to text, graphics, images and other material contained on this blogsite are for informational purposes only. 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Zappas DNP, FNP</a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"></p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;">I am a family nurse practitioner for the past 10 years. But my main expertise (and where I work clinically) is in aesthetics or aesthetic dermatology. I currently work in Luxe Aesthetics Center as a clinician or as a family nurse practitioner in Yorba Linda, CA. The CEO of <a href="https://luxemedspa.net/">The Luxe Aesthetic Center</a> who is an awesome colleague and mentor in clinical aesthetics. So we do a lot with Botox, Neurotoxins, Fillers laser techniques to bring enhancements to patients, helping them to look and feel their best.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1dHVAyN1sr0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikBAYQv6l3xcU4j6x9Ig9e-MoM-3qg-04daQ_jYAHNrikJ-Kn6f_5tCe0NnpgFzcPe8zXLN9ZJLt470RKKaGXftrG5UF_OKWDS9GHn_CWmu6HGBcs_kUJdyIWfUFvkC8yN1lmNCNDlCfA5z2_nfrqXzpLlCOiR_Q3wuNvqe63E2iCW-H4baIGDNiMudg=w228-h128" width="228" /></a></div>Thanks to the connective powers of LINKEDIN, I was approached by NY Cancer Imaging Specialist, <a href="https://drrobertbard.com/">Dr. Robert L. Bard</a> about co-authoring in a multi-disciplinary text project about <a href="http://dermalscannyc.com/">IMAGE GUIDED AESTHETIC PROCEDURES</a>. Having learned about him as a globally recognized figure in clinical education and medical publishing, I also marveled at his vision to unite the many areas of medicine through collaborative research and integrative presentation concepts. Meanwhile, to co-write about clinical aesthetics in this unique capacity was a remarkable opportunity no educator in my field could pass up.</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">INSIGHTS ON SAFETY</span><br /> <span style="text-align: left;">So when doing hyaluronic acid filler, it is really important to know which areas are dangerous. Then it basically breaks down to nerves and arteries. Obviously you don't want to occlude an artery or with filler itself or too much filler into an area where that presses on an artery, because that can cause vascular compromise avascular necrosis, it can cause blindness if the artery supplies the eye with blood and also you can cause a palsy if there is occlusion or compression of the nerve.</span></p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipp4DPBQq8PaIuVlRykafMlVvx1ZtrlNGOAESzpA3LzOa4qL4WxIpZUr58IQrOI2Ggh4As8ZDZHeZj3t4LoZEzGg_tVw9A8qIyqoRP29jxH0JVO7hfVBYPBSa2NSFT2ANq66aiFjGM8lbI4tvk7cXe0Lt-O0nx_EybHQq1t8-7sdION1yvpfKnsOFJ-g=s670" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="670" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipp4DPBQq8PaIuVlRykafMlVvx1ZtrlNGOAESzpA3LzOa4qL4WxIpZUr58IQrOI2Ggh4As8ZDZHeZj3t4LoZEzGg_tVw9A8qIyqoRP29jxH0JVO7hfVBYPBSa2NSFT2ANq66aiFjGM8lbI4tvk7cXe0Lt-O0nx_EybHQq1t8-7sdION1yvpfKnsOFJ-g=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">So those are really the major vessels and anatomic areas to avoid-- the, the big subgroups.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">But obviously within the face, there are a lot of vessels and arteries to note and to avoid when you are injecting. So this chapter really breaks it down. We go through the face upper face, lower face in terms of where to inject safely, what vessels and arteries that are in that area and what to avoid- plus other clinical techniques in order to make sure that you are injecting the hyaluronic acid safely.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;">I am definitely interested in public education, informing patients and all providers about best practices with regard to aesthetics, other techniques and modalities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to contribute in informing the public about aesthetics before getting these procedures, especially in support of the many patients of enhancement or regenerative professionals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d also like to promote safety programs and prevention techniques because a lot of damage and injury can happen out there, particularly with fillers but also with lasers if it's not done correctly. So it's really important when we're talking about patient safety for the provider to be able to walk the line between being aggressive enough to get somebody good results but (especially in terms of lasers) not work too aggressively to burn somebody or to cause somebody scars or blisters.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">IPL- INTENSE PULSE LIGHT THERAPY</span><br /> </span>So Intense pulse, light or IPL is a type of laser that can target the main chromophores (hemoglobin, water, and melanin) and so these are a lot of the molecules that patients complained about in chunks of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dyschromia or erythema on their face and other parts of their body. A lot of times people are coming into decrease the Pohnpeian with the little blood vessels in the skin. IPL is wonderful for that.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;">One of my points about my IPL chapter is that it's not just for aesthetics; there are a lot of dermatologic inflammatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Multi-system conditions and diseases that IPL can be used for include ROSACEA, Meibomian Gland dysfunction, Acne, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Port-Wine Stains related to Sturge–Weber syndrome and Mangiomas. There are a wide variety of conditions that can cause patients discomfort- including mental discomfort, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>suicidal ideation and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>depression that can be treated and a radiated with IPL as one of the modalities for treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, I find this to be a remarkable laser for a lot of different health conditions while also strongly making a significant difference in the areas of aesthetics as well as dermatologic conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><br />In terms of our fillers, using image guidance via ultrasound, we can visualize vessels, nerves (and) all sorts of different things that allow the practitioner to safely inject. And so that is a great technique to not occlude those vessels that you don't want to occlude. To transform somebody's face and give them a youthful appearance, but safely without the risk of blindness or vascular necrosis or any other of the potential adverse effects that can come from that kind of hyaluronic acid or other filling modalities.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;">ON ANTI-AGING AND REGENERATION<br /> </span>Clinical aesthetic modalities as a whole works on the visual of the patient but also greatly improving their mental wellbeing and their ability to interact with the world (resulting to improved self-esteem). And I don't want to get lost on the vanity aspect of it because aesthetics actually running a whole lot deeper than that. My philosophy behind that is to “do what the patient wants” in terms of what bothers them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I do not buy into all of these new modalities necessarily without seeing the evidence. I really want the evidence to support the procedure. So patients who invest in these modalities deserve my research, my clinical understanding and I want to make sure that what I am providing them that is backed by evidence. So that is probably where I talk some patients out of some of the newer things that they see in the blogosphere and YouTube from the many influencers- and I say, “let's go back to what has been tested, where we can have the evidence—that’s what makes for a sound and professional clinical aesthetics practice!”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody><tr style="height: 180.25pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="border: 3pt solid windowtext; height: 198.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 10.4pt; width: 554.65pt;" valign="top" width="715"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">EXTRA:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidXOrBiiLR_OJnL89SMxIgtOYCV8ZPrGRjEuWZqD1MoTNb2REmWZ0m85c1x_PzN0dxiDFTz5_WOEn3BqRinON75LC9f_8borSVrlpD7d1iTmYpepe-mCswCXwYmPbSzv7ebFVWbX9aAM6fpPud1YZ2yT-k8nR5XeHiZM73lL7l4xjMQoLSuG6Gt20mtw=s2813" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="2813" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidXOrBiiLR_OJnL89SMxIgtOYCV8ZPrGRjEuWZqD1MoTNb2REmWZ0m85c1x_PzN0dxiDFTz5_WOEn3BqRinON75LC9f_8borSVrlpD7d1iTmYpepe-mCswCXwYmPbSzv7ebFVWbX9aAM6fpPud1YZ2yT-k8nR5XeHiZM73lL7l4xjMQoLSuG6Gt20mtw=w603-h240" width="603" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thwarting Surprise "Surgical Land Mines" with PreOp Scans</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: start;">By. <a href="https://drrobertbard.com/">Dr. Robert L. Bard</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">For all my friends in the practice of Cosmetic Surgery, <b>DIGITAL PRE-OP</b> is a highly useful stage for many patients who may carry hidden issues that can turn into a pandora's box of complications. I have performed this vital service for European plastic surgeons since 2001 in their centers while currently performing domestically as a digital diagnostics partner for serious physicians and surgeons fulfilling similar needs. </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Pre-operative imaging is widely performed to verify tissue planes and measure fat depth. Since patients may have forgotten prior treatments, new scans sometimes reveal extensive sub-dermal calcium deposition, unsuspected fluid collections or thick fibrosis distorting the expected anatomy. Anatomic variants may be observed and avoided. Moreover, patient confidence is enhanced by the extra care provided by this advanced technology.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Some of the most common <b>POST-PROCEDURE COMPLICATIONS</b> include:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">- Suture loosening and granuloma formation following blepharoplasty</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">- Lipoatrophy or fat necrosis following PRP or abdominoplasty</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">- Filler complications and implant migration </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">- Doppler verification of vascular compromise (venous or arterial) following facial therapies allowing immediate intervention to prevent blindness or tissue necrosis </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bardcancercenter.blogspot.com/2018/03/3-d-image-guided-treatment-of-cosmetic.html">(See complete article)</a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11.4133px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEHGDkg_8lPbi1-QKIjLNcRuNvspb7COY79WI6KEi9XWIchLpJh2Ij0qzpvAuCeHFldD86NjrkvQAXcTsItgrZTZmgihxurmchxxrqRqj-Lf9vastc_IOB7KA6MSVUlxQwoXYeJeJE0fFQciKj32KKq97EcfA7zkY4VF-3SDEEB9-kk0fopYsZCafa0A=s1422" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1422" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEHGDkg_8lPbi1-QKIjLNcRuNvspb7COY79WI6KEi9XWIchLpJh2Ij0qzpvAuCeHFldD86NjrkvQAXcTsItgrZTZmgihxurmchxxrqRqj-Lf9vastc_IOB7KA6MSVUlxQwoXYeJeJE0fFQciKj32KKq97EcfA7zkY4VF-3SDEEB9-kk0fopYsZCafa0A=w653-h221" width="653" /></a></div><span style="line-height: 11.4133px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span><div><span style="line-height: 11.4133px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span><br /></span></span></div>TEXTBOOK OVERVIEW: </span></span>Springer Medical Publishing proudly presents the first installment in clinical aesthetic procedures. This detailed and up-to-date overview of image-guided procedures focuses on the many aesthetic and reconstructive strategies delivered by some of today's renowned leaders in the clinical aesthetics community. They share their valuable expertise and field-based findings throughout this feature-rich textbook. The wide list of audiences for this text (ie. dermatologists, plastic surgeons, aestheticians, general surgeons) will enjoy an insider's look at each treatment program while providing remarkable field-based knowledge for the general non-medical audience seeking the latest information in non-invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic procedures. Produced and edited by Dr. Robert L. Bard, this collective project showcases the most highly sought-after cosmetic treatments in each priceless chapter- through detailed breakdowns, experiential insights and a generous graphic tour of before and after progress visuals. Thanks to the additional safety benefits of clinical imaging, our treatment professionals express added confidence in the pre-operative and post-op areas. In addition, many aesthetics procedures noted also brings significant advantages (of accuracy and efficiency) to the actual treatment process from real-time image guidance. Some of our top contributors include: <a href="https://luxemedspa.net/beth-haney/">Dr. Beth Haney</a>, <a href="https://luxemedspa.net/beth-haney/">Dr. Michelle Peters-Zappas</a>, <a href="https://spectrumlasertraining.com/staff/mary-nielsen/">Mary Nielsen Aesthetics</a>, <a href="https://www.gargdmd.com/about/about-dr-garg/">Dr. Arun Garg</a>, Dr. John Catanzaro, Dr. Randall Weisel, <a href="https://www.drchagares.com/">Dr. Stephen Chagares</a>, <a href="http://www.forever-healthy.org">Dr. Cari Green</a>, Dr. Richard Kushner, Dr. Lio Yu, <a href="https://gulfcoastbiologics.com/">Dr. Peter A Everts</a> and January Howard, CMA (this is an abridged list of our contributors).</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11.4133px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"></span></p><hr /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK03SCbGD5j1Wu6xJvm9Q1tF8rJ4e6pQ6LKU35S9c0Vzw7kN3w9TA9DM6MrqaURbD58pkZ_3Uji0VeAV6BavS9bjsA6kvkw8zrpFnz53DAK-hcSML8zifsp1z-Xfe1O98_8NBBKiVtFyTRsjUVjEs29vrfDfnj0OJNeVRP6Lrhtip-9azj6VuONVMnAg=s200" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK03SCbGD5j1Wu6xJvm9Q1tF8rJ4e6pQ6LKU35S9c0Vzw7kN3w9TA9DM6MrqaURbD58pkZ_3Uji0VeAV6BavS9bjsA6kvkw8zrpFnz53DAK-hcSML8zifsp1z-Xfe1O98_8NBBKiVtFyTRsjUVjEs29vrfDfnj0OJNeVRP6Lrhtip-9azj6VuONVMnAg=w97-h97" width="97" /></a></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: left;">Dr. Michelle (Shelly) Zappas is a Clinical Associate Professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work in the Department of Nursing. She received her Bachelors’, Masters’ and Doctorate in nursing from Columbia University. Dr. Zappas has nearly a decade of experience as a family nurse practitioner in primary care clinics in New York City and Los Angeles. Dr. Zappas has authored multiple publications and presents at both state and national nurse practitioner educational conferences. In aesthetics she has been trained in advanced injection techniques using neurotoxins and dermal fillers as well as training in IPL and lasers. Dr. Zappas has a profound interest in dermatology and skin care and enjoys helping her patients put their best face forward. </div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Disclaimer: The information (including, but not limited to text, graphics, images and other material) contained in this article is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice or scientific claims. Furthermore, any/all contributors (both medical and non-medical) featured in this article are presenting only ANECDOTAL findings pertaining to the effects and performance of the products/technologies being reviewed - and are not offering clinical data or medical recommendations in any way. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you read on this page, article, blog or website.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-40324547996124544662021-10-04T21:20:00.043-07:002022-03-14T14:49:54.982-07:00MEDTECH REVIEWS 2: Introducing TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)<p><span style="font-size: large;">The Modern Age of Non-Invasive Mental Health Innovations: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation <br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Written By: Jessica Connell-Glynn | Dr. Robert L. Bard & the editorial team of prevention101.org</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swixdjsLhFc/YVvR5tC7zwI/AAAAAAAARw4/ucTGvRbfwDk9ucL4Mq2HQ11fO1RqIvMCACLcBGAsYHQ/s760/nexstim-760x675.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="760" height="196" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swixdjsLhFc/YVvR5tC7zwI/AAAAAAAARw4/ucTGvRbfwDk9ucL4Mq2HQ11fO1RqIvMCACLcBGAsYHQ/w221-h196/nexstim-760x675.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the continued expansion of the medical society to “go non-invasive” (or non-surgical) and the trending reassessment of interventional medications, the mental health community has acquired major tools in its toolbox to support clinical diagnostic and treatment efforts. In 2008, the FDA approved the first TMS Depression Device for Depression Treatment [1]. In 2018, the FDA approved the marketing of Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) as adjunct therapy for of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) [2-3]. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Current reports have presented an est. 30% of depression cases have a resistance to antidepressant drugs, where Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and the application of Transcranially applied non-invasive neuro-magnetic intervention has shown positive results in combination with antidepressants in patients with treatment-resistant depression[ 4]. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HiAP6j0W3EI/YVvSHJ-zFpI/AAAAAAAARw8/JslfknWkT6I8wHylOC1MvxgGRCF7uSrkACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/213.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1280" height="109" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HiAP6j0W3EI/YVvSHJ-zFpI/AAAAAAAARw8/JslfknWkT6I8wHylOC1MvxgGRCF7uSrkACLcBGAsYHQ/w299-h109/213.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the procedure, a magnetic coil is positioned at the head of the person receiving the treatment using anatomical landmarks on the skull, in particular the inion and nasion.[5] The coil is then connected to a pulse generator, or stimulator, that delivers electric current to the coil.[6] Single or paired pulse TMS causes neurons in the neocortex under the site of stimulation to depolarize and discharge an action potential. [7] Repetitive TMS produces longer-lasting effects which persist past the period of stimulation. rTMS can increase or decrease the excitability of the corticospinal tract depending on the intensity of stimulation, coil orientation, and frequency. [8]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Field Report: TMS Science from the Top Developers</span></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Based on an interview with Nexstim Vice President, STEVE BELLER</i></div></i><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, is the use of magnets external to the body to activate tissue inside the body (so you're not having to open the patient up). Based on Faraday’s Law, a magnetic field produced outside of a patient’s head can permeate non-invasively through a patient’s head and induce an electric field that has the capacity to activate neurons in the brain. We induce current at a distance inside the brain and cause the neurons to fire where we induce that current. This means that where we depolarize, we cause the brains neurons to fire. TMS artificially stimulates the brain and causes the neurons to fire. Navigation technology allows us to see precisely where in the brain where we are stimulating.</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pWTP1t6QKUI/YVvdV04rebI/AAAAAAAARxs/vOg8tIj4qycfiFDjpyg48WNRrvOAWCyLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2160/5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="2160" height="169" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pWTP1t6QKUI/YVvdV04rebI/AAAAAAAARxs/vOg8tIj4qycfiFDjpyg48WNRrvOAWCyLQCLcBGAsYHQ/w374-h169/5.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The value of this stimulation effect is twofold; the first is DIAGNOSTIC- where we can non-invasively identify specific areas of motor function and specific areas of language function. The second function is THERAPEUTIC- where we can actually help change or fix an identified brain disease by using TMS. Right now, we as a company hold FDA clearances for pre-operative motor and language mapping as well as treating major depressive disorder. For depression: the general understanding (still under exploration like a lot of things in medicine, particularly with the brain) is that the metabolic activity in the left dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex in a diseased or depressed patient is lower and usually significantly lower than in out of a healthy patient. In order to increase the metabolic activity and the left dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex or left DLPFC you can use TMS to artificially stimulate our cause the neurons to fire in the left DLPFC and that increases the neuronal excitability level and helps improve the depressive state of that patient. This is one example of how to therapeutically use TMS to improve health and performance. </div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">You can also use a different set of TMS stimulation parameters to inhibit brain regions that may be overactive. That is, you can actually slow down the functioning of the cortical area that you're targeting. Hence, TMS in therapeutics may be a versatile option to treat a range of neurologic and psychiatric disorders in the future.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxwQW_-UF6c/YVvSOiO9yyI/AAAAAAAARxE/J32cjzB2vP8oQCNIzHy_7mtj0EYQQDV3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1800/csm_Nexstim_NBT_System_Comparison_310b850a24.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1800" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxwQW_-UF6c/YVvSOiO9yyI/AAAAAAAARxE/J32cjzB2vP8oQCNIzHy_7mtj0EYQQDV3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w429-h166/csm_Nexstim_NBT_System_Comparison_310b850a24.jpg" width="429" /></a>Since
2009, Nexstim´s Navigated Brain Stimulation (NBS) has been FDA cleared for
use in non‐invasive motor and language functional cortical mapping prior to
radiosurgery and invasive neurosurgery. This technology allows the operator
to move a hand‐held TMS coil over the patient´s head delivering a series of
harmless magnetic pulses whose electric fields gently activate neurons in the
cortex. Converting a standard head MRI into a 3D‐model of the patient´s
brain, allows the operator to precisely navigate the coil´s electric field
anywhere in the cortex, much like driving a car with the aid of GPS.
Measuring patient responses by electromyography (EMG) reveals the locations
of the vital motor areas inside the brain. Mitchel Berger, M.D, Past Chairman
of the Department of Neurological Surgery, Past Director of the Brain Tumor
Surgery Program, University of California, San Francisco, said, “What makes
this so special is the ability for it to define very small, precise cortical
regions on the surface of the brain, and define individual components of
function which is something we never could do before." The Nexstim
technology is available to patients at over 50 of the country’s top
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REVIEW OF POST TRAUMATIC RECALL</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>(A
field report by: Jessica Connell-Glynn, LCSW)</span></span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span>PTSD
can occur in all different extremes with at-risk professionals (like cops,
responders and veterans). The trauma that they experience are above the
ordinary that they could cause extreme flashbacks, anxiety and
depression—heavily affecting their quality of life. The average civilian is
also prone to this disorder starting with MICRO-TRAUMAS that can happen to
everybody throughout any point in their lifetime. Usually stemmed from childhood issues,
micro-traumas actually shape the way an individual reacts to other people. As
an example, child bullying may lead to developing a protective or defensive
personality disorder. Anytime they feel
disrespected or embarrassed by others, feelings of extreme uncontrollable anger
may arise without knowing the source of the hurt or why they're acting in that
way. This dilemma often causes problems
in relationships.</span></div></span><p></p>
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EMOTIONAL CRISIS FROM THE PANDEMIC</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>By:
Jessica A. Conner-Glynn, LMSW / Edited
by: Cheri Ambrose (NYCRA NEWS writing staff)</span></span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span>Observing
the many emotional after-effects of our ‘new Covid lifestyle’, I find a link
between stepping away one's our work environment and a direct improvement in
one’s well-being. The surge of the coronavirus pandemic brought a unique kind
of widespread emotional disorder called LANGUISHING- an issue identified as
somewhere between a downturn ‘blah’, emptiness or depression causing a type of
burnout from mandatory social distancing.
Many of us are working really hard in the same place that we actually
live- removing that safe separation between work and home that we once
had. The shift in working at home takes
away that place to relax and shut down, eventually causing a state of emotional
exhaustion from staying ON (and on guard) the whole time. There is also a physical aspect to all this;
the new sedentary lifestyle of working from home eliminates the vital energy
stimulation from circulation and cardiovascular activity of physical
traveling. In addition, self-isolating
has induced an unhealthy weight gain in many, also adding to this malaise.</span></div></span><p></p>
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STRESS CAN MAKE YOU SICK</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By: Dr. Jesse A. Stoff </span></span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span>For
our well-being, stress is so powerful that it can affect just about every
function in our bodies right down to our cells. Stress can cause major weight
gain, headaches, hair loss, dental problems, major fatigue, respiratory issues,
digestive problems, psychological & focal disorders. It is also known to affect the performance of
our immune system - allowing for skin issues, colds, allergies and a host of
chronic diseases. Stress management is important for more than psychological
health; stress can greatly affect immune functioning, inflammation and even
hormonal balance. Studies have shown that stress can reduce natural killer cell
function. These are normally the cells that attack foreign invaders including
viruses, bacteria and fungi. They are also the cells that patrol the body as
the first line of defense against the development of cancer.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IUCvJHz5io8/YVvap_A5lhI/AAAAAAAARxg/z9F1QNw8K38ucMu1L4uAOijRqOf1zvyXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s228/4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="226" height="113" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IUCvJHz5io8/YVvap_A5lhI/AAAAAAAARxg/z9F1QNw8K38ucMu1L4uAOijRqOf1zvyXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w112-h113/4.jpg" width="112" /></a></span>RETINAL & TRANSCRANIAL IMAGING </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Dr. Robert L. Bard</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another device used by imaging specialists to detect mental distress is through an EYE SONOGRAM or Real Time Sonofluoroscopy of the orbital soft tissues of the eyes. This process is performed in multiple scan planes with varying transducer configurations and frequencies. Power and color Doppler use angle 0 degrees and PRF at 0.9 at the optic nerve head. 3D imaging of optic nerve and carotid, central retinal arteries and superficial posterior ciliary arteries performed in erect position before & after verbal communication and orbital muscle tissue contractions may be observed as a precursor to visual changes in facial expression. Retinal arterial directional flow is also measured with peak systolic and diastolic values. Bulging of the optic nerve head is checked as increased intracranial pressure may be demonstrable in this condition. Other innovations such as the TRANSORBITAL DOPPLER, 3D/4D VESSEL DENSITY HISTOGRAM and the RETINAL OCT (optical coherence tomography) are also being explored in the pursuit of studying brain performance through the eyes. An expanded review on these solutions will be available in part 2 of this report.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-41039092887277409892021-09-25T06:55:00.027-07:002023-03-17T21:14:38.933-07:00WHAT IS PEMF Therapy? (Pulsed ElectroMagnetic Field)- Part 1<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">NON-INVASIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC THERAPIES (Part 1) </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A report by: Jessica Connell-Glynn / Edited by the NYCRA-NEWS Editorial team</div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_Bv2QnY5Bs/YU8s-hHPk9I/AAAAAAAARlA/EZVK75wMMMYVoxI2Of9rVdiSI-XL3OyKACLcBGAsYHQ/s782/back.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="782" height="186" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_Bv2QnY5Bs/YU8s-hHPk9I/AAAAAAAARlA/EZVK75wMMMYVoxI2Of9rVdiSI-XL3OyKACLcBGAsYHQ/w221-h186/back.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2015, Dr. Oz aired a program about an "invisible treatment" for chronic pain designed to "change the practice of medicine"- casting a wave of commercial attention to the patient community desperate for pain relief- and hope for the reversal of pain-related ailments. Pulsed Elecromagnetic Field Thereapy or PEMF is the induction of electromagnetic fields to promote the synthesis of cellular, muscular and skeletal matrix <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span>. </div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) provide a non-invasive, safe, and easy method to treat and rehabilitate a growing list of health issues. The therapeutic theory behind this innovation is designed to affect the body at the extracellular level- imposing the ability to transduce or separate mechanical charge to electrical energy. This has been reported to affect the alignment and physical properties of tissues & cell nutrition toward the healing process.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2] </span> Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and magnetic therapy presents a major increase in research attention in the past decade for its ability to directly treat the site of injury. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHfVd_Y0Nvo/YU9hZl7W0CI/AAAAAAAARlk/yhoTU1axkRAH8TARu2Ed5mYnFdmr9HcwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s840/Tesla_circa_1890.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="628" height="105" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHfVd_Y0Nvo/YU9hZl7W0CI/AAAAAAAARlk/yhoTU1axkRAH8TARu2Ed5mYnFdmr9HcwwCLcBGAsYHQ/w78-h105/Tesla_circa_1890.jpg" width="78" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Medical historians and publishers often attribute the scientific roots of electrical transduction therapy to NIKOLA TESLA (1856-1943) for his pioneer work in advanced electromagnetic field frequency. They align the success of non-invasive treatment innovations including the Pulsed Elecromagnetic Field Thereapy (PEMF) and the Transcranial Magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the philosophy of implementing electgromagnetic fields to stimulate cells. It is this same paradigm in patient care technology that enforces the very backbone of holistic and non-surgical ("no more scalpel") movement.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDJi4a1SHYM/YU9xwwH1oiI/AAAAAAAARl0/SJeiR-zIbC0ZD6SEJ7VWuwRwVyo8H7jOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1848/4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="1848" height="85" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDJi4a1SHYM/YU9xwwH1oiI/AAAAAAAARl0/SJeiR-zIbC0ZD6SEJ7VWuwRwVyo8H7jOgCLcBGAsYHQ/w486-h85/4.jpg" width="486" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDJi4a1SHYM/YU9xwwH1oiI/AAAAAAAARl0/SJeiR-zIbC0ZD6SEJ7VWuwRwVyo8H7jOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1848/4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDJi4a1SHYM/YU9xwwH1oiI/AAAAAAAARl0/SJeiR-zIbC0ZD6SEJ7VWuwRwVyo8H7jOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1848/4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SDJi4a1SHYM/YU9xwwH1oiI/AAAAAAAARl0/SJeiR-zIbC0ZD6SEJ7VWuwRwVyo8H7jOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1848/4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Conventional uses of magnetic therapy is widely found in the integrative and alternative (or wellness) communities. Some may recognize this science under other names including:</div></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>Wave Therapy<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 18px;"> </span>Biofeedback<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 18px;"> </span>Bio-resonance</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 18px;"> </span>Magnetic Therapy<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 18px;"> </span>Electrostimulation<span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 18px;"> </span>Microcurrent Therapy</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These devices vary in size & designs but these protocols are similar in application. The science employs a magnetic field for rehabilitation to treat and/or prevent diseases.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pI6QIbIHk1c/YU8tHqumQ5I/AAAAAAAARlE/iVVufVtMk6w5Y8GrIBglcoWCBYnNGDKwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s782/hand.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="782" height="146" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pI6QIbIHk1c/YU8tHqumQ5I/AAAAAAAARlE/iVVufVtMk6w5Y8GrIBglcoWCBYnNGDKwwCLcBGAsYHQ/w174-h146/hand.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">CLEARED FOR USES</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1979, The Food and Drug Administration 1979 approved PEMF Therapy for the healing of non-union fractures <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span>. Electrical stimulation of the spine (as part of spinal fusion procedures) for failed fusions and congenital pseudarthroses. In October 2008 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of PEMF therapy for treatment of major depressive disorder in PD patients who failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from very high dosages of antidepressant medications <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span>. </div><span 2008="" achieve="" administration="" and="" antidepressant="" approved="" as="" congenital="" depressive="" disorder="" dosages="" drug="" electrical="" failed="" food="" for="" from="" fusion="" fusions="" high="" improvement="" in="" major="" medications="" nbsp="" october="" of="" p="" part="" patients="" pd="" pemf="" procedures="" pseudarthroses.="" satisfactory="" spinal="" spine="" stimulation="" style="font-size: xx-small;" the="" therapy="" to="" treatment="" use="" very="" who=""></span><p style="text-align: justify;">Clinical research has also been highly dedicated towards mental health. In 2006, the FDA approved PEMF Therapy for treatment of depression and anxiety. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[7-9]</span> Further reports have presented an est. 30% of depression cases have a resistance to antidepressant drugs, where Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and the application of Transcranially applied Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (T-PEMF) has shown positive results in combination with antidepressants in patients with treatment-resistant depression<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[10]</span>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw34jUSaafY/YU8tsrzbFZI/AAAAAAAARlY/qFGDmhCIs_4kCgnMhdoFTkwXv0ORzJaCACLcBGAsYHQ/s782/KNEE.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="782" height="146" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw34jUSaafY/YU8tsrzbFZI/AAAAAAAARlY/qFGDmhCIs_4kCgnMhdoFTkwXv0ORzJaCACLcBGAsYHQ/w174-h146/KNEE.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2019 the wearable RecoveryRx PEMF Device was FDA Cleared for "Adjunctive treatment of postoperative pain". This technology achived market clearance for its drug-free (non-opiod) PostOp effects. Andrew Whelan, President, expressed confidence in seizing the market opportunity: “We are delighted that the FDA has recognized the potential of RecoveryRx in transforming postoperative pain care. RecoveryRx, with its high degree of safety, excellent clinical evidence of effectiveness and exceptional cost-benefit, will become the standard of care.” <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[11-12]</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">PEMF: HISTORY & EXPANSION OF MODERN TARGET ISSUES</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Claims of electricity induction in aiding bone repair has been reported as far back as the mid 1800's, but it wasn't until the mid-1950's to the '70's that the scientific community significantly advanced its research toward the treatment of delated fractures in Western Europe and the US. Recent reviews have shown benefits of PEMF to include: neurological disorders, vascular disease, lung disorders, GI (gastrointenstinal) disease, rheumatic disease, dermatological issues, inflammation, tumors and immunological issues for both humans and animals.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[14]</span> Clinical research studies have reported benefits for a host of specific issues including: musculoskeletal(MSK) Pain <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[15],</span> bacteria and parasites, OstheoArthritis, mental health disorders (Depression), Multiple Sclerosis<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[16-17]</span>, Cancer<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[18]</span> and Alzheimer's Disease <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[19]</span>. </div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">TMS and PEMF USE IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common progressive nervous system disorders that affects movement. It is a neurodegenerative disorder second only to Alzheimer’s disease, accompanied by the impairment of the cortico-subcortical excitation and inhibition systems, hence belonging to the involuntary movement diseases. In the first PD patients treated with high-frequency TMS in 1993, motor symptoms, tremor, rigidity and akinesia improved significantly allowing to decrease the administration of l-dopa by a mean of 55% <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[20]</span>.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><b></b></p><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">TMS FOR DEPRESSION: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation</span><br /><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/10/medtech-reviews-2-introducing-tms.html" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="760" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim8ucQuXoMSjgHYrUkE4Sz_7hjtuPS6ZkXjdOWct061QZx-Be9SIvW0UUVcv82oufrNx68YX_xHZxxdHXvBmldLXWSA2OrYA7U29uM-4BNpl5TBugaf6XfIREs-Mxyu7sFr5VNm8KBYcGHHUAYR50GUYuMgaYcQlXNpMRYnzg2nFGGP9B02TxHvIkh8A=w169-h150" width="169" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FuGNlRXGOz0/YV0WkmSs6EI/AAAAAAAARyM/JQWBSM0cXzE-aF5VGQV46kLrRH7xLcKTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1546/IMG_2178.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></i><div><span style="font-size: small;">October 4, 2021- TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, is the use of magnets external to the body to activate tissue inside the body (so you're not having to open the patient up). Based on Faraday’s Law, a magnetic field produced outside of a patient’s head can permeate non-invasively through a patient’s head and induce an electric field that has the capacity to activate neurons in the brain. We induce current at a distance inside the brain and cause the neurons to fire where we induce that current. This means that where we depolarize, we cause the brains neurons to fire. TMS artificially stimulates the brain and causes the neurons to fire. Navigation technology allows us to see precisely where in the brain where we are stimulating. (<a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/10/medtech-reviews-2-introducing-tms.html" style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration-line: none;">see complete article</a>)</span></div><div><br /></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></b></div><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The AOPP: Explaining How PEMF Works</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2LQ5dKQHu5zz1b2jP1QcVf2QniYeJCCaKfnDs3jFpl0rmVxOp7ZX4U6F8Bg_88JvVJmivxkxu-NT8bJ-_lzQNP2--lw2zaY_8j9yqD3mBYrj5x08zkbMxooTxaqE_sCSCz6hGXJ_otFuRllTa0g8pM2PQ9gLOMTrZCHE9lQrFXUBmMuaGDm70YoHopg=s792" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="792" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2LQ5dKQHu5zz1b2jP1QcVf2QniYeJCCaKfnDs3jFpl0rmVxOp7ZX4U6F8Bg_88JvVJmivxkxu-NT8bJ-_lzQNP2--lw2zaY_8j9yqD3mBYrj5x08zkbMxooTxaqE_sCSCz6hGXJ_otFuRllTa0g8pM2PQ9gLOMTrZCHE9lQrFXUBmMuaGDm70YoHopg=w368-h254" width="368" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9/25/2021: An exploratory review* of the PEMF science is under discussion between Dr. Robert Bard and THE AOPP FOUNDATION (Association of PEMF Professionals) which aims to provide clarity on the science behind its 'invisible healing' concept. AOPP aligned with the Integrative Pain Healers Alliance (Dr. Bard's wellness network) and saw the need for public clarity in how PEMF works, what actual uses they are cleared for as well as the importance of public guidance on the market.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Jerry Dreesen, President of the AOPP and certified chiropractor by trade is an avid user of this therapeutic technology for his patients on a variety of disorders. "So PEMF did start out on the animal side... it was originally used for seed germination -and moved over to the animal side. When they eventually started working with humans, evidence of creating better blood flow as part of the body's detoxification. We're also finding that with PEMF is that the body is utilizing medication even better - so it's absorbing it and using it more versus some people can be getting a reaction to better absorption of their medications."</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigXIFRKXJEGU31UaDXvt3L_n0cUGG4ip9ibvH8YXslCyF3mBXxob9IzJhBpTZfgK7RIC6yxFDeiH-Zinw2CAnZ01yrm4igweyNlLDvDJ1QPciwUjxYcKV3Tt-oXZmoHWpdVlryil8OmIx3ZPswACFLJ9rhTJm3FwR3lGiC9qUEEmQz0cIu4pe-8GQSkQ=s1260" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1107" data-original-width="1260" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigXIFRKXJEGU31UaDXvt3L_n0cUGG4ip9ibvH8YXslCyF3mBXxob9IzJhBpTZfgK7RIC6yxFDeiH-Zinw2CAnZ01yrm4igweyNlLDvDJ1QPciwUjxYcKV3Tt-oXZmoHWpdVlryil8OmIx3ZPswACFLJ9rhTJm3FwR3lGiC9qUEEmQz0cIu4pe-8GQSkQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Dreesen further explains the physiological and biological reactions to electromagnetic science and its research - going as far back as the Krebs cycle (otherwise known as The citric acid cycle (CAC) – or the TCA cycle (tricarboxylic acid cycle)- which we all had to learn. During that process. one of the by products is nitric oxide and then the other one is of course, taking ADP and attaching the phosphate to it and making ATP-- creating the "fuel" for the body. PEMF sparking this process is great especially for sports where it induces renewed energy to fatigued muscles. For the same reasons why it works really well on animals, the same goes for humans after a workout as it quickly revitalizes the target area by increasing absorption of oxygen and energy levels. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8QGkDYMK9WQ_G62DjQLYVXyK0ukvkfOp1DaJ-NnruZ6aPgBTCxSSdOno52HsHD_wXvqmqx3n1lFMMRnUshEBF1fzM4heZ92M5TTQSW6l0YVtvBiw9S6cZCrY-PQC7AgJd63VSdoRt7LgyCCgzicUizmAuOK8mgag5xopYLEnnwswBLLkpmHDLMV_Obw=s389" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="129" data-original-width="389" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8QGkDYMK9WQ_G62DjQLYVXyK0ukvkfOp1DaJ-NnruZ6aPgBTCxSSdOno52HsHD_wXvqmqx3n1lFMMRnUshEBF1fzM4heZ92M5TTQSW6l0YVtvBiw9S6cZCrY-PQC7AgJd63VSdoRt7LgyCCgzicUizmAuOK8mgag5xopYLEnnwswBLLkpmHDLMV_Obw=w163-h54" width="163" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Dreesen shares the rehabilitative theories and applications for MSK injuries- including sprains, strains, joint issues, arthritis pain and other chronic inflammation. He describes its performance on a cellular level and controlling inflammation versus "just telling the brain that there's no pain there at all... it's not masking pain, it's physically going in and eliminating the creation of inflammation. As a by-product of going in and oxygenating tissue, creating stem cells, eliminating causing the cellular walls to get rid of product and bringing in nutrients, it rebuilds and refreshes the joints." He furthers, "for people who have had past injuries in their joints and for whatever reason, never healed properly, PEMF can offer significant change- not only in reducing inflammation, but potentially preventing it from coming back!" </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eBXlLL1Gca8/YU8p80RWqoI/AAAAAAAARk4/q_cu8rbVwMAHQRijB9mG06KabCVCi-X-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s494/IMG_9066.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="494" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eBXlLL1Gca8/YU8p80RWqoI/AAAAAAAARk4/q_cu8rbVwMAHQRijB9mG06KabCVCi-X-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w223-h181/IMG_9066.JPG" width="223" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">MEETING DEVELOPERS</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tech critic and test-driver Dr. Robert Bard met with a short list of AOPP members including Patrick Ziemer, development facilitator and CTO of Aura Wellness PEMF (Aurawell.com) to discuss the growing number of health issues and disorders that neuromagnetic science is slated to manage, treat and even resolve. As part of his global crusade to support non-invasive medicine, Dr. Bard recognizes the advancing benefits of PEMF throughout the wellness community and is evaluating all devices including the AuraPulse™ technology. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Ziemer is a consumer advocate for the AOPP and publishes educational posts about the benefits and his evidence of the PEMF technology to align with his critical thoughts on the industry. From our interview, he shares his expansive research on the science, allotting for the limited number of actual models that are FDA cleared, approved or registered. As part of his advocacy, Mr. Ziemer describes the confusion about neuromagnetic therapy to come from companies who presents “rogue claims” about their specific devices. Many lower-end companies tend to lack the proper extensive safety testing of their devices and espouse claims “from studies done by others that are FDA approved. For example, companies will make claims that their devices will heal broken bones. "PEMF has been known to do this, but we can't legally say that about OUR specific device without doing the studies (ourselves) from a formal FDA 510K clearance process … and all companies should take the same responsibility about their work”. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5e-ZwvQrHsk/YU8tVI0QC9I/AAAAAAAARlM/0NyK90QOrj49lCFHvK5rbpkOeKWf23LgACLcBGAsYHQ/s437/242136606_262670625728517_2152096492799982972_n.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="437" height="232" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5e-ZwvQrHsk/YU8tVI0QC9I/AAAAAAAARlM/0NyK90QOrj49lCFHvK5rbpkOeKWf23LgACLcBGAsYHQ/w233-h232/242136606_262670625728517_2152096492799982972_n.png" width="233" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Ziemer’s history with PEMF started around 2013, co-developing and promoting the therapeutic use high-voltage PEMF for the equestrian society. His device appealed greatly to the veterinary community for its ability to address the many health concerns of our four legged friends who rarely complain. Therapeutically, his PEMF has shown to improve horses’ circulation, increasing blood oxygen, lymphatic stimulation, relaxing muscle spasms, relieving tension, enhancing muscle tone, and increasing the range of motion in high performance horses. These same health issues expanded his popularity to treat a growing range of patient breeds including cattle, livestock and dogs across the country.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2020, Mr. Ziemer’s PEMF officially made its way to human patients at the launch of Aura Wellness- carrying a professional grade, high voltage PEMF device. Applying much of his field expertise with animals, Mr. Ziemer achieved tremendous R&D advantage to apply to his human prototype. His AuraPulse™ model is completely programmable with adjustable intensity levels, digital timers, plug-and-play applicators, and customized session programs. Dr. Bard is reviewing* all PEMF devices like the AuraPulse™ for its effects and claims for improved wellness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Our first test subject was 4 legged and suffered from arthritis. While on the magnetic coil, the poodle visibly became calmer, eventually going to sleep inside the treatment ring. The dog’s handler saw the improvement in the gait and asked to have her shoulder treated. After a 10 minute session, our 2 legged patient reported mild improvement on a chronic rotator cuff disorder and great improvement 12 hours later." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>*It is to be noted that beta testing and clinical evaluation reviews of all medical devices are restricted to their intended uses according to their designated FDA clearances. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">CONTRIBUTORS</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cmpcnyc.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="163" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh86D0c1C1fhuhE-UOmeviN7lzejn5V34Ro_7lw2QOFkyR7gb5DfgOTRO87rn-5o4ya7fXq-tAuG0tcOVIOLMqmBjWj_4sle0djflFGg3l05OGJJQkwqZ9hUubfpl8lshrbn9v02FQAAON8v8ef38w8-Z9-edzc702F2OHI_brzakIOtc_Eo38v1_VLiQ=w83-h79" width="83" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://cmpcnyc.com/"></a><a href="https://cmpcnyc.com/">JESSICA CONNELL-GLYNN, LCSW, CPC, CEC</a> is a columnist for Prevention101 newsletter. She often reports on topics concerning mental health, neurological disorders and medical innovations that pertain to 'modern wellness'. As a therapist and mental health coach, Jessica's primary work involves providing direct support in managing symptoms of personal anxiety and panic. Jessica is also currently leading an interdisciplinary research project with a team of mental health and professionals in neurology to review the current care standards and collaborate on new protocols that target, assess and diagnose psychological disorders.<a href="https://cmpcnyc.com/">(</a><a href="http://www.jagtheracoach.com">https://cmpcnyc.com/</a>)</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pemfprofessionals.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="167" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxpwj9-8D5i425rL-pykauVwfUB_Yk7a3MnyJisW7ufPuUBwhnuGEGbWTcNmcCmbrpkN0ksNlh5z-b7sngrC94SJXAQeLyE3pTlX85rjVr_eUy_z2Sa8GrBBI1JZLDp7-5zaP9GOomVTw0lE7SPakwoBJFku-lXuFA2rFk-4Aw7wEJ2yRtqPUjwebJ1Q=w78-h89" width="78" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. JERRY DREESSEN is both Trauma Team Qualified and Hospital Qualified treating chiropractor in Mountlake Terrace, WA. He is the Executive Director for the <a href="https://pemfprofessionals.com/">Association of PEMF Professionals</a>- the largest professional PEMF organization in the United States. AOPP attracts the most principled and accomplished PEMF user- setting standards by providing certification for all PEMF users, as well as Continuing Education (CEU's) for all members to maintain best practices and techniques. (<a href="http://www.backtoaction.com">www.backtoaction.com</a>)</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">SPECIAL THANKS<br />The editors of this spotlight proudly gives thanks to Ms. Suzanne Wheeler for her generosity in sharing her story and her resources with us. Additional thanks to Dr. Jerry Dreessen of the AOPP (Association of PEMF Professionals) and Pat Ziemer of <a href="https://magnawavepemf.com/" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">Magnawave Inc.</a> and <a href="https://aurawell.com/" style="color: #cd3778; text-decoration-line: none;">Aura Wellness PEMF</a> for coordinating our interviews, shared countless materials and conducted unending support to help our educational program bring new light to PEMF technology for chronic disorders and supportive testimonials in alternative therapeutics. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><b></b></p><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">VIEWPOINTS from the Healthcare Community</span><br /><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FuGNlRXGOz0/YV0WkmSs6EI/AAAAAAAARyM/JQWBSM0cXzE-aF5VGQV46kLrRH7xLcKTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1546/IMG_2178.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1546" data-original-width="689" height="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FuGNlRXGOz0/YV0WkmSs6EI/AAAAAAAARyM/JQWBSM0cXzE-aF5VGQV46kLrRH7xLcKTACLcBGAsYHQ/w96-h216/IMG_2178.jpg" width="96" /></a></div>Our bodies are made up of 30 to 40 trillion cells at any given point during our lifetime. Each cell is a dynamic electro chemical entity that work together for the better of the whole. This is truly an amazing process. Medicine has been oriented toward rescue type interventions of dysfunction and disease. If there is pathology present;” take it out”. Or use a drug to turn on or turn off the metabolic machinery of specific cells. That is the majority of the mindset of medicine.<br /><br />It is refreshing to learn about other forward thinking modalities and innovations in the healthcare field. These Innovations like pulsed electromagnetic field therapy(PEMF) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are technologies that utilize non-invasive electromagnetic stimulation of cellular metabolic processes within various places in our body. The endgame of the technologies is for diagnostic information and therapeutic intervention of systemic disease. PEMF and TMS have proven that electromagnetic fields can provide non-invasive methods to diagnose and treat health concerns such as depression, pain, MS, Cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, healing responses, and Overall cardiovascular anomalies. This is so exciting because we can use this technology two recognize early metabolic and possibly genetic changes that could lead to accelerated aging disease and death. Also, we can use this technology as an intervention to the changes and correct the path of health. Both of these technologies have shown efficacy ( FDA approval) and promise ( more research is being done). There is no question that LESS IS MORE! That is if we recognize pathological conditions early and can correct them with little or no pharmacological or surgical intervention; “everybody wins!” </i><br /><br /><i>- By Randall Weisel DDS,MPS (<a href="http://www.laserhygienics.com">www.laserhygienics.com</a>) <span> </span><span> </span></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>REFERENCES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1) Ehnert, Sabrina; Schröter, Steffen; Aspera-Werz, Romina H.; Eisler, Wiebke; Falldorf, Karsten; Ronniger, Michael; Nussler, Andreas K. (December 2019). "Translational Insights into Extremely Low Frequency Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (ELF-PEMFs) for Bone Regeneration after Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery". Journal of Clinical Medicine. 8 (12): 2028. doi:10.3390/jcm8122028. PMC 6947624. PMID 31756999.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>2) ACCELERATION OF FRACTURE REPAIR BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS. A SURGICALLY NONINVASIVE METHOD: First published: October 1974 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1974.tb26794.x</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>3) Electromagnetic Field Therapy: A Rehabilitative Perspective in the Management of Musculoskeletal Pain – A Systematic Review J Pain Res. 2020; 13: 1385–1400. Published online 2020 Jun 12. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S231778 PMCID: PMC7297361 PMID: 32606905 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297361/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>4) Electrical stimulation of the spine as an adjunct to spinal fusion procedures". Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi. 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Pulsed electromagnetic field systems with FDA PMA include the EBI Bone Healing System from Electrobiology, Inc., which was first approved in 1979 and indicated for nonunions, failed fusions, and congenital pseudarthroses; and the Cervical-Stim from Orthofix, which was approved in 2004 as an adjunct to cervical fusion surgery in patients at high risk for non-fusion. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122818/http://www.bcbsms.com/index.php/index.php?id=200&action=viewPolicy&path=%2Fpolicy%2Femed%2FElectrical+Stimulation+of+the+Spine+as+an+Adjunct+to+Spinal+Fusion+Procedures.html&source=emed</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>5) Mechanisms and therapeutic applications of electromagnetic therapy in Parkinson’s disease (BMC/SPRINGER) Behavioral and Brain Functions-</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562205/#CR125</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>6) Clinical significance of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of pharmacoresistant depression: synthesis of recent data.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Demitrack MA, Thase ME Psychopharmacol Bull. 2009; 42(2):5-38. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19629020/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>7) Pulsed Electro Magnetic Fields (PEMF) in Depression (PEMF) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03556735</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>8) Demitrack MA, Thase ME. Clinical significance of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of pharmacoresistant depression: synthesis of recent data. Psychopharmacol Bull. 2009;42(2):5–38 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19629020/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>9) Effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice post-FDA approval in the United States: results observed with the first 100 consecutive cases of depression at an academic medical center- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22579164/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>10) Biological Psychiatry (Journal) /ARCHIVAL REPORT| VOLUME 68, ISSUE 2, P163-169, JULY 15, 2010 Transcranial Low Voltage Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(10)00162-9/fulltext</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>11) US FDA- https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf19/K190251.pdf</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>12) Press Release/BioElectronics Announces FDA Market Clearance for Its Non-Opioid Postoperative Pain Therapy https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2019/07/01/1876675/0/en/BioElectronics-Announces-FDA-Market-Clearance-for-Its-Non-Opioid-Postoperative-Pain-Therapy.html</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>13) 12/10/2009 -FDA clears Nexstim´s Navigated Brain Stimulation for non-invasive cortical mapping prior to neurosurgery (Nexstim Press release)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>https://nexstim.com/news-and-events/news/press-release/news/fda-clears-nexstims-navigated-brain-stimulation-for-non-invasive-cortical-mapping-prior-to-neurosur/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>14) Jerabeck, J; Pawluk, W (1998). Magnetic therapy in eastern Europe : a review of 30 years of research. W. Pawluk. ISBN 0-9664227-0-8.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>15) Thomas AW, Graham K, Prato FS, McKay J, Forster PM, Moulin DE, et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial using a low-frequency magnetic field in the treatment of musculoskeletal chronic pain. Pain Res Manage J Can Pain Soc (journal de la societe canadienne pour le traitement de la douleur) 2007;12(4):249–258 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670735/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>16) Lappin MS, Lawrie FW, Richards TL, Kramer ED. Effects of a pulsed electromagnetic therapy on multiple sclerosis fatigue and quality of life: a double-blind, placebo controlled trial. Altern Ther Health Med. 2003;9(4):38–48. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12868251/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>17) Richards TL, Lappin MS, Acosta-Urquidi J, Kraft GH, Heide AC, Lawrie FW, et al. Double-blind study of pulsing magnetic field effects on multiple sclerosis. J Altern Complement Med. 1997;3(1):21–29. doi: 10.1089/acm.1997.3.21. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9395691/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>18) Barbault A, Costa FP, Bottger B, Munden RF, Bomholt F, Kuster N, et al. Amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields for the treatment of cancer: discovery of tumor-specific frequencies and assessment of a novel therapeutic approach. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2009;28:51. doi: 10.1186/1756-9966-28-51</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672058/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>19) Arendash GW, Sanchez-Ramos J, Mori T, Mamcarz M, Lin X, Runfeldt M, et al. Electromagnetic field treatment protects against and reverses cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease mice. J Alzheimers Dis. 2010;19(1):191–210. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20061638/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>20) Behav Brain Funct. 2015; 11: 26. Published online 2015 Sep 7. doi: 10.1186/s12993-015-0070-z</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>PMCID: PMC4562205 PMID: 26347217 Mechanisms and therapeutic applications of electromagnetic therapy in Parkinson’s disease Maria Vadalà, Annamaria Vallelunga, Lucia Palmieri, Beniamino Palmieri, Julio Cesar Morales-Medina, and Tommaso Iannitti corresponding author https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562205/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>21) The Krebs Cycle: </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>PHOTO CREDITS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>* Nikola Tesla in or around 1890, when the inventor was in his mid-30s. | Photo is in the public domain. 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Bard helped to spearhead the formation of a brand new network dedicated to a grouping of pain and injury care professionals. IPHA - the Integrative Pain Healers Alliance is a private self-funded professional community assembling a synergistic collective of clinical specialists, therapeutic technologists, diagnosticians, innovators, public educators, advocates and patient resources dedicated to supporting physiological care. <p></p><p>Thanks to the endorsement from various orgs including NANCYSLIST, the AngioFoundation, F.A.C.E.S. Foundation (Firefighters Against Cancer & Exposures), MOVEMBER Foundation and the NY Cancer Resource Alliance, IPHA was formed under tremendous support from the cancer community due to the wide exposure to post-treatment pain and injuries of patients. Moreover, the establishment of IPHA is highly supported by community groups battling the OPIOD CRISIS. Inspiring members including Dr. Andrew Rochman (Plainview, NY), a staunch advocate against "America's addiction to pain meds" echoes the need to unite the healers community for one voice. “It is this very attitude about pain that has driven our society into a misguided dependency for the quick fix and has created a major traffic gridlock in information and solutions. Where a western society that once ran a healthy existence on a lean diet and a proactive lifestyle, today's response trend to any discomfort is meds or visiting a specialist.”</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VX2QujS6-Ek/YRVybJYM6nI/AAAAAAAARW4/A1rbWGF4AxYRSlAqpqGhocVbECir_61ygCLcBGAsYHQ/s930/2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="930" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VX2QujS6-Ek/YRVybJYM6nI/AAAAAAAARW4/A1rbWGF4AxYRSlAqpqGhocVbECir_61ygCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>IPHA's catalogues all pain therapy innovations as part of awareness 101. The athletic community also has a leadership role in this group; Dr. Noelle Cutter, clinical researcher and top triathlete & Iron-Man runner from Long Island, NY. is a staunch advocate in the IPHA message of alternative and ‘smarter’ treatment solutions. "Numbing the pain is not therapy"... It's time we adjust the way we face our injuries - by focusing on intelligent choices... drugs and surgery are not the only answers to pain!"<p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">THE FUTURE IS NON-INVASIVE MEDICINE</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mb-t7PE4YYo/YRVyjAamTpI/AAAAAAAARW8/-SZsyWvBp4ch2quqFeS2cheS-G0zA2gyACLcBGAsYHQ/s546/4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="546" height="179" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mb-t7PE4YYo/YRVyjAamTpI/AAAAAAAARW8/-SZsyWvBp4ch2quqFeS2cheS-G0zA2gyACLcBGAsYHQ/w185-h179/4.jpg" width="185" /></a></div>As with most brainstorming relationships, medical pioneers often unite in exploratory research projects. In the spring of 2021, IPHA supported MedTech Reviews, partnering Dr. Bard's investigative report validating AXIOBIONICS neurostim therapy on MSK pain and injury through the use of real-time ultrasound imaging. This confirms how pain healing can be tackled non-invasively. <div><br /></div><div>Through this project, we found remarkable advantages and endless rehabilitative possibilities to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-muccio-cpo-9023996/">Philip Muccio</a>'s many innovations in NEURO-PROSTETHICS- the science of integrating advanced wearable therapeutic technology to improve limb performance and to address a wide array of physiological and neurological injuries. For the past 30 years, Mr. Muccio he has been producing custom wearable & intelligent neurostim powered devices for countless patients with major issues where his innovations have brought remarkable results and adding significant improvements to their quality of life. Just some of the disorders he has addressed. The effects include: SPINAL CORD INJURIES, MSK INJURIES, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES, CEREBRAL PALSY, STOKE etc. (See his work at <a href="http://www.AxioBIonics.com">www.AxioBionics.com</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>
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</span><i><b>Axiobionics</b> Arm BioSleeve helps a US Veteran regain arm function after a brain injury. Sgt. Shannon Mcallister was injured in an IED blast in Iraq causing a traumatic brain injury and left side paralysis. For more than a year the arm remained frozen and lifeless until he began wearing the Axio BioSleeve muscle stimulation system. "Sgt. McCallister realized that this technology was going to offer him the hope that he was looking for. And so I convinced Sergeant McAllister to let me design a wearable therapy sleeve, what we call an upper extremity neural prosthesis. We targeted three muscle groups and I wanted to rebuild these muscles for him. So he would have improved upper extremity, strength and control and function. It didn't take very long for him to actually get to the point where he was using the arm again, functionally."<br /><br /></i></td>
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</div><div><hr /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WHAT IS BIOFEEDBACK?<br /></span></b>IPHA is also underway a similar research initiative to confirm other innovations including the widely recognized PEMF (Pulse Electromagnetic Frequency) and BIOFEEDBACK treatment. A recent IPHA member, Dr. Silvia Binder (CEO of ONDAMED) offers an expanded healing capacity to include a full-body diagnostic scan to identify and target disfunction such as Soft Tissue Injuries, internal wounds, inflammation, infection, scars or cellular memory of unresolved shock and trauma. This biofeedback technology is also known to “successfully manage depression, PTSD and other mental health issues”, according to NY psychiatrist, Dr. George Tawfik. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y_mQhRGdF8Y/YRaADojpEbI/AAAAAAAARXY/O8Jm74sfeGMbb-j7n1nWe_Q30QJ-2S0bQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1364/Ondamed%2Bwith%2Bpatient2_rev.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1301" height="199" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y_mQhRGdF8Y/YRaADojpEbI/AAAAAAAARXY/O8Jm74sfeGMbb-j7n1nWe_Q30QJ-2S0bQCLcBGAsYHQ/w189-h199/Ondamed%2Bwith%2Bpatient2_rev.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div>Biofeedback is a mind-body technique that involves using visual or auditory feedback to gain control over involuntary bodily functions. This may include gaining voluntary control over such things as heart rate, muscle tension, blood flow, pain perception, and blood pressure. This process involves being connected to a device with sensors that provide feedback about specific aspects of your body.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">While stimulating the body with gentle focused pulsed electromagnetic fields similar to what your own body uses for communication purposes, it helps identify stressed areas in the body with the help of the patient's pulse feedback (vascular signal). The identified stressed areas are brought to the patient's attention and stimulated for repair and regeneration of such tissue areas, which are potentially responsible for patients' symptoms and disease processes. This therapy is especially helpful to balance parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, impacting the psyche, immune system, and endocrine system.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="width: 772px;">
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Biofeedback has been used for a range of applications, including:<br />
- Treating tension headaches, migraines, and other pain<br />
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Early Cancer Detection & "Full Body" Cancer Test<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WYgkgD-Y4-E/YOxQvVIrCQI/AAAAAAAAROo/Y0wqv44ZiMAw8aWJ82o4-ghhW0PCCi1IACLcBGAsYHQ/s1429/DIAG3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="1429" height="142" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WYgkgD-Y4-E/YOxQvVIrCQI/AAAAAAAAROo/Y0wqv44ZiMAw8aWJ82o4-ghhW0PCCi1IACLcBGAsYHQ/w441-h142/DIAG3.jpg" width="441" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Written by: <a href="https://drrobertbard.com/">Dr. Robert Bard</a><br />Cancer Specialist, NYC)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the mid-sixties, the medical community and the radiological society were dedicated to the pursuit of non-invasive screening and diagnostic protocols through MEDICAL IMAGING. Early mammography was established as a minimally invasive cancer screening protocol. Other imaging solutions like the MRI, Pet-CT and the ultrasound were also part of this global diagnostic movement. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337127/">[00]</a>- (also see <a href="https://healthscannyc.org/diagnostics.html">our list of cancer diagnostic solutions</a>)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, early forms of genetic testing which began in the 1950's involved counting the number of chromosomes per cell. Deviations from the expected number of chromosomes (46 in humans) could lead to a diagnosis of certain genetic conditions such as trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) or monosomy X (Turner syndrome)....Genetic tests are performed on a sample of blood, hair, skin, amniotic fluid (the fluid that surrounds a fetus during pregnancy), or other tissue. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_testing">[0]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the spring of 2019, our network of immuno-oncologists have alerted us of a new advancement in cancer detection and genetic sequencing. The treatment community expressed enthusiasm over this "GRAIL" protocol in overwhelming comparison to the technologies available in the current market. <a href="https://grail.com/our-products/">[1]</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zO4pLwIiIe8/YOxRGoYdXqI/AAAAAAAAROw/RDdhSbZwomgvybseGEN1dOcWhrXP1EYVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1185/collage.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1185" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zO4pLwIiIe8/YOxRGoYdXqI/AAAAAAAAROw/RDdhSbZwomgvybseGEN1dOcWhrXP1EYVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w457-h269/collage.jpg" width="457" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MedTech Review:<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">GRAIL EXPLAINED</span></div></span><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Where the vast majority of cancer pursue the general presence of cancer, GRAIL's screening approach under the Galleri™ program offers a multi-cancer early detection test that promises to "detect over 50 types of cancers... over 45 of which lack recommended screening today — with a low false positive rate, through a single blood draw... GRAIL unique methylation-based technology preferentially targets the most informative regions of the genome and is designed to use its proprietary database and machine-learning algorithms to both detect the presence of cancer and identify the tumor’s tissue of origin."</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Today, the majority of cancers are found too late, when outcomes are often fatal, because most deadly cancers have no available screening tests,” says Josh Ofman, GRAIL CMO. “Current guideline-recommended screenings are critical, but in the United States they cover only five cancers and screen for a single cancer at a time.” <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/features/2021/03/catching-cancer-extremely-early#:~:text=The%20scientists%20reported%3A%20%E2%80%9CPanSeer%20detects,of%20care%E2%80%9D%20(2)">[2]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">By spring of 2020, news of GRAIL going public with investors like Johnson & Johnson, Arch Venture Partners and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. In fall of that same year, it was announced GRAIL would be acquired by Illumina, the company it was originally spun out from to pursue the development of its early detection technology. Other pharmaceutical companies such as Amgen, AstraZeneca, and Bristol Myers Squibb have also joined the growing list of partners.. <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/this-new-test-can-detect-50-types-of-cancer-from-a-single-blood-draw#Galleri-is-gathering-widespread-support">[3]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">An advancing movement in Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED) offers use of sophisticated technologies to identify signals of early cancer in blood and can detect a variety of cancers, many of which are potentially lethal and currently have no recommended screening tests. The ease and convenience of cancer detection via a single blood draw is an important added advantage that could help achieve better compliance than existing single-cancer screening tests. Still, the goal is not to have an MCED test replace the current cancer screening paradigm, but rather to complement existing single-cancer screening tests. (source- <a href="https://www.ajmc.com/view/novel-multicancer-early-detection-technology-potential-value-to-employers-and-the-workforce">AJMC link</a>)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">• In a comparative response study, an MCED test identified a diversity of cancer signals with high specificity.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">• The MCED test predicted the origin of the cancer signal with high accuracy across multiple cancer types.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">• Results support the use of this MCED test on a population scale as a complement to existing single-cancer screening tests.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this pre-specified, large-scale, clinical sub-study, the MCED test demonstrated high specificity and accuracy of CSO prediction and detected cancer signals across a wide diversity of cancers. These results support the feasibility of this blood-based MCED test as a complement to existing single-cancer screening tests. (source: <a href="https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(21)02046-9/fulltext">Annals of Oncology link</a>)</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GoadzDcWCUY/XbM7hwFGhsI/AAAAAAAAFcY/zO0TpnO0EJY4tZgf7MO4XJc5bN5rqW7mwCPcBGAYYCw/s386/bard1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="341" height="77" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GoadzDcWCUY/XbM7hwFGhsI/AAAAAAAAFcY/zO0TpnO0EJY4tZgf7MO4XJc5bN5rqW7mwCPcBGAYYCw/w68-h77/bard1.jpg" width="68" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>ROBERT L. BARD, MD, PC, DABR, FASLMS - Dr. Bard received the 2020 nationally acclaimed Ellis Island Award for his lifetime achievement in advanced cancer diagnostic imaging. He co-founded the 9/11 CancerScan program to bring additional diagnostic support to all first responders from Ground Zero. His main practice in midtown, NYC (Bard Diagnostic Imaging- www.CancerScan.com) uses the latest in digital imaging technology and has been also used to help guide biopsies and in many cases, even replicate much of the same reports of a clinical invasive biopsy. Imaging solutions such as high-powered sonograms, Power Doppler Histogram, Sonofluoroscopy, 3D/4D image reconstruction and the Power Doppler Histogram are safe, noninvasive, and do not use ionizing radiation.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">GRAIL 101: THE NEXT GENERATION OF GENETIC DIAGNOSTICS & CANCER TRACKING</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/536627866/601ae6a680" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="792" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8lGaevhqsdk/YOw2k0QybmI/AAAAAAAAROg/fGjyCrcPytwS6Y9-c0OTMD9IB31GEfh3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/GRAIL.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #444444;"><div style="text-align: justify;">(Transcript from GRAIL <a href="https://vimeo.com/536627866/601ae6a680">educational video</a>) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cancer strikes one in two men and one in three women during their lifetimes and most cancers are detected too late. Often when the prognosis is poor and treatment options are limited, nearly 80% of those diagnosed with late stage cancer die within five years. If the cancer could be discovered earlier, prognosis could improve and treatment options could expand because only a few cancers are screened for many cancers can often grow undiscovered for years. In fact, 71% of cancer deaths are due to cancers with no recommended screening test. But what if there was a way to screen for multiple cancer types, with something as simple as a routine blood test inside every human body DNA fragments are routinely released from cells and circulate within our blood. These fragments often contain features that indicate the type of cell they originally came from including cancer cells. After extensive research grail determined the most promising way to detect cancer signals from this DNA in the blood and where in the body.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">These signals came from by looking at one type of unique feature of DNA, methylation markers, grails, DNA sequencing, and machine learning technology allows us to recognize signatures for cancer by analyzing over 1 million of these potential methylation sites in the DNA fragments found in the blood. And after comparing thousands of cancer, patient blood samples with cancer free samples, we identified the ability to predict the presence of cancer. Recognizing this signature allows braille to determine whether cancer may be present. And if a cancer is present to detect its location within the body with high accuracy, with larger and more diverse datasets grail has continually improved the ability to predict when cancer is present and now has a validated multi cancer early detection test available to healthcare providers. The gallery test is complimentary to current cancer screening approaches and detects over 50 types of cancer. 45 of which have no recommended screening test today using a simple blood draw gallery detects cancers and healthcare providers can direct actionable next steps to confirm the diagnosis. Even before cancer has had a chance to spread early cancer detection has the potential to improve cancer survival because beating cancer starts with knowing you have it. Grail early detection for multiple cancers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">The gallery test is not detect all cancers. It should be used in addition to routine screening tests, false positives and false negatives can occur. The test is available by prescription only.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IdvD00mn-6M/YOxSRbpoGCI/AAAAAAAARO4/t6SEzapB7nQzxpdAPvufHq2p-FTcMsevwCLcBGAsYHQ/s360/FRHR-NEWS.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="360" height="86" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IdvD00mn-6M/YOxSRbpoGCI/AAAAAAAARO4/t6SEzapB7nQzxpdAPvufHq2p-FTcMsevwCLcBGAsYHQ/w197-h86/FRHR-NEWS.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white;"><br /></div><br /><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE 20TH
ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11:
MEMORIALIZED IN IMAGES</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://healthscannyc.org/faces_videos.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="1009" height="118" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C0iQjeuZYBE/YOxdEhiqeJI/AAAAAAAARPY/kTPGg8Cw9BA5X0rVK-Jh5fUM_f4B9UKnQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h118/booher.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">
The NY Cancer Resource Alliance, the F.A.C.E.S. Foundation
and MOVEMBER <a href="https://healthscannyc.org/faces_videos.html">hosts the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a special NYCRA-NEWS memorial issue</a>. We
proudly feature the powerful and most compelling images of
world recognized photographer <a href="https://andreabooher.com/on-assignment/news/" style="color: #2e2f34; font-style: italic;">ANDREA
BOOHER</a> - film producer and
photojournalist. Ms. Booher has worked as a documentarian
for twenty-six years. Based in Colorado, her assignments
have taken her to East Africa, Latin America, Micronesia,
India, Antarctica, Australia, Myanmar, Somalia, Mexico and
Haiti. In the last two decades she has photo-documented
every major disaster in the United States, Trust
Territories and Sovereign Nations for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Her documentary work
resides in several permanent collections, including the
National Archives and the Smithsonian. In 2001, she spent
10 weeks working at Ground Zero in the immediate aftermath
of the World Trade Center attack. She was one of two
photographers working for FEMA with unlimited access. Her
work from 9-11 has been published in magazines, newspapers
and documentaries worldwide. She was personally profiled
on A&E, The History Channel, CNN, Camera Arts, NPR
and Photo District News. (see video: <a href="https://healthscannyc.org/faces_videos.html">"A Return to Zero"</a>)<br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">FIRST RESPONDERS DEMAND EARLY SCREENING:</span><br />by <a href="https://healthscannyc.org/faces_alliance.html">Lt. Chris Conner/ Bedford (TX) Fire Dept. </a></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vppsFq0j_9I/YOxZl354YoI/AAAAAAAARPI/iNCp0ufm1tMaWBhwzd4C9QFiLkQZr1C1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s866/BEN1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="866" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vppsFq0j_9I/YOxZl354YoI/AAAAAAAARPI/iNCp0ufm1tMaWBhwzd4C9QFiLkQZr1C1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BEN1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Roughly 7 years ago, my partners and I launched F.A.C.E.S. (Firefighters Against Cancer & Exposures 501c3) and part of our mission was to support the standardization of affordable repeat genetic testing in firehouses nationwide. We reviewed a wide list of tests for their efficacy and accessibility. We were attracted to a few strategies for early detection, and for the money, they served their purpose of altering that a simple blood test told you that you 'may' have cancer. This did not say where, or how aggressive or how it affected you- but the technology at the time was 'state of the art' for its ability to tell you that you had a problem somewhere, and it was up to further testing to dig in and find it (and treat it, of course).</div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">My commitment to reporting cancer diagnostic solutions to the fire service stems from the undisputed fact that we hold a high level of occupational risks from exposures, whereby finding the latest information about new tools ASAP can save someone's life out there. Hence, learning about GRAIL and how genetic sequencing works, and specifically the ground-breaking improvements they offer the patient community could support our goals of prevention, early detection and accurate monitoring. </div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">As with all medical innovations, regulatory approval and public confidence comes from through repeat clinical trials. I found it impressive that they have been 'polishing' their data for many years before deploying them publicly (see their early <a href="https://grail.com/clinical-studies/pathfinder-study/">Pathfinder study</a>, their <a href="https://grail.com/clinical-studies/ccga-study/">Cell-free Genome Atlas Study</a>, and their concept of a Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED) - <a href="https://grail.com/clinical-expertise/?module=clinical-program-overview">with over 130,000</a> enrolled study. The MCED expanded their scope of identifying the cancer type(s), leading the next stage and direction in testing. If companies like GRAIL keeps up this level of focus and quality research, perhaps someday, fast, accurate regular screening and early readings can be part of our life-saving standard.</div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR</div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong style="color: black; line-height: 26px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Calibri; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0qPXzrTMAw/YOxW7bILEUI/AAAAAAAARPA/-itgyXLh-gItf72howgQDl-nhG9F5WHeACLcBGAsYHQ/s163/chizz.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="163" height="77" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0qPXzrTMAw/YOxW7bILEUI/AAAAAAAARPA/-itgyXLh-gItf72howgQDl-nhG9F5WHeACLcBGAsYHQ/w80-h77/chizz.jpg" width="80" /></a></div><i><span style="font-family: arial;">CHRISTOPHER R. CONNER </span></i></strong><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;">- Fire Lieutenant/Paramedic at Bedford FD</span><br style="color: black;" /><span style="color: black;">As a career firefighter, I personally knew the risks of the job and accepted them if it meant helping others. Early in my career, firefighters that I worked with were getting cancer and losing their battles. I didn't have a full understanding why firefighters were getting cancer until one of my mentors in the fire service was diagnosed. Unfortunately, Keith did not overcome his battle with cancer and it became a personal mission for me to help other firefighters. I learned firsthand that cancer is not just a disease that affects the individual, but it also has affects on families and friends. I have initiated and proposed many cancer preventive policies in the fire service. Additionally, I created a non-profit organization to assist firefighters that are diagnosed with cancer.</span></span></i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dN_zjD2c72g/YOxbkPpEotI/AAAAAAAARPQ/mGUKAzbymZYXjswbK5mo-0T2Vep454aTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1035/button.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="1035" height="117" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dN_zjD2c72g/YOxbkPpEotI/AAAAAAAARPQ/mGUKAzbymZYXjswbK5mo-0T2Vep454aTACLcBGAsYHQ/w117-h117/button.png" width="117" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">REFERENCES:</div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>00) PMC/ "Mammography: a history of success and scientific enthusiasm" <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337127/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337127/</a></i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>0) Genetic testing /Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_testing">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_testing</a></i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1) GRAIL’s multi-cancer early detection test: <a href="https://grail.com/our-products/">https://grail.com/our-products/</a></i></span></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>2) AAAS/ Science magazine- TECHNOLOGY FEATURE "Catching cancer extremely early"- By Mike May/ Mar. 26, 2021 : <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/features/2021/03/catching-cancer-extremely-early#:~:text=The%20scientists%20reported%3A%20%E2%80%9CPanSeer%20detects,of%20care%E2%80%9D%20(2)">https://www.sciencemag.org/features/2021/03/catching-cancer-extremely-early#:~:text=The%20scientists%20reported%3A%20%E2%80%9CPanSeer%20detects,of%20care%E2%80%9D%20(2)</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>3) Healthline: "Galleri is gathering widespread support" by Jamie Reno on March 17, 2021: <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/this-new-test-can-detect-50-types-of-cancer-from-a-single-blood-draw#Galleri-is-gathering-widespread-support">https://www.healthline.com/health-news/this-new-test-can-detect-50-types-of-cancer-from-a-single-blood-draw#Galleri-is-gathering-widespread-support</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-28603344592873981442021-06-27T10:37:00.027-07:002022-11-20T05:22:12.315-08:00 LANGUISHING: EMOTIONAL CRISIS FROM THE PANDEMIC<p>By: Jessica A. Conner-Glynn, LMSW / Edited by: the NYCRA NEWS writing staff</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EZmAvFO8lko/YNi3gb8VLTI/AAAAAAAARJU/XcY_dwq0o4I2tHGeFemwfysTDZ9tAvibgCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/brain11.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="529" height="231" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EZmAvFO8lko/YNi3gb8VLTI/AAAAAAAARJU/XcY_dwq0o4I2tHGeFemwfysTDZ9tAvibgCLcBGAsYHQ/w222-h231/brain11.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Observing the many emotional after-effects of our ‘new Covid lifestyle’, I find a link between stepping away one's our work environment and a direct improvement in one’s well-being. The surge of the coronavirus pandemic brought a unique kind of widespread emotional disorder called LANGUISHING- an issue identified as somewhere between a downturn ‘blah’, emptiness or depression causing a type of burnout from mandatory social distancing. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many of us are working really hard in the same place that we actually live- removing that safe separation between work and home that we once had. The shift in working at home takes away that place to relax and shut down, eventually causing a state of emotional exhaustion from staying ON (and on guard) the whole time. There is also a physical aspect to all this; the new sedentary lifestyle of working from home eliminates the vital energy stimulation from circulation and cardiovascular activity of physical traveling. In addition, self-isolating has induced an unhealthy weight gain in many, also adding to this malaise.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This Languishing is one subset of elevated ANXIETY. Whether it be the fear of getting COVID or its effects after having been infected, the wide range of possible effects add a constant load of stress on our sense of stability and peace of mind. One of the heaviest impacts on the psyche is the LONELINESS that comes from self-isolating. This answers for the rising trend in social anxiety from the abrupt absence of engaging with others (let it be friends and family or just seeing people on the street) – adding to their lack of confidence in the world. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tnZ9rpj3dN4/YNi4jd_YapI/AAAAAAAARJg/l2qlraJO80kXwHgU0kNQxkojhnzRysnnwCLcBGAsYHQ/s848/65348892_s.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="848" height="104" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tnZ9rpj3dN4/YNi4jd_YapI/AAAAAAAARJg/l2qlraJO80kXwHgU0kNQxkojhnzRysnnwCLcBGAsYHQ/w157-h104/65348892_s.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>BREAKDOWN FROM SYSTEMIC PANIC</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Heightened anxiety unchecked or unaddressed can lead to a cascade of internal breakdown. A sense of helplessness and loss of hope from any situation is something we try to prevent as part of our survival instincts. Anxiety and depression are very closely related. In the brain, there is something called the amygdala which carries our fear response. Enough anxiety can cause this to malfunction from its ability to enact the fight or flight mode- cycling to this sense of helplessness and hopelessness, then driving the anxiety into depression. “There's nothing I can do to feel better” will turn into “I'm never going to be okay…” then into “The world is a very negative place and I don't want to be here anymore”. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>REVERSING HOPELESSNESS & SUICIDAL TENDENCIES</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the main focus points in suicide prevention is for people to know that there's somebody out there that can support them- and that THEY ARE NOT ALONE. Suicide prevention hotlines work directly this way, as does psychotherapy, support groups and outreach / interventions- all acts embodying the access to HOPE.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a professional in practice, my job is to make myself available when someone falls in that space of loss of hopelessness. If I assess that somebody has any sort of suicidal ideation at the end of each session, we do a safety contract. When a safety contract looks like, if you're going to, if you feel scared that you're going to hurt yourself, </p><p style="text-align: justify;">#1. Call 9-1-1</p><p style="text-align: justify;">#2. Reach out to me (or your therapist)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">#3. Call prevention hotline</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Not being alone is actually very helpful. When people are suicidal, they're scared and untrusting of anyone- so we take their calls very seriously. I can be on the phone with them and actually, virtually walk them to the door of the hospital, affirming that they're going to be safe.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Can an Ultrasound Probe Scan SUICIDAL TENDENCIES <span style="color: #444444;">or PTSD?</span></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i96qPTTsCps/YNjEol1PaZI/AAAAAAAARJ4/5N365yiQ4-AsiK6ulMidiPiWL-9MATsGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/work11.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1628" data-original-width="2048" height="222" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i96qPTTsCps/YNjEol1PaZI/AAAAAAAARJ4/5N365yiQ4-AsiK6ulMidiPiWL-9MATsGQCLcBGAsYHQ/w280-h222/work11.jpg" width="280" /></a></div>June, 2021- The medical community continues advancing its efforts to mitigate the health effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to the 'borderless' collective of scientists and regulatory initiatives, infection rates are now showing a significant drop within vaccinated areas. In addition, mental health programs are also working full-time to address the pandemic related spike in DEPRESSION cases. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (9/2020) showed an increase in cases 3 times the national count from pre-pandemic years. Factors such as economic anxieties, social isolation and fears of infection have formed a MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. Additionally, a recorded rise in substance abuse & a surge in violent crimes are also attributed to this pandemic.</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;">The medical community continues advancing its efforts to mitigate the health effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to the 'borderless' collective of scientists and regulatory initiatives, infection rates are now showing a significant drop within vaccinated areas. In addition, mental health programs are also working full-time to address the pandemic related spike in DEPRESSION cases. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (9/2020) showed an increase in cases 3 times the national count from pre-pandemic years. Factors such as economic anxieties, social isolation and fears of infection have formed a MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. Additionally, a recorded rise in substance abuse & a surge in violent crimes are also attributed to this pandemic.</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/05/chaga-mushroom-101-century-old-healing.html">* See: </a><a href="http://www.CranialScan.com">www.CranialScan.com</a></span></i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>MODERN PROTOCOLS: MODALITY INTEGRATION & HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATION</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Research continues to advance our abilities to diagnose any health issue. As people undergo new and different challenges interpersonally, emotionally and mentally, science also continues to find more efficient tools and approaches to identify disorders and solutions. The paradigm of INTEGRATING modalities, essentially forming a collaboration between various disciplines is always your best bet to healing- where experts share data and assemble new strategies that would not have been possible if specialists stayed isolated their beliefs. It is this same teamwork that helped to fast track solutions for the pandemic, what was not evident in other pandemics in history. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I support the integration of medical imaging technologies to scan, monitor and help assess mental disorders. “Partnerships with imaging experts can be a powerful and scientific game changer- this can allow us to quantify physiological and neurological evidence aligned with these disorders. Imaging adds a new level of confirmation or data detection, data measurement and response tracking to support patient care professionals towards treatment.”</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, our advanced information and communication technologies greatly added to the global collaboration of solutionists. As an example, imagine how the Spanish flu could have been better managed in our digital world? A brief view of the limited resources in 1918-1920 vs our current tools of today certainly identifies the difference in their respective end points.</p><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">5 WAYS TO MANAGE DEPRESSION <span>THE NATURAL WAY</span> <br /> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;">by: <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/05/chaga-mushroom-101-century-old-healing.html" style="color: #3d74a5; text-decoration-line: none;">Debbie Falborn, RN (aka The Chaga Lady) </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QucAF-OhI_s/YMJlVKzrkNI/AAAAAAAARF4/epmweYMiusID9RAm6C4awg9No0xPT694ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/deb.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #3d74a5; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1516" height="151" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QucAF-OhI_s/YMJlVKzrkNI/AAAAAAAARF4/epmweYMiusID9RAm6C4awg9No0xPT694ACLcBGAsYHQ/w114-h151/deb.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="114" /></a></div>Undoubtedly, the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our lives in varying levels of adversity. With all health disorders, the fight to restore wellness is a battle that we all deserve to win. Thanks to our information age, we have access to a world of health solutions ranging from allopathic & pharmaceutical to holistic and naturopathic. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;">If quarantining or social distancing has gotten the better of you, here are a few tools to help get you back on track.</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2";">¡</span> STAY IN MOTION: go for walks every hour</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2";">¡</span> GET OUTSIDE: sun, air and space are all mental medicines and grounding</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2";">¡</span> MEDITATE: Center the mind from stress, anxiety and depression</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2";">¡</span> LISTEN TO MUSIC: A great way to keep your mind in motion</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2";">¡</span> EAT SUPERFOODS: Diet and nutrients greatly affect mood and perspective</span></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/05/chaga-mushroom-101-century-old-healing.html" style="color: #3d74a5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">* </span><span style="color: #444444;">C</span>heck out Debbie Falborn's wellness feature @ www.Prevention101.org</a></i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><hr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><p>References:</p><p><i>1) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html">NYT 4/19/2021: There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing</a></i></p><p><i>2) <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/languishing-is-the-mood-of-2021-5180999">Verywellmind.com: Languishing Is the Mood of 2021, How to Identify It and How to Cope</a></i></p><p><i>3) <span> CDC: </span>Coping with Stress <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html</a></i></p><p><i>4) Health.harvard.edu: <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/could-covid-19-infection-be-responsible-for-your-depressed-mood-or-anxiety-2021041922391">Could COVID-19 infection be responsible for your depressed mood or anxiety?</a></i></p><p><i>5) mdanderson.org: <a href="https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/covid-19-blues-vs--depression--mood-disorder-how-to-tell-the-difference.h00-159385101.html">COVID-19 blues vs. depression: How to tell the difference</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><hr /><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-size: large;">ABOUT THE </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #351c75; font-size: large;">AUTHOR</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TutNINEEyyk/YNi2NQJTpYI/AAAAAAAARJQ/AfN-nfisJroAc79cM49A0hC_CDMjDVTtACPcBGAYYCw/s363/glynn.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="266" height="103" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TutNINEEyyk/YNi2NQJTpYI/AAAAAAAARJQ/AfN-nfisJroAc79cM49A0hC_CDMjDVTtACPcBGAYYCw/w76-h103/glynn.jpg" width="76" /></a></div><b>JESSICA CONNER-GLYNN</b>, LCSW, CPC, CEC / Dir. of Health Responders Mental Health Program - As a therapist and coach, a lot of my work with clients is helping to manage symptoms of anxiety and panic- that which manifests in physical, often frightening and alarming ways. We can experience things like racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, numbness in arms and legs which can all make us feel like we are out control of our bodies and our surrounding world. When we have experienced a traumatic event in our lives, these feelings can be even more severe and heightened. The trauma and residually related fear is one that is very close to my heart and a reason I can provide empathy and understanding to clients that have been affected by the horrific day. When we work to process physical emotions that arise from trauma, the hope is that one day we can be less affected by it and live more presently to enjoy life’s fulfilling moments. I work with clients to slowly pull apart the physical emotions we experience from the thoughts that we are having and process them in a more self-aware and grounded way., visit her website- www.jagtheracoach.com<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><p></p>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-16068245960271575192021-05-21T07:52:00.039-07:002021-06-10T21:33:47.669-07:00CHAGA MUSHROOM 101: Century Old Healing Option for Complex Disorders<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HhIP-sUgAs/YKfAT7rYtbI/AAAAAAAAQ6M/0cC2s7QPD4gtRUuHQZBt5mlCumNNV_L0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/CHAGA2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="320" height="304" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HhIP-sUgAs/YKfAT7rYtbI/AAAAAAAAQ6M/0cC2s7QPD4gtRUuHQZBt5mlCumNNV_L0ACLcBGAsYHQ/w366-h304/CHAGA2.jpg" width="366" /></a></div>INTRODUCTION<div>Written by the editorial staff @ <a href="http://www.Prevention101.org">Prevention101.org </a><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">In our unending search for "all answers to cancer", Prevention101 reviews all reports and testimonials about CHAGA MUSHROOM- and learned about its remarkable healing properties from nature. Chaga Mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) was first introduced to me by a patient who reported battling his prostate cancer 'his own way'. He credited much of his success to alternative (non-clinical) efforts from holistic means. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The name Chaga (pronounced "cha-ga") originates from the Russian word for mushroom (czaga) which is derived from the word for fungus. In Norway Chaga (kreftkjuke') translates to "cancer polypore" in reference to its fungal appearance and alleged medicinal properties. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus">1</a>] Research showed the medicinal properties of CHAGA has been used for thousands of years in China, Russia, Norway and other cultures (far older than America). In Norway Chaga (kreftkjuke') means "cancer polypore" describing what is shown to be its medicinal properties. [<a href="http://1.5">1.5</a>] </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to a report in the US Natl. Library of Medicine (NIH), "the analysis of the organic extracts of Chaga revealed birch compounds such as betulin, betulinic acid, and a characteristic fungal molecule inotodiol... observations allow us to consider the therapeutic interest of the Chaga, its chemical complexity, and to emphasize the interest of continuing to investigate mycotherapy potential by associating both chemical and biological approaches." [<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142110/">2</a>]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In March of 2021, NYCRANEWS editors interviewed Debbie Falborn, Pediatric & Home Care Nurse from Sag Harbor, NY and a major wellness resource about the healing powers of Chaga mushroom. Since her business tenure as co-owner of CHAGA ISLAND INC. (2016-2019), Debbie and partner Bridget LeRoy helped to bring "this health secret of the east" to many with safe alternatives in anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties through public education and public access to this historically recognized therapeutic option from nature. </div><p style="text-align: justify;">We originally learned about Chaga mushroom and its medicinal qualities from our prior interview with <a href="https://youtu.be/eQ859K6AsWA">Jim Hunt and his solutions to treat his own prostate cancer.</a> Debbie Falborn shared her experiences, her research and personal understanding about how this unique treatment solution works. She employed her talents as a clinician (RN) and a health advisor to cancer patients who showed tremendous success using the mushroom for some of a wide range of health issues.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dFgCgFNA_TQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p></p><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>HEALING PROPERTIES FROM A SINGLE MUSHROOM</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By: Debbie Falborn</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2sbp8uQEtA/YIAyQ5OBOOI/AAAAAAAAQnY/W1CQygpBTW4Z2AqWoJe9OYKyIJ9wbYPBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s702/2gals.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="556" height="280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2sbp8uQEtA/YIAyQ5OBOOI/AAAAAAAAQnY/W1CQygpBTW4Z2AqWoJe9OYKyIJ9wbYPBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w221-h280/2gals.jpg" width="221" /></a></div>I was introduced to Chaga Mushrooms many years ago by my sister who is also a registered nurse, but light years ahead of me with her background in Oriental medicine. I was in a car accident and I had a very bad neck injury – resulting in surgeries and subsequent traumas from it. She introduced Chaga to me, and immediately I felt amazing levels of improvement in my mobility, my neuropathy and other issues from my injury! </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Experts in Chinese medicine are well aware of Chaga for their patients, as it has been around for thousands of years in other cultures like Scandinavia, Russia, China etc. Even an article from Sloan Kettering mentioned that Chaga mushroom is being used in association with Covid, managing influenza type B like a Tamiflu/ They see it as a preventive to help your immune system and keeps you strong and healthy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">From all the global research, Chaga mushroom has an exceptional amount of Betulinic acid which has been found to shrink tumors. It also provides the ability to detox, and many vital supportive nutrients like potassium, zinc, vitamin D- helpful supplements to complement our inactive lifestyle. The way I understand it, Chaga mushroom has been recognized to actually change the mitochondria in the cancer cell, where its compounds can actually break down the outer shell up the cancer cell. </p><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--rzlrywiuSo/YIA5ZupzxmI/AAAAAAAAQn4/Afw0nCpLls0I3-p1sN9FEtp-x3NDUnEzACLcBGAsYHQ/s248/BETU.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="248" height="152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--rzlrywiuSo/YIA5ZupzxmI/AAAAAAAAQn4/Afw0nCpLls0I3-p1sN9FEtp-x3NDUnEzACLcBGAsYHQ/w194-h152/BETU.jpg" width="194" /></a><b></b></div><span style="font-family: times;"><i>The active constituents of Chaga are thought to be a combination of amino acids, beta glucans, betulinic acid, calcium, chloride, copper, dietary fiber, enzymes, flavonoids, germanium, inotodiols, iron, lanosterol, manganese, magnesium, melanin, pantothenic acid, phenols, phosphorus, phytonutrients, polysaccharides, potassium, saponins, selenium, sodium, sterols, trametenolic acid, tripeptides, triterpenes, triterpenoids, vanillic acid, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin D2 (ergosterol), vitamin K, and zinc. (source: Debbie Falborn, CHAGA ISLAND INC.) <b>Betulinic acid</b><span> is a naturally occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid which has antiretroviral, antimalarial, and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as a more recently discovered potential as an anticancer agent, by inhibition of topoisomerase. </span></i></span><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">HOW DO YOU FIND IT?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dOkuMp-S4xA/YIAyuQo99II/AAAAAAAAQnk/Pia37w3BgycFYgbFMMdWck6sVJqMloBZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/ch2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dOkuMp-S4xA/YIAyuQo99II/AAAAAAAAQnk/Pia37w3BgycFYgbFMMdWck6sVJqMloBZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ch2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There are specific suppliers online. You can search under “Chaga chunks” or “Chaga mushroom chunks”. It comes from very cold climates. It needs to be taken off LIVE WHITE BIRCH TREES. It can't be off dead trees - so people need to know where it comes from. Some science that says that the Chaga from Siberia was contaminated by Fukushima because it has to grow for a minimum of 15 years to be hard to stick. So it's a slow growing conch. It feels like wood and it never disintegrates when you cook it. It will stay this property until all of the goodness is extracted out of it. And then you can just use it as a Tinder in the fire or throw it out. But slow brew it into a tea and it's very strong, very medicinal, and it's pretty remarkable stuff. </div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">GETTING THE WORD OUT</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Years later, I formed a successful business around this with a friend (Bridget Leroy) whose son I helped recover from a very long bout with mono within just a few days with Chaga mushroom tea. We started promoting Chaga Mushroom chunks in health fairs and farmers markets for weight loss, then for things like skin psoriasis. But soon after, more and more (young) people started coming around searching for it based on their own research to manage cancer. Most of them were quite verbal about their cancers and raved about their own findings and success with Chaga. This helped to drive us to build up the entire distributorship and marketing to expand our community reach, and even expanded the product line to include bottling Chaga tea.</div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i1SpmOaEYkM/YIAylgplGJI/AAAAAAAAQng/xs-V7ZCuL4wgntS0KeMOdo_6VritxwnrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s472/23844389_10155943407238410_7478705444709804063_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="472" height="105" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i1SpmOaEYkM/YIAylgplGJI/AAAAAAAAQng/xs-V7ZCuL4wgntS0KeMOdo_6VritxwnrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w105-h105/23844389_10155943407238410_7478705444709804063_n.jpg" width="105" /></a></div>The major audience for our Chaga business was mainly those who were needing the strong medicinal version (needed more than just a pre bottled tea). They specifically needed the concentrate from the chunks to brew it themselves as part of their entire health program-- many of which involved special diets, other supplements and things tailored to people undergoing treatments or suffering cancers.<p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With my background as a registered nurse, I made suggestions based on their blood work and their current symptoms & diagnoses. They integrated the Chaga information I provided with those from their practitioners as part of a personal integrative health plan. I would often check in with many of them from time to time to see how they were doing, and I found a lot of incredible success stories to attest to the efficacy of this tea.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div></span></div></div></div><p></p><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XB0WOGwsWwg/YMDAu44Qu9I/AAAAAAAAREQ/szPAG_7Biq8ogj2LVGaXZoms7fRAYgjxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s282/bw.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="272" height="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XB0WOGwsWwg/YMDAu44Qu9I/AAAAAAAAREQ/szPAG_7Biq8ogj2LVGaXZoms7fRAYgjxQCLcBGAsYHQ/w125-h130/bw.jpg" width="125" /></a></div>Experience-Based Learning about Chaga from Trusted Sources" </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; font-size: 13px;">-</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;">by: Keri Hoyt (Long Island, NY)</span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: times;">I heard of Chaga mushrooms from my girlfriend Keri Stromski<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/stromski-family">*</a> who was an avid researcher in Chinese herbs and alternative treatments. For 4+ years, she valiantly battled breast cancer and she drank chaga tea religiously. Four and a half months from her diagnosis, I understand her tumors shrank significantly. Through all this, I connected with Debbie at the farmer's market where she gave a whole education on Chaga as an anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-bacterial... and studies show it shrinks tumors, battles Crohn's disease, arthritis, psoriasis, and serves as an overall immunity booster. The Chaga mushroom also helps maintain liver health, lowers blood pressure & cholesterol. As a cervical cancer survivor, I maintained my health and attribute staying cancer free to things like Chaga... it definitely controlled other major issues I used to have like chronic migraines and psoriasis. ... Whether it be cancer or autoimmune disorders, you truly are what you eat. It's all just a matter of what you put into your body or how your body reacts to these elements- and with the amount of information out there, you'll find so many medicinal qualities from Chaga mushroom that's been discovered for centuries." </span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/stromski-family"><i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: times;">* </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times;">Keri Stromski Memorial Children's Education Fund</span></i></a></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">JIM HUNT: <span style="text-align: left;">MEDICINAL WONDERS SOURCED FROM NORTHERN NATURE</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvsEn50-aFA/YIA4RwsdfDI/AAAAAAAAQnw/76NxEJuF2BULbEXgEf0JmhMD1_6o2cmjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/images.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="219" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvsEn50-aFA/YIA4RwsdfDI/AAAAAAAAQnw/76NxEJuF2BULbEXgEf0JmhMD1_6o2cmjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w391-h219/images.jpg" width="391" /></a></div>Jim was one of those well researched shoppers at the farmer's market. He may have sent his mom the first time and I believe she was a wellness or nutrition buff herself. We got to connect by phone at first about his medical history, his lifestyle, his family- and we put it all together towards some kind of a sensible plan alongside working with his physician. His plan was his own and he did great- he's thriving and doing wonderfully.</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WORKING THE BENEFITS OF THE MUSHROOM</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During our video interview, Debbie showed us the actual Chaga mushroom chunks, looking like dried dark meat in the palm of her hand. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2kfrYn3OA8/YIAwTSCJ5rI/AAAAAAAAQnQ/XU8x8A8Xm7UzOfgirwudH1s9AIH1d0o3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/CHAGA-PIC1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="177" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2kfrYn3OA8/YIAwTSCJ5rI/AAAAAAAAQnQ/XU8x8A8Xm7UzOfgirwudH1s9AIH1d0o3QCLcBGAsYHQ/w266-h177/CHAGA-PIC1.jpg" width="266" /></a>You start with four or five 2 inch cubes, fill up a Crock-Pot that should make enough tea to fill an eight quart crock pot twice. A rule of thumb is to (not boil and) slowly heat the Chaga for 8 hours - however many that can fit in the cup of your hand. It gets to be the color of dark maple syrup, and you can drink it warm or cold. People can sweeten it if they choose to. For re-heating (to enjoy it warm), place on the stove in a pot until it get hot, but doesn't boil. I suggest drinking two cups a day. Before I started working with so many cancer patients, I used this for DIABETES because it stabilizes blood sugar and blood pressure. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There's different ways of extracting the benefit. Jim Hunt’s version was to brewed it, using four or five mushrooms in eight quarts of water, put it in the fridge then he took it to work every day in his cooler. In order to get all of the properties out of the Chaga mushroom, like the BETULINIC ACID, the POLYPHENOLS, the ANTIOXIDANTS and all the different properties that are in it, it has to leach out into the water. So the only way to make that happen is to slow brew it with a continual heat. <br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;"></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Another way to use it is to grind it into a powder and make it into a tincture with alcohol. It sits for months, and you can put it under your tongue- like any other kind of a tincture. But for most of the people that I've spoken to (those who are sick), they need the optimal benefit of the tea. And for that is definitely slow brewing it and drinking it out of a cup, like a cup of coffee or tea. That is definitely the best way to do it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></p><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kexLTcGhyow/YLMhs_CykPI/AAAAAAAAQ-I/FN4YpjTQKRU5BWcL7B-B65Vi8Ru0eoxDACLcBGAsYHQ/s146/tania.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="146" height="107" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kexLTcGhyow/YLMhs_CykPI/AAAAAAAAQ-I/FN4YpjTQKRU5BWcL7B-B65Vi8Ru0eoxDACLcBGAsYHQ/w107-h107/tania.jpg" width="107" /></a></b></div><b>Solid Research on a Wellness-driven Lifestyle</b> <span style="font-family: times;">- by: Tanya Repper <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; text-align: justify;">"</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;">When you're open to alternatives (nutrition & therapies), you have to dig int<span style="color: #444444;">o the research because it's easy to get swept into the wrong direction. This means talking to actual users, seeking out reputable specialists & researchers and reading from the right sources. I found that Chaga truly helps take out that inflammation. It helps restore your body to the state that it's supposed to be in running optimally and what we keep throwing things at it so that it doesn't do that. And so by drinking Chaga, it truly helps restore your system to the way that it's supposed to be... and to keep those viral infections at bay. We're exposed to inflammation every single day, constantly from the foods we eat to the toxins around us. </span><span style="color: #444444;">It helps the good stuff do what it's supposed to do to fight the bad cells that are awakened by the things that you're doing wrong - like being exposed to the toxins that you don't even know you're being exposed to. </span></span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div></span></div></div></div></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RJ1bZrvBL1c/YKdXEi72BuI/AAAAAAAAQ50/iKxu-BkQ1fgo5QGR6MR57kBoYkJqlaNVACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/INBOX6601a1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RJ1bZrvBL1c/YKdXEi72BuI/AAAAAAAAQ50/iKxu-BkQ1fgo5QGR6MR57kBoYkJqlaNVACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/INBOX6601a1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="143" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RJ1bZrvBL1c/YKdXEi72BuI/AAAAAAAAQ50/iKxu-BkQ1fgo5QGR6MR57kBoYkJqlaNVACLcBGAsYHQ/w107-h143/INBOX6601a1.jpg" width="107" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">PROLOGUE</span></div><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><span style="font-style: italic;">On February of 2020, </span><b style="font-style: italic;">Debbie Falborn</b><i> liquidated her ownership of Chaga Island at the start of the Covid Pandemic, due in part to the regulated shutdowns of all public gatherings. She continues her personal initiative an educator and health coach in the wellness community doing private presentations and counsel about prevention, early detection and treatment modalities. Currently, she supports chronic patients as a private home care nurse- where Chaga mushroom is part of her arsenal of solutions to help manage her many patients health issues. In addition, she was recently appointed an ambassadorship with the <a href="https://nycralliance.org/">NY Cancer Resource Alliance</a>* and the <a href="https://angiofoundation.org/">AngioFoundation (501c3</a>)* as an advocate for naturopathic and alternative medical sciences dedicated to cancer care and prevention.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><b>REFERENCES</b></div><div><i>1) What is Chaga?- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus</a></i></div><div><i>1.5) The History of Chaga in Herbal Medicine (<a href="http://www.thechagaco.com">www.thechagaco.com</a>) <a href="https://www.thechagaco.com/post/the-history-of-chaga-in-herbal-medicine#:~:text=In%20Norway%20Chaga%20(kreftkjuke'),topically%20(on%20the%20skin).">https://www.thechagaco.com/post/the-history-of-chaga-in-herbal-medicine#:~:text=In%20Norway%20Chaga%20(kreftkjuke'),topically%20(on%20the%20skin).</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>2) US Natl Library of Medicine/NIH: "Chaga (Inonotus obliquus), a Future Potential Medicinal Fungus in Oncology? A Chemical Study and a Comparison of the Cytotoxicity Against Human Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells (A549) and Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (BEAS-2B)" <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142110/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142110/</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>3) NYCRANEWS: "WHAT IS INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE?" </i></div><div><a href="https://meetourcrusaders.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-is-integrative-medicine.html"><i>https://meetourcrusaders.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-is-integrative-medicine.html</i></a></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>4) Gen Info: AlaskaChaga: <a href="https://alaskachaga.us/es/blogs/news/the-history-of-chaga">https://alaskachaga.us/es/blogs/news/the-history-of-chaga</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>5) Inonotus Obliquus: Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>6) History of Chaga: <a href="http://www.chagagrove.com/509383/history-of-chaga/">http://www.chagagrove.com/509383/history-of-chaga/</a></i></div></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-65272870629508707192021-04-21T07:42:00.017-07:002021-05-21T07:57:12.274-07:00CHAGA MUSHROOM: Century Old Healing Option for Complex Disorders<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;">MEDICINAL WONDERS HARVESTED FROM NORTHERN NATURE- AND HISTORY!</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://drrobertbard.com/">By: Dr. Robert L. Bard</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HhIP-sUgAs/YKfAT7rYtbI/AAAAAAAAQ6M/0cC2s7QPD4gtRUuHQZBt5mlCumNNV_L0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/CHAGA2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="320" height="304" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HhIP-sUgAs/YKfAT7rYtbI/AAAAAAAAQ6M/0cC2s7QPD4gtRUuHQZBt5mlCumNNV_L0ACLcBGAsYHQ/w366-h304/CHAGA2.jpg" width="366" /></a></div>In my unending search for "all answers to cancer", disease is an historically impressive and what appears to be a remarkable healing answer from nature. CHAGA MUSHROOM was first introduced to me by a patient who claims to battle his prostate cancer 'his own way', crediting much of his success to this solution direct from nature. According to The name Chaga (pronounced "cha-ga") originates from the Russian word for mushroom (czaga) which is derived from the word for fungus. In Norway Chaga (kreftkjuke') translates to "cancer polypore" in reference to its fungal appearance and alleged medicinal properties. Research showed the medicinal properties of CHAGA has been used for thousands of years in China, Russia, Norway and other cultures (far older than America). In Norway Chaga (kreftkjuke') means "cancer polypore" describing what is shown to be its medicinal properties. [<a href="https://www.thechagaco.com/post/the-history-of-chaga-in-herbal-medicine#:~:text=In%20Norway%20Chaga%20(kreftkjuke'),topically%20(on%20the%20skin).">1</a>] According to a report in the US Natl. Library of Medicine (NIH), "the analysis of the organic extracts of Chaga revealed birch compounds such as betulin, betulinic acid, and a characteristic fungal molecule inotodiol... observations allow us to consider the therapeutic interest of the Chaga, its chemical complexity, and to emphasize the interest of continuing to investigate mycotherapy potential by associating both chemical and biological approaches." [<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142110/">2</a>]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In March of 2021, NYCRANEWS editors interviewed Debbie Falborn, Pediatric & Home Care Nurse from Sag Harbor, NY and a major wellness resource about the healing powers of Chaga mushroom. Since her business tenure as co-owner of CHAGA ISLAND INC. (2016-2019), Debbie and partner Bridget LeRoy helped to bring "this health secret of the east" to many with safe alternatives in anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties through public education and public access to this historically recognized therapeutic option from nature. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-is7EDJEq2_I/YKfHgp-L4zI/AAAAAAAAQ6U/cDolgpUYlDwM_cvqTOD8c_T1iIoKReFdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s109/STOFF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="94" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-is7EDJEq2_I/YKfHgp-L4zI/AAAAAAAAQ6U/cDolgpUYlDwM_cvqTOD8c_T1iIoKReFdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/STOFF.jpg" /></a></div>In support of INTEGRATIVE research and treatment modalities, recognized leader in Onco-Immunology, <a href="https://www.integrativemedicineofny.com/">Dr. Jesse A. Stoff (NY)</a> supports the global philosophy of drawing answers to cancer from all areas of research, from ancient cultural remedies to modern clinical science. One of the sciences that came out of INTEGRATIVE healing is Immunotherapy - the applied science known as "the smartest and safest ways to battle any disease" by strengthening your body's immune system and let your body's defenses do its job. They pursue the most basic tenets of logic and a sensible healing plan to attack the patient's health problems and any disease without making new problems (called side effects). Dr. Stoff trademarked a clever breakdown for what triggers immune disfunction- what he calls "The PITTS"; Poor nutrition, Infection, Toxins, Trauma and Stress. [<a href="https://meetourcrusaders.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-is-integrative-medicine.html">3</a>]</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We originally learned about Chaga mushroom and its medicinal qualities from our prior interview with <a href="https://youtu.be/eQ859K6AsWA">Jim Hunt and his solutions to treat his own prostate cancer.</a> Debbie shared her experiences, her research and personal understanding about how this unique treatment solution works. She employed her talents as a clinician (RN) and a health advisor to cancer patients who showed tremendous success using the mushroom for some of a wide range of health issues.</p><p></p><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>HEALING PROPERTIES FROM A SINGLE MUSHROOM</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By: Debbie Falborn</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2sbp8uQEtA/YIAyQ5OBOOI/AAAAAAAAQnY/W1CQygpBTW4Z2AqWoJe9OYKyIJ9wbYPBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s702/2gals.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="556" height="280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2sbp8uQEtA/YIAyQ5OBOOI/AAAAAAAAQnY/W1CQygpBTW4Z2AqWoJe9OYKyIJ9wbYPBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w221-h280/2gals.jpg" width="221" /></a></div>I was introduced to Chaga Mushrooms many years ago by my sister who is also a registered nurse, but light years ahead of me with her background in Oriental medicine. I was in a car accident and I had a very bad neck injury – resulting in surgeries and subsequent traumas from it. She introduced chaga to me, and immediately I felt amazing levels of improvement in my mobility, my neuropathy and other issues from my injury! </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Experts in Chinese medicine are well aware of chaga for their patients, as it has been around for thousands of years in other cultures like Scandinavia, Russia, China etc. Even an article from Sloan Kettering mentioned that chaga mushroom is being used in association with Covid, managing influenza type B like a Tamiflu/ They see it as a preventive to help your immune system and keeps you strong and healthy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">From all the global research, chaga mushroom has an exceptional amount of Betulinic acid which has been found to shrink tumors. It also provides the ability to detox, and many vital supportive nutrients like potassium, zinc, vitamin D- helpful supplements to complement our inactive lifestyle. The way I understand it, chaga mushroom has been recognized to actually change the mitochondria in the cancer cell, where its compounds can actually break down the outer shell up the cancer cell. </p><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--rzlrywiuSo/YIA5ZupzxmI/AAAAAAAAQn4/Afw0nCpLls0I3-p1sN9FEtp-x3NDUnEzACLcBGAsYHQ/s248/BETU.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="248" height="137" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--rzlrywiuSo/YIA5ZupzxmI/AAAAAAAAQn4/Afw0nCpLls0I3-p1sN9FEtp-x3NDUnEzACLcBGAsYHQ/w175-h137/BETU.jpg" width="175" /></a><b></b></div><span>The active constituents of chaga are thought to be a combination of amino acids, beta glucans, betulinic acid, calcium, chloride, copper, dietary fiber, enzymes, flavonoids, germanium, inotodiols, iron, lanosterol, manganese, magnesium, melanin, pantothenic acid, phenols, phosphorus, phytonutrients, polysaccharides, potassium, saponins, selenium, sodium, sterols, trametenolic acid, tripeptides, triterpenes, triterpenoids, vanillic acid, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin D2 (ergosterol), vitamin K, and zinc.<i> (source: Debbie Falborn, CHAGA ISLAND INC.)</i><br /><b style="font-size: large;"><br />Betulinic acid</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> is a naturally occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid which has antiretroviral, antimalarial, and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as a more recently discovered potential as an anticancer agent, by inhibition of topoisomerase. </span></span><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">HOW DO YOU FIND IT?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dOkuMp-S4xA/YIAyuQo99II/AAAAAAAAQnk/Pia37w3BgycFYgbFMMdWck6sVJqMloBZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/ch2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dOkuMp-S4xA/YIAyuQo99II/AAAAAAAAQnk/Pia37w3BgycFYgbFMMdWck6sVJqMloBZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ch2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There are specific suppliers online. You can search under “chaga chunks” or “chaga mushroom chunks”. It comes from very cold climates. It needs to be taken off LIVE WHITE BIRCH TREES. It can't be off dead trees - so people need to know where it comes from. Some science that says that the chaga from Siberia was contaminated by Fukushima because it has to grow for a minimum of 15 years to be hard to stick. So it's a slow growing conch. It feels like wood and it never disintegrates when you cook it. It will stay this property until all of the goodness is extracted out of it. And then you can just use it as a Tinder in the fire or throw it out. But slow brew it into a tea and it's very strong, very medicinal, and it's pretty remarkable stuff. </div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">GETTING THE WORD OUT</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Years later, I formed a successful business around this with a friend (Bridget Leroy) whose son I helped recover from a very long bout with mono within just a few days with chaga mushroom tea. We started promoting Chaga Mushroom chunks in health fairs and farmers markets for weight loss, then for things like skin psoriasis. But soon after, more and more (young) people started coming around searching for it based on their own research to manage cancer. Most of them were quite verbal about their cancers and raved about their own findings and success with Chaga. This helped to drive us to build up the entire distributorship and marketing to expand our community reach, and even expanded the product line to include bottling chaga tea.</div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i1SpmOaEYkM/YIAylgplGJI/AAAAAAAAQng/xs-V7ZCuL4wgntS0KeMOdo_6VritxwnrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s472/23844389_10155943407238410_7478705444709804063_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="472" height="105" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i1SpmOaEYkM/YIAylgplGJI/AAAAAAAAQng/xs-V7ZCuL4wgntS0KeMOdo_6VritxwnrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w105-h105/23844389_10155943407238410_7478705444709804063_n.jpg" width="105" /></a></div>The major audience for our chaga business was mainly those who were needing the strong medicinal version (needed more than just a pre bottled tea). They specifically needed the concentrate from the chunks to brew it themselves as part of their entire health program-- many of which involved special diets, other supplements and things tailored to people undergoing treatments or suffering cancers.<p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With my background as a registered nurse, I made suggestions based on their blood work and their current symptoms & diagnoses. They integrated the chaga information I provided with those from their practitioners as part of a personal integrative health plan. I would often check in with many of them from time to time to see how they were doing, and I found a lot of incredible success stories to attest to the efficacy of this tea.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">JIM HUNT</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvsEn50-aFA/YIA4RwsdfDI/AAAAAAAAQnw/76NxEJuF2BULbEXgEf0JmhMD1_6o2cmjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/images.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="198" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvsEn50-aFA/YIA4RwsdfDI/AAAAAAAAQnw/76NxEJuF2BULbEXgEf0JmhMD1_6o2cmjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w353-h198/images.jpg" width="353" /></a></div>Jim was one of those well researched shoppers at the farmer's market. He may have sent his mom the first time and I believe she was a wellness or nutrition buff herself. We got to connect by phone at first about his medical history, his lifestyle, his family- and we put it all together towards some kind of a sensible plan alongside working with his physician. His plan was his own and he did great- he's thriving and doing wonderfully.</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">WORKING THE BENEFITS OF THE MUSHROOM</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During our video interview, Debbie showed us the actual chaga mushroom chunks, looking like dried dark meat in the palm of her hand. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2kfrYn3OA8/YIAwTSCJ5rI/AAAAAAAAQnQ/XU8x8A8Xm7UzOfgirwudH1s9AIH1d0o3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/CHAGA-PIC1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="115" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2kfrYn3OA8/YIAwTSCJ5rI/AAAAAAAAQnQ/XU8x8A8Xm7UzOfgirwudH1s9AIH1d0o3QCLcBGAsYHQ/w173-h115/CHAGA-PIC1.jpg" width="173" /></a>You start with four or five 2 inch cubes, fill up a Crock-Pot that should make enough tea to fill an eight quart crock pot twice. A rule of thumb is to boil just however many that can fit in the cup of your hand. It gets to be the color of dark maple syrup, and you can drink it warm or cold. People can sweeten it if they choose to. I suggest a true stove top boil, better than microwave to get the most out of it. I suggest two cups a day. Before I started working with so many cancer patients, I used this for DIABETES because it stabilizes blood sugar and blood pressure. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There's different ways of extracting the benefit. Jim Hunt’s version was to brewed it, using four or five mushrooms in eight quarts of water, put it in the fridge then he took it to work every day in his cooler. In order to get all of the properties out of the chaga mushroom, like the BETULINIC ACID, the POLYPHENOLS, the ANTIOXIDANTS and all the different properties that are in it, it has to leach out into the water. So the only way to make that happen is to slow brew it with a continual heat. <br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;"></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Another way to use it is to grind it into a powder and make it into a tincture with alcohol. It sits for months, and you can put it under your tongue- like any other kind of a tincture. But for most of the people that I've spoken to (those who are sick), they need the optimal benefit of the tea. And for that is definitely slow brewing it and drinking it out of a cup, like a cup of coffee or tea. That is definitely the best way to do it.</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><hr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RJ1bZrvBL1c/YKdXEi72BuI/AAAAAAAAQ50/iKxu-BkQ1fgo5QGR6MR57kBoYkJqlaNVACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/INBOX6601a1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="143" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RJ1bZrvBL1c/YKdXEi72BuI/AAAAAAAAQ50/iKxu-BkQ1fgo5QGR6MR57kBoYkJqlaNVACLcBGAsYHQ/w107-h143/INBOX6601a1.jpg" width="107" /></a></div><b>Debbie Falborn</b> closed Chaga Island in early 2020- at the start of the Covid Pandemic due to the regulated shutdowns of all public gatherings. She remains a recognized figure and an educational resource in the wellness community. She continues to support patients as a private home care nurse, where chaga mushroom remains a major part of her arsenal in managing her patients. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>REFERENCES</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>1) The History of Chaga in Herbal Medicine (<a href="http://www.thechagaco.com">www.thechagaco.com</a>) <a href="https://www.thechagaco.com/post/the-history-of-chaga-in-herbal-medicine#:~:text=In%20Norway%20Chaga%20(kreftkjuke'),topically%20(on%20the%20skin).">https://www.thechagaco.com/post/the-history-of-chaga-in-herbal-medicine#:~:text=In%20Norway%20Chaga%20(kreftkjuke'),topically%20(on%20the%20skin).</a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>2) US Natl Library of Medicine/NIH: "Chaga (Inonotus obliquus), a Future Potential Medicinal Fungus in Oncology? A Chemical Study and a Comparison of the Cytotoxicity Against Human Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells (A549) and Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (BEAS-2B)" <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142110/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142110/</a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>3) NYCRANEWS: "WHAT IS INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE?" </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://meetourcrusaders.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-is-integrative-medicine.html"><i>https://meetourcrusaders.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-is-integrative-medicine.html</i></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>4) Gen Info: AlaskaChaga: <a href="https://alaskachaga.us/es/blogs/news/the-history-of-chaga">https://alaskachaga.us/es/blogs/news/the-history-of-chaga</a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>5) Inonotus Obliquus: Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus</a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>6) History of Chaga: <a href="http://www.chagagrove.com/509383/history-of-chaga/">http://www.chagagrove.com/509383/history-of-chaga/</a></i></div><p></p>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023951477445366267.post-41006174081729925942021-03-22T08:12:00.037-07:002021-05-11T05:58:59.284-07:00 STRAIGHT TALK GOT ME TO VACCINATE<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JW_XLjYf63A" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Op Ed: ABOUT GETTING THE SHOT</div><div style="text-align: justify;">By: Leopoldo Gratzi, Ed.D</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/01/taking-covid-vaccine-part-1.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="352" height="127" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tq3F8p8wexM/YA9H3_dAaVI/AAAAAAAAP_M/XQm7iv5EFSo4Ysad0Y0JuOtck1m22QAYQCPcBGAYYCw/w190-h127/POSTER-CHULDER1.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://nycranews.com/">NYCRA-NEWS </a>launched the <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/01/taking-covid-vaccine-part-1.html">"GET THE SHOT" campaign,</a> kicked off with by <a href="https://modernhealing1.blogspot.com/2021/01/taking-covid-vaccine-part-1.html">Dr. Richard Schulder</a> (<i>R</i>) and the many front line health responders who posted their vaccination selfies on Linkedin. Contrary to the very program I designed to bring prevention and safety to the public, I write this segment confessing my (then) conflicted thoughts about the vaccine. The barrage of pros and cons from the media who all drove their hardline versions of "convincing truths" constantly fed trepidation and confusion in me. As a publisher of health news, I wrestled daily with my social responsibility vs. my fears fueled by the daily data overload.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-699Ddn4bg9M/YFjNSuzfUFI/AAAAAAAAQJY/FAMuZ4RzXc4gPKePk9tlgAB6betZDQGmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/protests.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="800" height="145" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-699Ddn4bg9M/YFjNSuzfUFI/AAAAAAAAQJY/FAMuZ4RzXc4gPKePk9tlgAB6betZDQGmQCLcBGAsYHQ/w328-h145/protests.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Adding to my struggling lack of faith was the challenge of getting the vaccine for my elderly family members (back in January of this year). Long waits, broken websites and insane lines for appointments turned into dis-appointments with zero inventory certainly took all the desire out of getting vaccinated.</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"CLEAR TALK FROM THE DOCS"</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I became a medical publisher to offer Scientists, Doctors and Researchers an educational platform to impart their experience-based wisdom to the general public. After conducting enough interviews with medical professionals explaining in clear English WHY they trust the vaccine, I found great peace and personal value in their logic. Their sensible guidance broke through my fears and questioning mind, such that this compelled me to share their viewpoints to others. But more than my public service, I also realized that I was gathering their views to quell my OWN resistance from getting the shot.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Front liners and essential workers are at the top of the list for the simple reason that their work does not lend itself the option to self-isolate. If there was a group of people who understood infection, contamination and prevention, physicians make it their business to do their 'homework' on the vaccine- enough to personally support hoping to educate the skeptics, the nay-sayers and the fear-mongers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I found the source of our divided community to stem from confusion overwhelming flood of digital information vs. the the emotional and psychological tolls (from the pandemic) on the public. "I got the shot to get back to work, but I can empathize those who resist it -- it takes strength and a lot of energy to TRUST anything (ie. the government) after a year of mask-wearing, half a million deaths and a life upside down!" - says Elizabeth Cristi, home health aide.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Speaking out to all public concerns, Dr. Stephen Chagares shared his own personal findings (through the use of 1st grade math) to verify why the vaccine is SAFE and NOT RUSHED- for himself, his family and for the community. A talented educator to his patients, Dr. Chagares drives compelling statements with the help of reputable references to support herd immunity as a sound strategy for reversing the pandemic. "The very first recipients of the vaccine were healthcare personnel... the same people who treat and restore the ill. </p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>SPRING IS HERE</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">March 2021. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/u-s-hits-100-million-dose-mark-three-months-into-vaccine-push">US news reports 447 million doses have been administered at an estimated pace of 11 million doses a day</a>- covering 1/4 of the US population. At least four companies are successfully manufacturing and distributing a tested and proven vaccine with more underway in the next few weeks. Appointments in vaccination sites are (now) happening on a next-day basis with no issues or delays. Truly a different environment from January.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-srpWxo5rt4o/YFjEDBapBLI/AAAAAAAAQJQ/-n8NjxXWvD0-G2xA0pMduphPrQR6BJ5_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1908/use1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="1908" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-srpWxo5rt4o/YFjEDBapBLI/AAAAAAAAQJQ/-n8NjxXWvD0-G2xA0pMduphPrQR6BJ5_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/use1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, 3/21 - Quietly sitting in the mandatory post-vaccination 15 minute waiting room, I reflected on how quickly and efficiently I got my shot (@ a CVS in Auburndale in Queens, NY). With a strange calm, I first texted Dr. Chagares with a big smile underneath my double mask "I'm here because of your interview on the vaccine!" attaching my selfie (R), just like the ones my docs posted on social media. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In closing, I see the vaccine resistance is a direct stand on our personal independence. This is reflective on our cynicism and our unrelenting ability to question authority. But as a people, we also hold the ability to band together, self-motivate and shape our beliefs for the greater good- especially in times of crisis. Dr. Chagares and the many health responders who speak out or post their selfies getting the shot are clearly endorsing the return of our way of life and a healthy community. If the pandemic challenge is earning public trust, "Straight Talk from the Docs" got one more subscriber to join the movement of social responsibility. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is US.</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#E1F3DA"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>My Vaccination Debate</b> </span><span style="font-family: times;">- by: Anthony J. Carfang</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">I marvel at the wonders of modern medical science and its gifts to mankind. However, I am even more amazed at the miraculous recuperative powers of the human body. So much so that I absolutely hate to have anything foreign enter my system. I avoid pills and supplements. Until this year, I had never taken the flu shot! </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; text-align: justify;">My logic about the flu shot was simple: 1) follow all the health protocols and sanitary precautions, 2) avoid people with flu symptoms. I further reasoned that I would have time to seek care if I did catch the flu. It worked for decades. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; text-align: justify;">Those assumptions don't work for Covid. Asymptomatic spread makes it impossible to avoid the virus, even by diligently following the protocols. Further, I've seen friends and relatives progress from mild symptoms to hospitalization in a matter of hours. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">That made a vaccine believer out of me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QW-iNAJxs4c/YG5lCVeihcI/AAAAAAAAQlM/JvniU_SN4dc12M0Xl64tqaZNXgV-SqDVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s359/1609621188676.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="285" height="110" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QW-iNAJxs4c/YG5lCVeihcI/AAAAAAAAQlM/JvniU_SN4dc12M0Xl64tqaZNXgV-SqDVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w87-h110/1609621188676.jpg" width="87" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE WRITER: </span><i style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Anthony Carfang</b> is a board member of Survivingbreastcancer.org, a nonprofit organization committed to supporting those who have been touched by breast cancer. Whether you are caring for someone who has been diagnosed, know someone who has breast cancer, have been diagnosed yourself or carry one of the gene mutations, we understand that a breast cancer diagnosis can be life changing and overwhelming. Out of the need to navigate the uncertainty and the strong desire for connection, support, and resources, <a href="http://survivingbreastcancer.org">survivingbreastcancer.org</a> was born.</span></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p></p><p style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: start;"><br /></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><hr /></span></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><hr /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">REFERENCES</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Operation Warp Speed selects billionaire scientist’s COVID-19 vaccine for monkey tests” <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/operation-warp-speed-selects-billionaire-scientist-s-covid-19-vaccine-monkey-tests">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/operation-warp-speed-selects-billionaire-scientist-s-covid-19-vaccine-monkey-tests</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How were researchers able to develop COVID-19 vaccines so quickly? <a href="https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-were-researchers-able-develop-covid-19-vaccines-so-quickly">https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-were-researchers-able-develop-covid-19-vaccines-so-quickly</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“How did we develop a COVID-19 vaccine so quickly?” <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-did-we-develop-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-quickly">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-did-we-develop-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-quickly</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>4)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Fact check: The vaccine for COVID-19 has been nearly 20 years in the making” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/21/fact-check-covid-19-vaccine-nearly-20-years-making/3873247001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/21/fact-check-covid-19-vaccine-nearly-20-years-making/3873247001/</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>5)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“A Timeline of COVID-19 Vaccine Development” <a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/a-timeline-of-covid-19-vaccine-development/">https://www.biospace.com/article/a-timeline-of-covid-19-vaccine-development/</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>6)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National Geographic: “COVID-19 requires the world to consider 'unconventional approaches'” <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/to-make-a-coronavirus-vaccine-we-may-need-to-deliberately-infect-people">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/to-make-a-coronavirus-vaccine-we-may-need-to-deliberately-infect-people</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7) <i><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/u-s-hits-100-million-dose-mark-three-months-into-vaccine-push">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/u-s-hits-100-million-dose-mark-three-months-into-vaccine-push</a></i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>NYCRA NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403509705833243721noreply@blogger.com