My research work at Children's Memorial Hospital has come to an end for now. Additional private funding is needed to continue the wonderful projects which were begun in 2006 and which ended in 2008. The stem cell/bone marrow study which was highlighted in U.S. News and World Report was an amazing, brave preliminary study. Nine young children participated in this work and completed the three month intervention period.
As a randomized control study we addressed the criticism: " energy healing is really the same as a nice person spending time with a child" and the very preliminary results which I saw before departing the work were very encouraging in terms of reducing days to engraftment. I'm hoping that Dr. Wang will analyze the data after the one year follow-up. Looking forward to some publication as well.
Our work was aiming to show that energy healing effects not just symptomatic issues, but actually effects the cellular activities in the body
Complementary modalities are being utilised with greater frequency in the hospital setting. Usually these therapies are "integrated" into care involving minimizing the side effects of the standard treatments. This is the simplest use of these modalities.
If given the research opportunities, professional, experienced energy practitioners could reveal the full extent of the modality. Perhaps the bio-medical paradigm will begin to relax to allow
for this experience.
I am currently in New York City, available for consultation, treatment sessions, research.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
U.S. News and World Report Article Highlights Energy Healing Study
Did you ever imagine that a major news magazine would post an article which includes a report on an energy healing randomized control study? Well, follow the link and you shall see a testimony from a parent of a small child enrolled in such a study and a description of the session. I have been working with research scientist, Dr. Sheila Wang on the study which we hope will provide evidence that proves that direct, dynamic hands on energy healing can speed up time to engraftment, limit infection rates and improve quality of life for young children undergoing stem cell/bone marrow transplant for leukemia. I've designed some new techniques to specifically address those issues and others during the first 100 days after the transplant.
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/01/09/embracing-alternative-care.html?PageNr=1
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/01/09/embracing-alternative-care.html?PageNr=1
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Scenar Therapy
Have you heard of the Scenar technology - to promote healing?
I've begun to explore the new technology that has emerged in relation to the human energy field. Scenar technology has been around for more than 20 years, and has been widely used and tested in Russia (where it was invented) and in europe. I've begun to explore its use as an adjunct to my hands-on work.
Here is how it works.....
When we are healthy, our adaptive reactions occur almost imperceptibly. The channels of information (communication within the body) flow unrestricted. However, when there is an unhealthy situation, our “body communication” slows down and the symptoms of a pathologic process (malady) increase. When this happens, typically 5 things can occur:
1. Energy consumption is increased.
2. The area of energy concentration is localized.
3. The energy provision of the whole body beyond the boundaries of this area suffers.
4. The lack of energy negatively affects the transformation of information.
5. The localized concentration of energy occurs in one separate part of the system.
Adaptive reaction sites consume more energy than normal, stealing their increased energy needs from another part of the body. This leads to a local aggravation creating an asymmetry, an area of abnormality that slows down the body’s informational flow and is seen outwardly as an increase of the pathologic process.
The goal of SCENAR treatment is to reduce the adaptive reaction into a symptom-free form. Once “small asymmetries” are located on the skin’s surface, they are treated to bring the body’s attention to the problem for “corrective healing” actions.
A “small asymmetry” is an area of the skin that is different from the surrounding area of skin. When energy is being consumed at a high rate in one area relative to another area, its bio-impedance will be different from the surrounding tissue. This allows SCENAR devices to locate and treat the abnormal (asymmetric) area and “push” it back toward equilibrium, adjusting the entire system in the process.
Operationally, SCENARs utilize a complex electronic signal that is a fast impulse followed by a sinusoidal saw-tooth waveform. Once the device is placed on the skin, the body becomes part of a “live circuit” and a modified waveform results. This waveform triggers the release of neuropeptides by stimulation of the nerve fibers of the central nervous system. In a sense, it’s like the body can go to its own drugstore and ask it to release what the body needs. This is why once SCENARs are removed from the body, the effects are felt longer than say with a classic TENS device. Hence, a person’s first encounter with a SCENAR device may yield symptomatic relief ranging from hours to days depending on the individual.
Another main feature of the SCENAR waveform is that it is biphasic. Biphasic means there is a positive and a negative stimulus. The waveform starts with a negative push, turns through neutral, goes positive and back down toward negative and rapidly oscillates, eventually dampening toward neutrality. The design of the circuitry and the waveform makes the entire process somewhat adaptogenic; if you need more of something you get it, if you need less, you get less, and a bit of “re-education” occurs in the process. Hence, SCENAR devices are considered to be sophisticated biofeedback/re-education devices With SCENARs, the body completes the electrical circuit and actively changes the treatment based on the biofeedback it receives.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
I've begun to explore the new technology that has emerged in relation to the human energy field. Scenar technology has been around for more than 20 years, and has been widely used and tested in Russia (where it was invented) and in europe. I've begun to explore its use as an adjunct to my hands-on work.
Here is how it works.....
When we are healthy, our adaptive reactions occur almost imperceptibly. The channels of information (communication within the body) flow unrestricted. However, when there is an unhealthy situation, our “body communication” slows down and the symptoms of a pathologic process (malady) increase. When this happens, typically 5 things can occur:
1. Energy consumption is increased.
2. The area of energy concentration is localized.
3. The energy provision of the whole body beyond the boundaries of this area suffers.
4. The lack of energy negatively affects the transformation of information.
5. The localized concentration of energy occurs in one separate part of the system.
Adaptive reaction sites consume more energy than normal, stealing their increased energy needs from another part of the body. This leads to a local aggravation creating an asymmetry, an area of abnormality that slows down the body’s informational flow and is seen outwardly as an increase of the pathologic process.
The goal of SCENAR treatment is to reduce the adaptive reaction into a symptom-free form. Once “small asymmetries” are located on the skin’s surface, they are treated to bring the body’s attention to the problem for “corrective healing” actions.
A “small asymmetry” is an area of the skin that is different from the surrounding area of skin. When energy is being consumed at a high rate in one area relative to another area, its bio-impedance will be different from the surrounding tissue. This allows SCENAR devices to locate and treat the abnormal (asymmetric) area and “push” it back toward equilibrium, adjusting the entire system in the process.
Operationally, SCENARs utilize a complex electronic signal that is a fast impulse followed by a sinusoidal saw-tooth waveform. Once the device is placed on the skin, the body becomes part of a “live circuit” and a modified waveform results. This waveform triggers the release of neuropeptides by stimulation of the nerve fibers of the central nervous system. In a sense, it’s like the body can go to its own drugstore and ask it to release what the body needs. This is why once SCENARs are removed from the body, the effects are felt longer than say with a classic TENS device. Hence, a person’s first encounter with a SCENAR device may yield symptomatic relief ranging from hours to days depending on the individual.
Another main feature of the SCENAR waveform is that it is biphasic. Biphasic means there is a positive and a negative stimulus. The waveform starts with a negative push, turns through neutral, goes positive and back down toward negative and rapidly oscillates, eventually dampening toward neutrality. The design of the circuitry and the waveform makes the entire process somewhat adaptogenic; if you need more of something you get it, if you need less, you get less, and a bit of “re-education” occurs in the process. Hence, SCENAR devices are considered to be sophisticated biofeedback/re-education devices With SCENARs, the body completes the electrical circuit and actively changes the treatment based on the biofeedback it receives.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
NIH and CAM Research
Please follow the link by clicking on the title to read some up-to-date interesting news about Complementary/Alternative Medicine Research and NIH Government interest. I would appreciate your comments.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Childrens'Health - 90 Minutes of Exercise - A New Study
July 24, 2006 — International guidelines for physical activity for children should be increased to 90 minutes per day, according to the results of a cross-sectional study reported in the July 22 issue of The Lancet.
"Atherosclerosis develops from early childhood; physical activity could positively affect this process," write Lars Bo Andersen, MD, from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway, and colleagues. "This study's aim was to assess the associations of objectively measured physical activity with clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and derive guidelines on the basis of this analysis."
In this cross-sectional study, 1732 randomly selected 9-year-old and 15-year-old school children from Denmark, Estonia, and Portugal were evaluated for physical activity using accelerometry and for cardiovascular risk factors. The composite risk factor score (mean of Z scores) included systolic blood pressure, triglyceride levels, total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ratio, insulin resistance, sum of 4 skinfolds, and aerobic fitness. At-risk individuals were defined as those with a risk score 1 SD above the normal.
Compared with the most active quintile, odds ratios for having clustered risk for ascending quintiles of physical activity (counts per minute) were 3.29 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.96 - 5.52), 3.13 (95% CI, 1.87 - 5.25), 2.51 (95% CI, 1.47 - 4.26), and 2.03 (95% CI, 1.18 - 3.50), respectively. In all analyses, risk was elevated in the first to the third quintile of physical activity. The mean time spent above 2000 counts per minute in the fourth quintile was 116 minutes per day in 9-year-old children and 88 minutes per day in 15-year-old teenagers.
Study limitations include cross-sectional design; use of a composite score; guidelines derived from these analyses only related to metabolic health and not to bone health, psychological well-being, or other dimensions of health; inability of the physical activity measure to capture cycling, swimming, and load-bearing activity; and assessment of physical activity for only 4 days.
"Physical activity is important for metabolic health in children," the authors conclude. "To prevent clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors, physical activity levels should be higher than the current international guidelines of at least 1 h per day of physical activity of at least moderate intensity. Achieving 90 min of daily activity might be necessary for children to prevent insulin resistance, which seems to be the central feature for clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors."
The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. The Danish Heart Foundation, the Danish Medical Research Council, the Danish Council for Sports Research, and the Estonian Science Foundation supported this study.
In an accompanying editorial, Ram Weiss, MD, from Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel, calls this "a well-designed investigation."
"In addition to aerobic activity, resistance training might have beneficial effects on the development of lean body-mass and muscular strength, both of which might facilitate long-term participation in regular physical activity," Dr. Weiss writes. "To achieve such levels in all children, daily physical activity should be in the curriculum, with traditional athletics and enjoyable activities for different ages. The implementation of such interventions in schools should be a strong priority because physical activity represents a major disease prevention measure and can promote future beneficial lifestyle practices."
"Atherosclerosis develops from early childhood; physical activity could positively affect this process," write Lars Bo Andersen, MD, from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway, and colleagues. "This study's aim was to assess the associations of objectively measured physical activity with clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and derive guidelines on the basis of this analysis."
In this cross-sectional study, 1732 randomly selected 9-year-old and 15-year-old school children from Denmark, Estonia, and Portugal were evaluated for physical activity using accelerometry and for cardiovascular risk factors. The composite risk factor score (mean of Z scores) included systolic blood pressure, triglyceride levels, total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ratio, insulin resistance, sum of 4 skinfolds, and aerobic fitness. At-risk individuals were defined as those with a risk score 1 SD above the normal.
Compared with the most active quintile, odds ratios for having clustered risk for ascending quintiles of physical activity (counts per minute) were 3.29 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.96 - 5.52), 3.13 (95% CI, 1.87 - 5.25), 2.51 (95% CI, 1.47 - 4.26), and 2.03 (95% CI, 1.18 - 3.50), respectively. In all analyses, risk was elevated in the first to the third quintile of physical activity. The mean time spent above 2000 counts per minute in the fourth quintile was 116 minutes per day in 9-year-old children and 88 minutes per day in 15-year-old teenagers.
Study limitations include cross-sectional design; use of a composite score; guidelines derived from these analyses only related to metabolic health and not to bone health, psychological well-being, or other dimensions of health; inability of the physical activity measure to capture cycling, swimming, and load-bearing activity; and assessment of physical activity for only 4 days.
"Physical activity is important for metabolic health in children," the authors conclude. "To prevent clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors, physical activity levels should be higher than the current international guidelines of at least 1 h per day of physical activity of at least moderate intensity. Achieving 90 min of daily activity might be necessary for children to prevent insulin resistance, which seems to be the central feature for clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors."
The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. The Danish Heart Foundation, the Danish Medical Research Council, the Danish Council for Sports Research, and the Estonian Science Foundation supported this study.
In an accompanying editorial, Ram Weiss, MD, from Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel, calls this "a well-designed investigation."
"In addition to aerobic activity, resistance training might have beneficial effects on the development of lean body-mass and muscular strength, both of which might facilitate long-term participation in regular physical activity," Dr. Weiss writes. "To achieve such levels in all children, daily physical activity should be in the curriculum, with traditional athletics and enjoyable activities for different ages. The implementation of such interventions in schools should be a strong priority because physical activity represents a major disease prevention measure and can promote future beneficial lifestyle practices."
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Health Alert: Lack of Sleep Affects Weight Gain
You can see the previous Post which links Sleep and Breast Cancer. Now there is another study linking lack of sleep with wieght gain in women. This is significant, not so much in terms of appearance, but for the links between obesity and women's health risks such as heart disease and diabetes. If you haven't already seen this article, please read it and pass it on to your family and friends.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who fail to get enough shut-eye each night risk gaining weight, a Cleveland-based researcher reported at a medical conference in San Diego today.
In a long-term study of middle-aged women, those who slept 5 hours or less each night were 32 percent more likely to gain a significant amount of weight (adding 33 pounds or more) and 15 percent more likely to become obese during 16 years of follow-up than women who slept 7 hours each night.
This level of weight gain -- 15 kg, or 33 pounds -- is "very clinically significant in terms of risk of diabetes and heart disease," Dr. Sanjay Patel of Case Western Reserve University told Reuters Health.
Women who slept 6 hours nightly were 12 percent more likely to experience major weight gain and 6 percent more likely to become obese compared with those who slept 7 hours each night.
The 68,183 women in the study provided information in 1986 on their typical night's sleep and reported their weight every 2 years for 16 years. The findings were presented at the American Thoracic Society's International Conference.
Women who said they slept for 5 hours or less each night, on average, weighed 5.4 pounds more at the beginning of the study than those sleeping 7 hours.
After accounting for the influence of age and weight at the beginning of the study, women who slept 5 hours or less each night gained about 2.3 pounds more during follow-up than those who slept 7 hours nightly. Women who got 6 hours of shut-eye each night gained 1.5 pounds more than those who slept 7 hours nightly.
The researchers analyzed the diets and physical activity levels of the women, but failed to find any differences that could explain why women who slept less weighed more. "We actually found that women who slept less, ate less," Patel said.
"In terms of exercise, we saw a small difference in that women who slept less exercised slightly less than women who slept more but it didn't explain the magnitude of our findings," Patel said.
All in all, it seems that diet and exercise are not accounting for the weight gain in women who sleep less, Patel concluded.
It's possible that sleeping less may affect changes in a person's basal metabolic rate -- the number of calories burned when at rest, Patel said.
Another possible contributor to weight regulation that's come to light recently is called "non-exercise associated thermogenesis" or NEAT, which refers to involuntary activity such as fidgeting or standing instead of sitting. It may be, Patel said, that if people who sleep less, also move around or "fidget" less.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who fail to get enough shut-eye each night risk gaining weight, a Cleveland-based researcher reported at a medical conference in San Diego today.
In a long-term study of middle-aged women, those who slept 5 hours or less each night were 32 percent more likely to gain a significant amount of weight (adding 33 pounds or more) and 15 percent more likely to become obese during 16 years of follow-up than women who slept 7 hours each night.
This level of weight gain -- 15 kg, or 33 pounds -- is "very clinically significant in terms of risk of diabetes and heart disease," Dr. Sanjay Patel of Case Western Reserve University told Reuters Health.
Women who slept 6 hours nightly were 12 percent more likely to experience major weight gain and 6 percent more likely to become obese compared with those who slept 7 hours each night.
The 68,183 women in the study provided information in 1986 on their typical night's sleep and reported their weight every 2 years for 16 years. The findings were presented at the American Thoracic Society's International Conference.
Women who said they slept for 5 hours or less each night, on average, weighed 5.4 pounds more at the beginning of the study than those sleeping 7 hours.
After accounting for the influence of age and weight at the beginning of the study, women who slept 5 hours or less each night gained about 2.3 pounds more during follow-up than those who slept 7 hours nightly. Women who got 6 hours of shut-eye each night gained 1.5 pounds more than those who slept 7 hours nightly.
The researchers analyzed the diets and physical activity levels of the women, but failed to find any differences that could explain why women who slept less weighed more. "We actually found that women who slept less, ate less," Patel said.
"In terms of exercise, we saw a small difference in that women who slept less exercised slightly less than women who slept more but it didn't explain the magnitude of our findings," Patel said.
All in all, it seems that diet and exercise are not accounting for the weight gain in women who sleep less, Patel concluded.
It's possible that sleeping less may affect changes in a person's basal metabolic rate -- the number of calories burned when at rest, Patel said.
Another possible contributor to weight regulation that's come to light recently is called "non-exercise associated thermogenesis" or NEAT, which refers to involuntary activity such as fidgeting or standing instead of sitting. It may be, Patel said, that if people who sleep less, also move around or "fidget" less.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Integrative Medicine Research Project
Very soon I will be joining the Children's Memorial Hospital Integrative Medicine research project in Chicago. Energy Healing has many benefits to offer to patients in the hospital setting, and so I am happily looking forward to offering my work to the young patients in Children's Memorial.
I'll be egaged in full time research for the project in the capacities of hands-on healer, supervisor of therapists, and educator. It's exciting and important work for the field of energy medicine. There is a link to the web-site under "Important Research Project" in the right hand bar of this site. I invite you to take a look and let me know your thoughts.
I'll be egaged in full time research for the project in the capacities of hands-on healer, supervisor of therapists, and educator. It's exciting and important work for the field of energy medicine. There is a link to the web-site under "Important Research Project" in the right hand bar of this site. I invite you to take a look and let me know your thoughts.
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