Laserponcture

This is the eighth email newsletter© associated with www.healingtherapies.info, the purpose of which is to expand the healing spectrum of individuals with physical disabilities, especially spinal cord dysfunction. [To unsubscribe, respond with "delete."]

In this newsletter, we focus on the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI) using laserpuncture therapy, a treatment developed by Albert Bohbot, whose French clinic I recently visited.

Laserpuncture combines elements of acupuncture and laser therapy, both of which have shown potential to restore some function after SCI. For example:

First, Margaret Naeser (Boston) summarized the use of acupuncture to treat SCI at a prestigious NIH Consensus Conference (J Alt & Compl Med, (2) 1996; a review of key studies is also posted on www.healingtherapies.info).

Second, in double-blind clinical trials, Naeser documented the effectiveness of laser acupuncture (combined with transcutaneous electrical stimulation, i.e., TENS) for treating carpal tunnel syndrome, a common SCI-associated problem (Arch Phys Med Rehabil (83), 2002; also www.healingtherapies.info).

Third, Byrnes et al. (Bethesda, MD) demonstrated that laser energy alters gene expression in rats after acute SCI. Their studies indicated that laser energy has an anti-inflammatory effect on the injured cord, and may reduce secondary injury, thus providing a possible mechanism by which laser therapy may result in axonal regeneration.

Fourth, Semion Rochkind (Israel) treated 31 patients with severe spinal cord cauda equine injuries (average 3 years post injury) with laser therapy 6 hours daily for 21 consecutive days. Of these patients, nearly half showed some functional motor improvement (see Lasers in Medicine and Dentistry, 2000).

In rats, Rochkind examined the effects of embryonic spinal-cord cell transplantation and laser therapy on recovery after SCI. Results indicated that the most effective re-establishment of limb function and gait performance, transport of electrophysiological signals, and histological parameters (indicating growth of the implanted tissue in the injured area) occurred after cell implantation and laser irradiation, compared to transection alone or implantation without laser treatment.

This work is increasingly relevant because several patients, who have had olfactory-derived neuronal tissue transplanted into their injured cords (see www.healingtherapies.info), have augmented this function-restoring surgery with Bohbot's laserpuncture therapy.

Finally, Albert Bohbot's laserpuncture therapy combines elements of both laser and acupuncture therapy. Many individuals with SCI have claimed to have accrued significant restored function from this therapy (see www.healingtherapies.info). As briefly summarized below, Bohbot has developed paradigm-expanding theories to explain laserpuncture's effectiveness.

In any traditional medicine and more specifically in the Chinese thought, the world, life, and health are closely linked together. These medicines come from a rich and humanistic past and will become the medicine of the 21st century, issued from varied cultures and civilizations.

Thus, acupuncture, moxibustion, and today laserponcture® come to help and fight against illness, and, more specifically, spinal cord injuries (SCI) as far as laserponcture is concerned.

Laserponcture is directed to the "Huan" membrane, which seems to be the somatic conjunctive tissue, which would hold the nervous structures through which runs the propagated sensation along the canals (PSC). These free nervous endings are close to the pre-capillary vessels. We believe that they carry a neurotransmitter, which is unknown but probably from a histaminic origin.

What is the PSC? It is the privileged moment when the needle or the laser beam provides the force life, and the patient feels various sensations such as "pain, hot, cold, tingling, numbness or pins and needles." All of these sensations are felt by patients with SCI treated by laserponcture.

The Chinese tradition believes that there are three different speeds of PSC helping to balance the organism:

3) The channel network (acupuncture and neo-acupuncture), whose propagation is even slower and through which the PSC runs.

This PSC disappears in the case of complete spinal cord transection; it seems that laserponcture re-establishes this PSC.

Laserponcture relates the channel networks to acupuncture and neo-acupuncture points - highlighted through our research - and to dermatomes levels, which match cutaneous spinal cord segments - cervical, thoracic or lumbar segments. Laserponcture re-establishes a dialog between the brain and the part of the body below the injury. Many results obtained show it, but it would be too long to present them here.

A thesis in medicine has already been written on laserponcture by Dr Cecile Jame-Collet, M.D., Faculté de Médecine Léonard de Vinci, Paris Nord. Numerous works combine laser and stem cells, or laser and carpal tunnel syndrome and the treatment of pain, and use of magnetic fields in SCI problems.

The laserponcture machine is unique worldwide and was developed according to my specific specifications by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in Cluny (ENSAM) and financed with grants from the French government (Bourgogne Réseau).

Patients with SCI come from many parts of the world to our clinic in La Chapelle Montlinard. Because the results are convincing for many, the information has spread through the SCI community.

Our goal is to make the therapy more accessible and teach it so that more and more individuals can have access to it, regardless of financial means or other, consistent with the preamble of the World Health Organization (WHO) Constitution: "The best health condition is one of the fundamental rights of any human being, whatever his race, religion, political ideas and economic or social position."

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	Laserponcture HEALING THERAPIES NEWSLETTER: LASERPUNCTURE This is the eighth email newsletter© associated with www.healingtherapies.info, the purpose of which is to expand the healing spectrum of individuals with physical disabilities, especially spinal cord dysfunction. [To unsubscribe, respond with "delete."] In this newsletter, we focus on the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI) using laserpuncture therapy, a treatment developed by Albert Bohbot, whose French clinic I recently visited. LASER THERAPY & ACUPUNCTURE STUDIES: Laserpuncture combines elements of acupuncture and laser therapy, both of which have shown potential to restore some function after SCI. For example: First, Margaret Naeser (Boston) summarized the use of acupuncture to treat SCI at a prestigious NIH Consensus Conference (J Alt & Compl Med, (2) 1996; a review of key studies is also posted on www.healingtherapies.info). Second, in double-blind clinical trials, Naeser documented the effectiveness of laser acupuncture (combined with transcutaneous electrical stimulation, i.e., TENS) for treating carpal tunnel syndrome, a common SCI-associated problem (Arch Phys Med Rehabil (83), 2002; also www.healingtherapies.info). Third, Byrnes et al. (Bethesda, MD) demonstrated that laser energy alters gene expression in rats after acute SCI. Their studies indicated that laser energy has an anti-inflammatory effect on the injured cord, and may reduce secondary injury, thus providing a possible mechanism by which laser therapy may result in axonal regeneration. Fourth, Semion Rochkind (Israel) treated 31 patients with severe spinal cord cauda equine injuries (average 3 years post injury) with laser therapy 6 hours daily for 21 consecutive days. Of these patients, nearly half showed some functional motor improvement (see Lasers in Medicine and Dentistry, 2000). In rats, Rochkind examined the effects of embryonic spinal-cord cell transplantation and laser therapy on recovery after SCI. Results indicated that the most effective re-establishment of limb function and gait performance, transport of electrophysiological signals, and histological parameters (indicating growth of the implanted tissue in the injured area) occurred after cell implantation and laser irradiation, compared to transection alone or implantation without laser treatment. This work is increasingly relevant because several patients, who have had olfactory-derived neuronal tissue transplanted into their injured cords (see www.healingtherapies.info), have augmented this function-restoring surgery with Bohbot's laserpuncture therapy. Finally, Albert Bohbot's laserpuncture therapy combines elements of both laser and acupuncture therapy. Many individuals with SCI have claimed to have accrued significant restored function from this therapy (see www.healingtherapies.info). As briefly summarized below, Bohbot has developed paradigm-expanding theories to explain laserpuncture's effectiveness. LASERPUNCTURE: THEORY & PHILOS0PHY Albert Bohbot, Director and Founder, Laboratoire de Rechewrches sur le Laserpuncture In any traditional medicine and more specifically in the Chinese thought, the world, life, and health are closely linked together. These medicines come from a rich and humanistic past and will become the medicine of the 21st century, issued from varied cultures and civilizations. Thus, acupuncture, moxibustion, and today laserponcture® come to help and fight against illness, and, more specifically, spinal cord injuries (SCI) as far as laserponcture is concerned. Laserponcture is directed to the "Huan" membrane, which seems to be the somatic conjunctive tissue, which would hold the nervous structures through which runs the propagated sensation along the canals (PSC). These free nervous endings are close to the pre-capillary vessels. We believe that they carry a neurotransmitter, which is unknown but probably from a histaminic origin. What is the PSC? It is the privileged moment when the needle or the laser beam provides the force life, and the patient feels various sensations such as "pain, hot, cold, tingling, numbness or pins and needles." All of these sensations are felt by patients with SCI treated by laserponcture. The Chinese tradition believes that there are three different speeds of PSC helping to balance the organism: 1) The somatic nervous system, whose propagation is fast; 2) The autonomous nervous system, whose propagation is slow; 3) The channel network (acupuncture and neo-acupuncture), whose propagation is even slower and through which the PSC runs. This PSC disappears in the case of complete spinal cord transection; it seems that laserponcture re-establishes this PSC. Laserponcture relates the channel networks to acupuncture and neo-acupuncture points - highlighted through our research - and to dermatomes levels, which match cutaneous spinal cord segments - cervical, thoracic or lumbar segments. Laserponcture re-establishes a dialog between the brain and the part of the body below the injury. Many results obtained show it, but it would be too long to present them here. A thesis in medicine has already been written on laserponcture by Dr Cecile Jame-Collet, M.D., Faculté de Médecine Léonard de Vinci, Paris Nord. Numerous works combine laser and stem cells, or laser and carpal tunnel syndrome and the treatment of pain, and use of magnetic fields in SCI problems. The laserponcture machine is unique worldwide and was developed according to my specific specifications by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in Cluny (ENSAM) and financed with grants from the French government (Bourgogne Réseau). Patients with SCI come from many parts of the world to our clinic in La Chapelle Montlinard. Because the results are convincing for many, the information has spread through the SCI community. Our goal is to make the therapy more accessible and teach it so that more and more individuals can have access to it, regardless of financial means or other, consistent with the preamble of the World Health Organization (WHO) Constitution: "The best health condition is one of the fundamental rights of any human being, whatever his race, religion, political ideas and economic or social position." For further information on laserpuncture see www.laserponcture.net or www.healingtherapies.info. Please support sponsors/associates who have made this newsletter possible: "Paraplegia News" (subscribe: 602-224-0500 or www.pn-magazine.com) NutraMark Labs, targeted nutrition for physical disabilities, including UTI-fighting D-mannose (1-866-488-0600 or nutramark@msn.com) Washington University's Enabling Mobility Center: Your "reimbursed" opinion is sought for disability and mobility research (314-286-1659 or morgank@msnotes.wustl.edu - US participants only)