CLINICAL RESEARCH – WHOLE-BODY REGENERATIVE RADIANT THERAPY

HEALTH BENEFITS

By Dr. Aaron M. Flickstein

Over the last 25 years, Japanese and Chinese researchers and clinicians have done extensive research on infrared treatments and report many provocative findings. In Japan there is an "Infrared Society" composed of medical doctors and physical therapists, to further research and support the health benefits of infrared as a method of healing.

Musculoskeletal Cases             (Click here to jump to Rheumatoid Arthritis)

Success reported with Infrared treatments by Japanese researchers:

• TMJ Arthritis
• Traumatic Arthritis
• Acel-decel Injury Sequelae
• Disc-protrusion Related Neuralgia
• Brain Contusion – accelerated healing
• Tight Shoulders – relaxed
• Compression Fracture – Example: pain stopped for 3 days with only a single treatment
• Spinal Cord Shock – post traumatic shock reversed
• Muscle Tension – relaxed
• Post-exercise Muscle Pain – vital to competitive athletes
• Arthritis: Gouty, Rheumatoid, DJD – each substantially relieved or improved
• Shoulder Pain – relieved or eliminated
• Muscle Spasms – reduced or eliminated
• Low Back Pain – relieved
• Adhesions – lengthened or more easily broken; they are common in competitive athletes, trauma
  and repetitive stress syndromes
• Bursitis – eliminated

"Medical practitioners make use of Infrared Radiant Heat to treat sprains, strains, bursitis, peripheral vascular diseases, arthritis, and muscle pain…" according to the McGraw/Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Dr. Masao Nakamura of the O & P Medical Clinic in Japan has reported great success with the use of infrared treatments for:

• Whiplash                   • Insomnia
• Sciatica                     • Rheumatism
• Menopause                • Acne
• Arthritis                     • Gastroenteric Problems
• Shoulder Stiffness      • Ear Diseases

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

A case study was reported in Sweden of a 70 year-old man with Rheumatoid Arthritis secondary to acute rheumatic fever. He had reached his toxic limit on Gold injections and his Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate was still 125. Within 5 months of being treated with Infrared, his ERS was down to only 11.

In a case of Rheumatoid Arthritis in a 14-year-old, Swedish girl who couldn’t walk comfortably downstairs due to knee pain since she had been eight years old, her rheumatologists told her mother that her child would be in a wheelchair within two years if she refused gold corticosteroid therapy. However, after 3 infrared treatments, she began to become more agile and subsequently took up folk dancing, without the aid of the conventional approach in her recovery.

A clinical trial in Japan reported the successful solution of seven out of seven cases of Rheumatoid Arthritis treated with infrared therapy.

These case studies and the clinical trial indicate that further study is warranted on the use of infrared therapy in the care of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

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