Pain Awareness Month

Here we are at September again (where did the summer go?) and National Pain Awareness Month. Those of us who have chronic pain are always aware, but this designation gives organizations devoted to helping those struggling with pain an opportunity to provide information, meetings, and conferences in a focused way.

In the last few months, I have had another flurry of a specific complaint in those who have sought natural pain relief from SCENAR: low back pain. Treatments with SCENAR have been largely successful in reducing or eliminating this complaint, and part of the treatment is to advise clients on things they can do to help themselves heal and prevent further episodes. In researching low back pain (the internet is full of resources) there is one site I would like to recommend: The National Pain Foundation. They have an online manual about back pain, what causes it, how it can be managed, and common myths about it. Of all the web resources I’ve seen, this is most concise and comprehensive.

In 1983, I injured my back while working as the circulation manager of a local newspaper. I went through physical therapy and attended a “Back School” held by that office. From that experience I took away three tidbits of information that helped me enormously in managing my weakened back as it healed and grew stronger over the next several years. I have not found these techniques anywhere on the web, so wanted to add them to the awareness of things you can do to help yourself, should you have an injury or suffer with recurring back pain episodes.

1) Think about and change the way you get into and out of a car. My physical therapist was convinced that how we get into and out of a car is the number one behavior that predisposes us to back pain. Most of us get into a car by putting our right foot in first and then in a somewhat controlled fall, land ourselves in the seat. Then we bring in the left leg. That landing of our bodies in the car’s seat produces powerful sideways distorting forces on the vertebrae of the low back. We don’t notice it generally, but it happens nonetheless, and can set us up for later back issues. The best way to get into a car is to sit in the car’s seat first and then bring our legs into the car one at a time as we turn our bodies to face forward. Those who have “bad backs” are usually aware of this, as throwing oneself into a car when the back is sore can produce pain. But, the rest of us go our merry way, without awareness, until our backs begin to complain about the abuse.

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Cosmodic Seminar and Training in Waynesville

On Monday, September 13, Vivienne Constad from the UK, will be providing a free presentation about the LET Medical devices, particularly the Cosmodic, created by Alexander Karasev. It will be held in Waynesville. The Cosmodic, or EX 735Ag, is considered the most recent generation of the SCENAR, created by the engineer who developed the SCENAR with Alexander Revenko in the Russian space program. It is said that the Cosmodic exceeds the SCENAR in its healing and pain relieving capabilities. The cost of a device is around $6000.

Private treatments will be given for a fee during the week of the 13 through the 17. For those who choose to buy a Cosmodic, there will be a one day training on Monday, September 20.  For more information, you can contact cosmodicjudy@gmail.com.

Another Amazing SCENAR Assisted Recovery

A month ago I began working with a woman through the Highlands office of Mountain Air Wellness Center. She came in with neck, hip, and knee pain. We began with her neck, which resolved after one treatment, but that’s not the amazing part. She missed her second appointment a week later because she had been at the ER related to a fall in which she had sprained both ankles. Last week she was able to get to the office for a treatment but could barely walk. Her ankles were still very swollen with deep purple bruises below both of them. She had very high initial reactions in all areas. I used the protocols for acute injury, but realized that treating acute injury must be done several times a day, and I would not be able to see her for a week. So, I loaned her my personal DENAS Diadens-T SCENAR and showed her the basic way to use it. She is a quick study, easily grasping the concepts, and hobbled out of the office with my device.

I saw her again today. She walked almost normally, the swelling was greatly reduced, the bruising was gone, and the pain had localized to the area around her arches. Her initial reactions were much lower and there were fewer asymmetries overall. She had treated her ankles three times a day for the entire week, as well as icing the areas.

So, in a week of daily treatment, she had gone from hobbling to walking, from generalized ankle pain to specific locations with significantly diminished intensity, from generalized swelling of her ankles and feet to only swelling around the ankles themselves, and from severe bruising to no sign of bruising.

The body’s capacity to heal itself never ceases to amaze me! I have to agree with Alexander Karasev (the engineer in the Russian space program who co-lead the development of the SCENAR) that everyone should have a SCENAR in their home first aid kit.

If you sustain an injury and would like to try SCENAR, please call us (828-337-6854) as soon after the injuring event as possible (time is of the essence). We can likely shorten your healing time dramatically.

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SCENAR and Post Polio Syndrome

In 1950 at age 2, I contracted polio and was hospitalized for six weeks. I was left with paralysis of my left foot. At age 37, I was diagnosed with probable Post Polio Syndrome with symptoms of extreme muscle pain, fatigue, and muscle weakness. I was told by the orthopedic doctor that I would likely wind up in a wheelchair. Having small children at the time, I denied the diagnosis and went on with my life. After spraining my left ankle five times in 1999, I was forced to go back into a brace. By then I was having difficulty managing my symptoms while working full time. I had pneumonia twice, and often had to take off time because I was too fatigued to work. In 2004, my doctor took me out of work for severe tendinitis in my right shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Over the next three months my doctor tried everything to treat my symptoms. Nothing worked. Then a friend suggested I let her daughter treat me with her “weird Russian Voodoo device.” Her daughter had experienced an amazing recovery from carpal tunnel syndrome through an acupuncturist who was using a little known device developed in the Russian space program called the SCENAR.

I had an amazing response to my first treatment. For the first time in 15 years, I had no pain anywhere. Stunned by my improvement, I bought a SCENAR, received training, and began working on myself. Word spread about what I was doing, and I began providing treatment for others. The recoveries of those I worked on for various pain related issues was surprising to me as well as those I worked with.

I began working with people who had Post Polio Syndrome in order to see if their response was similar to mine. I have worked now on several polio survivors. In all but one situation, their recovery was just as stunning as my own. One of those clients slowly walked into our office with a cane for his first session. After the treatment, he walked out of the treatment room with his cane held in front of him exclaiming, “I feel 20 years younger!!”

I have often pondered what the SCENAR’s action could be that would cause that kind of dramatic improvement. Scientists believe that in the initial polio infection more than half of the motor neurons that control the voluntary muscles are killed outright, and the remaining surviving ones reach out to paralyzed muscles, innervating them. This is thought to be why so many who had polio were able to recover so much function in the years immediately after the infection. However, this meant that the surviving motor neurons were carrying 8 to 10 times the number of connections to muscles than what they were designed to carry. After about 35 years, those overworked neurons begin to lose their muscle connections or die from the overuse, thus bringing on new muscle weakness, pain, and fatigue.

In thinking about the action of the SCENAR and how that might impact PPS, I wonder if the cascading release of neuropeptides that results from the treatment provides nourishment to the failing motor neurons. I haven’t had a PPS flare in over a year. My functioning is improving. I don’t have the fatigue of the past, nor the debilitating pain. I have not had pneumonia again, even though I have had colds. Although, self care has been an important part of managing my life so as to not bring on a exacerbation of symptoms, I believe it is the SCENAR that has improved my functioning and allowed me to live a much less disabled life.

If you have PPS or know someone who has it and would like to see if SCENAR can help, call me at 828-337-6854, or email me at penny@BioHealingWeb.com.

The Magic of SCENAR

The SCENAR never ceases to amaze me, or perhaps I should say, the human body never ceases to amaze me. This began back in 2005 when we provided SCENAR treatments for individuals who were “bone on bone” and scheduled for knee replacement surgery, and they were able to avoid the surgery. Or when a woman was facing amputation of her foot because of poor blood supply, and as a result of SCENAR treatments, her foot was saved. I could go on and on. A new one has happened: a woman with no disc between her cervical three and four vertebrae decided to try SCENAR. Her doctors told her the only option was to surgically implant spacers between her cervical vertebrae. She had difficulty moving her head, her neck and shoulders were painful, and her hands constantly tingled or were numb. After 3 sessions, the pain stopped and her range of motion normalized. After 5 sessions there was only a bit of numbness left at the end of her index finger and thumb of her left hand. One has to ponder what can be happening that would create this kind of recovery in a situation described as structural degeneration.

The Russians believe that the body can heal anything if it has what it needs to do so. I would assume that would include adequate nutrition, hydration, and oxygen. But, the missing link may be energy. The SCENAR actually energizes the tissue, re-balancing the charges of the cells, but it also interacts with the energy fields of the body. Perhaps that is where the mystery lies.

Regardless, I am forever amazed by the recoveries of those I work on. It is demonstrated over and over to me that the healing capacity of the body/mind is far greater than most of us have any idea about. Call us at 337-6854 and see how your body can heal with a little help from SCENAR!

SCENAR and the FDA

In 2002, the FDA accepted the SCENAR into the country as a Class II Medical Device used for biofeedback and muscle relaxation. From what I understand, FDA approval can be gained in two ways: (1)the device is developed in this country and the developers conduct studies and research as to its efficacy which is submitted to the FDA for approval, or (2) a device from another country can be shown to have the same action and effect as a device developed and previously approved in this country.

RITM OKB ZAO is the company that manufactures the RITM SCENAR for Dr. Alexander Revenko who was one of the two lead researchers in the development of the SCENAR in the Russian Space Program. This company applied for approval from the FDA by showing that it is essentially the same machine as the InterX5000 that was developed by Neuro Resource Group, located in Plano, Texas. Appropriate research and studies were conducted by NRG and their device was approved by the FDA. RITM OKB ZAO was able to show that the RITM SCENAR that they originally developed and began manufacturing in 1980 is the same device as the Interx5000 and was granted FDA approval on that basis on May 28, 2010.

Now that the RITM SCENAR is FDA approved, there are new requirements that must be adhered to:

1) To purchase a RITM SCENAR for home use, a prescription from a licensed MD must be obtained. The downside is that few MDs have any awareness of the device, so until they are educated, getting a prescription may be difficult. The upside is that with FDA approval, the purchase of the device may be covered by insurance, which may make it worth your while to educate your doctor yourself in order to get a prescription.

2) Previous to FDA approval, one could purchase a RITM professional device, get trained on it (which can be expensive and difficult to arrange), and then set up an office and practice. Since FDA approval, only those with licenses in the medical field such as MDs, Physical Therapists, Biofeeback practitioners, Massage Therapists, etc., can set up offices to provide SCENAR therapy. If you don’t have a license, you must still be trained and experienced in using the SCENAR, but you can only provide SCENAR treatments in the offices of those who are licensed.

Healing Innovations uses the RITM SCENAR device. Our practitioners are trained at the Advanced Level by Dr. Alexander Revenko, have 6 years of experience, and work in the offices of those who are licensed in the medical field. Call us at 828-337-6854 and let us see what SCENAR can do for you.

Healing Innovations Update

Likely you have noticed that I have been unusually “quiet” these last couple of months. My experiences with providing SCENAR treatments have expanded, and with that expansion, my time to write or gather my thoughts enough to write, has been limited. But, what I am doing is inspiring, and I, at least, wanted to share that.

Starting last May, I began collaborating with Mountain Air Wellness Center (a natural health center that has offices in Asheville, Cashiers, Highlands, and Franklin) to provide SCENAR treatments for their patients. The Center provides a comprehensive wellness venue that involves a number of interventions for promoting health. Led by Dr. Jim Johnson, Dr. Resa Falk, and Dr. Sue Aery, the center offers nutritional counseling, acupuncture, massage, Graston technique, and chiropractic care, just to name a few. Their commitment to their patients, continuing education in the field, and desire to provide the best possible interventions for natural health and healing are exemplary. The staff are wonderfully professional, caring, competent, and positive which makes for a sense of welcome, comfort, and “home”. If you are from that area or have friends and family there, this natural health practice provides a state of the art opportunity for  holistic health care. SCENAR treatment has proved to be a collaboration that has been  of great benefit to their patients. Their vision of providing high quality natural health care is a pleasure to be a part of. This may sound like an ad, but it is based in my experience of working closely with the various practitioners and staff in their Cashiers and Highlands offices. They have become my personal “natural health home.”

My practice in Asheville at Asheville Natural Health and Homeopathy has also expanded. I have two office days on Wednesday and Saturday to provide SCENAR treatments. Working with Dr. Steven Coward, Dr. Louise Bahnson, and Dr. Leanne Apfelbeck has also been a wonderful collaboration. Working with these committed professionals in the field of natural health is a pleasure. Within this practice, Healing Innovations is expanding to include another SCENAR practitioner, Christina Morrison, who has been trained by Dr. Revenko and has 7 years of experience with providing SCENAR therapy.  Another office day is being planned so that SCENAR therapy can be offered in Asheville three days a week.

The awareness of this unique and effective treatment is growing. Healing Innovations is expanding in order to provide the best possible opportunities to those who are interested in experiencing for themselves this remarkable pain relief and healing modality. Call 828-337-6854 for an appointment to see what SCENAR can do for you.

Health vs. Disease

by Marc Percival

There are two principal orientations when we relate to disease.  One is combative, the other preventive.  While a growing number of progressive physicians are on their own initiative, learning to work more and more in a preventive model, the approach to medicine in our colleges and medical academies is almost entirely along combative lines.  Conventional medical procedure focuses the majority of its attention and resources on the killing of ‘germs’ and the management of symptoms.  The usual practice is to become more involved with the patient after acute or chronic disease has developed to an overt and recognizable state.  Then an attempt is made to diagnose the disease and to subdue its effect by the administration of drugs, surgical operations, radiation and/or by the utilization of the products of disease in the form of serums, antitoxins, vaccines, etc.

The preventive method concentrates its attention and resources on preventing the development of disease.  The body’s ‘homeostatic’ mechanisms are always seeking to balance our systems.  This approach focuses on lifestyle issues and natural methods of reinforcing the body’s inherent ability to resist dysfunction and remain vital, strong and efficient even when challenged by dysfunctional stress.  Rather than waiting until diseases have developed and gained ascendancy in the body, the preventive method endeavors to inform, encourage and assist individuals in maintaining the body in an optimally healthy state, minimizing dysfunction and thus greatly enhancing natural resistance to disease of any kind.  Prevention focuses on how a person is or might be a susceptible host for a given condition or disease.

When Louis Pasteur and his colleagues began discovering various ‘germs’ (bacteria and microbes) and linking them to specific disease states, medical research began to focus more and more on developing various means of destroying these ‘germs’.  While billions of dollars have been spent and billions of dollars earned by drug production companies in the pursuit of miraculous ‘cures’ for ill health, insufficient attention has been directed to determining  why any disease only affects certain members of the population.

The fundamental question that is attracting increasing attention worldwide, is based on the investigation of the possibility that ‘germs’ are not the primary cause of disease.  Are some diseases, or even all diseases, the secondary manifestations of altered or abnormal states of health?  An analogy here is:  does the swamp exist first, and various pests such as mosquitoes find it to be a good habitat for their propagation; or do such pests pick a random landscape and then set about to create a swamp to support them?

When an individuals’ vitality is lowered (weakened health state) and their tissues become appropriate ‘soil’ for ‘germs’, then we have an ideal host for the onset and development of disease.  One who conscientiously maintains superior health and vitality by developing an understanding of healthcare and the effective management of dysfunctional stress, greatly reduces the likelihood of their tissues providing an appropriate ‘soil’ for the propagation of disease.

Do the incredible mechanisms with their endless checks and balances which allow for the function, support and regeneration of all the body’s trillions of cells, day in and day out, really need manipulation?  Or perhaps is our time and effort better focused on the lifestyle and environmental factors which have already been shown to interfere with our body’s natural regulatory and maintenance mechanisms?

Most holistic health practices are dedicated to the education and support of those who choose the preventive approach wherever possible and those ‘combative’ methods which are non-invasive and which recognize disease as the body’s attempt to restore function when ‘distressed’, rather than an abnormality of nature.  This is in stark contrast to a medical system which too frequently treats disease as though it were an abnormality of nature, requiring suppression via potentially toxic chemical agents.

It must be noted that there are unfortunately those cases where prevention has been neglected or traumatic injury has occurred, which necessitate ‘combative’ intervention with whatever means possible.  It is at such times of crisis that one is able to fully appreciate the remarkable emergency medical care available to us today.  May we soon see the day where people seeking solutions to their healthcare challenges will be able to attend a healthcare center and receive the benefits and wisdom of both of these essential approaches, ‘preventive’ and ‘combative’, under the same rood, and within  spirit of mutual admiration and respect.  For this to become a reality, both ‘camps’ will require a great deal more wisdom and humility than is commonly displayed today.

Someone Else’s Thoughts on Parasympathetic Mind

Here is a link to Morgana Morgaine’s thoughts about Parasympathetic Mind. It is an excellent elaboration, and creates new information about what PSM is and why it is important from the life coach’s point of view.