Archive for December, 2010

Tension Headache As a Result of Tinnitus

December 29th, 2010
Georgia Rae asked:




Tension headaches like other types of headaches are experienced by many people. Although studies show that more women tend to experience it more than men, these can be a problem in carrying out your everyday activities.

These horrible headaches can sometimes be caused as a result of the tension created by another ailment, inner ear problems or ringing in the ears.

Tension headaches are medically known as tension-type headaches. These ailments occur mostly in women than in men. Some individuals tend to mix up tension type headaches with migraine headaches and end up taking the wrong medication.

As stated before; tension type headaches can become a serious problem and hinder a person’s lifestyle. If you have a loss of appetite, feel tenderness in the scalp area, your neck and shoulder muscles in addition to the pain in your head, you could be suffering from a headache caused by tension.

There are chronic and episodic tension headaches a person could experience. How do we identify each? If you have been suffering from the headache for the last 15 days and have noticed a pattern in the past few months, you are likely to be suffering from a chronic tension headache. Episodic tension type headaches are of a milder version and lasts for a lesser period.

Determining the causes of tension that result in these headaches is quite difficult for doctors. But it is believed that an individual’s stress and tension level play a bigger role in the occurrence of a bout of head pain.
In addition to having a stressed out life, a person

Benefits of Physical Therapy

December 29th, 2010
Peter sams asked:




There are virtually hundreds of benefits of physical therapy, but the key benefits are to evaluate physical problems, increase and maintain muscle strength and endurance, restore and increase joint range of motion, increase coordination, decrease pain, decrease muscle spasm and plasticity, decrease swelling and inflammation of joints, promote healing of soft tissue lesions, prevent contracture and deformity of limbs, alleviate walking problems, educate patients and family, decrease stress and a whole lot more too numerous to mention. These are but a few of the benefits of physical therapy.

These include:

• 13 to 26 days of paid annual (vacation/personal) leave each year.

• 13 days of sick leave each year.

• 15 days of military leave each year for active reservists and National Guard Members.

• Choice of group health insurance plan with premiums partially paid by the federal government.

• 10 paid Federal holidays each year

• Voluntary Leave Transfer Program.

• Term life insurance

Physical therapy is also multifaceted in that it can also bring about mental relief. Yes, there are quite significant mental benefits from physical therapy. An efficient physical therapy massage can relieve a person of much tension. A physiotherapy massage can ease the nerves and the muscles. It ensures that the circulatory system functions properly. This can bring about tremendous relief and relaxation, not to mention numerous health benefits. But it is critical that physical therapy is not used as a stand alone treatment. Physiotheraoy must be applied based on a sound medical diagnosis of the ailment. For instance, a person is suffering from pain in their wrist.

Strength training can help rebuild lost bone mass by increasing the blood flow to bones. Rebuilding bone mass is especially important for women who are suffering from osteoporosis. Additionally, strength training and exercise can help reduce the symptoms of arthritis, depression, type II diabetes, sleep disorders, and heart disease. Even individuals who are currently considered “home-bound” can benefit from exercise and strength training.

Regular massages from untrained individuals may prove beneficial in some ways, but in the long run and more bang for the buck, physical therapy very much eats the competition for lunch. The benefits of physical therapy depend greatly on the treatment methods that physical therapists utilize. Some examples are joint mobilization, soft tissue release, trigger point release, manual therapy, myofascial stretching, muscle re-education, modalities, therapeutic exercise, re-conditioning program, specific strengthening of weak muscles, and a home exercise program to name a few. These methods are not only far superior to indiscriminate kneading and pounding, but proof of the scientific nature of physical therapy. The benefits of physical therapy are not only for instant gratification in terms of comfort, but the benefits are a long term solution for afflictions, a lasting cure for those who need it.

If you are overweight, a dietary plan will be created to reduce the stress of excess weight on supporting joints of the back, legs and feet. (As yet, no specific diet — other than a diet designed for weight loss — has proved helpful for arthritis.)



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Low Level Laser in Hearing Impairment

December 29th, 2010
Nury Nusdwinuringtyas asked:




From my clinic:

Mrs Mulyani visited my clinic, with her husband, who sufferred hearing difficulty.

Her husband, 39 years old, conducted right ear mastoidectomi on 2003 . Three months ago, left ear worsened. They brought recommendation from an ENT specialist.

He complaint headache , noisy both ear, poor balance while walking. Low power laser given by ILIB and ear approach, ones a week, for 10 times. ILIB with opening 50 %, for 1 hour, and ear with 650 nm Low laser , 10 mW, 1 hour, pulse, for both ear. Probe approach given ones, at 9th visit, for neck spasm.

After 4th visit , could hear his son crying and adzan from mosque. .

After 5th, pain killer minimize , muscle relaxant stop .

After 6 visit, could speak with normal pitch, balance going better. No headache anymore.

After 10th: No attandane while walking, no drugs for pain, ear noise very
rare,almost disappear.

Program: going to administer 10 times again, ILIB ,and ear.
Audiometry: going better compare before LLLT.( right ear increased 39 dB, left ear : 18 dB)

First audiometry August ,5 -2007, follow by march, 20, 2007:

After 4th visite , could hear his son crying and adzan from mosque. .

After 5th, pain killer minimize , muscle relaxant stop .

After 6 visite, could speak with normal pitch, balance going better. No headache anymore.

After 10th: No attandane while walking, no drugs for pain, ear noise very
rare,almost disappear.

Program: going to administer 10 times again, ILIB ,and ear.
Audimetry: going better compare before LLLT.

(Before 5 January 2007 – left diagram, After, 20 March 2007 ; right diagram)

Left : April 4, 2006 ; Right : April, 25, 2006

riht ear: increas 39 dB[ left ear increase : 19 dB

Discussion:

Balance maintance by hearing, visual , and proprioceptive. No doubt he complaint poor balance while walking. To maintain balance, he try to stabilize the neck, so muscles of the neck became stiff.

Balance , and neck muscle pain became better as well as the hearing.

I surprised, he answered my call by cell phone, after 14th therapy.

no pain killer , and muscle relaxant anymore. Tinnitus, gone.

Some journals said , LLLT not work for tinnitus.

May be the dose is to small as well as my experience before I use ILIB , and ear probe.

He is going to work again

From journals:

The low level laser therapy of inner ear diseases has been made use of in Germany since the end of the eighties (for example by Dr. Uwe Witt, Hamburg) and is also to be found in quite a few other countries (Italy, France, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Hungary, the United States of America, Russia etc.).

Since 1991, about 800 inner ear patients have been treated with low level laser light under the medical and scientifical supervision of me. The therapy results have been (and still are) continuously documented and analyzed

How does LLLT work?

Each cell contains a number of power plants, called mitochondria. The function of these power plants is to produce ATP, the form of energy which can be used by the cell to function properly.

The inner mitochondrial membrane is a large collector surface folded onto a small total volume. All nutritive molecules (fats, proteins and glucose) are oxidized within the cell to the last molecular nutritive component, that is, pyruvate. The pyruvate is then imported into the cellular power plant, where it disintegrates into carbon dioxide and water in the immediate proximity of the collector surface of the mitochondrion. The molecular bond energy thus released, which corresponds with visible, ultraviolet and infrared light as far as its wavelength and frequency is concerned, is utilized by the mitochondrion to produce the cellular fuel ATP.

The collector surface of our cellular power plant is enlarged by the mushroom-shaped protrusions of the inner mitochondrial membrane. The molecular bond energy of the pyruvate is released in the form of light energy. The antennae pigments are capable of absorbing this light energy and transmit it to our cellular power plant, which can now produce the cellular fuel ATP. The natural solar radiation also stimulates the antennae pigments of the mitochondrion to produce ATP.

The cellular power plants can thus produce more ATP. The cellular energy is the fuel the inner ear cells strives after and needs. A sufficiently high supply of cellular energy enables our inner ear cell to work under optimum conditions and is the essential prerequisite to ensure a successful self-healing process.

Low level laser light increases the energy output in our cellular power plant.

(For a detailed discussion, see article: Import of Radiation Phenomena of Electrons and Therapeutic Low-Level Laser in Regard to the Mitochondrial Energy Transfer, Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery, Volume 16, Number 3, 1998, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Pp.159-165 )
Balance:

Is it possible to help the organ of balance with the high dosage low level lasertherapy by Dr. Wilden