F.R.P. Gives The Athlete The Competitive Edge And Helps Restore Function Quicker With Less Pain For the Injured Athlete.
The process of achieving the competitive edge over another competitor, or of restoration of full function, is a dual process of exercise and electrical stimulation in concert with each other. Electrical stimulation of muscle nerves has an ultimate outcome of increased torque or power. This process is achieved by volitional contractions accompanied by muscle fiber recruitment with electrical stimulation.
The Infrex FRM actually excites the closest and largest muscle fibers first, while exercising, and with the intensity increased during exercise recruits more distant and smaller muscle fibers. This process aids in function restoration and increased range of motion for higher torque. The targeted fibers are stimulated by the 8,000+ frequency of the Infrex FRM thus allowing stimulation not available with other stimulation devices.
The FRP video below ( coming soon) explains how the world class athlete, weekend golfer, professional tennis player or NBA star
The Norovirus is a very serious virus that causes gastroenteritis. The virus is extremely communicable and, unchecked, results in closing down hospitals, work and other places due to the extreme contagiousness of the virus itself.
The Norwalk-like virus is easily transferable. In some communities in the U.S. hospitals have to shut down visitors to the facility due to the real possibility of bringing the virus into the hospital and exposing patients, already sick, and staff to the disease. If there is a large caseload of patients within the hospital who have the virus it may become necessary to prohibit visitors as the virus can be transferred to the general population and spread rapidly. In either case the hospitals end up overloaded with more patients with Norovirus than they can accommodate.
The Norovirus is often the culprit on cruise ships where one person coming onto the ship, or acquiring the infection while on the ship or stopping in port, can easily infect the entire ship due to the containment of the people in the closed environment. Cruise operators are well aware of the dangers of a ship full of sick passengers.
Being a virus one generally has to wait for the virus itself to run it's course, such as a common cold does. Often one of the main causes of cross infection is simply being around another person who has the Norwalk virus. Air borne particulates can cross infect. For large areas, including the air around a person where there is high chances of respiratory infections sources, a cannister ultraviolet unit is best for not only destroying the virus on surfaces but also to rid the air of the virus itself.
More information below, from the CDC, can help understand the nature of this harmful, highly contagious Norovirus.
Norovirus—the stomach bug
Norovirus is a highly contagious illness caused by infection with a virus called norovirus. It is often called by other names, such as viral gastroenteritis, stomach flu, and food poisoning.
Norovirus infection causes acute gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines); the most common symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain.
Anyone can get norovirus, and they can have the illness multiple times during their lifetime.
Norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in the United States.
Norovirus illness can be serious
Norovirus can make people feel extremely ill and vomit or have diarrhea many times a day.
Most people get better within 1 to 2 days.
Dehydration can be a problem among some people with norovirus infection, especially the very young, the elderly, and people with other illnesses.
Norovirus is highly contagious and spreads rapidly
Noroviruses are highly contagious, and outbreaks are common due to the ease of transmission.
People with norovirus are contagious from the moment they begin feeling ill to at least 3 days and perhaps for as long as 2 weeks after recovery, making control of this disease even more difficult.
Norovirus can spread rapidly in closed environments like daycare centers and nursing homes
Many sources for norovirus infection
Noroviruses are found in the stool and vomit of infected people. People can become infected by
Eating food or drinking liquids that are contaminated with norovirus.
Touching surfaces or objects that are contaminated with norovirus, and then placing their hand in their mouth.
Having direct contact with an infected person; for example, by exposure to the virus when caring for or when sharing food, drinks, or eating utensils with an infected person.
Tips to prevent the spread of norovirus
Practice proper hand hygiene: Wash your hands carefully with soap and water, especially after using the toilet and changing diapers and always before eating or preparing food. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers (containing at least 62% ethanol) may be a helpful addition to hand washing, but they are not a substitute for washing with soap and water. See “Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives.”
Take care in the kitchen: Carefully wash fruits and vegetables, and cook oysters and other shellfish thoroughly before eating them.
Do not prepare food while infected: People who are infected with norovirus should not prepare food for others while they have symptoms and for 3 days after they recover from their illness.
Clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces: After an episode of illness, such as vomiting or diarrhea, immediately clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces by using a bleach-based household cleaner as directed on the product label or a solution made by adding 5–25 tablespoons of household bleach to 1 gallon of water.
Wash laundry thoroughly: Immediately remove and wash clothing or linens that may be contaminated with vomit or fecal matter. Handle soiled items carefully—without agitating them—to avoid spreading virus. They should be laundered with detergent at the maximum available cycle length and then machine dried.
Shingles is a herpes virus and generally has a longevity of a few days, maybe couple of weeks. Generally speaking most people take oral and topical medications for shingles pain and the virus runs it's course quickly and the pain and discomfort is over. Immediately upon suspecting one has Shingles then the best option is to treat immediately. As with a cold virus the symptoms are generally what is being treated, not the virus itself.
With recent developments in new topical ointments, and new oral medications, it appears the life of the virus may be shortened due to the new treatments. Today that is the reason to immediately begin treating at any hint one has contracted the shingles virus. Stop the spread of the virus to healthy, non affected cells. Viruses need host cells to live and when an area is "quarantined" against the healthy tissues becoming hosts then the duration is shortened. New hosts mean longer time periods of infection from the shingles virus.
Some of the best oral and topical cream medications for Shingles are here and you can click for more information on the specific products. If the shingles herpers virus is chronic then one may consider interferential electrotherapy for cure and carryover pain relief.
Bone growth stimulators were developed by Dr. Robert Becker and Dr. Andy Basset, orthopedic surgeons, to prevent the need to amputate limbs because the crushed bones were not healing. The science behind what lead to the discovery of using electrical stimulation is presented in Dr. Becker's book, "The Body Electric - Electromagnetism and The Foundation of LIfe".
In a nutshell version a basic premise of cell growth ( note this is not related only to bones but to cells in general) is you have a physical attraction of opposite charges between cells. With electromagnetism it's similar to having two magnets and placing the north end of one magnet beside the south end of the other magnet. The two magnets will attract each other and if close enough they join together. Reverse the setting so both ends are north and the magnets repel/repulse each other and there is no union occurring. Of course with electrotherapy the terms are the positive and negative charges. Opposite charges attract, and same charges repel.
When a bone is fractured or broken the two ends of the bone facing each other will have one distal end with a positive charge, and the other proximal end with a negative charge. That is normal and in that electromagnetic field the two bones are trying to unionize or heal. Often the actual cellular charges of one end of either bone will "reverse polarity" or simply put both ends have the same charge so there is no unionization, or bone healing. A bone stimulator is applied to reverse the polarity and healing begins again. It is this process that helps non healing bones fuse together and regain form and function.
Some orthopedic surgeons use different types of bone growth stimulators knowing the bone will unionize with nothing being done, but desire a faster healing rate than normal and use bone growth stimulators to advance the healing. This is done by Yale Univ. hospital on many of the neck fracture patients simply because of the fear of further injury in the neck spinal region. It's a safeguard to accelerate bone unionization. The bone stimulators are also used in sports medicine for athletic injuries where a player needs to heal quicker in order to return to competition.
The process of furthering healing with electrotherapy is similar for soft tissue cells, such as bed sores, sprained/strainked ankles etc. as the physics are of cells, not structures.
Nerve Blocks For Paraesthesia May Be Obsolete with Electroanalgesia High Frequency Stimulation
What does the term mean, "electroanalgesia"?
Wikipedia describes this way:
"Electroanalgesia is a form of analgesia, or pain relief, that uses electricity to ease pain. Electrical devices can be internal or external, at the site of pain (local) or delocalized throughout the whole body. It works by interfering with the electrical currents of pain signals, inhibiting them from reaching the brain and inducing a response;
different from traditional analgesics, such as opiates which mimic natural endorphins and NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) that help relieve inflammation and stop pain at the source. Electroanalgesia has a lower addictive potential and poses less health threats to the general public, but can cause serious health problems, even death, in people with other electrical devices such as pacemakers or internal hearing aids, or with heart problems."
"Analgesia that is induced by the passage of an electric current."
.......The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary
"the reduction of pain by electrical stimulation of a peripheral nerve or the dorsal column of the spinal cord,"
...Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health
Are those definitions correct?
Well not exactly sure, as the concept is not new, but is actually very old. Just so you know you may see these terms being used that imply a similar concept, "electroceutical" and "electroanalgesic". What is becoming exciting about this form of electrotherapy is rather than do an invasive "nerve block" ( I'll let you check that out on Wikipedia!!), the new non invasive concept is to do an electroanalgesia nerve block using an external device. The block does not have to occur in the spinal area but can be done on peripheral nerves.
A patient comes to the clinic, generally in pain, and while on a treatment table one, two or three electrodes are placed along the spine and the other electrode is place in the stomach area. The power is turned up to a comfortable sensation and the patient is treated for approximately 20 minutes. During the electroanalgesia procedure the pain sensation is lost and there is a general anesthesia felt in the area of stimulation.
Upon completion of the treatment the patient no longer feels the pain,much like one experiences who has undergone a nerve block. The results are very promising that chronic pain can be controlled by using external high frequency, interferential type stimulators for pain control.
Several of the companies producing the equipment are claiming the paraesthesia is due to the high frequency which seems to vary from 4,000 to 20,000 pulses per second (frequency). Problem with that logic is for decades clinicians have been able to produce similar paresthesia effects with a tens unit, which is only 150 pulses per second. Now for clarity I'm talking paraesthesia in a digit, using a tens unit on high amplitude ( power) and 150 pps ( pulses per second or frequency).
With a tens unit ( transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator) one takes a finger, wraps two electrodes around the digit, making sure they do not touch, and turns the power ( amplitude ) up to a point where it is somewhat uncomfortable for approximately 20 minutes. After treatment most people can then have a pin/needle inserted into their finger that was stimulated, and feel no or very little pain due to the paraesthesia of the tens stimulation. "Pressure" is felt but not pain and that is generally due to the transmission of the pressure sensation is due to non pain fibers, not pain fibers.
Tens has not been able to produce a paraesthesia in the spinal area as does interferential high frequency, nor does Tens stimulation work effectively for any form of carryover or residual pain relief ( see video below) . The question that is not answered is whether the electroanalgesia is due to the higher frequency, higher amplitude, or electrode placement or some other reason.
As the Functional Restoration clinics that are opening up continues the hope is for a more definitive answer, based upon patient - clinician experience and research by The American College of Physical Medicine.
Electroanalgesia is real, it's the how we need to obtain more knowledge about.
This video from NeuroMed is a very good video presentation explaining what it is about this particular clinical pain machine stimulator that describes why it works for certain patients. It takes about 2..5 minutes to get into the explanation in case you want to fast forward to that point. What I like about the video is an attempt to explain the chemical side of how our body works generally, cellular level. Job well done.
What I observed is the effects attributed are not due to frequency, but due to polarity changes - positive/negative charges. As an example one of the "selling techniques" used by some companies is if you put an explanation out on how the body works chemically on a cellular level that adds to the base of knowledge, however to go from one body structure such as a cell and then go to specialized cells creating structures, ie. nerves, you have to be very careful making that leap. The two do not necessarily correlate.
On our new InfrexFRM machine we will incorporate variables to adjust the InfrexFRM to fit prevailing proven methods of successful treatments. As always not all people respond the same way so you always get mixed outcomes. With variability you treat each patient, and are not stuck with protocols specific to general population samples, when your concern is the patient who is in front of you now.
Will Shingles Last For Days, Weeks or Months? 
