Our Sauna Is Up And Running!

Our office has some great news! Our Sunlighten™ Far Infrared Sauna is up and running. If you want to get really healthy then this is a great way to start the process.

Far Infrared Sauna Therapy has been Documented,
to Provide the Following Results:

1. Detox:  Detoxing without getting sick afterward. It changes the toxins as they come out so you don’t get sick afterward.
2. Removal of Fat-Soluble & Heavy Metal Toxins:  Most effective far infrared and full spectrum therapy for natural, non-invasive cellular detoxification – only saunas clinically shown to raise core temperature. Quickly expels toxins hidden in fat-soluble cells. Toxins are released through the skin before they reach major organs.
3. Increased Quality & Duration of Sleep:  Our saunas’ Acoustic Resonance Therapy (A.R.T) provides a calming environment to reduce stimuli and induce relaxation for better sleep. In this case, take your sauna session before you go to bed.
4. Pain Relief:  Far Infrared heat increases blood circulation by penetrating deep into the body’s joints, muscles and tissues to allow more oxygen to reach injured areas and reduce inflammation.
5. Non-Invasive, Natural Treatment:  Offers a whole body treatment without surgery or injections. Studies show that infrared sauna sessions can help speed the effects of antibiotics to see faster results and relief of symptoms.
6. Sensory & Cognitive Issues:  Sunlighten’s FIR technology in combination with A.R.T. will assist in increasing motor processing and enhance creativity and problem solving. Clearing of brain fog.
7. Depression:  The circulation, relaxation and detoxification that our saunas provide can be uplifting to your overall state of mind.
8. Boost Immunity:  Increased blood circulation allows more toxins to be released from the cellular level to the skin’s surface to improve cell health, aid in recovery and boost immunity to help battle current symptoms.
9. Cold Intolerance:  Proven 95-99% effective, Solocarbon heaters increase core body temperature to alleviate lower body temperatures.
10. Sound Sensitivity:  Sunlighten saunas provide a soothing atmosphere for those with hyperacusis to find relief. A.R.T. balances brainwaves, bringing the body to a deeper state of relaxation.
11. Improved Circulation:  Increases blood flow to reduce the body’s hold on toxic metals and helps get nutrients where they need to go. Also increases body temperature to keep hands and feet warm.
12. Weight Loss:  A 30 minute infrared sauna session can burn up to 200-600 calories! As the body works to cool itself while using an infrared sauna, there is a substantial increase in heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate. Sunlighten’s infrared heat therapy raises core body temperature causing passive cardiovascular conditioning. Your body’s natural response to infrared heat therapy is to increase circulation and sweat. Check out the results with a heart rate monitor and you will be amazed.
13. Relaxation for the Whole Family:  Creates a sanctuary the whole family can benefit from detoxification, heart health, weight loss, pain relief, cell health and anti-aging.
14. Cancer Therapy: Far Infrared Therapy has been applied as Cancer Treatment Worldwide for 20 years. Far Infrared Saunas Increase the Production of White Blood Cells, Killer T-Cells, and Interferon which have been shown to Fight Cancer Cell Growth.
15. Organic Skin Care: Infrared Sauna Treatments dramatically Renew Elasticin-Collagen Tissues while Crow’s Feet, Forehead Lines, Wrinkles, Age Spots, Scars, Varicose Veins and Stretch Marks Naturally Fade Away. Look Younger while you Cleanse Your Body from the Inside Out.
16. Bullet proof Your Immune: Increased Production of White Blood Cells and Toxin Removal through Sweating combines to Improve Immunity against Chronic Infections, Flu, Sinus, Allergy Symptoms, Germs and Bacteria. Infrared Heat causes the body to produce Special Heat Shock Proteins, which are Powerful Immune System Stimulators.

Neck pain?

Annals of Internal Medicine published the results of a randomized controlled trial comparing Manual Therapy, Physical Therapy, or Continued Care by a General Practitioner for Patients with Neck Pain in 2002:

Neck pain is a common problem in the general population, with point prevalences between 10% and 15% (1–3). It is most common at approximately 50 years of age and is more common in women than in men (1, 2, 4–6). Neck pain can be severely disabling and costly, and little is known about its clinical course (7–9). Limited range of motion and a subjective feeling of stiffness may accompany neck pain, which is often precipitated or aggravated by neck movements or sustained neck postures. Headache, brachialgia, dizziness, and other signs and symptoms may also be present in combination with neck pain (10, 11). Although history taking and diagnostic examination can suggest a potential cause, in most cases the pathologic basis for neck pain is unclear and the pain is labeled nonspecific. Conservative treatment methods that are frequently used in general practice include analgesics, rest, or referral to a physical therapist or manual therapist (12, 13). Physical therapy may include passive treatment, such as
massage, interferential current, or heat applications, and active treatment, such as exercise therapies. . .

Results: At 7 weeks, the success rates were 68.3% for manual therapy, 50.8% for physical therapy, and 35.9% for continued care. Statistically significant differences in pain intensity with manual therapy compared with continued care or physical therapy ranged from 0.9 to 1.5 on a scale of 0 to 10. Disability scores also favored manual therapy, but the differences among groups were small. Manual therapy scored consistently better than the other two interventions on most outcome measures. Physical therapy scored better than continued care on some outcome measures, but the differences were not statistically significant.

Conclusion: In daily practice, manual therapy is a favorable treatment option for patients with neck pain compared with physical therapy or continued care by a general practitioner.

Find the entire paper at http://www.annals.org

Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:713-722.

Our office now has Rapid Release Technology!

Rapid Release Therapy is a breakthrough in therapeutic technology

Many types of chronic pain have been identified, however many with chronic pain do not have a clinical diagnosis from their doctor. Scar tissue is frequently the culprit in this un-diagnosed pain. Repetitive motion, injury and surgery can result in the formation of scar tissue. Since there are no blood vessels that nourish this fibrotic tissue, it dies, becoming rigid and inflexible impinging nerves and impairing normal movement. These are also known as adhesions.

RRT’s Scar Tissue Therapy targets brittle scar tissue with the shearing force of planar waves that resonate with scar tissue. This has many benefits including what we believe to be a method to quickly and painlessly break up scar tissue.

Scar Tissue Therapy is focused on relief of soft tissue problems

These soft tissue problems affect nerves, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Some conditions caused by scarring of soft tissue are:

• MUSCLE SPASMS
• TMJ
• TENNIS ELBOW
• TRAPPED NERVES
• ADHESIONS
• RANGE OF MOTION
• NEUROMAS
• CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
• CONTRACTURES
• TENDONOSIS

When compression waves enter the body, they generate planar waves which generate
a shearing force (Red and Blue) perpendicular to the propagation direction (Black). This shearing force flexes and breaks up the brittle scar tissue lattice but doesn’t harm healthy supple tissue.

Experiments have been done with the frequencies used by RRT including the use of high-speed video shot at 2000 frames/second to determine the optimum resonant frequency for maximum effectiveness. Scar tissue absorbs energy at its resonant frequencies, efficiently facilitating its dissolution.

                                           RRT’s high-speed, short stroke and arc motion are keys to its  effectiveness as well as lack of any observed negative side effects.

Arc motion creates tension on the tissue because before it rebounds, the next strike tugs at it again. The combined effects of the shearing force of the planar waves with the tissue under tension magnifies the beneficial effects. The short 2mm stroke is key to optimizing the energy released into the tissue at the frequency, yielding just enough energy for the intended results without any observed negative side effects.

RRT Scar Tissue Therapy is fast, painless and lasting

RRT often helps those who have exhausted all other options such as medical doctors, podiatrists, chiropractic, medications, surgery, acupuncture, physical therapy, and pain injections. Rapid Release is arguably the safest and most cost-effective treatment for a wide range of conditions. Dr. Burrow got into this profession because she wanted to help people. We are helping alleviating suffering in our community by becoming part of this revolution in healthcare.