You wrote;
> My aunt, uncle, and cousin were in a car accident a week and a
> half ago. My aunt and uncle are ok, but my cousin has injuries in
> her lower spine. C8 is crushed, the spinal cord is only 60-70% of
> it's original size. Doctors say less than a 1% chance of her ever
> walking again.
Sorry to hear about this accident and I'm glad you posted here. First,
let's understand this isn't any kind of recommendation or medical
advice, I am simply reporting on some things I've heard about over the
years that might be of interest to you.
SOME SAY (IBOM - International Bio-Oxidative Medical foundation, the
late Dr. Hans Nieper, my friend Dr. Georges Friebott, my late friend
Arthur Coleman and many European and American proponents of oxidative
therapies) that the single best thing you can do to assist the body to
regenerate nerves, particularly to avoid paralysis as with Christopher
Reeves, is to treat the subject to periodic hyperbaric chamber pressures
rich with oxygen.
The claims that I've read say that high concentrations of oxygen can
provide amazing assistance with healing. At an IBOM conference several
years ago for 'lay' people, slides were shown of people with their hands
or arms ripped off and later sewn back on which later resulted in as
much as 95% nerve rejuvenation and use because they used hyperbaric
oxygen chambers and other means of getting extra oxygen into the blood.
Some of my friends as do I, wonder if Christopher Reeve could have been
spared his paralysis by immediate treatment using a hyperbaric chamber.
There is much on this and all the reports and anecdotes certainly need
to be correlated into a series of pages or a website that didn't harp
solely on selling oxygen rich fluids or other devices. I just have this
thing against selling information or 'proprietary devices' that could
benefit many in most remarkable ways.
If it was someone in my family, I would take pains to find a doctor who
would at the very least accede to hyperbaric chamber treatments...I
believe the treatments were on the order of 30 minutes twice a day
initially, the idea being to force as much oxygen into the bloodstream
as safely as possible....the results of such exposure, as soon as
possible after the initial accident, like those shown at the IBOM
meeting were nothing less than incredible.
Strange how in Europe, bio-oxidation and hyperbaric chamber treatments
are supposed to be routine, according to the IBOM people, but in this
country, it is considered crackpot despite the incredible successes in
Europe. Of course, the same applies to Homeopathy and shrieks of fraud
aimed at Dr. Bienviste in Italy when he proved in a lab that water and
other fluids could be 'programmed' with specific patterns, despite the
British royal family relying almost exclusively on homeopathy to treat
their ailments.
Anyway, something to think about, you might do some searches and as a
beginner here are some sites I found in a cursory run;
hyperbaric therapy website;
http://hyperbaric-therapy.com/discussion/cancer.html
High-pressure chambers could help prevent paralysis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- High-pressure chambers used to treat divers who
rise too fast underwater could help prevent paralysis in people with
damaged spinal cords, researchers said Sunday. "It may mean the
difference between significant disability and no disability," Dr. Philip
James of the University of Dundee in Scotland said in a statement.
James said the high-pressure chambers forced healing oxygen into the
tissues of a damaged spine. If the blood flow is not restored quickly,
cells die, resulting in permanent damage.
A consultant to the North Sea diving industry, James told a conference
in Washington that hyperbaric chambers used to treat or prevent the
"bends" from decompression sickness in divers would also well serve
patients who had spinal injuries.
"Most trauma centers do not have hyperbaric chambers, which is a
tragedy, and most physicians don't understand the need to increase the
dissolved oxygen in the plasma of the blood," said James, who presented
his ideas to the Space and Underwater Research Group of the World
Federation of Neurology.
and this article on preventing/minimizing brain injuries;
Wednesday May 27 6:17 PM EDT
Brain injury improves with hyperbaric oxygen
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Patients with long-standing traumatic brain injury
show a general improvement of speech, memory and attention after
undergoing a series of hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, according
to Texas researchers.
Dr. Paul Harch and colleagues presented their findings recently in
Seattle at the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual Scientific
Meeting.
The new study included 11 patients from The Transitional Learning
Community in Galveston, Texas. All were at least 3 years post-brain
injury. The patients underwent a series of single photon emission
computed tomography (SPECT) scans to determine whether blood flow in the
brain could be altered by hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a technique in
which patients breathe pure oxygen in a chamber with a
higher-than-normal atmospheric pressure. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is
commonly used to treat people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning
or divers with decompression sickness.
Initially, five of the patients had 80 sessions in a hyperbaric unit.
After a 5-month rest period, those five patients underwent another 40
hyperbaric sessions. The remaining six patients, serving as controls,
did not undergo hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
There was no change in the blood flow of the six control patients during
the study period. However, patients who did receive the hyperbaric
oxygen therapy showed increased blood flow in specific areas of the
brain, as well as improvements in speech and memory functions, Harch
said.
The improvements in these patients peaked at 80 hyperbaric oxygen
sessions, and repeating the therapy every "one to two weeks appears to
maintain improvement," Harch said.
Harch also used the therapy sessions to treat individuals with stroke,
cerebral palsy, and dementia. Near-drowning and chronic carbon monoxide
poisoning patients were also treated. Those patients were treated a year
after the brain injury occurred. "All these are patients with no other
treatment options," Harch said. Patients with the least loss of function
following injury show the greatest improvement with hyperbaric oxygen
therapy, according to Harch.
"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a non-specific treatment that seems to be
appropriate in many different forms of brain injury," he said.
It's not clear why hyperbaric oxygen therapy helped patients, and giving
pure oxygen may even be harmful, in theory, said Dr. Stephen Thom in a
statement released by the Stroke Research Center of the Wake Forrest
University Baptist Medical Center, the group that coordinated the
meeting.
"There is clinical and animal data to suggest that it might help, but
the studies are not conclusive," said Thom, the president of the
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. "So it's fertile ground for
research. There's reason to think that it might help, but it's not yet
proven. It needs more research."
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excellent page on bio-oxidatives (hydrogen peroxide injections);
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/2106/healox02.htm
books on oxidative therapies;
http://www.dayton-fgbmfi.org/healox01.htm
mostly H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) page;
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pjb3s/BioOxidative.html
IBOMF page;
http://www.healthy.net/ibomf/
simplistic description of bio-oxidative medicine;
http://www.caringmedical.com/bio-ox.htm
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Good luck Justin!
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