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PAIN RELEIEF - FAR INFRARED HEAT THERAPY FOR PAIN RELIEF
Recent medical research has established a new
class of pain known as "heat responsive pain" or HRP,
which encompasses several common pain conditions
that can be treated with the use of heat therapy.
Recent studies of HRP have observed remarkable and
therapeutic benefits by using continuous low level
heat therapy for treating lower back, upper body and
menstrual pain, all of which fall under the new HRP
classification.
Pain expert Peter Vicente, Ph.D., past president of
the American Pain Society and Clinical Health
Psychologist, Riverhills Healthcare, Cincinnati, OH
stated; "For centuries healthcare providers have
used topical heat to relieve minor aches and pains,
but today we are just beginning to understand the
full range of therapeutic benefits that heat offers.
Through new clinical research, we have found that
heat activates complex neurological, vascular and
metabolic mechanisms to mediate the transmission of
pain signals and effectively provide relief for a
variety of pain conditions."
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Recent case studies involving Rheumatoid Arthritis
have shown dramatic benefits. A rheumatologist
worked with a 14 year-old Swedish girl who had
difficulty walking downstairs due to knee pain from
the age of eight. The prognosis stated the girl
would be in a wheelchair within two years if she did
not begin gold corticosteroid therapy. After three
far infrared sauna treatments, she began to become
more agile and subsequently took up dancing without
the aid of conventional approaches. A clinical study
in Japan also reported a successful solution for
seven out of seven cases of rheumatoid arthritis
treated with whole body far infrared therapy. In
Europe, a case study reported in Sweden involved a
70 year-old man who had rheumatoid arthritis
secondary to acute rheumatic fever. The patient had
reached his toxic limit of gold injections and his
erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was still 125.
After using a far infrared sauna for less than five
months, his ESR was down to 11.
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