Back Pain Succumbs to Star Trek Medicine
Using sound frequencies to diagnose and eliminate back pain evokes images of Star Trek medicine; a pleasant fantasy but not quite in our realm of belief, until now.
(PRWEB) March 31, 2005 -- Back pain suffered by an estimated 65 million
Americans may be calmed by a frequency based device being made available, on a
limited basis, by nVoice Technologies, a pioneering biotech marketing company.
Using sound frequencies to diagnose and eliminate back pain evokes images of
Star Trek medicine; a pleasant fantasy but not quite in our realm of belief,
until now.
Trials conducted during the last four years utilized a small
hand-held frequency generator containing a sequenced set of sounds that
supported the ability to significantly decrease, and in a number of cases,
completely eliminate pain for research subjects. Varying degrees of back pain
were evaluated.
During tone trials, the experimental frequency sequences
were delivered via a prototype later dubbed the “Little Back Box” that is now
being made available to the public primarily through back pain clinics and
health professionals.
“It is hard to believe that the brain can be
entrained, in less than ten minutes, to provide signals to muscles in such a way
that the body relieves its own pain – not only back pain but other muscles as
well are influenced. I’ve experienced the pain relief for myself,” states
Barbara McNeil, an Ohio chiropractor. Although these results may not be
representative of everyone, they certainly seem to be consistent if the
appropriate frequencies can be identified and applied.
It is not just a
simple matter of listening to these low pitched tones which sound somewhat like
soft rumbling background noise. The frequency sets, which were specifically
designed for the Little Back Box, “sonically massage” the tiny muscles that
support the spine through a controlled combination of oscillations, frequencies
and patterns. So novel is the design that the device is patent
pending.
Many of the study participants were confounded, yet pleased, by
the fact that merely listening to a sound could provide pain relief that felt so
natural that many of them did not attribute the relief to the Little Back Box.
Pain measurements included trauma as well as reported discomfort from everyday
muscle stress.
Low back pain is the fifth-leading cause of doctor visits.
Back injuries are the leading cause of work-related disability. Even though back
pain is rarely life-threatening, the annual cost in terms of lost productivity,
medical expenses and workers' compensation benefits account for $26 billion a
year, which translates to 2.5% of the total health care bill in America. The
Little Back Box is not designed for relief of pain from serious back trauma or
surgery but professionals report that their clients don’t care how the Little
Back Box works, they only care that pain relief has been provided.
The
idea that frequency oscillation can be used to mechanically block pain signals
is evidenced by devices such as the TENS unit which must be attached to the
body. Frequency is also used via compression bursts to assist in shattering
kidney stones and heel spurs. Both of the latter techniques are cumbersome, time
consuming and cost thousands of dollars. What is different about The Little Back
Box is the fact that the frequencies are delivered ambiently (through the air)
via a speaker as a form of entrainment to engage the brain in creating the
signals required for the pain relief. Headphones can be used but subjects
reported pain relief to be five times more effective and faster if the
frequencies were provided through a speaker. The Little Back Box, costing less
than $200, comes with headphones but can be used with either headphones or an
amplified subwoofer.
James Gimzewski, a UCLA nanophysicist, has
discovered that each human cell emits a frequency that can be accurately
measured. It is his belief that if the sounds of the body can be decoded into
known frequency patterns, those patterns may be the key to optimal health and
the elimination of disease. Gimzewski was surprised to learn that the original
research in this genre has been ongoing for nearly 20 years by Sound Health, a
southern Ohio independent biotech facility that employs fundamental mathematical
concepts, uniquely expressed to distinguish novel biometric frequency
associations of the body. The facility is dedicated to the study of low
frequency sound and vocal profiling as an opportunity to develop individualized
“Designer Frequencies” for everything from conception to anti-aging to disease
detection.
This type of intervention would fall under the auspices of
complementary or functional medicine. The Journal of Manipulative Physiology
Therapy reported in February, 1999 that experts favor alternative modalities of
treatment for uncomplicated acute and chronic back pain.
The Yale
Medical Group specializing in back pain estimates that 70-85% of all people have
had back pain at some time in their lifetime. Often experts do not agree
concerning the exact cause and diagnosis of back pain. Dr. James Weinstein, head
of orthopedics at Dartmouth Medical School and Dr. Richard Deyo, professor of
medicine at the University of Washington state that 85% of patients with lower
back pain often cannot be given a precise diagnosis. Non specific terms such as
strain, sprain or degenerative processes are commonly used to describe back
pain.
Providing frequencies ambiently is non-invasive and relatively
inexpensive. On-going research has been designed to evaluate the potential to
use frequency, through vocal analysis, to predict and evaluate disease states.
“As the study longitudinally unfolds, the implications of biofrequency markers
continue to expand into unpredicted venues. We were astonished when degenerated
discs seemed to restructure themselves after a patient started using the tones,”
declared Liz Lonergan, RN and founder of the Body and Soul Health Clinic in
Chicago.
The Little Back Box is a first step in making available many
such devices and techniques which use frequency to monitor health and wellness.
Pharmaceutical companies are beginning to realize that frequency holds an
amazing potential to complement current medical protocols. Pfizer Pharmaceutical
recently reported using similar techniques to those historically used by Sound
Health, to predict Parkinson’s disease.
Research plans include the
development of other tone delivery devices which would have the ability to
eliminate snoring, muscle cramps, heart arrhythmia, allergic reactions, skin
wrinkles and collagen formation; and those that can increase stamina, immune
response, muscle strength and sexual response. The ability to predict and manage
disease states through the use of mathematical modeling may be moving us quickly
toward a medical paradigm that we can presently only imagine.
Additional
information about The Little Back Box is available from www.nVoice.org or inquire at your
local gym, spa, chiropractor or wellness provider about availability.
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