Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Use of Low level Laser Therapy and Injury Recall Technique in the Treatment of Closed head and Other Brain Injuries

I can't make head or tails of what the mechanism is supposed to do. Ask all the doctors you know before you attempt anything like this.
 Ok, probably quackery.
Injury recall technique is a technique to erase the neurological memory of the past. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3MaInxMlM&feature=share

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://blog.drhogg.com/wp-content/uploads/LASER_IRT_BRAIN_INJURY_PAPER.doc&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1sG4tgbP4YlHLyeJCFIuakPbshoA&oi=scholaralrt


Introduction

Closed head injuries are a common occurrence in the United States with en estimated incidence of 200 per 100,000 people per year. (1,2) A “closed head” injury is one in which there is trauma to the brain which does not pierce the cranium. Common causes of closed head injuries include traffic accidents and falls in which the head is struck. Often the greatest injury is not from the original trauma but due to edema and intracranial bleeding putting pressure on vulnerable neural tissue in an enclosed space. Free radical damage and ischemia are likely contributor to this secondary type of brain injury. Approximately 100,000 people die as a result of closed head injuries in the United States each year(3,4). Of those who survive, another 90,000 each year suffer some level of long-standing or permanent disability (3,4). As our service men and women return, injured, from Iraq, Afganistan and elsewhere, persisting disability resulting from brain injury becomes an increasing concern.

Types of trauma in closed head injuries include “coup” injuries from direct transmission of trauma through the skull to the brain which causes injury directly beneath the point of impact. A second type of injury is the “contrecoup” in which indirect trauma to the brain occurs via rotational shear forces that cause the brain to bounce against or sweep across the interior of the cranium. In the contrecoup injury, multiple areas of brain trauma occur that are less obvious based on the point of impact. When all primary and secondary sources of brain injury in a closed head incident are considered, understanding the possible brain areas actually affected becomes complex.

Other types of brain injury considered in this paper will include additional sources of ischemic injury. Specifically I will be discussing my experience with stroke, open heart surgery and birth trauma.

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