Originally Posted by reverett123

This is a cautionary note. Seems every time I find a blamed miracle there's a bunch of fine print.

After reviewing the last nine days I have concluded that I overdid it with the Estim. I have been having trouble staying on. Looking back over my posts, at first things were great but then gradually deteriorated. As it is, the bad back may have saved me from getting into serious trouble.

will recover and try it again later, but those of you following this trail be aware.

-Rick

Originally Posted by reverett123

I had not said so because I was not sure that I could come up with it, but about a year ago Anne Frobert sent me a manuscript by a PWP describing his own extensive experiments in this same area. It is an excellent manuscript of 23 pages.

A sample quote:
"The neuromodulator seems to help people with Parkinson’s disease in 2 fundamentally different manners. The first is by stimulating neurotransmitter production; the second by reactivating neural conduction throughout the Proprioception System. This section will define a procedure for reactivating the Proprioception System by stimulating nerves in the Asian Medicine meridians. There is an increasing body of evidence to show that Parkinson’s symptoms are often greatly reduced through use of this procedure. A patent has been approved to protect the rights to use this procedure."

and

"Care should be taken when increasing the intensity levels to vary the bias control slowly until there is a sensation of muscles cramping. When this occurs one should decrease the bias level until the muscles relax, then increase the bias level again. Repeat this process until the muscle no longer cramps. As the neural pathways begin to conduct there is often a sudden jerking and release of tension in the associated muscles.
When the intensity level is at a maximum tolerable (but not painful) level, the modulator should be left at that level for approximately 10 minutes for the body to adapt to the newly conducting nerves. After this period, one usually finds that the modulator will cause a low level stimulation at a much lower intensity level. This is proof that progress has been made. Often significant neurological improvement will be seen in a few hours after treatment is finished."



Unfortunately, the author did not sign his work and I have no idea who he is. If anyone knows anything more. please let me know.

Originally Posted by Ibken

Rick,
If this is thhe one whhere the guy focuses on one leg, uses the device he 'invented'' maybe 2x week and no longer takes pd meds.... I initially snail mailed him to make contact. He is willing to help pd'ers make one, I think.
I thought I sent it to you as well... Will hunt it up and send you the info.

Ibby

Originally Posted by bandido1

Rick Notwithstanding your current update I will continue to follow this thread. (see my signature line). Estim has provided me some back pain relief though for only a day or two but i would be willing to "fry" for longer periods if I thought I could have less pain Keep going with the one man clinic! Bob C

Originally Posted by ZucchiniFlower

I'm late to the party. I found this video today about the Duke research:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b6OElzJlMg

He mentions somatosensory pathways. This is so fascinating to me. I think it's why Banding works, Rick. It stimulates the sensory pathway, and gives needed tactile feedback.

I've been dropping things a lot lately, usually with my left 'good side' hand, sometimes the right 'bad side'. I realized that I drop things that are light, not heavy. And when I'm on auto pilot, not focusing on the action of holding something in that hand, I'll drop it. If I concentrate and squeeze what I am holding, I'm okay.

When I hold something heavy in my left hand, I don't drop it. I hold many bottles at my work, and never dropped a full bottle, only empty ones. I think it's because the weight gives sensory feedback which I need. I have trouble doing that same action without the sensory feedback of the weight.

I drop my pill bottles often, pills often spilling all over, even when I'm careful and try to concentrate on my actions. Probably because they weigh so little. if I don't squeeze the bottles and caps hard, I drop them.

Reading about this new spinal stimulation that stimulates the tactile neurons, if I'm stating that correctly, it makes perfect sense. I had no clue they could target such neurons in the spinal cord with a simple device. It's very exciting work!

Rick, how is your experiment going? Sorry, I've been out of the loop.

~Zucchini

Originally Posted by Aunt Bean

Has there been any more experimenting with the stimulator on the spine? My dad has a tens unit , I wonder if it is the same thing that revereet was trying out? Any new discoveries or good results from your trials ? Aunt Bean