I am writing this post from 35 years experience in the cardiology field selling and training some of the best cardiologists in the country in leading edge medical electronics. This information can save lives, improve the quality of life, and save money for you, your loved ones, and friends. Use this information wisely or flush it, it is up to you. I am posting this information at this time because of advice I gave to Patriot Raider. Recently he was making posts about having some clogged arteries and all of his conversations with God about his plans now and his afterlife. I sent him a message saying you can keep on your current path or you can take charge of your health, learn the best ways to help yourself, and use science to get you there. He made a post recently titled Rookie Red Raider to thank me for my information and ask me more questions. I told him I could spend more time, thought, and energy into that or if he wanted to create some positive karma, he could re-title his post to let other people on this board know what it was about and then I could help others also and my screen name is not Rookie Red Raider (which you are labeled if you have less than 1000 messages), it is J Jo. He did nothing.
The title of this post, The Only Noninvasive Way to Overcome Heart Disease, is describing External Counterpulsation (also called ECP or EECP). It is noninvasive therapy used most often in some cardiology offices, some special clinics, and a few hospitals. In the US, it is only paid for by Medicare or private insurance companies with a prescription from a cardiologist or cardiovascular surgeon as an alternative to heart bypass or angioplasty. If you want to have this therapy and you can't find one of those to write you the prescription you can pay for the 35 one hour sessions needed for about $5,0000 or less if you negotiate the price. The wording of CMS (Medicare) and the private insurance companies is often tricky depending on your particular state. It may say. this therapy can only be used if the patient is not amenable to bypass or angioplasty. Doctors can get it done if they want too bad enough. Don't let some administrator, that does not know anything about ECP or some cardiologist who did not study this therapy in medical school and will make more money from performing the invasive procedures bypass or angioplasty stop you. In the age of the internet, I have learned I can focus and find the latest research that will make be more knowledgeable than about any specialist or general practice physician I am dealing with.
If you want to become an expert on this therapy, buy the book Heal Your Heart with EECP, by Debra Braverman, MD. Basically the therapy consists of you lying on a comfortable well padded therapy bed, with large cuffs (like BP cuffs) around your calves, thighs, and butt and lower stomach area. You also have three electrodes attached to your chest. With each heart beat (or QRS complex) the cuffs inflate sequentially from calves up to about 300 mm of mercury (about twice what a regular blood pressure cuff would). This happens during diastole (when normally your heart is at rest) and deflates during systole (when your heart starts pumping blood to the rest of your body). If your normal heart rate is about 70 BPM than the cuffs would inflate and deflate 70 times per minute. You do this in one hour sessions, and normally you return for 35 sessions or more. Dr. Braverman also compares bypass or angioplasty to making a detour at a single stop or more in a city which has major traffic problems, ECP therapy will clear up your traffic problems for the city.
ECP therapy will open up dormant vessels and create new vessels called collaterals around blockages. It is risk free basically unless you have an anuerism (weak place in the vessel, which can be found with ultrasound) in your stomach area, surgery in the last 6 weeks, uncontrolled arrhythmias if they interfere with device triggering, severe pulmonary disease, pregnancy, burn, wound or fracture on any limb subject to treatment, normal heart rates <35 or >125, uncontrolled Systolic BP >180, or Diastolic<110, etc. ECP is basically a reverse aging machine because it reopens or creates new vessels, which gradually get smaller as you age. I mentioned in the US it is only paid for for insurance of Medicare as an alternative to bypass or angioplasty, but in China which perfected this technology and changed it to use it with air pressure, after it had been invented in the 1950's using water pressure at Harvard, they use it for 30 different medical reasons. While US medicine is based upon fee for performance and often the most expensive invasive procedure is used early in a diagnosis, in China they currently try to use noninvasive therapy and keep you out of the hospital as long as possible.
Some of the thirty different medical diagnosis China uses ECP on besides heart care and heart failure are renal (kidney) insufficiency, arthritis, brain and eye function, neuropathy ( loss of feeling in limbs due to diabetes), restless leg syndrome, erectile dysfunction (everyone's favorite benefit), etc. Every organ in the body that has blood flow is helped. It is also very beneficial before or after the invasive procedures bypass or angioplasty. Often when someone is diagnosed with clogged or blocked arteries the cardiologist and cardiovascular surgeon put immediate pressure on the patient to have bypass or angioplasty done immediately, if not that day. It is hard for a stressed out patient to resist the pressure from an expert, However, as Dr. Braverman says in her book, your heart problems did not start in a day and when you find out about them you don't need to go to an operating room or a catherization lab immediately. If you educate yourself on this you will know your options. The effects of the treatment usually last 2 to 7 years depending on the patient and can be done again at anytime. It is the equivalent of doing a tremendous cardiovascular workout everyday without any wear and tear on the body. Some professional sports teams have started using it for injured players. I believe the Lakers were the first. I have just about "emptied my bucket" for now on this subject, so J Jo out.
The title of this post, The Only Noninvasive Way to Overcome Heart Disease, is describing External Counterpulsation (also called ECP or EECP). It is noninvasive therapy used most often in some cardiology offices, some special clinics, and a few hospitals. In the US, it is only paid for by Medicare or private insurance companies with a prescription from a cardiologist or cardiovascular surgeon as an alternative to heart bypass or angioplasty. If you want to have this therapy and you can't find one of those to write you the prescription you can pay for the 35 one hour sessions needed for about $5,0000 or less if you negotiate the price. The wording of CMS (Medicare) and the private insurance companies is often tricky depending on your particular state. It may say. this therapy can only be used if the patient is not amenable to bypass or angioplasty. Doctors can get it done if they want too bad enough. Don't let some administrator, that does not know anything about ECP or some cardiologist who did not study this therapy in medical school and will make more money from performing the invasive procedures bypass or angioplasty stop you. In the age of the internet, I have learned I can focus and find the latest research that will make be more knowledgeable than about any specialist or general practice physician I am dealing with.
If you want to become an expert on this therapy, buy the book Heal Your Heart with EECP, by Debra Braverman, MD. Basically the therapy consists of you lying on a comfortable well padded therapy bed, with large cuffs (like BP cuffs) around your calves, thighs, and butt and lower stomach area. You also have three electrodes attached to your chest. With each heart beat (or QRS complex) the cuffs inflate sequentially from calves up to about 300 mm of mercury (about twice what a regular blood pressure cuff would). This happens during diastole (when normally your heart is at rest) and deflates during systole (when your heart starts pumping blood to the rest of your body). If your normal heart rate is about 70 BPM than the cuffs would inflate and deflate 70 times per minute. You do this in one hour sessions, and normally you return for 35 sessions or more. Dr. Braverman also compares bypass or angioplasty to making a detour at a single stop or more in a city which has major traffic problems, ECP therapy will clear up your traffic problems for the city.
ECP therapy will open up dormant vessels and create new vessels called collaterals around blockages. It is risk free basically unless you have an anuerism (weak place in the vessel, which can be found with ultrasound) in your stomach area, surgery in the last 6 weeks, uncontrolled arrhythmias if they interfere with device triggering, severe pulmonary disease, pregnancy, burn, wound or fracture on any limb subject to treatment, normal heart rates <35 or >125, uncontrolled Systolic BP >180, or Diastolic<110, etc. ECP is basically a reverse aging machine because it reopens or creates new vessels, which gradually get smaller as you age. I mentioned in the US it is only paid for for insurance of Medicare as an alternative to bypass or angioplasty, but in China which perfected this technology and changed it to use it with air pressure, after it had been invented in the 1950's using water pressure at Harvard, they use it for 30 different medical reasons. While US medicine is based upon fee for performance and often the most expensive invasive procedure is used early in a diagnosis, in China they currently try to use noninvasive therapy and keep you out of the hospital as long as possible.
Some of the thirty different medical diagnosis China uses ECP on besides heart care and heart failure are renal (kidney) insufficiency, arthritis, brain and eye function, neuropathy ( loss of feeling in limbs due to diabetes), restless leg syndrome, erectile dysfunction (everyone's favorite benefit), etc. Every organ in the body that has blood flow is helped. It is also very beneficial before or after the invasive procedures bypass or angioplasty. Often when someone is diagnosed with clogged or blocked arteries the cardiologist and cardiovascular surgeon put immediate pressure on the patient to have bypass or angioplasty done immediately, if not that day. It is hard for a stressed out patient to resist the pressure from an expert, However, as Dr. Braverman says in her book, your heart problems did not start in a day and when you find out about them you don't need to go to an operating room or a catherization lab immediately. If you educate yourself on this you will know your options. The effects of the treatment usually last 2 to 7 years depending on the patient and can be done again at anytime. It is the equivalent of doing a tremendous cardiovascular workout everyday without any wear and tear on the body. Some professional sports teams have started using it for injured players. I believe the Lakers were the first. I have just about "emptied my bucket" for now on this subject, so J Jo out.
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