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Laserponcture® Presentation and
Theory Posture podiatry for individuals suffering from a disability |
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My laser is financed by public funding, and manufactured by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers. It was evaluated by a double blind vs placebo clinical trial at the university hospital Jules Courmont Lyon-sud, department lead by Professor Bouvier (clinical expert).
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| Posture podiatry | ||
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It is thus important to help individuals suffering from a disability to increase the perception of their body image and try to correct it. Standing in a frame, walking in braces (between parallel bars or not), or with a rollator, highlight such incorrect postures which can be at the origin of pain or spasticity. Posture podiatry allows the individuals suffering from a disability to get better. Indeed, LLLT stimulation of the muscles in the lower limbs would help them to recover their body image and realise the negative effects of the wheelchair. A podoscope, equipped with a thermal camera to follow the variations of temperature in calves, feet, and soles, is used.
Posture podiatry is a podiatrist competence applied to individuals suffering from a disability, and useful for a close follow-up. Moreover, with the new medical techniques using stem cells for the reparation of the injured spinal cord, some will recover the ability to take steps and thus get ready to go from a sitting to a standing position. The purpose of posture podiatry is to become part of a multicenter study.
Short video filmed with a thermal camera
Another field of application, which could open new paths of research for individuals suffering from a disability and others, is the foot reflexology stimulation. Indeed, this approach of the human body suggests that there is a connection between the brain and the foot sole. Stimulating such areas by LLLT allows us to better understand these very paths described since the most ancient times. It belongs to a globalized approach of the human body knowledge. This application could promote a higher quality of life in individuals suffering from a disability and others. We hope to carry out a study on this topic that would enlighten podo-reflexology.
Stimulation of reflexology areas
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| Posture podiatry for sciatica, slipped discs, lower back pain | ||
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Definition: Sciatica: a sciatica is caused by an irritation of the sciatic nerve fibers emerging from the spine. The sciatic nerve is the longest and largest nerve in the body, formed of fibers emerging from the roots of vertebrae L4, L5, S1, S2 and S3. Lower back pain: lower back pain can be caused by spine injuries or diseases affecting internal organs. Lower back pain can originate from an inflammation which is mechanical, or linked to an internal organ, i.e. kidney, aorta, reproductive and urinary organs, or the meninges surrounding the spinal cord. Slipped discs: when the body weight is too high and/or when the movements of the spine are inappropriate or repetitive, too much pressure is put on intervertebral disks. Thus they can become weaker, crack, deform themselves or break, and then bulge out of their fibrous envelope which causes a slipped disc. If the disc slips backward, there are few consequences with no pain associated. But if it slips forward, the disc can compress a nerve root. This is a mechanical phenomenon causing nerve irritation and pain on the nerve affected. A slipped disc can affect any level of the spine but is mostly located in the lower back (95%). Stimulated Posture Podiatry (SPP) by LLLT (low level laser therapy) can initiate a pain relief. SPP suggests that the stimulation of energy areas located on the sole of the feet (acupuncture meridians and reflexology areas as developed by the Indian tantric medicine) loosens and relaxes the feet muscles up to the back muscles (related to the sciatic plexus), which, in turn, releases the micro contractures locking the vertebrae causing mechanical compressions at the origin of pain from anatomical or structural origin. Our experience shows that the pain relief provided from activating these energy areas favourably complements the standard medical therapies. The position of the foot on the ground – whether it is a high arch or a flat foot – is also a major factor influencing the body statics. Indeed, malpositioning affects the bone joint relationship, hence the important role played by posture podiatry in helping crippling pains which can sometimes generate an important social cost induced by collateral consequences (nervous breakdown, sick leave, etc.) The multicenter approach to relieve individuals from their sufferings is fundamental. The health professionals and DPMs (Posture Podiatry and LLLT Reflexology) are the links in a therapeutic chain to help the patient.
High arched feet with heel contact
and 1st metatarsus contact
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| Indian medicine, acupuncture, reflexology and Laserponcture® | ||
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Depuis de nombreuses années, nous pensons qu'il y a un lien direct entre la médecine indienne (Tantra-Yoga indien, "chakras", et "nadis") et l'acupuncture chinoise car toutes deux s'adressent à des fonctions énergétiques du corps. Récemment, nous avons constaté que les zones de réflexologie plantaire pouvaient être assimilées par leurs dénominations et leurs fonctions aux méridiens acupuncturaux qui portent des noms d'organes ou de fonctions (non définis : maître du cœur et triple réchauffeur). Nous avons donc stimulé ces zones énergétiques avec notre laser et nous avons pu observer un ensemble de réactions décrites par les personnes recevant cette stimulation. Cela suggère qu'il existe, au travers de la cartographie podo-réflexologique, des connexions entre le réseau acupunctural et le réseau tantrique des "chakras" et "nadis" indiens. La notion de tantra, qui signifierait "toile", pourrait être rapprochée de l'image de la théorie des nœuds et des réseaux permettant la diffusion de l'énergie dans le corps. Cela ouvre des perspectives d'approche d'une thérapie globalisée incluant dans une même action les effets de l'acupuncture et du Tantra-Yoga indien.
Publication
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| Acupuncture, the beginning of my research | ||
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In 1979 I read a book on
acupuncture. Very quickly the approach
of this medicine seduced me for the reason that it takes into
account the whole body and introduces another
dimension, at particle level, through the action of needles. I assimilated it to a thermocouple by cold welding.
It also appeared to me that not
all the points and meridians have been mapped on the
current acupuncture chart.
The fact that new points are still being
discovered in China from time to time
supported my conviction. I applied a reasoning which I thought in accordance
with the original discovery of the
theory of acupuncture points and meridians
and established a network of more than 300 new points
completing the traditional Chinese acupunctural network.
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| Creation of laserponcture | ||
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The laser must give a very gentle energy,
similar to the one induced by a needle into the body. I chose an infrared laser. With the laserpuncture method, 10 points are stimulated simultaneously. A session lasts 10 minutes for each laser head, i.e. 100 minutes of light in total.
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| The beginnings of laserponcture | ||
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Finally in 1987, I obtained an experimental protocol in rheumatology at the Hopital Universitaire Jules Courmont in Lyon-Sud. During two years, we tested and practiced in the same unit the laserpuncture technique in a double blind trial versus placebo. Results were sufficiently interesting to extend this same technique to other fields. Thus I discovered the medical and personal difficulties that individuals with paraplegia and quadriplegia have to face. I met a quadriplegic young boy that I followed daily for two years with laserpuncture: the progress he made encouraged me to carry on, and many other paraplegics and quadriplegics joined in. Results being increasingly convincing, even on complete transection of the spinal cord, others again came to grow the sampling of results.
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| Reactions | ||
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I had the opportunity to expose my works to numerous scientists and politicians (ministers, delegates, senators). The daily press published many articles about my works and about the swirl that they produced in the medical and scientific world. I observed that one could make the nervous impulse jump a definitive lesion of the spinal cord without having repaired the damaged tissue. It is the transportation of energy and the information without the organ: it is a revolution in the world of neurosciences and field of neurology. In July 1998, The National Agency for the Development of Research subsidized me for the manufacturing of a new laser equipment thus developing the concept of "Laserpunture 2". More than 500 paraplegics and quadriplegics have benefited from laserpuncture to date.
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| Developments of laserponcture | ||
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Many medical teams have trusted me to follow their patients after medical treatment by stem cells or autologous cells injections (China, Russia, Portugal, etc.). SCI individuals from 47 countries undergo laserponcture and know different degrees of recovery. The results obtained were presented and studied in the media (press and TV) and scientific reviews several times, including in the USA, for example Discovery Channel produced a documentary on laserponcture. Moreover, the technique was the subject of a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris-Nord and a Master's thesis for the diploma of physiotherapist in Liège, Belgium (aute École de la Province de Liège André Vésale). Below are listed some of the recent developments.
Last update: 9 Jan 2012 |
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an electronic recording of muscle activity (if any) in the gastrocnemus
and quadriceps muscles 
