Vibroacoustic Therapy
The Use of Sound Healing with Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment Mitchell L. Gaynor MD This workshop will use the sounds of metal and quartz crystal singing bowls with guided meditation, imagery, and chants, to help you create a harmony within. This harmony allows you to experience inner silence. Silence is not, as commonly believed, the [...] Read more »
Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University, Chicago, IL Sachin S. Kapur, MD, Glenn T. Stebbins, PhD, and Christopher G. Goetz, MD Background: The 19th century neurologist, J-M Charcot, used a vibration chair for PD based on patient reports of symptom improvements after train or carriage rides. He documented improvement, but after his death (1893), few [...] Read more »
If you look at a U.S. president prior to him taking office with his looks after four or eight years on the job and it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that stress affects aging. Knowing this makes researchers even more determined to find ways to deal with stress today. Much as any manufactured product such [...] Read more »
ScienceDaily (Apr. 29, 2009) — In a study that reveals the clearest picture to date of neuron death in Parkinson’s disease, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have found that a trio of culprits acting in concert is responsible for killing the brain cells. The study, published in the April 30 issue of Neuron, showed [...] Read more »
Stimulating the spinal column with electrical pulses shows early promise in easing much of the stiffness and shaking of Parkinson’s disease, scientists at Duke University reported recently. The findings, featured as the cover story in the journal Science, resulted from studies on laboratory mice and rats. The approach will now be tested on primates and [...] Read more »
By Duke Medicine News and Communications A novel stimulation method, the first potential therapy to target the spinal cord instead of the brain, may offer an effective and less invasive approach for Parkinson’s disease treatment, according to pre-clinical data published in the journal Science by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Researchers developed a prosthetic [...] Read more »
