A New Therapy Treatment

We have some exciting news!  Sydney has been selected by the wonderful staff at Theravet to receive a treatment of a new and amazing treatment called i-Therm.  Essentially, it is hyperthermia - treating issues and injuries with heat - not just like hot water bottle heat or hot tub heat - I don't fully understand it of course, but here is the general idea:  In short, medical professionals have long favored the idea of using heat to treat various issues and injuries, including cancer, but until now, there has not been a safe, effective way of delivering the heat to patients - it would get too hot on the skin, etc.  A physicist in Europe (France, I think?) developed a new pad through which the heat can now be delivered safely.  The pad is engineered (crazy stuff, I can't even remember the words the rep used in this part of the explanation) to create an electromagnetic field which apparently allows the heat to be transferred deep into the tissue without being too hot on the skin, etc.  There are a couple different kinds of waves that the pad produces - if I understood correctly, one has to do with delivering the heat, and another has to do with repolarizing cells, which get the nerves "talking," etc.   A link to the medical distributor's website is included on this post for those of you who want to check it out.

Apparently i-Therm has made a huge difference in dogs with injuries like Sydney's.  There are videos on the website that show dogs with spinal/nerve injuries before and after iTherm treatment.  It's amazing!  If I can remember how to post videos on here, I will.  They have also had amazing success with i-Therm treating chronic pain, arthritis, and cancerous tumors, just to name a few.  Healthy cells can live in higher temperatures than cancerous cells, only by a few degrees, I think, and i-Therm allows this kind of heat to be delivered safely to the affected area, which kills the cancer cells without killing healthy cells.  Amazing stuff!  I-Therm has not yet been approved by the FDA, but apparently it is in the process of it and they hope to have it approved in the next 2 to 3 months for use on humans.  It has been used on humans in Europe with great success, and on people here in the States who chose to get the treatment before it is officially improved.  There are some testimonials on their website about the success doctors have had with I-Therm on human patients too, and comments by organizations that have tested I-Therm, like Duke University, etc. 

I will keep the blog updated if I see changes in Syd.  She had her first treatment today, gets another one on Wednesday, and then 2 more the week after.  If she starts really walking, I'm going to cry!!!!

Here is the medical distributor's website about I-therm. 

http://kldmedical.net/

And here is one of the videos!  If you want to see more, go to "Testimonials" on their website.