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Testimonial from one Emerson WorldWide Infrared Therapy Helmet client:
"I told you I would let you know how the helmet is working for our Alzheimers patient. He has been using it for two months. He has been getting three, twenty minute treatments every day. We are seeing improvement since starting the treatments. He is much more in tune with what is going on around him and is starting conversations, which he had stopped doing a year ago. I am impressed!! I want to share this with other people that have Alzheimers. How can you spread the word? So many people have this and the helmet can help them." E. H. , Ilinois, 12/19/09
For more information about the UK research, Read the 4 articles below.
Article
# 1: 19 Jul 2008
Special
helmet which beams infrared light into the brain could cure dementia
A helmet which beams low levels of infrared light into the brain could
be a cure dementia after the first patient showed signs of improvement.
By Rupert Neate
Last Updated: 11:04PM BST 19 Jul 2008
The treatment has halted the aggressive memory loss of one man after just three weeks of wearing the helmet for ten minutes twice a day. However, it is too soon to know if the improvement is permanent.
Clem Fennel, a 57-year-old company director from the US, had been unable to perform the simplest of tasks before the treatment, but can now answer the phone and hold meaningful conversations.
His wife Vickey, 55, said: "He was fading away. It is as if he is back. His personality has started to show again. We are absolutely thrilled.
"Honestly, I can tell you that within ten days the deterioration stopped."
After four neurologists told Mr Fennel nothing could stop his mental decline, he flew to Britain to become the first person in the world to undergo the treatment developed by a family doctor in County Durham.
Dr Gordon Dougal invented the helmet, which features 700 light-emitting diodes which are designed to stimulate neurons in the brain, after seeing how successful the lasers were at treating cold sores.
He said the success of Mr Fennel's treat was "hugely significant," and hoped the device could eventually help thousands of dementia sufferers. However, a full clinical trial must be carried out before the helmet could be licensed for public use.
A spokeswoman for the Alzheimer's Society, which is campaigning for new treatments to help 700,000 British dementia sufferers, said: "A treatment that reverses the effects of dementia rather than just temporarily halting its symptoms could change the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who live with this devastating condition.
"Non-thermal near infra-red treatment for people with dementia is a potentially interesting technique.
"We look forward to further research to determine whether it could help improve cognition in humans. Only then can we begin to investigate whether near infra-red could benefit people with dementia."
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Article # 2: 15th July
2008
More about this same patient written on
Dementia patient
makes 'amazing' progress after using infra-red helmet
By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 2:26
AM on 15th July 2008
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Two months ago Clem Fennell was fading fast.
The victim of an aggressive type of dementia, the 57-year-old businessmen
was unable to answer the phone, order a meal or string more than a couple
of words together.
In desperation, his family agreed to try a revolutionary new treatment
- a bizarre-looking, experimental helmet devised by a British GP that
bathes the brain in infra-red light twice a day.
To their astonishment, Mr Fennel
"Dr Dougal has been a godsend to our family. There was nothing anyone
could do to help Clem until now."
It
is too soon to say whether Dr Dougal's invention could help other sufferers.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and dementia can vary from day to day
- and relapses are not unusual. And not all patients may benefit from the
treatment.
Dr Dougal stressed that a full, clinically controlled trial
would be needed before his anti-dementia helmet could be licensed for public
use. A trial of 100 patients is expected to start later this year.
"I made it clear to the Fennells that I didn't know for a fact whether
it would work or not, but the results are good," said Dr Dougal.
"He was monosyllabic when I first saw him, but if I ring up now he will
answer the phone. He didn't have the verbal skills to do that three weeks
ago."
The
Fennells have been told they can take the prototype helmet back to the US
with them so they can continue the treatment at home.
Commercial versions of the helmet will include 700 LEDs and cost around £10,000.
The Alzheimer’s Society said: "’A treatment
that reverses the effects of dementia rather than just temporarily halting
its symptoms could change the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people
who live with this devastating condition.
‘Non-thermal near
infra-red treatment for people with dementia is a potentially interesting
technique. We look forward to further research to determine whether it could
help improve cognition in humans. Only then can we begin to investigate whether
near infra-red could benefit people with dementia.’
One in three people will end their lives with a form of dementia. Around 700,000
suffer from dementia - with more than half having Alzheimer's disease.
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Article # 3: January 3, 2009
Could LED Light the way in the treating of Alzheimer's?
Infrared
- light frequencies at the far end of the red spectrum - is used widely
in medicine, particularly in lasers to heal scars and reduce wrinkles.
But whereas lasers emit hot, high-energy light, low-level LED light is
cooler and causes no pain.
' It is thought to stimulate the growth of cells of all
types of tissue,' says Dr Abdel Ennaceur of the University of Sunderland,
who is assessing whether infrared light could reverse the symptoms of
Alzheimer's.
Dr Ennaceur is testing a helmet that bathes the brain
with infrared light. By wearing it for ten minutes a day, it is hoped
that patients' memory and cognition will improve in just ten weeks.
'Cells have been found to grow 150 per cent to 200 per
cent faster than cells not given an infrared bath,' says Professor Harry
Whelan of the Medical College of Wisconsin, where trials of infrared light
for 80 seconds a day for two weeks prevented and treated throat and mouth
ulcers in cancer patients.
At the University of Tel Aviv, infrared light promoted healing in people
with nasal allergies.
So how does it work? 'At appropriate wavelengths and doses it is absorbed
by molecules inside cells called chromophores,' says Professor Chukuka
Enwemeka at the New York Institute of Technology. 'This energy is then
converted into a biological form that can be used to heal cells.'
Tissues can be triggered to grow back when exposed to
certain light frequencies. LED infrared light is within the 'healing range'
and can be absorbed up to a depth of 10cm.
It has been found to promote healing of skin, muscle, nerves, tendons,
bone and gums - even to trigger the regeneration of spinal cord tissue.
A range of health gadgets now harnesses infrared's healing
power, from combs for hair growth and lamps for acne, to wands that can
help cold sores to heal.
Dr Whelan says: 'LED infrared light might one day help
those who are paralysed to walk again. It could also prevent certain forms
of blindness. There are all sorts of potential uses.'
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Article 4: 18th January 2009
Bestselling author Sir
Terry Pratchett has been testing out a revolutionary helmet which is claimed
to slow down or even reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
Science fiction writer Sir Terry, 60, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s
in 2007, wore the strange-looking headgear once a day for three months and
noticed a small improvement, his agent confirmed.
The prototype anti-dementia helmet, which must be worn for ten minutes each
day, was designed by British GP Dr Gordon Dougal.
It works by directing intense bursts of infrared light into the brain to stimulate the growth of brain cells.
Low-level infrared is
thought to encourage cell growth in tissue and encourages it to repair.
Usual headwear: Sir Terry Pratchett
Dr Dougal believes it can reverse symptoms of dementia – such as memory
loss and anxiety – after just four weeks and experts have described it
as ‘potentially life-changing’.
He said: ‘I have spoken to Sir Terry. He is very concerned about the
impact of his dementia on his work. He is scouring all of the latest literature
about dementia.
‘He was assessed by a computer-based system at the outset. Sir Terry
used the helmet for about three months. Over that period there was a small
improvement. Not significant, which was a bit disappointing, but it didn’t
get any worse.’
To ensure the helmet was a good fit, a friend of Sir Terry made a cast of
the author’s head.
The helmet was then clamped
to the back of an armchair at the recently knighted writer’s cottage
home.
Sir Terry’s literary agent Colin Smythe said: ‘Yes, Sir Terry was
using some sort of helmet and I think it’s going to be in a TV documentary
which will be screened in February. He just wants to try everything.’
Dr Dougal, from Peterlee, County Durham, has already developed a hand-held
gadget which uses the same technology to stimulate cold sores to heal themselves.
A clinical trial of the helmet is expected soon.
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