Thermal Therapeutics, Pain Management first-hand

"It's kind of a dual effort. One of the coaches, who was our coach here at the facility, coached for the Paralympic team. They have training coming up, and what fell into fate was the completion of our indoor range," Cull said.

The teams have to work together to overcome obstacles "built-in" to their DNA

"There's a lot of strong personalities in it, but you get strong personalities with elite athletes, that's just the way it is. But they do well together and when we travel together and work as a team together, we're very strong," Randi Smith, head coach of the USA Paralympic Archery Team said.

Lee Ford, a Paralympic archer said about her spinal fusion only 4 months proir to competing in London 2012;

"You just do what you have to do to make the modifications you need to make, to do what you want to do. Because I refuse to let my disability define who I am here. And that's just a simple choice you make,"

I will keep scoping out articles where Olympic champions battle spinal degeneration by surgery or other methods.  Their pain metabolism must be incredible to endure pain every minute of the day.

This is a picture of disc degeneration in an athlete.  It looks similar to mine except that my damage is a bit worse.  More of my pictures coming!

When the Fedex guy says "hey, that's like my miracle ball" it kinda gets my hair going straight up on the back of my neck.  After setting him straight about patent order and nature of litigation, he understood any inventors' frustration.  You have to take it as a form of flattery and example of how valuable a shaped gel can be.

We no longer hide our secret projects as good patent investigators comb the web for prior art or language.  Its as good as the test comparison sites that our students use to force them to "author" their own papers.  Its how Google has been devaluing search engine status for those who copy content from others and then keyword smack the bottom of each page.  They have been caught and so will the miracle ball people.  It may not be time.

Our next shape is a

TOROID

Chemical Structure of Testosterone. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am beginning to think that, at a minimum , testosterone is indirectly responsible for more activity.  More activity means more exercise, increases circulation enhancing the body's natural immune and pain relieving systems. Endorphin's rush and adrenaline and norepinephrine flood the brain with natural pain killing power. It seems pretty simple to me, but is it worth frequent blood tests to find out?  First question for the panel is: How do I measure testosterone relatively accurately (inexpensively) and correlate the relationships to other pain relieving neuro-chemistry?

It never ceases to amaze me how much pain one can endure.  Even the passage of manhood rarely goes without a physical challenge where the testosterone rage (looked it up, its origin is from rabies - like dog  :) overcomes extreme pain.  

Athletes regularly rely on the results of its flow throughout the body.  Since I have become an athlete, in the sport of walking upright, my testosterone has had very positive impacts on my ability to quickly build muscle mass, especially around my core. So I investigate and bring the first question to the panel of experts on our staff.  Why does testosterone help relieve pain?

Staying in the hot tub, one of the things I didn't count on was the heat.  I am a strong advocate of icy therapy especially in ergonomic and simple shapes.  Until CC sank to the bottom and I looked for new cushions for the ours. Our Director of Manufacturing and I found ours on Craig's list for $500. Kenny or "Junior" as his team knows him and I hired a few strong men to help us move it across town and into place.  Its been about 2 months now and with the intense summer heat there are few times that getting into "hot water" appeals to me.  I like to swim and stay out of trouble.  Heat is not to be underestimated.  So while looking at our new product line I imagined a toroid filled with our non-toxic thermal gel draped around my head like the halo over Shoney's Big Boy! Slid down a little further while in the hot water allows the gel to come in almost direct contact with the hypothalamus playing tricks on your body's ability to compensate internal temperatures.  Be advised, no one should enter a hot tub without prior approval from their family doctor.

Now, with a little help from my icy friend, we have a new product to offer where the need necessitated invention.  I wanted to stay in the tub longer to enjoy heated therapy on my tense muscles and I wanted CC to stay in the tub longer with me as well.  Really, I just wanted CC to stay with me longer while I soak and talk some pain away...

Join us on the team blogs while we study the effect of temperature on pain using Cypress Psoc hardware and wireless protocol to monitor and record pain level throughout the day and use time series and multi-variate analysis on the single sample of data, ME.  Want to get my designs on making your own monitoring device with a simple kit? Write to us on the team blog (so everyone knows how you did it) and we might even send you a prototype!

Ompeprazole activation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Chemical stucture of esomeprazole (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CC and I feel that even a full meal isn't enough to protect the stomach lining from ulcers or irritation due to most anit-inflammatory drugs, but since CC has experience with (WE ARE NEVER - as consutants - ALLOWED TO DIVULGE OUR SOURCES, SO OUR OPINIONS ARE EXPRESSLY OUR OWN)  Naproxen Sodium and esomeprazole combination that is now being marketed as "SOMETHING SOMETHING" we know its efficacy.  I have been taking each morning Naprosyn dose with a generic omeprazole and am now recommending that all who can square it with the personal physician (some of us may have complicating meds for other conditions) should ONLY take ALEVE with NEXIUM (if you REALLY think you need it - study their chemical properties above and defend your position) or use OTC PRILOSEC (or the generic combinations).  The stomach had appeared to be protected by the esomeprazole (Nexium) in a way that can't be compared to food, but our EXPERIENCE shows that we should convert to a similar combination for both daily doses.

Left gluteal region, showing surface markings for arteries and sciatic nerve. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The beginning of an altered life plan which started as sciatica and had been treated by swimming and walking as exercise with heated and cooled icyball acupressure therapy (see the area in the picture).  We have been in business since 2003 and almost 10 years later without surgery...and having a high quality of life, the situation requires a little fine tuning.

My diary from the beginning of 2012 starts like this:

1/18/2012 - See Dr. Hey and hear that the icyball has allowed me a significant quality of life until this point. Phrases like "worst stenosis of the year, but its only January" "If we didn't see you we would have thought you were much older from your X-rays" "If you were my younger brother, I'd had the surgery" Post pics later:

$50 Copay NCBCBS Blue advantage B

$250 against $3500 deductible for back brace

What is an epidural?

1/20/2012 - First Epidural - I almost passed out. The pain became excruciating as my leg nerve blocks were "pressing in". I said"I don't feel well, it hurtssssss...and then the pain became a tingle. Then the right leg started to hurt excurciatingly. I didn't think I was going to make it. The pain was so intense that I felt nausea and started sweating and had to be carted into a room and observed. Within a few minutes my BP was back to normal, but I have never felt so much pain. My nurse intimated that I was a wimp. It hurt, way more than the MRI in Dec. Humbled by the pain of the injection makes me feel like I don't know real pain. Numb sciatic nerve and burning foot from injection lasted several hours.

$50 Copay NCBCBS Blue advantage B

1/21/2012 - Spend the day helping my son do a brake and rotor replacement on a Saab. Feeling OK without the brace. Went to church with it under a sweater and was un-noticeable. CC would regularly bring 2 blue icyballs cold in a sack inside her purse and bring them out at just the right time. In church, after we have been standing. Got bill for surgery Posterior T12 or L1-illiac wing instrumentation fusion with laminectomies. possible TLIF. Bone autograft and allograft

1/22/2012 - Finished the brake job with my son and daughter. She had her first date. Pain is minimal, although wearing brace. Horrible night sweats!

1/23/2012 - Localized pain due to the injection. Otherwise feeling good. Went a few hours without backbrace. Went swimming.

1/24/2012 - Up early, localized pain. Feeling a bit better.

2/13/2012 - Twinge, but abated with a swim, phew!

3/5/2012 - Struggling to get up stairs, hurts in the morning - hoping to swim later tonight.

3/7/2012 - Call for another injection. Try Naproxen Sodium and hold out for total 3 months between

3/9/2012 - Remarkably better on Naproxen Sodium. I swam 30 laps today (continuous for cardio) - kept up with Catherine only because we were on a time crunch.

3/30/2012 - BCBSNC won't pay for a lidoderm patch.

4/2/2012 - Still doing remarkably well even after mowing the lawn. Yes, up hills to the point where my legs went numb from muscle pain, not nerve pain.

3/30/2012 Noticed 2 weeks of swimming ~ 1 mile 3xweek - weight is 205

5/1/2012 Swam 40 laps over a mile today.

5/7/2012 Swimming miles a week. Hope it keeps up.

5/10/2012 Wow, Took two heavy gracery bags back to our room in Atlanta (the "W") Reverse descrimination is nice. I

5/11/2012 Walked several miles today on a treasure hunt for my wife. What fun, but the clinical trial is a NO. I do not have a disc tear, so no injections of Fiberin. Oh. Well. Not my plan. God's plan. I walked another 20 Atlanta blocks to prove I can do whatever it takes.

5/14/2012 Having difficulty walking - loosing my breath (even after swimming 3 days in a row). Seems I may have injured abdominus rectus muscles "six-pack" and its causing smaller lung capacity.

5/22/2012 2 ESI (epidural steroidal injection) with lydocaine. Felt initially better due to the lydocaineand had cold sweats like the first in January on the first night after.

A blood bath between Amazon and Apple predicted over two years ago seems more interesting than Kindle sales as a separate line item in Nielsen Bookscan, but the latter suggests that the top five Kindle selling authors are over 500,000 copies each and are all fiction writers.

Mass-market books as described by the New York Times are designed to fit into the racks set near the checkout counter at supermarkets, drugstores, hospital gift shops and airport newsstands. They are priced affordably so they can be bought on impulse. There are other production differences in binding and paper quality (historically, paperbacks were printed on “pulp” and could fit in the consumer’s pocket). The format is often used for genre fiction, science fiction, romance, thrillers and mysteries.

Blue or green screening is the term used to replace a background (usually a wall painted blue or green) and replace it with video or other stationary or animated art.  In our case we need a room with a wall that can be made far enough away from the camera to capture the image (me) and blank (turquoise in the desired room) so I can project images behind me or put them in later using a PC and Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro.  My first movie is funny and is useful in determining the requirements of room dimension and camera distance.  This video is especially useful for those wondering where to look and how it is perceived

Best way to reduce FUD is to find out more about how others successfully make money on the web.  I didn't know who Seth Godin was until today (12 best sellers and I still have to Google him...argh) and I understand that he will no longer write traditional books, only e-books.  He says "e-books are the future. Plain and simple."  OK, so I ask myself why I hate the Nook tablet that I bought CC for Christmas because it truly has replaced the book.  I find that kids (of all the age groups) prefer hard covers.  E-books are for people like my wife who want a better story experience, so she is better immersed with the Nook. Fascinating as this seems to be, I find that the top 10 most "highlighted" Kindle book of all time is the 4-Hour Workweek appearing on Kindle shelves after November 2007 (Now #119?) as of Dec 2009 the royalty statement for all digital book sales (all formats, including Kindle) is LESS than 2% of the total units sold!

Author's get paid 10-15% royalty on the cover price. $20 cover, $2-3 for the author

If you have a $50,000 advance, a $20 cover price, and a 10% royalty, you therefore need to sell 25,000 copies (“earn out” the advance) before you receive your first dollar beyond the advance. This is the basic rule, but

Electronic books, including Kindle, do not count towards the most famous bestseller lists, such as The New York Times bestseller list. I suspect this will change, but for now: print is what will make you famous in the mainstream.

If we choose to go digital only as an e-book, this is where profit rules and amazing numbers can be achieved. How amazing? All I know is what I have read and that more often than not (at least in the fact checkiing of the articles I am using to post numbers, one man nets between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 per year with a single e-book and affiliate cross-selling to his customer lists. I’m not kidding.

The downside is that you need to be a world-class marketer and understand affiliate and CPA advertising better than anyone else in your niche (since there is little barrier to entry, and therefore plenty of competition).

So an entrepreneurial endeavor into writing lucid, engaging and compelling script can be very lucrative. Hrmmmm...so that's where the FUD comes from!

After writing small business innovative research proposals (and then fulfilling the responsibilities required by the Navy or other DOD unit) gives me the discipline to write massively complicated and interesting to few, but boring to many.  I might have to go back and edit this if I get another one.

Alas, I do something I am truly afraid of; posting my picture and going on camera.  But first, I just got one of those pre-recorded messages that uses voice recognition to provide very polite responses.  This one was from a home security company and is probably one of the few businesses that I would ever consider buying anything from...after receiving one of these calls. The source phone number is 503 457-1003 from Tillamook, OR.  This voice response system had reasonable answers to even my request to "just stop already" and it came back, VERY quickly with "What?, Hi, I am here. Were you saying something?"...freaked me out.  Great job programmers!  Soon there might be more uses for this technology and you just might get fooled into talking to a machine!

August 2006 outside Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, OR (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Part 1  Get Started.  I was surprised to see how easy it was to talk to myself!  No guffaws please.  I hooked a simple handheld video cam to an HDMI monitor and pointed it at myself - way different than video chat as you are "talking to yourself".  Now its OK because we are trying to make videos, but don't make a habit out of it, especially in public.  I was surprised how serious I got by seeing a different angle than the one provided by a mirror.  It was interesting, really.  You can see every corpuscle, fly-away eyebrow hair and just about everything else in HD 1080p -> that mirror just doesn't measure up (angles are everything). My first and the hardest step has been to do the above, but I wished I did it sooner as my next try was a self video to my daughter.

English: Drawing of lumbar spine after a decompressive laminectomy with scar formation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Some mornings are better than others for the "stenosis" boys. Dad has already had a laminectomy and I've got C6-C7 fused together. Today, the pain is in the middle of the back. Hunching over, especially around the computer (fixing anything hunched over) causes a thorn like sensation where the T's meet the L's (in the middle of the back). While I might be better off slouching for the rest of the day (or rather stretch and be mobile), many of us have to put in our time and some have to do it sitting down in front of a computer screen. I have found that an occasional break to the ice box for an icyball (or a large Thermalball) and place it between me and the chair works wonders!  Within 20 miniutes I can rock-and-roll

homeostatic control (Photo credit: labguest)

For the married folks who suffer with morning gel due to rheumatoid arthritis, I have a little secret for you.  Many times, due to the effects of the medications (those nasty side effects) is body temperature control.  As soon as my body begins to cool and my circulation slows, the "waterlogging" begins.  Lying close to my awesome wife (very close) and keeping within her heating zone, she transfers her heat helping me to stay comfortable and not under or over heated.  The result is a feeling almost as good as going to bed.  Much less pain and much more comfort!  Quickest morning recovery possible.

English: http://rheumatoidarthritis-symptoms.com - Rheumatoid Arthritis in the hands (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Normal human lumbar spinal canal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Collage of varius Gray's muscle pictures by Mikael Häggström (User:Mikael Häggström) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A swimmer performing the front crawl. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By relaxing the muscles around the stomach muscles (abdominus rectus) as well as overall stress relief from repetitive activities like computer keyboard use.  Swimming helps strengthen the core muscle groups.

Often its the other way around. My feet hurt BECAUSE of my back. The nerves that run around the lumbar area get squeezed so tightly - narrowing- (stenosis) that it feels like they are pinched even though my back doesn't "ache".

Health (Photo credit: 401K 2012)

As I sit at my desk about 15 to 20 lbs lighter, swimming a lot less, exercising by walking and eating better I can look back and know that I can avoid surgery a little longer (or until they figure out how to make STEM cells fix backs).  I have so much respect for my wife who has helped me keep positive and contribute gracefully.

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Cooled thermal therapy devices reduce pain by numbing the localized area while removing inflammation and mechanically relieving congestion or buildup of fluids and toxins.

Place them directly in the freezer, overnight for best results.

Using a chiller works best or submerge them in ice to quickly cool them down. icyballs can tolerate dry ice!

Cooled thermal therapy devices reduce pain by numbing the localized area while removing inflammation and mechanically relieving congestion or buildup of fluids and toxins.