Emphysema & Rebounding

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Emphysema and Rebounding (sent by a Dr. friend of mine)

Emphysema patients pulmonary function improved by very gentle rebounding.

The physical therapy department at the University of Michigan medical

school reported, about 1980, that the very mild up and down motion

from gentle rebounding would very significantly improve the functional

breathing capacity of people with severe emphysema. This improvement

was separate from the exercise portion of this motion since someone

else could do the bouncing while the patient simply sat on the middle

of the rebounder. Now, 20 years later, when anyone contacts this

department there is no longer anyone there who knows anything about

this breakthrough.

I am terribly disappointed that this valuable discovery has been swept

under the rug in such a short time. I have had to accept that the

medical monopoly refuses to acknowledge any inexpensive, safe and very

effective approaches discovered; since these kind of approaches can be

construed as being in competition with the licensed

physician/prescription system presently in control of this country.

However, I still mourn when things like this happen.

I can give you no more information than to suggest you do a literature

search for any research about combining rebounding and emphysema

published in the late '70s or early '80s.

I CAN tell you the gist of the findings that were reported but I did

not save the article since I was still, at that time, naive about the

pervasive efforts of MY profession at suppressing such information. I

just assumed that the findings would be expanded upon and would soon

be the " standard of practice " in at least THIS country. Instead, it

has been buried as too inexpensive and also being something that any

non-licensed person could provide.

Russ, if I had late stage emphysema, I would encourage eveyone to get

your 'Cellular Rebound Lymphasizer' for my home and very gently bounce

on it for about 10

minutes twice a day. If I was so far gone as to not be able to bounce

myself, I would find a friend willing to bounce on it the same amount

of time WHILE I was sitting on the center of the rebounder(as shown &

expalined in Dr. West's book). Just that much would be enough to start

showing results in a couple of weeks. As soon as I was enough improved

that I could do it myself, my friend wouldn't have to come over any

more. Just sitting on the rebounder and rhythmically waving your hands

and forearms up and down will quickly start an up and down motion of

the entire body that would do a lot of good.

The important thing to remember is that, apparently, what does the

good has nothing to do with this being exercise. The effects accrue

from the reciprocal up and down motion.

The minimum amount that works is 10 minutes twice a day and more helps

more.

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