Press Release
by the Brooks Center
Based on recent research, the
Westlake, CA (PRWEB via PRWebDirect) May 24, 2007 -- Ron Brooks, founder of the Brooks Center (www.brooksptcenter.com) in Thousand Oaks, California, has developed an innovative pain treatment and medical device as the result of a recent research program. The company is currently considering different private equity funding options to commence manufacturing and marketing of its neurovascular restructuring treatment and Neurovasc device technology.
During his 30 years of practice, Brooks became frustrated with the inability to control and cure the symptoms of pain, which hinders the rehabilitation process. He began to see a correlation between a specific pain pattern and the superficial structures of the body. Research in this area spawned the Brooks Center’s neurovascular restructuring pain treatment.
A direct result of this research program was the development of the neurovasc, a unique vacuum device that restructures the superficial components of the body. The neurovasc eradicates pain by lifting and separating the layers of injured tissue, releasing entrapped nerves that cause pain. According to Brooks, the treatment also influences patients’ brain chemistry and allows them to regain control over their lives when acute and chronic pain is relieved. With lower pain levels, patients report reduced stress, depression and anxiety levels; this also facilitates reducing patients' dependency on caffeine, alcohol and/or medication.
“Pain and stress compounded with substance abuse will eventually kill you,” Brooks says. “The very tragic event involving high profile celebrities has focused public attention on this issue. The emotional factors that contributed to these celebrity deaths were compounded by the abuse of some powerful medications. Perhaps this explains some of the bizarre behavior we saw before their subsequent overdose and death. This sequence of events is being played out in our country on a daily basis. We need to recognize that behaviors like this are a reflection and manifestation of a chemical imbalance in the brain.”
Without finding ways to control pain and stress, the result is often a downward spiral from the accumulated effects, Brooks says. This often leads to increased dependency on caffeine, over-the-counter medications, drugs and alcohol to cope with pain and stress.
The Brooks Center is focused on the treatment of adults with physical pain and stress, and has recently expanded to become active in the field of adult and youth sports injuries. The Brooks Center is looking for partners to help build a network of offices to bring its neurovascular restructuring treatment to the public across
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Treatment Methodology
to
Relieve Pain and Stress
Ron Brooks, P.T.- Director
Michael Prior, Ph.D.
CA. 91362
Pathway to a New Innovative Methodology to Relieve Pain and Stress
The Stress of Daily Life
Many of us have started to loose our ability to think clearly due to stress and pain…we have lost our edge (2).We need to seek out ways to lower our pain and stress levels and develop methods that will enable us to balance our brain chemistry if we are to regain our ability to function in our fast paced lives (3 & 4) . In today’s environment of super-active lifestyles we can not ignore the fact that we have to do more in the same 24 hour time period than ever before. If we don’t find ways to adapt, the result is often pain and stress which can lead to some type of drug dependency; using over-the-counter medication or prescription drugs to help us sleep, to keep us awake, fight depression, calm us down and to dull the sensation of pain. We need to find proactive healthy ways to balance our lives ensure our mind and body are each functioning at their maximum potential.
Pain a Major Form of Stress
Stress comes in many forms, such as work overload, financial responsibilities, raising children, and relationships, just to mention a few; but none more potent than pain. Most of us experience some sort of pain in our everyday life, be it physical or emotional. The common remedy is either drug therapy which only serves to mask the pain and does not cure it; or surgery, which is not always successful and can create additional trauma from tissue scarring. Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensation, occurring in varying degrees of severity. The magnitude of pain is dependent on the varying levels and combination of stresses generated as a consequence of injury, disease or emotional disorder (5).How many times have you heard a person say, “my doctor told me the pain in all in my head” or “ my doctor says that my pain isn’t that bad and I don’t need the medication anymore”, the truth is, the pain is all in your head.
Many people have everyday pain and adapt and cope with it almost unconsciously. Rarely do we take medication for this type of pain. It is a discomfort we just deal with, we get on with our lives with a “grin and bear” it attitude. But this type of pain also creates stress, effects our patience, sleep patterns, and ability to concentrate and function normally. Compound this with the daily stress of living and this type of pain begins to take control of our lives without us even knowing it! In many cases our body automatically makes adjustments; such as walking a different way to avoid back pain; or turning our shoulders instead of our head to avoid neck pain. Unfortunately these and other adaptations don’t solve the fundamental problem , they just serve to create secondary areas of unconscious pain.
Pain Theory and Brain-Chemistry Research
There has been some very exciting new information uncovered in the last few years that supersedes some of the old models of pain theory. Researchers at
So How Does Physical Pain Manifest Into Depression?
The mechanism of pain is actually an extremely complex sequence of events involving the central nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system. The modulation of pain stimuli begins at the skin, with the sensory nerves, from here the signal is transported to the spinal cord, where signals are regulated, for transport to the brain. This part of the process is referred to as the “Gate Theory” which was put forward by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall in 1962 (11) , and again in 1965 (12), They proposed that physical painis not a direct result of activation of pain receptorneurons, but rather the perception of pain is modulated by interaction between different neurons.This theory has been used to control pain through the skin, with transcutaneous nerve stimulation and acupuncture. Researchers at the time could only speculate why these treatments were actually beneficial.
We now know that the brain has neurons that are correctly programmed to produce, send, and receive a specific biochemical. Each biochemical, called neurotransmitters, travels along a different nerve pathway, resulting in a variety of physical processes. The pain signal comes into the brain and is processed by different parts of the brain for responses. The body’s anti-pain system is activated and at the same time the chemical dopamine is released which acts as interface between stress and emotions. The flow of these chemicals is the essence of our wellbeing. If there is excess, the nerve shuts down and the signal can’t conduct the electrical impulse to the next neuron. If there is a deficiency the reverse process occurs, the nerve shuts down. This is how the brain regulates the biochemical balance. Think of this process as a crowd of people at a ball game, each person is a neuron, the signal is given and people begin to lift their arms, people next to them follow suit, and amazingly it appears as a rhythmic wave. If this biochemical wave is excessive or deficient the wave motion and flow will stop, this can lead to physical illness and/or mental instability (13). Of course this is only a brief glimpse of this process, but hopefully we can begin to understand why it is important for the public and the medical community to be aware of this physical and psychological mind body connection.
What is the Source of Physical Pain?
Neurovascular Restructuring : a Revolutionary Pain Treatment is Born
Neurovascular Restructuring, is a new procedure developed for treating pain and reducing stress. This new procedure was slowly developed over years as a result of being frustrated with what was available to treat pain in our practice in
At this time in our research program we began to look at all of the available mechanical devices used for soft tissue manipulation. We tried these without success. Finally, we discovered an existing vacuum device used in the esthetics business, called Eureduc. We began to use this device in conjunction with cryotherapy and vasopump, and immediately found we could reduce the “Hydraulic Effect”. This made it much easier to decompress the tissue. The upward force of the vacuum was also considerably more comfortable for the patient than the pressure from manipulating the tissue by hand.
During the process of researching the physics of our vacuum device, we found that as the size of the vacuum cup decreased the power of the vacuum cup also decreased. In order for us to maintain the integrity of the procedure we needed to develop a more effective method to control the vacuum pressure. A second pump was added to the device which effectively enabled us to maximize the vacuum pressure while using various sizes of cups to regulate the vacuum on the tissue. This new technology enabled us to treat all parts of our patient’s body with much faster results. Thus “neurovasc” the machine, and “neurovascular restructuring”, the methodology was born.
Neurovascular Restructuring (NVR) is Now Available to You
The Future Expansion of Neurovascular Restructuring
We have a patent pending for our device technology and treatment methodology and have built both a clinical and home based model of the “neurovasc” device. The company is currently considering different private equity financing, manufacturing and distribution options to commence marketing these devices to both the professional medical community and direct to the public. Physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists and sports medicine practitioners will soon have access to this revolutionary new technology to reduce pain and stress. At the same time they will also be able work much closer with a patient’s personal physician so that they can better control and prescribe the level and duration of drug medication. We are currently in the process of designing a seminar program to build awareness of the effects of stress and pain in the corporate environment. With the growing drug dependency problem in our society, we hope this innovative technology and pain treatment methodology will help to reduce the level of dependence and offer an alternative that really works.
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Ron Brooks P.T. – Director
Michael Prior Ph.D.
CA. 91362
Ph. (805) 487 2294