Surgery

It is important to know that how fast you heal following surgery has a lot to do with the reduction of effusion (abnormal collection of fluid in a body cavity or space) this swelling is caused in part by the tissue trauma that takes place at the time of surgery and the dead or dying damaged tissues and toxins present. Healing starts when this fluid is removed and the blood supply is returned to a normal state. The quicker this happens, the faster the tissue heals, normally resulting in less scar tissue being formed. When the joints are involved this will mean greater flexibility and far less scar tissue formation around the joint.

Following surgery, in or around a joint, it is important to restore motion and flexibility. There are many procedures utilize in physical therapy. One of the modalities, or pieces of equipment used to accomplish this, is electric stimulation which influences the fluid accumulation to be reabsorbed and normal blood flow to be re-established.

IMPORTANT: Not all electrical Stimulation is alike. Having utilized electrical stimulation therapy on patients for over thirty years, it has become overwhelmingly apparent that the effectiveness of new technology equipment is radically different.

Hako-Med Horizontal Therapy, along with proprietary protocols developed and programs written by this clinic, help to make the dramatic changes that our patients are seeking. Our success includes increased speed of healing for post-surgical joint surgery of the hips, knees and feet.

Examples:

• Patient whose foot was amputated to the point of hanging by a flap of skin, in which his swelling and pain had not been responding to the typical therapeutic regime.

• Healing following knee joint replacement that had not improved as expected seven months following surgery.

• A fifty percent improvement in Doppler studies of a patient being readied for bilateral amputation was observed following one treatment. This patient’s feet were 50% black from dead tissue and almost no blood supply. Within two days following the treatment there was pink skin where the tissue had not died.

• Patient who’s foot had been swollen for 9 months following foot surgery to the point she was still wearing the post surgical foot wrap, because she could not get her foot into any shoe. The swelling was re-measured on the second visit and was dramatically reduced by inches following the first treatment. Further treatment reduced the leg, ankle and foot to normal.

• Elderly lady who was suffering from a frozen shoulder due to the pain from torn rotator cuff muscle had dramatic reduction in pain and motion following a series of treatments.

If you are not responding as you as well as you hoped, give us a call.

No two conditions are alike and no two responses are the same, but we have found the results we have been obtaining for the past few years are far superior to older technology. Our expectations for positive outcomes on difficult cases exceed the typical results of less effective technology.