Re: RC: Injuries and Bio Scan, Anyone ever heard of this device?

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/1/99 1:36:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
horsetrails@inficad.com writes:

<< So what I would like to know is if anyone on this list has used or ever 
 heard of anyone else using this device and if so what were their results? 
  Ti, Heidi, what have you all heard about these Bio Scans?  Is this for 
 real or is it Memorex?
 
 
 
                                   Cheryl Newbanks >>

There are two parts to the BioScan apparatus. The BioFinder is a little and 
that measures impedence--you run it over the horse and it finds injuries, 
pockets of fat and acupuncture points. When we tested the unit against 
infrared thermography, if it was used carefully, it found the same areas of 
inflammation that the thermography did. But it was tricky to use--too much 
pressure at the sensitivity where it would tell you something and the 
intrument would find "false positives".

As far as the treatment half of the devices is concerned, we found no effect 
thermographically. That is, no reduction in inflammatory processes. 
Simultaneously, we were testing a contact laser diode pad and that did show 
inflammation reduction, but it got hot during treatment and we were not sure 
whether the benefits were due to heat or the laser light.

There is some positive science on laser diode treatment. However, it's all a 
little loosey-goosey at this point. Let us know what happens.

ti 


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