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- From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
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- Subject: Re: Israeli Doctors treat Scoliosis
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.095246.418@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 09:52:46 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.194303.15354@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com>
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- Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- In article <1992Jul23.194303.15354@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com>, web@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (William Bulley) writes:
- > In a recent installment of the syndicated Australian television program
- > "Beyond 2000" as shown on the Discovery Channel, one of the topics covered
- > was a new medical device developed by doctors in Israel for the treatment of
- > scoliosis. Scoliosis is the painful back condition where the human spine is
- > unnaturally curved in one or more places instead of being perfectly straight.
- >
- > The medical device was a clever box which applied an electric current (of
- > low amperage) in the range of sixty to seventy volts to back muscles through
- > small pads which were taped to the skin of the back. The box used a high
- > rate (kHz) of pulsing to interrupt the applied current which was limited to
- > so many seconds on followed by so many seconds off so as not to damage any of
- > the back muscles. The human muscle tissue reacts involuntarily to all of this
- > by contracting nicely (one cannot prevent this reaction) and the result was a
- > strengthening of certain back muscles to help counteract the curvature of the
- > spine. I am glossing over details due to 1) ignorance and 2) net bandwidth.
- >
- > What I would like to know is how do I contact these Israeli doctors to find
- > out where in the United States or where in Israel I can obtain this device?
- > Please, send any feedback to one of the e-mail addresses below. Thank you.
- >
- > --
- >
- > William Bulley web@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com OR web@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
- > Schlumberger CAD/CAM sharkey!applga!web OR sharkey!lokkur!web
- > Ann Arbor, Michigan (313) 995-6211
- > --
- > William Bulley, N8NXN DOMAIN: web@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com
- > Schlumberger CAD/CAM UUCP: sharkey!applga!web
- > Ann Arbor, Michigan MaBell: (313) 995-6211
-
- I assume you're referring to a device developed by AGAR Electronics of Kibbutz
- Ginosar 14980, Israel. You might like to contact the two leading spine surgeons
- in Israel, Yizhar Floman and Gordon Robin at the Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery,
- Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. Gordon was (is) a leading
- figure in the International Scoliosis Society. Unfortunately, neither of them
- have an email account.
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- Dr. Josh Backon
- backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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