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.

If I had late stage emphysema, I would get a 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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