Mosken
Many names for the same treatment! I have seen some patients calling it "burning your nerves" or "killing the nerves". There is no such
thing though...lol. Most people searching on the Net come to the Friends board to read the information we have. 4-5000 people have read our information about
Radio Frequency. Lots of the info on the net is describing older methods only.
This is a treatment developed the last 30 years, especially in Europe and Australia. I have spend 1 week with the top guru on this in Switzerland, dr. Sluijter. He has trained both Europeen and American doctors. Unfortunately most doctor don't take their time to further updates. Also the equipement used is very expencive so many use old equipement so they can't do the latest version of RFD.
I have done this treatment in both Switzerland and Norway. Dr. Sluijter has 30 years of experience in this. I have his book, I had the pleasure of talking to him for a week. If you have any questions about this method, ask me any time! There is so much misleading information out there....also among doctors. I know first hand!
This is my story from my treatment in Switzerland:
p082.ezboard.com/fsunshin...=212.topic
Read more here:
p082.ezboard.com/fsunshin...D=93.topic
(For the Norwegians: We also have this info in Norwegian)
Description of what RF is:
There is several different RF techniques. The two best known differencies are the one using heat (RF) and the other using pulse only and not heat. The one not using heat is called Pulsed Radio Frequency (PRF). All the techniques have in common that the nerve is exposed to the electric field for two minutes.
In conventional RF the tip of the needle is heated and this is supposed to damage the nerve so that it does not conduct "pain impulses" any longer. In pulsed RF the nerve is just exposed to the electric field, the needle tip is not heated like in the conventional method. They know that this exposure induces gene changes in the spinal cord, thus altering cell behaviour. The exact mechanism is still under investigation. It is regarded as a harmless, non-destructive method.
Dr. Sluijter only uses the pulsed RF method. In his book "Radiofrequency-part 1-2001", he has said that he thinks the technique using heat should not be used anymore. Read more about his book here: www.flivopress.com/ourboo...ideos.html
You can also listen to him lecturing at this website, and download parts of his book.
Be sure to ask the pain clinic or doctor if they use the pulsed method or not. Also make sure they are able to treat the nerve roots and not only facet joints.
Dr. Sluijter has probably more experience than anyone else in radiofrequency and related procedures. As a conservative estimate he has done over 80.000 of these procedures.
I hope this was helpful.
Mosken
This is a treatment developed the last 30 years, especially in Europe and Australia. I have spend 1 week with the top guru on this in Switzerland, dr. Sluijter. He has trained both Europeen and American doctors. Unfortunately most doctor don't take their time to further updates. Also the equipement used is very expencive so many use old equipement so they can't do the latest version of RFD.
I have done this treatment in both Switzerland and Norway. Dr. Sluijter has 30 years of experience in this. I have his book, I had the pleasure of talking to him for a week. If you have any questions about this method, ask me any time! There is so much misleading information out there....also among doctors. I know first hand!
This is my story from my treatment in Switzerland:
p082.ezboard.com/fsunshin...=212.topic
Read more here:
p082.ezboard.com/fsunshin...D=93.topic
(For the Norwegians: We also have this info in Norwegian)
Description of what RF is:
There is several different RF techniques. The two best known differencies are the one using heat (RF) and the other using pulse only and not heat. The one not using heat is called Pulsed Radio Frequency (PRF). All the techniques have in common that the nerve is exposed to the electric field for two minutes.
In conventional RF the tip of the needle is heated and this is supposed to damage the nerve so that it does not conduct "pain impulses" any longer. In pulsed RF the nerve is just exposed to the electric field, the needle tip is not heated like in the conventional method. They know that this exposure induces gene changes in the spinal cord, thus altering cell behaviour. The exact mechanism is still under investigation. It is regarded as a harmless, non-destructive method.
Dr. Sluijter only uses the pulsed RF method. In his book "Radiofrequency-part 1-2001", he has said that he thinks the technique using heat should not be used anymore. Read more about his book here: www.flivopress.com/ourboo...ideos.html
You can also listen to him lecturing at this website, and download parts of his book.
Be sure to ask the pain clinic or doctor if they use the pulsed method or not. Also make sure they are able to treat the nerve roots and not only facet joints.
Dr. Sluijter has probably more experience than anyone else in radiofrequency and related procedures. As a conservative estimate he has done over 80.000 of these procedures.
I hope this was helpful.
Mosken
USA 
good
info. Something I will be talking to my pain doctor about
concerning all this nerve damage. Soon he will know the
extent of it as I have another EMG this month. 
