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In office, use EECP (enhanced external counterpulsation) from China. Blood pressure cuffs go on legs. When
heart relaxes, cuffs inflate to return to the heart. Returning blood to heart artificially. Results are
phenomenal in improving brain function. CCSVI parameters dramatically improve with EECP.

The EECP treatment gently but firmly compresses the blood vessels in the lower limbs to increase blood flow to your heart. Each wave of pressure is electronically timed to the heartbeat, so that the increased blood flow is delivered to your heart at the precise moment it is relaxing. When the heart pumps again, pressure is released instantaneously. This lowers resistance in the blood vessels in the legs so that blood may be pumped more easily from your heart.

EECP may encourage blood vessels to open small channels that become extra branches. These channels or collaterals may eventually become "natural bypass" vessels to provide blood flow to heart muscle. This contributes to the relief of angina symptoms.
Patients who are accepted for treatment must undergo 35 hours of EECP therapy. Treatment is administered 1-2 hours a day, five days a week, for 7 weeks.

Progenitor cells were measured before and each week for four weeks during therapy and progenitor cells increased each week. “One possible explanation for the long-term benefit is that EECP is a regenerative therapy. Progenitor cells line the endothelium. The shear forces described above are forceful enough to dislodge these cells so they enter the circulation. These cells will find damaged endothelium, ischemic myocardium or apoptotic cells and will proliferate so the benefit extends well beyond the treatment period. The number of circulating stem cells has been correlated with vascular disease, age and prognosis. Thus increasing these circulating cells seems a reasonable target for therapy “
The mechanism of increased shear is reversal of flow at the endothelial border

Health is a state when regeneration is in balance with degeneration. Disease can occur if either regeneration or degeneration is out of balance.

There are preliminary data suggesting that EECP can help induce the formation of collateral vessels in the coronary artery tree, by stimulating the release of nitric oxide and other growth factors in within the coronary arteries. There is also evidence that EECP may act as a form of “passive” exercise, leading to the same sorts of persistent beneficial changes in the autonomic nervous system that are seen with real exercise.

thrombosis hose work in the same kind of way. Mine were $32.00 and they were required after the by-pass surgery. Thigh high and hard to put on, but it gets blood moving to your heart. Raising your feet above your heart when you lay down works well also.