Read a copy of an article below about how the Photonic Stimulator was used to treat a little girl who was struck by lightning.

"Photon Therapy

BRIGHTENS THE FUTURE
BY SWAHA DEVI



With no progress in sight via conventional medicine,
a brain-damaged boy and a girl debilitated by a lightning
strike are dramatically helped by Photon Stimulation.

It should have been a joyful occasion. Nine-year-old Kacey Miles of Louisiana was proudly showing her goats at the fair. Without warning, lightning struck the metal center pole of the tent and the nearby metal fence. The goat chained to the fence was killed. The bolt jumped the fence and hit Kacey, entering through her left hand, traveling through the entire left side of the body and exiting through the left foot. The jolt melted the nails in her boots and caused ulcerations on her left foot. She was lucky to be alive.

Although Kacey did not lose consciousness, she was dazed, had poor balance and experienced swelling and burning pain. Hospital physicians described her condition as neurovascular instability. Trips to a pain clinic to see a specialist provided some initial relief, but soon the pain and disability became extreme and spread throughout her body. She was diagnosed with electrical injury causing spinal cord dysfunction, root nerve irritation up and down the spine and sympathetic nerve irritation.

Above: Kacey Miles and her brother, Mitchell,
with some of their animals

Left: Back at their home in rural Louisiana
after treatment with photon therapy.

"It was real scary because I had to go to Florida to get shots into my back," Kacey says. In the shadow of the traumatic experience, nearly a year of painful epidural nerve-block injections (into the spine) and an ever-multiplying list of medications that reduced her to a zombie-like existence (including Klonopin, Neurontin, Trazodone, Ultram, Buspar, Zoloft, Wygesic, Celebrex and several more), young Kacey was unable to function.

Once a very active child, she was fearful and depressed, could not attend school, gained 50 pounds and was quickly losing ground. "She was under so much stress that her hair was falling out," said her mother, Melinda Miles. Kacey had no hopes of a normal life, let alone freedom from the pain, and was losing interest in life.

Fighting fire with fire

The Miles family physician suggested that a doctor in Pennsylvania, Dr. Constance Haber, might help. It would not be an easy trip, travelling 1,500 miles in a pickup truck with Kacey and her younger brother Mitchell, who was also disabled as a result of seizures and stroke shortly after birth. But as Mrs. Miles said, "Your kids are all you got." They were hopeful that Dr. Haber, who uses a device called the Photonic Stimulator to heal such extreme conditions, might be an answer to their prayers. Ironically, the treatment would reverse a problem caused by light by treating it with an invisible infrared beam of light. And it would also help return motor and speech function to young Mitchell. Thermal imaging uses a color code. The color bar scale on the left side of each picture shows the temperature range. The top colors, in the magenta and red family, are the warmest.
Blues, on the bottom, are the coldest. Yellows and greens are in the mid-temperature range.
The physician can watch the temperatures change during treatment. Increased blood flow into the extremities translates into improved function of the tissue. One of the goals of treatment is bilateral symmetry--equal function on both sides of the body.

Mitchell's head is being held by his mother's hands.
This image assesses his body's adaptability, shown
by how much circulation is present. A traditional
pattern for a left-side stroke is seen with larger areas
of warm colors on the right side of the head compared
to those closer to the stroke area. The left brain controls
the right side of the body, affecting the boy's right hand
and leg. Further treatments focused on returning function
to the extremities.

Before treatment, Kacey's fingers are blue and purple,
or very cold. The fingernails cannot be seen. After
three treatments, the fingers become warmer than
the top of the hands. The fingernails are also
warmer--an important indicator of recovery of deep
circulation. The palms are warm and the two sides
are almost identical.

Kacey's left side was hit by lightning. As is common
in electrical injury, the exit point (the left foot) was
more seriously affected than the entry point (the
left hand). In the initial image (right), prior to the
second treatment, both feet are cold.

In the second image, taken after one week of treatment,
the bottoms of the feet are warmer and although the left
(injured) foot has not progressed as rapidly as the normal
foot, improvement can be seen compared to the original
condition.

Photon stimulation (See "Ending Pain with Light" in Alternative Medicine magazine, Issue #32, November 1999) uses a high-resolution thermal imaging camera and the energy of light both as a diagnostic tool and as part of the therapy. By displaying temperature variations in the body, the images help the physician see the integrity of the autonomic nervous system, which in this case was severely impacted by the electrical current of the lightning. The sympathetic nervous system regulates body temperature by controlling the diameter of blood vessels and involuntary functions of internal organs. Part of the goal of treatment was to increase blood flow to the abnormal areas to counterbalance the disturbed sympathetic response, known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). (Previous doctors had not used this specific diagnosis.)

Moreover, the lightning had disrupted the normal conductivity of the nerves, which should have an electrical charge. Nerves can lose polarity when damaged. The light treatment uses photoelectrical energy to stimulate a rebalancing of the body. In this case, another major treatment goal was to repolarize the nerves and trigger the body's own ability to reorganize itself and find its own neural connection. Then the body could take control once again. Dr. Haber applied this image-assisted light therapy while watching the imaging apparatus to determine the exact dosage needed.

Outcome

It was readily apparent that Kacey took to the treatment. "The first time I went, I felt great!" Kacey said. She immediately felt more awake. In only one week, following a year of deterioration, she responded dramatically to the photonic stimulator and regained body function. Kacey went through a medically supervised detoxification from the many drugs she was taking, some of which could have caused seizures if she were not gradually weaned from them. Today she no longer experiences debilitating pain, and only occasionally has any pain at all. She has lost weight, too.

Kacey is now thriving emotionally and physically. She attends school full-time with straight A's and has been named Student of the Year.

"Kacey is a totally different child after the photonic treatment," says her Mom. "She is a silly 10-year-old girl who is full of life, running and playing like a normal kid should. She is happy and has many plans for the near future."

Dr. Constance Haber (center) flanked by Kacey and her father
Kirk Miles (left) and Kacey's mother Melinda (right). Mitchell is
below with Dr. Haber's husband, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Thanks to the treatment, Kacey can once again do the activities she loves--including tending to her goats and other animals she is now able to care for and show. A year ago Kacey could only stay in bed or on the couch. Now she has started riding her mother's horse because her own horse is too slow for her, and she'd like to get involved in rodeos. During a phone interview, Kacey and her mom said they were on their way to buy a pig to add to her show animals. Mrs. Miles describes the progress as "Just a miracle! I'm real tickled!"

A second miracle

When the Miles family arrived at Dr. Haber's office, Kacey's four-year-old brother Mitchell provided another opportunity for a medical miracle. Diagnosed with a stroke at just three days of age, with recurrent seizures, Mitchell's life was complicated from the start with therapies and interventions. They tried physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and home exercises. Yet the child remained partially paralyzed, incontinent, and unable to communicate. His right arm had no feeling and he did not use it. His hand was locked in a tight fist that no previous treatment could move. His foot turned in and he walked on the side of the foot.

When Melinda Miles begged Dr. Haber to try a treatment on Mitchell, too, neither of the women was optimistic. Yet during his initial treatment, in less than four minutes Mitchell's hand opened for the first time. "It was so exciting that my heart went into arrhythmia!" Dr. Haber recalls.

After just the limited time available for sessions, Mitchell was able to move better. Without the use of a brace, Mitchell could keep his hand open. Also, prior to treatment, he could not even feel when he needed to use the bathroom. After two sessions, he began to regain some bladder control.

Mrs. Miles was able to locate a practitioner closer to home--Dr. Paul Roger, in Lafayette, Louisiana--who uses the photonic stimulator. Now, after a few more treatments, Mitchell is completely toilet trained, and he no longer needs the brace. A huge improvement.

The cerebral impairment had caused behavioral and cognitive problems as well as physical ones, but since receiving treatment he is no longer as frustrated as he had been, and it is now possible to get his attention. He has developed more movement in his tongue, has begun to say full words and has become more communicative--an important step in developing independence.

In his case, the stroke was the root cause of the damage, but for both children the photonic treatment brought about rapid change by restoring the electrical potential of the nerves. This non-invasive light-based treatment supports the body to bring about a return of function where there had been none. This treatment has also been used for diabetic neuropathy, Reflex Sympathe-tic Dystrophy (formerly called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), and other types of pain and impairment.

According to Dr. Haber, the Photonic Stimulator, approved in 1998 by the FDA, is the only effective non-invasive, image-assisted therapy in medicine today. Dr. Haber has lectured on the therapy to chiropractors and physicians and will provide one-on-one training to interested doctors.


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Dr. Constance Haber, a board-certified chiropractic orthopedist, specializes in neuro-musculo-skeletal disorders, using chiropractic, thermal imaging and photon therapy. Physicians interested in being trained in Photon Therapy can contact her for individualized intensives. Dr. Haber can be reached at 412-372-7900 (in the Pittsburgh, PA area).

Healthcare professionals desiring more information on the Thermal Imaging Processor and Photonic Stimulator can contact the manufacturer, Bales Scientific, Inc. Website: www.balesscientific.com.
E-mail: info@balesscientific.com"

Good luck and God bless,

George