Monday, June 29, 2015

My obsession with Laser Therapy is not new  6-29-15

Five years ago, my rapidly aging dog was getting up very slowly and limping badly. Sasha was a 93 pound Samoyed...which is essentially a Siberian sled dog. Samoyeds are recognized by the American Kennel Club and often place very high at national events. They are considered a working class dog. In Siberia they pull stuff and herd reindeer and with their soft, odorless fur climb into bed with their owners on bitterly cold nights. When it is "only" zero outside, just one dog hops in. At 20 below, two dogs go on warming duty. At 40 below or thereabouts, three dogs are necessary. Have you ever heard of the rock group Three Dog Night? Of course you have. Well this is the breed of dog they meant!
Sasha was not allowed in my bed in Michigan. I do not become chilled easily and had a hot woman on stand-by in case the furnace went out. In Sarasota, I still keep the hot woman around but only for other nefarious purposes. 
By now I'm sure that you have looked up Samoyeds and have seen that their weight averages about 70 pounds. How is it that Sasha weighed 93 pounds at the vet? She was only an inch or so taller than average. First of all, this breed does not need to eat very much to stay alive. They have a weird metabolism that serves them well on the Iditarod. They can sleep all day long in a snow bank on about a cup of dog food per day. In Florida, Sasha's caloric needs were minimal. But she LOVED people food! AND she was an expert in the as-yet-unrecognized AKC mooching category. I am not saying we fed her Hungry Man TV dinners along with her dog food...but when she was alive we did not have anywhere near the leftovers to refrigerate that we do now. 
One would think that a dog that prefers sleeping in a snowbank all day would never develop tendonitis or become arthritic in Florida, but eventually Sasha did.
A wise pet loving client referred me to a veterinarian with a cold therapy laser. The treatment on the worst two limbs took seven minutes. The vet charged me $30. Sasha limped in and practically trotted out! I was dumbfounded but giddy with delight. A month later, the other two limbs were causing problems. We returned to the same vet and received another seven minutes. But this time the receptionist asked me for $60! I was dumbfounded yet again but for different reasons. I asked to see the vet again and she rather condescendingly explained that Sasha was a large dog and cost more. I asked if we could measure the circumference of Sasha's knee and ankle and those of the beagle in the waiting room, but the vet declined. When I am being screwed over by someone I hire, it is my nature to fire them and do it myself. So that is exactly what I did. I imported a beautiful laser from Europe, watched dozens of videos, and treated my dog the next time she needed it.
I had a chronically sore elbow from lifting very heavy weights in middle age. I watched a dozen more videos and treated it. The soreness was much better the next day, and completely gone in two more! The same thing happened when I treated a sore shoulder that I had dislocated 20 years ago...only this time it took TWO treatments to take care of it. Now I am lifting weights that should be FAR too heavy for a man rapidly approaching 60.
Sherri was a 45 year old lady who worked out at my studio. She was very pleasant and it was with great sadness that she told me she was going to have to stop attending and quit her computer job due to carpal tunnel syndrome and the awful pain in both wrists. I watched still more videos and read a treatise written by a therapy laser engineer that he submitted to Harvard for review. After some cajoling, Sherri let me treat one of her wrists with my laser. Two days later, she came back to the gym, BEGGING me to treat the other one!  She kept her job and her workouts intact with no surgery and did not miss a single day of work!
Many videos and courses and certifications later, I am now a Cold Laser Therapy Specialist who has performed over a thousand treatments successfully. I have changed the lives of many people and kept my own physique in fine tune. This is the link to my new Cold Laser Therapy site. To return to the home page of marksteelbooks.com click here.

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