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Nerve pain treatment with INF - Anyone tried this?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Apr 1 10:29am | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
I went down to Loma Linda in mid July for their initial, no cost evaluation and treatment. The folks I talked with were very nice people. The therapist said at the beginning that the treatment procedures may seem like some kind of “hocus hocus”, because it involves placing only very light pressure on several different pressure points. And that proved to be true. But after the 1 hour session, I felt no difference, no improvement. The treatment did not seem to be a highly skilled process, so I also wonder why they are not teaching more therapists how to do this, and get more treatment out to the public who is much in need of therapies that work, even if it is not successful for all patients. Many treatments and medications are not 100% effective, but if it works for some people, then let the patient try without traveling to this one location only. I was very disappointed. I also had to pay a little over $500 for air fare there & back, hotel and ground transportation. But that was of course my choice.
But there was no charge and no high pressure tactics from LL for me to sign up for the full treatment.
I still feel there may be something to this I guess as LL has too great of a reputation to run a scam. (or maybe not?)
But as so many of you are saying, there is just something not right because of the claims of success, yet we are hearing only a handful of patients testimonials who experienced success for an extended period after treatment. So if this really is producing the results, they need to get a better marketing and advertising campaign and business plan.
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Hey all. Came across this page and as someone who received extensive INF treatment from Dr. Mark Bussell, I wanted to come on here to share my experience and set some things straight.
To give you some background, I was diagnosed with bilateral TOS (all three) in Dec. 2020, and had a surgical decompression Jan. 2021 (I was 19yo at the time, and had been suffering for years with no diagnosis). While the surgery helped alleviate my venous and arterial symptoms, I unfortunately did not get any relief from my neurogenic symptoms. I’m sure you all know just how stubborn neuropathy can be. Over two years post-op, I was still in immense pain and had tried everything I could possibly find to try and get some relief, to no avail. My dad came across INF when doing research into chronic pain therapies in the US (we are Canadian) and set up a consultation with Dr. Mark Bussell (DPT who developed the therapy). He changed my life.
I was treated by Dr. Bussell and another one of their physical therapists named Paul, however everyone at this clinic is extremely kind and very dedicated to making their patients feel better. Dr. Bussell is unlike any doctor I have ever come across: kind, compassionate, dedicated - it is easy to see how much he truly cares for his patients. I had 5 weeks of therapy, and now a home program to do myself, and for the first time in years, I am completely pain-free and off of all medications.
As someone who struggled from severe neuropathy for years, I too was extremely sceptical. Such high success rates for neuropathy? Seemed too good to be true. I had tried every medication, seen every doctor (neuro, osteo, chiro, rheum, etc.) all to no avail. Opioids barely touched my pain.
The reality of the situation is this: Dr. Bussell has been developing and perfecting this therapy for years. Right now, they are in the process of training new therapists, in order to start opening up new clinics. There are other hospitals interested in opening clinics, however these processes take a long time. They have clinical research published, and are working on getting more out in order to get approval from insurance.
Just because the treatment isn’t already well established, doesn’t mean it is any less effective, or a scam as some of you are saying. It takes a long time for those things to happen, and they are in the middle of the process.
I would strongly recommend this therapy to anyone. My pain went from being at a 8/9 daily, to most days being at a 0/1. It seems too good to be true, but it’s not. This clinic is changing the face of neuropathy treatment. Nerves are very slow to heal, and one hour of any treatment is not going to completely solve a complex case of neuropathy. These things take some time and work.