Patient Resources

NOTE: IBHI is part of the HanLing Acupuncture Healing Center.

Your First Appointment

Bring your questions and an open mind as we talk about your medical history and what our programs can do for you.

Followup Appointments​

For follow-up appointments, please bring the “Patient Information Folder.” Also, please have breakfast before your morning appointments and lunch before your afternoon appointments. Wear warm but loose pants and shirts, and expect to be in the treatment room for one full hour.

Patient Education – Rapid Leg Movement Therapy

We use Theracycle equipment for Parkinson’s treatment with Rapid Leg Movement Therapy

http://www.theracycle.com/

NBC Nightly News Report: How Patients Are Using Cycling to Slow Down Parkinson’s

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic are finding that cycling is helping patients stop the symptoms of Parkinson’s, and can even do something that medicine can’t do.

Patient Education – Photobiomodulation Therapy

We use FDA-cleared Laser and LED devices

• Weber Medical
• Apollo Physical Therapy Products
• Meditech International
• Quantum Devices
• Konftec Corporation

Research Organizations

• Tucson-Low-Intensity Light Institute, an educational and teaching department of the Center, will give seminars on the mechanism and application of low-intensity light therapy (LILT) regularly. Please visit North American Association for Photobiomodulation Therapy and World Association for Laser Therapy to find out more about low-level laser and LED therapy.

• LumaPoint Research LLC, a research and development department of the Center, is responsible for developing special treatment programs using low-light therapy in conjunction with acupuncture for the treatment of stroke recovery, tinnitus, chronic sinusitis, low vision, chronic soft-tissue injury, osteoarthritis, peripheral neuropathy, shingles pain, non-healing wounds, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Please visit North American Association for PhotobiomoduLation Therapy and World Association for Laser Therapy to find out more about low-level laser and LED therapy.

TRANSCRANIAL PHOTOBIOMODULATION (PBM) THERAPY WITH LASER OR LED STUDIES TO TREAT CNS DISORDERS IN HUMANS

• Lampl et al., 2007 (Stroke). Transcranial NIR laser therapy to treat acute ischemic stroke, NeuroThera, NEST-1 study.
• Zivin et al., 2009 (Stroke). Effectiveness and safety, transcranial NIR laser therapy to treat acute ischemic stroke (NEST study).
• Schiffer et al., 2009 (Behav Brain Funct). Transcranial, NIR LED treatment for major depression and anxiety.
• Naeser & Hamblin, 2011 (Editorial, PMLS). Potential for transcranial laser or LED therapy to treat stroke, TBI and neurodegenerative disease.
• Naeser, Saltmarche et al., 2011 (PMLS): Transcranial LED to improve cognition in TBI and PTSD, with home treatment (2 case reports).
• Whelan et al., 2012 ( In Bio.). Therapeutic effect of near infrared (NIR) light on Parkinson’s disease models.
• Nawashiro et al., 2012 (PMLS). Focal increase in cerebral blood flow after transcranial, NIR LED to forehead in severe, chronic TBI (persistent vegetative state).
• Gonzalez-Lima et al., 2013 (Neuroscience). Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation Produces Beneficial Cognitive and Emotional Effects in Humans.
• Naeser, Zafonte et al., 2014 (J of Neurotrauma). Significant improvement in cognition post- 18 transcranial LED treatments in chronic, TBI.
• Saltmarche, Naeser et al., 2017 (PMLS). Significant improvement in cognition in 5 chronic, dementia patients post- 12 weeks, transcranial plus intranasal NIR LED treatments.