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What's New at Comprehensive Heart Care Summer '08?

We’ve been busy this spring.  New diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities have been developed.  Several research projects have been initiated; others will commence in late ’08 – early ’09. 
 Our new activities are outlined below and discussed in greater detail at heartfixer.com. 

Research – Participating in clinical research provides multiple benefits; specifically it:
1. Moves science forward, allowing important new therapies to be made available to you.
2. Provides otherwise high cost treatments to you at no cost or with compensation to you.
3. Research fees allow us to provide other services for which we are not adequately reimbursed.

Our participation in the EECP Registry Study contributed to the development and acceptance of this technique, and we remain active in TACT (the study of EDTA chelation in heart attack survivors).  Our studies of MME in diabetic neuropathy and low back pain have been completed and will be submitted to the FDA (our goal is to be approved by the FDA in a new category – tissue regeneration).  New studies (pending approval/funding) in the works are:
A. MME in heart failure, utilizing a randomized, double blind cross-over format.
B. Magnetic Sleep Pad + Metal Detoxification in Coronary Artery Disease (begun).
C. HDL elevating therapy in heart attack survivors (likely start fall ’08).
D. Novel pharmacologic approach to type II diabetes (likely start early ’09).

Diagnostic – New and better ways to determine the causes underlying your symptoms:
1. Carotid IMT testing – a non-invasive, quantitative window into the arterial circulation.
2. Methyl Cycle Nutrigenomics – a huge step forward – looking at inherited susceptibilities to toxicity and infection – why you are sick and not getting better, while others are OK.
3. Spectracell Study – a functional assessment of your intracellular nutritional status.
4. Electrodermal Screening – Asyra is helping us help you, so we are expanding its applications.

Therapeutic – Our new involvement with Energy Medicine is giving us new tools:
1.  NeuroBioFeedback – A drug-free, non-invasive approach to improving mind function.  Why take drugs to change your brain’s electrical activity when you can do the same with biofeedback? (see clearmindcenter.com; Dr. Sherlan and Ms. Hetrick trained Dr. Roberts in this technique).
2.  Needle-free acupuncture - in a brilliant marriage between chemical engineering and energy medicine, Drs. Clark and Haltiwanger developed a drug-free skin patch program to decrease pain, enhance energy production and athletic performance, and to increase production of Glutathione and Carnosine (go to lifewave.com/chc for the science) - Dr. Roberts wore the patches during the ’08 Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon – his time was 4:27 – with no leg cramps!
3. LED (Laser Energetic Detoxification) – LED is hard to understand.  Its results cannot be quantified outside the framework of Asyra Digital Homeopathy, but LED has allowed us to address conditions that previously we could not – so we are going to expand its use.
4. Blue/Violet Soft Laser - this device can be programmed to deliver specific frequencies that have been demonstrated to be of value in specific conditions – a sort of broad spectrum LED.
5. Magna Charge – “Baby” MME in a sense, Magna Charge applies a pulsed magnetic field to rapidly improve the biology of a dysfunctional or painful body region.
6. Ionator Body Cleanse – difficult to explain and disgusting to look at (that is, what comes out of you), this approach is quite popular with patients and seems to be a negligible risk, non-specific detoxifying aide (see Asyra.com).  The Platinum Electrode approach is now available.
7. Alkaline, High Mineral Conductance Water – Now available to our patients.
8. PFG2 Pulsed Function Generator – A huge advance that you will hear about in the fall

Old Standbys – These new techniques were brought to town specifically to improve outcome in patients undergoing EECP and/or MME, the “flagship” therapies offered by this practice.  We can move forward only with active EECP and MME programs.  MME is busy – but with out-of-town patients – thus I am speaking more to out-of-town than to in-town groups.  If you want cutting edge medicine please study it, determine what it can do for you, and then support it.

Hospital Care – Dr. Roberts carries out elective heart catheterizations at Toledo Hospital on Thursdays.  His beeper is always on, but he does not round at the hospital on a regular basis.  If you are having problems after hours, a call to the office will be routed through the Academy operators to Dr. Roberts.  In an emergency, proceed straight to the ER; whenever possible, we will call ahead and forward pertinent records.  Should you require admission for a cardiovascular problem, then Dr. Roberts will coordinate this with Drs. Hussein and his associates, who will look after you during your stay.  This arrangement is working out well, providing you with timely hospital care, and providing Dr. Roberts with the time he needs to meet your other medical needs, and the needs of patients participating in EECP, MME, and our research studies.

More Information – Please attend our presentations, review the DVDs of those you missed, read everything you can on heartfixer.com, and if you are seeing me for cardiovascular disease, Reverse Heart Disease Now will help you understand my approach and the therapies that I will recommend to you.  A lot of energy is put in to these presentations – for your benefit.

Phone Calls – If you are experiencing an important medical problem – call us.  Tell a staff member what is bothering you, or relay a specific question.  Phone calls such as “I want Dr. Roberts to call me” don’t work.  Please realize – I can’t just pick up the phone and answer a question – I have to review your chart first and think about you (and don’t you want me to think about you before I make a decision?).  Calling you at night doesn’t work – you won’t answer your phone (the damn telemarketers – I don’t answer my own phone either).  When you have a question, and it is not urgent, please write it down and then we can cover it, with your chart in front of me, at the appropriate time.           

                                                                                                                                                                     James C. Roberts MD FACC - 5/20/08