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Meet the machine that cured Crosby's concussion
GyroStim spinning chair may help concussion recovery; no FDA approval yet:
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The GyroStim is a computer-controlled, enclosed spinning chair invented by a 52-year old former semiconductor engineer from Colorado Springs, Kevin Maher, a man desperate to find a way to help his young daughter who has cerebral palsy. The Food and Drug Administration is deciding whether to give the device its seal of approval. Double-blind studies have yet to be published.
"The possibility of this is so exciting that I just want to do more research with it," said Dr. Lisa Avery, an M.D. neurologist based in Clearwater, Fla., whose clinic recently ordered a GyroStim. "I know a lot of this is just anecdotal evidence right now, and I was skeptical at first because if someone with a concussion for only a week or two got better using the GyroStim, it could have been from anything. Concussions can be gone, just like that, in the early stages.
"But what impressed me was seeing so many cases of patients who were a year or two out from injury, suddenly getting better. I believe we could see one of these machines in every major hospital and every high school district some day soon for the treatment of brain-related injury."
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Maher patented the first GyroStim in 2006. Only six have been built. He made his first sale in 2008 to the Air Force Academy, which wanted one for its aerospace medical research laboratory in Scottsdale, Ariz., to do tests on such things as motion sickness and spatial disorientation. In 2009, he sold his second chair to the Mayo Clinic for $125,000 to use in its research lab. But Maher thought his spinning chair should be in the hands of the medical community, so in 2010 he loaned one to Life University in Marietta, Ga., for experimental use.
A functional neurologist there, Dr. Ted Carrick, noticed immediate results in patients with various brain injuries. Carrick practices chiropractic neurology, a field that uses no drugs or surgery. Carrick has since been recognized as the first to effectively use the GyroStim for brain injuries, and his profile became much bigger after he treated Crosby in 2011. The Pittsburgh Penguins star suffered a concussion in January of that year and saw little improvement for several months before seeing Carrick and undergoing treatment in the GyroStim.
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"The possibilities with this technology are infinite," said Dr. Richard Turmel, a functional neurologist whose clinic in Quebec was one of the first to purchase a GyroStim. "This might be the most amazing machine I've ever seen in medicine, and we're only just at the beginning. I am seeing, quite frankly, new miracles almost every day with this. There are still skeptics out there in the medical community about this, but I'm sure when electricity was first invented, some people said it might be bad."
Other than the fact that a chiropractic neurologist isn't a real doctor and doesn't follow real science if this chair gives rich people perceived relief and does no harm than it is an effective placebo.
As for rolling it out to every hospital we should wait for the double blind study.
Other than the fact that a chiropractic neurologist isn't a real doctor and doesn't follow real science if this chair gives rich people perceived relief and does no harm than it is an effective placebo.
As for rolling it out to every hospital we should wait for the double blind study.
So because he doesn't use drugs or surgery, he's not a real doctor?
Meet the machine that cured Crosby's concussion
