Holistic healing follows the alternative medicine route and Dr Ahmed J Ansari from Bangalore has been a leading light for several years with his Pristine Natural Health Centre.
Ansari never asks his patients to stop their allopathic drugs; all he wants is for them to be open to other therapies and a strong desire to be cured. An ardent practitioner of Baha’i, Ansari’s caring and compassionate nature perhaps bolsters the treatments he offers at his clinic.
Pristine offers painless and non-invasive therapies for orthopaedic ailments. Ansari’s team of orthopaedic surgeons use the two tonne massive DRX 9000, imported from NASA, US. It’s indeed space-age cure for back pain. It is used to correct slipped disc (spondylosis), of the neck and lower back. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this treatment has proved to be economical and has a noteworthy success rate with low incidence of recurrence. The treatment takes 20 to 30 days and needs 30 to 45 minutes session every day. The DRX9000 gradually relives nerve compression by applying pressure to the affected areas. The treatment enlarges the space around the disc, strengthens spinal ligaments and keeps the lower spine properly aligned.
From space-age cure to molecular therapy, Pristine is path-breaking in its approach. Ozone therapy is another popular and safe therapy at Pristine. Ozone is one of the most potent purifiers of water and more than a hundred major cities in Europe have been using ozone for over a century.
There are different routes of entry of Ozone (O3) to the body—intravenous infusion, drinking ozonized water, through skin with ozone water bath and ozone injections to joints. “Having treated hundreds of patients since the last decade, we have not found a single patient developing any form of allergy or complication to it,” says the doctor.
In an age when the atmosphere is laden with toxic stuff, Chelation is emerging as a popular therapy. The water from gouging the earth is contaminated with toxic, heavy metals. The vegetables that we ingest are full of poisonous heavy metals. Even the air we breathe is laden with these heavy metals emitted from factories. These heavy metals invade the organs of our bodies and binds with the tissues, including our arteries, thereby hardening them. This hardening affects the efficiency of arteries, resulting in deterioration of the organ’s functions.
“We, at our centre, administer EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) that is used to chelate heavy metals from the body. Chelation therapy helps eliminate and reduce heavy metal toxicity, aiding in the pooling of blood to different organs and leading to healthier functioning of organs. EDTA also helps to reduce blood cholesterol levels,” says Ansari. He adds, “Since EDTA is so effective at removing unwanted minerals and metals from the blood it has been the standard FDA approved treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum and cadium poisoning for more than 50 years.”
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy is a relatively new treatment designed to aid in the healing and regeneration of orthopaedic soft tissues in injuries of muscles, tendons and ligaments. Of late it is used in cartilage injuries, defects and arthritis. Any injured, inflamed or degenerated area in the body needs good blood flow to repair or regenerate the damaged tissue. Blood flow to the area increases to aid in healing. The blood carries platelets and growth factors that allow for healing of the tissue by creating new matrix of the respective soft tissue.
In PRP the patient’s blood is taken with a simple blood draw. Using a special centrifuge machine this blood is spun down to separate out and concentrate the platelets and growth factors that are essential for tissue healing. This small amount of fluid with concentrated platelets and growth factors is called platelet rich plasma (PRP). Nothing else is added to the patient’s blood so there is no risk of allergy, reaction or rejection. PRP therapy is a purely natural process using the body’s own healing factors.
Once these platelets and growth factors are in the area of injury, they become activated. They also recruit other healing proteins and factors to the area and healing and regeneration of the tissue begins.
“PRP therapy is an option for two different patient populations. One is the patient with chronic injury that never seems to go away. The other is the patient with an acute injury, which might otherwise take 8-12 weeks to heal and is looking to do something to speed up recovery. That is why PRP has become popular among athletes and those with sports injuries,” signs off the doctor.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> LifeStyle> Health / by Sangeeta Cavale Radhakrishna / July 07th, 2013