Chi Massage Machine

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Anyone here use a Chi Massage or Exercise Machine? Apparently one of these machines has been shown on The Doctors on TV. They claim it was found to be easy and fun to use and safe. The Doctors show obviously can not vouch for its efficacy but the makers of these machines claim several benefits for cancer patients:

1. Improved flow of blood and lymph

2. Reduced risk of lymphedema

3. Reduced ability of the cancer cells to stop and proliferate (swimming ones can't proliferate)

4. Everyone loves a massage....

5. If you can't exercise due to certain health conditions, this therapy might also be for you. 

I am wondering if folks here have seen these kinds of massage machines, used it or heard about from other sources?

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  • Laughjoyfully
    Laughjoyfully Member Posts: 174
    edited October 2009

    Are you talking about the one that swings you from side to side  -  you put your ankles in two rests and lay down?

    Linda

  • unklezwifeonty
    unklezwifeonty Member Posts: 1,710
    edited October 2009

    Yes thats the design basically. Different makers have other things on top of that design.

  • Laughjoyfully
    Laughjoyfully Member Posts: 174
    edited October 2009

    I have one I use -  my chiro had me use one a long time ago and it seemed to help my energy .. so when I saw one really inexpensive instead of the hundreds I got one and then never used it until my bone marrow cancer showed up on an MRI. I went into "Panic, what can I do myself mode" and started researching anything that might help me while the world turned slower and slower and I was afraid of doing nothing and the waiting.. I found a lot of snake oil and only this and the rebounder seemed to have any merit and I already had this still in the box like new. LOL

    It definitely stirs up your body -  when it stops it feels like you are made of fizzy pop -  everything is fizzing. You have to lie still until it goes away or you might be dizzy. I use it among other things to shake up my remaining healthy bone marrow. I did research and found that physically shaking up the body stimulates platelet production. I cannot jump on a hard surface or run etc due to back problem sand talked to PTs and Onc and they said that yes it was beneficial and also would stimulate my lymphatic system and help distribute oxygen to tissues -  being unable to do regular moving exercise meant that the lymph system was not working as well as it should.  I had not seen your list until reading this, so can only comment on my experience. I hadn't heard of the effect on cancer cells .??

    So I do it and also have a rebounder that I bounce - not jump, on when my back and knees are in good mode. By coincidence with no medical treatment for 6 months, it slowed my loss of platelets down - to a stop - i didn't begin any treatment until after that point and so I have to give it credit as it was the only thing I changed, I was already on a special vegan diet since two months before the MRI . Oh yeah and the swinging -  as I call it -  and the rebounder -  little trampoline -  well I feel great after I do it -  even if I have to make myself do it, I always feel better afterward.  Before I had the rebounder, I had to wait for it to come three weeks, I bounced on my bed and the couch -  like a kid and that worked, to make me feel better but was more strenuous to get a good movement and wore me out quite quickly.so it kinda canceled out the good feeling.

    Linda.

  • unklezwifeonty
    unklezwifeonty Member Posts: 1,710
    edited October 2009

    Thanks Linda. The model I am contemplating is very similar to yours and also has infra red. I'm wondering if the infra red does anything useful. Yours is on ebay for 90. The one with IR is for 120.





  • Laughjoyfully
    Laughjoyfully Member Posts: 174
    edited October 2009

    I actually paid a little more at the time -  it was a few years ago -  now they are all around pretty cheap.. I don't know about infra read -  helps muscle aches, rheumatism -  but how do you get it into you from swinging?  Nothing to put on yourself ...  I did read some stuff about some kind of special heat thing that supposedly heats deep into your body and overheats the cancer killing it and it doesn't cook you -  like a band over you in an arch -  silver thing - well written but makes ya go Hmmmm?  So why aren't we all getting this at holistic centers - looked a bit suspect to me,

    Send me a link to your model -  I would like to see it

    Linda

  • unklezwifeonty
    unklezwifeonty Member Posts: 1,710
    edited October 2009

    here is the link tinyurl dot com slash ygw93bw

  • unklezwifeonty
    unklezwifeonty Member Posts: 1,710
    edited October 2009

    I went ahead and ordered it. They offer a 7 day return option.

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