Archive for April, 2006
Vilela Difference
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Sharon Fidgeon was plagued with backache for decades and thought she was doomed to a life of pain. Then a new treatment changed everything, says Andrea Smith.
When glamorous social worker Sharon Fidgeon was 13, she received a playful kick in the backside during a pillow fight that was to have repercussions for the next 20 years. Having suffered with recurrent back pain, Sharon was also dogged with chronic tiredness, and she was feeling pretty miserable until a diagnostic technique known as medical thermography was able to pinpoint the exact cause of her health problems and set her on the road to recovery.
Now aged 34, and mother to pretty eight-year-old leah, Sharon recalls how the childhood prank was the first of three injuries to her back. “My coccyx [tailbone] was injured and I was in a lot of pain at times, with numbness down my legs,” she recalls. “It was when I went to college at the age of 18 that it really began to bother me, and my mother was at me to have the problem sorted out.” (more…)
Thermo
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Medical thermography, a non-invasive tool that uses thermal imaging, has been around for decades and the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine in Naas is currently the only centre in Ireland that provides this service.
It can be used to monitor a host of conditions, including respiratory dysfunctions such as asthma and bronchitis. It also aids the diagnosis of digestive, cardiovascular and circulatory disorders, and can even monitor breast health.
However, Felipe Reitz of the ICIM points out that medical thermography “is not a substitute for mammography, the standard breast tumour detection technology used in Ireland”, Echoing the view of the Action Breast Cancer experts.
Rather, Reitz says it should be used as a complementary procedure “to help people be preventative.” (more…)
New Screening put my mind at ease after battling with Cancer
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
A new quick and easy thermal scan can change the lives of thousands of Irish sufferers.
Mary Coleman has survived breast cancer but lived with the fear that it could return until she discovered a new high-tech screening.
The 50-year-old used to travel to London for the procedure, called Medical Thermography, despite her fear of flying.
Mum-of-two Mary from Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2005.
She says: “It was such a shock to discover I had abnormal, pre-cancerous cells. I’d had a mammogram 18 months earlier and I was fine.
“All the other women in work were fretting because they had to go for a mammogram but I thought I was home free.” (more…)