Warm your lower back?
The device is supposed to work by warming the lower back.
“(The) devices, by boosting the local temperature, create an ideal, comfortable environment for capillaries so they improve the body temperature in the tissue of organs and supply it with all the necessary nutrients and, thereby precluding health problems,” the Fine Treatment website claims.
What’s worse, the device is also touted to cure a number of unrelated conditions like lower back pain or sciatica, prostate cancer and prostatitis — and this is the definitive telltale sign that the device is a fake.
Finally, it’s mechanism of action can’t be explained clearly and it offers no proof of being effective — no clinical studies are cited to show that have been undertaken to show that it works or that the Thermobalancing Treatment is no more than a fake medical rip-off.
A convoluted yet scientific-sounding explanation exists on its website, which says that Dr. Allen “has developed a new Theory of Capillaries’ Activity which clear explains the causes of the health disorders.”
“He has determined that various internal health problems originate at the level of capillaries. Capillaries respond to different triggers (such as pain, stress, infection, etc.) by constricting,” the website reads. This creates a decrease in the supply of blood to the stressed area leading to the lowering in the normal temperature locally.”
The website says: “In essence, Dr Allen’s breakthrough research findings show that most chronic health disorders are caused by certain processes at the capillary level, leading to angiogenesis. This growth of the tissue increases the pressure inside the organ impairing its proper functioning. The increased pressure inside the affected organ is the actual cause of its disease. Dr Allen’s discovery of a physical factor as the primary cause of an organ’s disorder is totally original.”
The site deliberately uses an existing cause of disease: angiogenesis.
Angiogenesis refers to the formation of new blood vessels, especially blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to cancerous tissue or tumors—but not angiogenesis is not known to be a cause of kidney stones.
In addition, the latest medical research has not shown “heat balancing” to be an accepted cancer therapy. The National Cancer Institute has a list of accepted “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” therapies on its site.
Finally, the statement, “The Theory of Capillaries’ Activity (TCA) has enabled the creation of unique Dr Allen’s Devices that target the actual causes of the internal diseases on the capillary level, not simply treat their symptoms” isn’t backed up by enough medical evidence.
Kidney stones
Kidney stones may be formed by the buildup of calcium, magnesium and ammonia (called a struvite), uric acid and cyctine in the organ, which acts as a filter of waste products from the body.
The most common stones are calcium stones, according to the National Kidney & Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC), a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Some of the treatments involve extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy that may be used to break a large stone into small stones that can pass through your urinary system with your urine. Or, you may have to undergo tunnel surgery or have a doctor pull out your stone with a special instrument called a ureteroscope.
As for prevention? The best thing to do is simply to make sure you drink 12 full glasses of water a day.
“Device quackery has no legitimate claim to immunity,” said Dr. Milstead, former Deputy Director of the FDA Bureau of Enforcement in a paper presented on October 25, 1963, at the Second National Congress on Quackery in Washington, D.C.
“It’s the most despicable of all quackery, for it uses science to advance its cause. It takes advantage of the people’s confidence in the great discoveries in science and their belief in the incredible,” he ended.
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