Improving Blood Flow with Holofiber in the Hands and Feet of High-Risk Diabetics
Diabetics know all too well that they face two major issues: neuropathy, or the loss of sensation, and atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, which reduces the circulation of blood in the body.
Atherosclerosis can lead to a number of conditions, including aching feet, leg pain and problems with slowness in wound healing. Symptoms include cold feet, pain in the legs when walking and pain in the feet when reclining.
When it is worn on or near the skin, Holofiber responds both to available light and the energy produced naturally by the body, converting light and the body’s own energy into the necessary wavelengths that make this usually unavailable energy accessible to the body – thereby improving the body’s circulation and oxygen levels.
The value of Holofiber to Diabetics was demonstrated in a double blind clinical study conducted by Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH, an associate professor in the department of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation at Loyola University Medical Center and Hines Veterans Administration Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Under the direction of Dr. Lavery, patients with a history of diabetes and vascular impairment were evaluated. According to Dr. Lavery, the findings of this study were "compelling and significant."
Lavery and his staff used Holofiber and non-Holofiber products (socks, gloves) on the feet and hands of patients. After less than an hour, patients wearing Holofiber were observed to have reaped benefits: measurably increased oxygen levels observed and recorded in the body and blood in subjects wearing the Holofiber products.
This testing, according to Dr. Lavery, demonstrated that there was, in his words, a "Statistically significant change in transcutaneous oxygen -- or the oxygen delivery to the skin - in hands and feet, on subjects wearing Holofiber gloves and socks compared to those wearing comparable non --Holofiber gloves and socks.”
Lavery said, "The significant changes observed are very compelling for this type of product. An 8 to 12% improvement in skin oxygenation could increase marginal circulation enough to improve wound-healing or eliminate ischemic (localized tissue anemia due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood) pain of the legs.”