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The first device is called the Heart Rate
Variability
assessment or the HRV. The HRV, a FDA approved
device, is a functional assessment tool that is
composed of two parts: the Nerve Express System
and the Health Express System. The first section,
the Nerve Express System, provides a quantitative
assessment of the state of arousal of a person's
autonomic nervous system (ANS). The second
section of the HRV functional assessment, the Health
Express System, automatically determines the
functional state of the person being tested and
compares it to standard norms. The HRV is used in
our wellness program as well as to assess potential
and long-standing health problems.
The HRV utilizes a device that produces a read-out
of the heart rate. It consists of a sensor that when
strapped to the chest transmits heart activity
impulses into a special computer program. It
assesses how well the body is regulating when
supine, when going from a supine to standing
position, and when standing.
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The next functional assessment device is the
Medical
Microscopy. We use the Bradford Microscope, a
tool
that makes use of a high-resolution microscope
(5,000X) in phase contrast and Darkfield, fiber
optics, and color imaging technologies to produce
computerized images of blood and other tissues.
The microscopy allows us observe various
morphologies, detect how well the body is regulating,
and thus establish a functional profile on the cellular
level.
At the Asclepeion Center we follow the Biological
Medicine theories of Drs. Günther Enderlin, Hans-
Heinrich Reckeweg and Thomas Rau, all
internationally famous developers of the natural
healing theories of Biological Medicine. Their seminal
belief is that medical healers need to treat people in
their totality as individuals, not as symptoms or
diagnoses, in order to increase the regulatory and
healing capacity that restores health to the body,
mind, and spirit.
Medical Microscopy is a cost-effective way to assess
the amount and general location of oxidative stress,
as well as the presence of excessive hormones,
enzymes, toxicities, and other health disruptive by-
products of biological stress. It also helps determine
the current nutritional status of the cells and track
the effects of free radicals, which are tied to
accelerated aging, metabolic dysfunctions and
disease. Overtime it can be used to track changes in
the level of wellness of the individual patient.
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Like the HRV our next device, the Computerized
Regulation Thermography, or CRT, is an FDA
approved adjunctive test for evaluating your body's
functions. CRT is one of the main objective, safe and
non-invasive diagnostic evaluations in biological
medicine (the other being Darkfield Microscopy).
Over 1500 physicians in Europe use CRT and an
estimated 100 use this technology in the United
States. The Asclepeion Center is the only center in
the Washington, D.C. area to
The CRT device evaluates your body functions by a
direct temperature measurement probe instead of
measuring thermal radiation. The result is a scanning
method that is often more precise and
comprehensive than any other thermographic
system. It maps out the complete autonomic nervous
system as it projects to and from each organ or
tissue. With this form of Thermography, we can
finally see what the body is doing long before it
becomes dysfunctional enough to create an
irreversible problem. Like the HRV, this system of
evaluation is not diagnosing disease, but rather
identifying the patterns that lead to disease, so that
these patterns can be successfully treated.
CRT allows you to see if and where there are
imbalances are in your body. One of the basic tenets
of biological medicine is that no illness occurs in
isolation, by itself. There are always patterns of
dysfunction. These eventually lead to symptoms of
illness, often after years of dysfunction. It is these
patterns of dysfunction that the biological medicine
practitioner attempts to define in order to create a
successful treatment program
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The final but by no means least important functional
assessment device is our hands. The body
scan
aspect of manual regulation therapy detects changes
in the regulation of connective tissue, organ
systems, and psychoemotional processing. When
performing this assessment at the beginning of the
session, the practitioner strives to detect changes in
temperature, lack of motility and the degree of
tension or viscosity in a specific muscle, organ, or
the body generally.
The manual body scan helps the
practitioner to determine where the body is having
difficulty regulating itself and helps the practitioner
to determine where best to begin to treat. A body
scan at the end of the treatment helps the
practitioner to determine what changes that affect
regulation in a positive direction have occurred. This
technique also can be used to assess wellness as
well as any chronic problems.
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Sarah, my four-year-old grand daughter, has
recently started buying boxes of greeting cards. She
signs them, puts them in their envelopes, and gives
them to people she loves. She gives them with the
same sense of excitement and intensity of love as if
they were as valuable as the Hope Diamond. It
doesn’t matter what the message is. What is
important is the act of love. For example, Ron
recently received one that said Happy Sweet 16.
Sarah’s cards made me think about how much we
adults get so concerned with the appropriateness of
an act that we loose sight of our loving intent
toward one another. Offering hugs is a perfect
example. We are often afraid to offer for fear of
being seen as inappropriate. But it is well worth the
cost of a refusal to give a symbol of love and support
to others.
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It is with great excitement that we introduce
Miessence - the worlds first certified organic
skin
care, now available for sale at the Asclepeion
Center. Miessence products are made using only
100% natural and organic ingredients that are
completely free of all impurities and synthetics.
These wonderful hair, skin and personal care
products, made in Australia, truly support and
encourage healthy, balanced skin and hair that glow
with vitality. Look for them in the product case in
the waiting room of the Silver Spring office during
your next visit.
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We have had some staff shifts in the last few
months. Wendy Van Zile is moving from
office
manager to working more closely with Ron and
specifically to running the Medical Microscopy and
HRV programs. Hopefully she will be around one day
a week to oversee the new receptionists as well but
she has moved further away from the Center and the
commute is a bit daunting. We will very much miss
having her here every day. However, you will be
sure to see her when you get your next HRV follow-
up.
The new office workers are Rene Gill and
Gaby
Argoti. They are both experienced and
competent
young woman who were chosen out of a pool of over
250 applicants. They will start just after Memorial
Day and Wendy will be here to train them through
most of June. So hopefully our quality of service to
you will not change during the transition
No one seems to like to leave the Asclepeion Center.
Nancy Mathews, our previous office
manager, has
been working one day a week as a billing clerk and
she has recently agreed to work one day a week on
special projects. She is currently creating an
infrastructure for our remedies and product division.
Finally I want to remind you that Toni Walter
is
currently working as a massage therapist and so far
people have raved about her work. We now have
another massage therapist on board as well. Her
name is Lisa Pawar-Grimaldi and she has
been
mentoring with Ron on and off for a number of
years. She does traditional massage as well as
craniosacral therapy and lymph drainage work. She
is currently seeing some of Ron and Wendys over
flow patients. Call Wendy (or Rene or Gaby) to find
out rates and available appointment times.
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With unfailing kindness, your life always presents
what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or
work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is
going to pop right up." ~ Charlotte Joko Beck
There are many ways to test out this theory. One
interesting way is to think of someone who irritates,
annoys, or just rubs you the wrong way. If you stop
and think about it, the drawback of aversion toward
others is that it isolates us. Also instant aversion
usually comes when a relationship brings up old
memories and childhoods discomforts. Because of our
fear we unconsciously harden our hearts.
Next time this happens to you try a mindful practice.
Just sit quietly within yourself and identify the traits
of the other person that are bothering you. Next ask
yourself what is your full relationship with the
distressing traits that the person exhibits? Does the
person act in ways that you don't allow yourself to
but on second thought might like to be able to?
Does the person act in ways that you experience
embarrassment and or shame when you act in those
ways? If that is so is the behavior really shameful or
just human? Is the person's behavior reminiscent of
one of your parent's behaviors that frightened you
as
a child? If that is so remind yourself that you are an
adult now and can give up that fear reaction and
begin the long journey of replacing it with
compassion.
Instead of rejecting all the person's flaws, relax
and
just observe who this person is, how his/her pieces
all fit together. See the person's strengths,
weaknesses, and places that need improvement and
have compassion for her/him as a fellow pilgrim on
the path of life. And then ask yourself, "If this
person were my
teacher, what life lesson could I learn from him/her?"
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As an integrative practice, we strive to dwell ever
more deeply in the tradition of honoring both
Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, and that of
Hippocrates, the Greek physician, father of medicine.
Our aim is to wisely blend all potential aids to bring
people ailing in body, mind, and spirit back to
optimum health.
Thank you for continuing to let us serve you!
Warmly,
 Ron, Martha and the Staff
Asclepeion Center for Body Mind Therapy
email:
asclepeioncenter@comcast.net
phone:
301-495-0933
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