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KAUFMAN TECHNIQUE by Stephen Kaufman, D.C.My name is Dr. Stephen Kaufman. I’ve been practicing for more than 25 years. When I was in school, I saw many students getting adjusted every day, sometimes several times a day, and yet they STILL had constant chronic pain. I myself had chronic neck and low back pain, in spite of frequent chiropractic treatment. Although I’ve seen many patients helped by chiropractic care, many more were not, at least not long term.

I started treating trigger points and myofascial pain in 1974. (A trigger point is an area in a muscle that’s painful when pressed; it very often causes a patient’s pain or other symptoms.) I was often frustrated when patients came in with severe pain. I soon found that if I couldn’t help their pain quickly they would go somewhere else. Other patients would stay with me for years and I grew to like them, but I felt guilty when I didn’t really make a change in their chronic pain.

I always wondered if there weren’t something like a “magic switch” that could turn off trigger points and pain like a light. In 1989 I set out on a research project to find this “Holy Grail”. The goal: find some way to easily turn off trigger points and pain on the spot, by removing the cause, using only light pressure on neurological reflexes. It took more than a decade, but I’ve now developed numerous procedures that seem to do just that, in many cases. No devices or products are involved, only soft tissue reflexes.

One day I accidentally observed after doing a neurological reflex on a patient that an upper trapezius trigger point that she had for 20 years immediately disappeared. On follow up visits it never returned. I applied this and other techniques to many patients and found they consistently eliminated chronic and acute trigger points, usually in seconds. Often the patient’s chronic and acute pain and other symptoms vanished, as well.

I’ve discovered a series of techniques that combine several simple, standard neurological reflexes that often quickly change the tone in a painful muscle, eliminating many chronic exquisitely painful areas and symptoms. The doctors and practitioners (D.C.s, L.Acs, M.D.s, D.O.s, P.T.s, N.D.s and body workers) who have taken my course on Pain Neutralization Techniques™ (P.N.T.) acclaim this as a major breakthrough in the treatment of pain. Many of these doctors have extensive training in most of the other healing techniques taught. Most have practiced for decades.

A word about pain: although many report rapid improvement in pain, these procedures do NOT just cover up pain! They work in many cases by correcting the cause of the chronic or acute pain, which is often muscular dysfunction. Our procedures are NOT THE SAME as any other technique!!! They are completely DIFFERENT from Nimmo, Travell, myofascial release, strain counter strain, or any other type of treatment! They are a totally new approach to turning off the problem, not covering it up! Most patients need several treatments for lasting benefit.

Danielle Hampton received her D.O.M. (Doctor of Oriental Medicine) degree and began her private practice in 1995. Danielle immediately began to increase her efficacy in energy medicine and energy healing by becoming proficient in other techniques. For allergy issues Danielle studied and mastered NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique) which was a new and cutting edge approach to allergy elimination at the time. Arthritus was another common presenting issue so Danielle found, studied and practiced JMT (Jaffe – Mellor Technique)which significantly reduces, and in most cases, eliminates the pain of osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease. Danielle practiced and mastered these techniques until something more encompassing and effective came along. She now practices NMT for these and many other issues. See NEURO MODULATION for a discussion of NMT.

Pain is often the presenting issue when patients come to Danielle. In response to common demand to treat pain and pain related issues, another technique that Danielle has studied and is proficient in is the KAUFMAN TECHNIQUE developed by Stephen Kaufman, D.C.

Below are details for NAET, JMT and KAUFMAN TECHNIQUE. The details for NAET and JMT are given for reference only since Danielle no longer specifically practices these techniques because she has found NEURO MODULATION (NMT) to be more in-depth, inclusive and effective. She currently practices KAUFMAN TECHNIQUE when this is the most efficient and effective treatment to utilize.

NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique),Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques or NAET for short, is a holistic, non-invasive treatment used in eliminating food and environmental allergies permanently. It was discovered by Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad, in Buena Park, California. An acupuncturist, chiropractor, kinesiologist and a registered nurse, Dr. Nambudripad, began conducting research in 1984. Her Goal: Solve physical problems which had plagued her since birth and help others with similar problems. Her research resulted in the development of a new and effective approach for diagnosis and elimination of allergies of all types. Dr. Nambudripad utilized existing medical knowledge from various fields of medicine and combined this with her own discoveries.

This information on NAET is offered as a reference only. Keep in mind that Danielle now uses NMT for allergy elimination and considers it even more effective.The following was written by a patient and friend of Danielle’s as a result of her own healing experiences with NAET.Eldorado Sun, March 2001, By Linda Braun.If your child, or someone you love, is plagued by chronic symptoms and/or repeatedly presents “problem” behaviors – ongoing cold symptoms, extreme anger, trouble sleeping, eczema, difficulty paying attention, hyperactive – it’s highly possible that something they are eating, breathing, wearing, or in contact with, is contributing to their difficulty.

If they’ve always felt or acted this way, they may not even realize other options are available to them. Sometimes they can’t find the words or the concept to convey what’s going on, and their bodies take over – showing us, in a myriad of ways, that something’s not right. Imagine how bad it must be for them – in the midst of a school day or out doing errands with your – while feeling so out of balance. If they act out, get angry, don’t pay attention, or melt down sometimes it’s the only way they can think of to ask for help.

A NEW VIEW ON ALLERGIES,The western medical perspective views allergies as an overreaction by the immune system. Standard treatments include desensitization using injections of allergenic substance, or controlling symptoms by the use of steroids and antihistamines. This can offer some relief to some people from some allergies, but often with unwanted side effects.

Dr. Nambudripad is a licensed Acupuncturist, Chiropractor and Kinesiologist, registered nurse and PhD. Born and raised in India, she suffered for years with a host of allergies. Combining her extensive training with her own experiences she has developed a unique approach that eliminates allergies, strengthens the immune system and enhances overall health. Her own allergies and symptoms are long gone – and she has helped thousands of other people lose their allergies and symptoms as well.

Her system, called Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET), defines an allergy as a condition of unusual sensitivity. In this context, the brain views the allergen as a threat to the body’s well-being, thereby disrupting the normal flow of electrical energy throughout the body. Essential communication via the central nervous system is impaired. A consistent blockage of this energy is the first step in a chain of events which can develop into an allergic response.

For some, allergens are easily identifiable and their symptoms appear clearly and promptly. For others living with chronic, cyclical, irresolvable symptoms, it’s not clear at all. The idea that what might be triggering the distress is an allergy is often met with surprise. According to Dr. Nambudripad, “Just about any health condition could be the result of an underlying allergy – headaches, backaches, chronic coughs, attention deficit disorder, indigestion, infertility, depress, etc.” If a substance is disrupting the body’s energy flow, thereby initiating imbalance and strain, it makes sense that unless you’ve “cleared” that substance from our body, no amount of other symptom-related help will bring consistent relief.

And that’s precisely what NAET does. Through its systematic testing and clearing process, it eliminates, one by one, the multitude of substances that could be disabling the inherently fine functioning of a body. There are ten basic substances that need to be cleared. The treatments start with eggs, continue with calcium, vitamin C, the B-complex, sugar, iron, vitamin A, mineral mix, salt mix and corn mix, and end with grain mix. After that, the number of additional treatments necessary correspond to the individual’s response.

Each treatment involves holding a sample of the substance in a small glass vial while being muscle tested to determine specific areas of weakness/reaction in the body. Then a series of manipulations are done along the spine. Next, six acupuncture points are stimulated for a period of 20 minutes while you rest, still holding the vial. After this, you are muscle tested again and asked to completely avoid that substance for a period of 25 hours. Upon you next visit you are muscle tested to confirm that you have cleared the previous substance, then you move on to the next. Once a substance is cleared, it can be ingested again. Occasionally repeat treatments for certain substances are necessary.

For some there are dramatic and immediate results following the clearing of a certain substance. For others, changes are more gradual. NAET has elicited enough positive change that the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C. is awaiting the results of NAET studies being done with cancer patients. NAET has helped considerably with the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, as well as offering general benefits (including remissions) to some dealing with cancer.

Tom suffered excessive abuse as a little one, before being adopted by a parent who was better able to love an support him. Even in a better environment, his levels of anger and expressions of outrage were frightening and difficult to handle. He had auditory and visual hallucinations. He couldn’t communicate well with peers or adults and so spent most of his time alone. He also suffered from asthma and was allergic to hay. At age 15 he underwent psychiatric testing and was diagnosed as having schizophrenic tendencies. He was put on Zyprexa, an anti-psychotic drug. The prescribed dose of one capsule daily completely knocked him out, causing him to sleep through days and nights. Reducing the dose by half still left him quite sluggish and sleepy. During this time, however, his family noticed that his anger was greatly lessened.

While his decrease in anger was a big relief, seeing her son so sluggish and miserable was not easy for his mother to bear. She had benefited from NAET, and her intuition was telling her that Tom would also benefit from these treatments. Tom began NAET in May, 2000, and continued week by week through the end of December 2000. His mother reports steady changes and improvements throughout the whole time. His moods changed and his general disposition was happier. He began making friends with peers and adults, and in general he became more relaxed and talkative. His hallucinations stopped. In mid-November he further reduced his anti-psychotic medication to one-quarter capsule. It’s been two months now that Tom has stopped the NAET treatments. At a recent medical checkup his doctor found no evidence of asthma. His symptoms of hay allergies have also stopped. Most noticeable is the continued absence of intense fits of anger, and all of the positive changes noted above remain.

Jill was four years old in the winter of 2000, and she had nonstop cold symptoms – runny nose, low fever, and persistent couth – for most of the season. Her mom paid a lot of attention to the food her daughter ate and made sure she got plenty of rest, but nothing cleared her ongoing cold. In the fall of 2000 Jill’s cough was back and her mother decided to try NAET treatments, wanting to avoid another winter of nonstop sickness. In on of the more dramatic cases, Jill’s cough stopped and never returned after the first treatment. She has gone on to do the first six of the basic ten treatments. Her mother happily reports that even with Jill starting pre-school this past fall, she’s had absolutely no cold symptoms at all!

Early in Bob’s life, his family noticed he was very angry, had a short attention span and tended to be hyperactive. Any direction or suggestion from an adult was met with hostile, confrontational responses. After a series of troubles in school when he was seven years old, he was tested by a psychiatrist and diagnosed as having ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder). For the next year and a half, Bob was put sequentially on Lithium, Wellbutrin and Prozac. Each drug provided some small behavior changes for a short period of time. But they also produced unwanted side effects such as excessive weight gain, a marked decrease in alertness, and a noticeable increase in behaviors his family describes as “mean”.

Concerned they had run out of workable options, Bob, then eight and a half, started the NAET series during the summer. A few months later, when he was back in school, his teacher immediately noticed a big change from the two previous years. Bob had calmed down, his attention span was greater and he was getting along with peers and adults better. He continued with the NAET treatments for almost a year. His family reports he is more relaxed, happier and alert, and he is able to sit still and focus – something that was close to impossible a year ago. When his anger comes up, he is able to express it and handle it well. His family now says his “sweetness” really shows.

Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques are not prescribed here a magic bullet that will banish all ills. Good health is often the result of a wide variety of factors. But for children and grownups alike, it may be worthwhile considering that chronic or acute ailments that don’t respond to other modalities may be due to unknown allergies. NAET offers a simple, non-invasive, side effect-free way to resolve what up until this point may have felt like never-ending difficulties.

In her experience Danielle makes the following note:NAET is an excellent technique, but doesn’t get to the whole picture of why there is imbalance. NeuroModulation Technique (NMT) goes so much further. It recognizes that pathophysiology can be due to physical, neurological, immunological, biochemical, and genetic dysfunction. There may be an allergy but if there is, what is causing that in the first place? NMT works from the premise that the natural state of our body is health and that most dysfunction or chronic pain is the result of confusion within the autonomic systems of the body.

It is a process of re-education of the other than conscious so that the body can function more optimally. In my experience, NMT is a more effective, faster, deeper, and durable “fix” than either JMT or NAET.JMT; Jaffe – Mellor Technique,JMT™, or Jaffe-Mellor Technique, is a revolutionary new way to significantly reduce the pain and and in many cases completely resolve all symptoms associated with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromylagia, Crohn’s disease, and many other autoimmune disorders as well as, allergies, trauma-related and post-surgical pain syndromes, migraine, candida, digestive disorders, motor-sensory neurological disturbances and other neurological syndromes, recurrent subluxations and other musculoskeletal disturbances, skin conditions, and emotional/psychological disorders. JMT uses applied kinesiology and acupuncture or acupressure to address the source of these debilitating conditions.

JMT is a revolutionary new bioenergetic technique which consistently demonstrates a significant reduction, and in most cases, up to 100% elimination from the pain and symptoms associated with osteoarthritis and other degenerative bone disorders, as well as a 70% and higher reduction, and in many cases up to 100% relief from the pain and symptoms associated with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, Crohn’s, myasthenia gravis, CFIDS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and many other autoimmune disorders.

The Jaffe-Mellor Technique (JMT) is a form of energetic medicine developed for treatment of chronic degenerative diseases. The founders of this method are Carolyn Jaffe, D.Ac., Ph.D. (c) naturopathy, and Judy Mellor, R.N., Ph.D. (c) nutrition, both of whom have practiced acupuncture and alternative medicine in their offices in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania for many years. They made observations about the chronic diseases afflicting the patients who consulted with them, and developed hypotheses about the origin of these diseases.

Jaffe and Mellor thought the theory that relates these chronic degenerative diseases to the influences of microorganisms in our immune system fit well with observations they made about patients suffering from these conditions. Jaffe and Mellor began their pursuit more than a decade ago working their way to develop a clinical protocol that would influence the course of such diseases. Dr. Jaffe discusses their pursuit of a safe and effective way to help patients with chronic degenerative diseases:

“The founders of Oriental medicine recognized that many illnesses could be caused by pathogens and coined the umbrella term external pathogenic factor (EPF) for bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, mold, or any microorganism that invades the body. After years of research, my associate and I concluded that EPFs are the underlying cause of these chronic conditions, which relentlessly assaults the immune system resulting in pain and destruction of tissue.

Our goal was to find a safe and effective way to neutralize pathogens without the use of drugs or ingestants, invasive therapies, surgery, allergy elimination, stringent dietary restrictions, topical applications, or cleanses. We observed and noted every similarity between patients who had a medical diagnosis of either osteo-, gouty, psoriatic, or rheumatoid arthritis. What we found was that there were very few similarities. Food intake for some patients was high in fat and sugar and low in vitamins and minerals, while in others the opposite was true.

While age of onset varied, as did gender and demographics, there was no common link for the conditions. After researching possible causes, we found specific pathogens that tested positive in almost every patient. Addressing the causative agent helped to stop a significantly high percentage of pain in almost every patient, without the need for drastic changes, and it also appeared to halt the progression of the diseases.