Yonemoto Physical Therapy

"I recently attended a course taught by a physical therapist on how to improve anyone's heart health using manual therapy techniques.  Since cardiac disease is the number one killer in America, this course presented valuable information that could potentially benefit many people." - Sheila Yonemoto, P.T., Yonemoto Physical Therapy.

Could heart disease be caused by infection?  
Numerous articles in scientific and medical journals cite infection as a primary cause of cardiac disease.  If the demands placed on the body are too great, the systems go into overload and dysfunction occurs.  Someone who lives in a very polluted environment, eats foods full of preservatives and toxic chemicals, uses soaps containing toxins, and takes drugs with toxic side effects suddenly gets a viral infection.  Chances are this person’s liver and kidneys cannot handle all that “traffic” and, as a result, the excess toxins continue to circulate through the system and end up back at the heart.  These toxins and/or infections can irritate the heart tissue, causing weakness in the cell structures and if left in contact long enough, might even cause a rupture in the vessel or organ wall. 

Would you ever think of a heart attack as one of the body's protective mechanisms?
In fact, cardiac surgeons have theorized the body may even use a fatty plaque to cover up a leak in a blood vessel or even go so far as to cause a heart attack to scar the area to prevent bleeding to death.  Others have suggested muscle spasms help to close off a leaky vessel and blood vessels might spasm to contain an infection so it doesn’t spread throughout the body, similar to the chamber walling off in submarines to seal off a leak.

What can a person do to prevent this leaky vessel syndrome? 
For starters, you can reduce your exposure to toxicity by decreasing your ingestion of toxic chemicals in foods.  Eat pesticide free vegetables and fruits and animal and dairy products containing fewer chemicals.  Many of the foods we eat contain antibiotics and hormones to make the animals grow bigger and stay healthier. Learn the common toxic ingredients in soaps and other products absorbed by the skin.

How can physical therapy help?
Specially trained people can help the heart function better by stimulating the body’s healing mechanisms.  These manual therapy techniques include relaxing muscle spasms allowing for better blood flow, opening lymph vessels for better immune function, assisting the body to close up leaks and stimulating the immune function of the body.  Eastern exercise focuses on boosting a body’s immune capabilities and promoting better organ functioning.

The body has an amazing capacity to function in spite of tremendous breakdown.  Surgery should be the last resort in dealing with these breakdowns.  Help yourself by giving your body a chance to reduce the stress and strain you put on it.  Diet, activity, mental attitude and environment all affect the functioning of the body and are within our control.  Sometimes you need help finding the right combination that doesn’t shock the system and is easily implemented.  Get informed and seek out the answers from a multi-pronged approach.

If you have any questions, please submit them to:

Sheila Yonemoto, P.T.
Yonemoto Physical Therapy
55 S. Raymond Ave., Suite 100
Alhambra, CA 91801
PHONE:  626 576 0591
FAX: 626 576 5890

Links:
http://www.yonemoto.com/ - Yonemoto Physical Therapy home page
http://www.yonemoto.com/programs/IMT.htm - Integrative Manual Therapy, a Hands-On Approach
http://www.yonemoto.com/programs/qigong.htm - Qigong to boost the immune system

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