Neuropathy, or nerve injury, is a severe and common impediment of diabetes. Studies evaluate that 50% of people with diabetes will develop neuropathy. Diabetic nerve injury is impairment of a single solitary nerve (also named mononeuropathy). Com- monly 2 cranial nerves Viz., cranial nerve VII and cranial nerve VI are involved in facial nerve palsies. The former one is called Bell’s palsy and is acute Lower Motor Neuron facial nerve paralysis (>80%) causing an inability to control facial muscles on the affected side. The later one is sixth nerve palsy, (the abducens nerve), which is responsible for triggering contraction of the lateral rectus muscle to abduct (<i>i.e.</i>, turn out) the eye resulting in double vision on the affected side. In recent times, we have found to our amazement, rapid restoration of normalcy within a few hours to a few days, of Cranial Nerve palsies in diabetic subjects at our centre. We are presenting a group of cases having Type2DM over different time periods from 6 to 20 years and those who suddenly suffered facial nerve palsy and they came to VHSDRC for treatment. They were started on the new modality called the Dynamic Acupuncture Mediated Meta-physical Energy Therapy (DAMM Therapy), to recover from the facial palsy. The DAMM therapy is a unique novel way of infusing and transferring healing energy from the therapist to the patient. Within 2 - 7 sittings of DAMM therapy patients showed 75% - 100% improvement in their clinical condition.
Abnormal eye movements are instigated by injury or disease which can affect the eye muscles or nerves supplying these muscles [
Many people with diabetes develop nerve damage around two decades after diagnosis. Neuropathy, or nerve injury, is a severe and common complication of diabetes. Studies evaluate that 50% of people with diabetes will develop neuropathy. Diabetic nerve injury is impairment of a single nerve (also named mononeuropathy). Mono- neuropathy involves damage to a specific nerve (single) [
Diabetic neuropathy is often caused by years of high, unregulated blood glucose. Long phases of raised blood glucose can injure the vessels that supply the body’s nerves with adequate nourishment and oxygen. After years of scarcity due to poor blood replenishment, the nerves become numb. Some people with neuropathy feel pain, but as the condition progresses, the pain often disappears; the nerves are too damaged to feel anything [
paralysis (>80%). Bell’s palsy is a form of facial paralysis resulting from a dysfunction of the cranial nerve VII which controls the muscles of the face (the facial nerve), causing an inability to control facial muscles on the affected side. It is thought that an inflammatory condition leads to puffiness of the facial nerve. The nerve travels through the skull in a narrow bone canal beneath the ear. Nerve bulge and firmness in the narrow bone canal are thought to lead to nerve inhibition or damage. Facial palsy is typified by inability to control movement in the facial muscles. The paralysis is of the infra nuclear/lower motor neuron type [
The facial nerve is important for both communication and expression, and loss of its function can invariably affect quality of life [
Another type of facial palsy, namely, Sixth nerve palsy, or abducens nerve palsy, is a disorder related with dysfunction of cranial nerve VI (the abducens nerve), which is responsible for initiating contraction of the lateral rectus muscle to abduct (i.e., turn out) theeye. The inability of an eye to turn outward effects in a convergent strabismus or esotropia of which the primary symptom is double vision or diplopia in which the two images appear side-by-side [
Fundamental pathology of diabetic neuropathy is microangiopathy [
From 08/08/2012 till 15/10/2015 we have seen 7 cases of Cranial Nerve Palsies and treated all of them using our new metaphysical energy therapy. The new healing modality being researched at the TAG VHS DRC (which we have termed Dynamic Acupuncture Mediated Metaphysical-(DAMM) Therapy) is a manifestation of physical energy of healing, attained through a severe and deep understanding and training several forms of energy, cum metaphysical practices plus an incredible gift with prodigious practice done by our therapist Mr. Rajan. The DAMM therapy is a uniquely novel way of infusing and transferring healing energy from the environment (cosmos), to the patient. The healer V. Rajan, has a background of 15 years of practicing the art & Metaphysics of Energy-transfer from the macrocosmic level (environmental) to the microcosmic intracellular planes, reaching any area in the human body where there is cellular dysfunction [
Our Research Centre is equipped with a unique paperless Electronic Medical Records System for exhaustive data storage and rapid retrieval & analysis with a software called Comprehensive Health and Hospital Information Management Enterprise Solution (CHHIMES). This software was specially customized and installed by Health track Info solutions(p) Ltd in March 2011, and all our patients’ medical records, images etc. for the past 45 years are stored and retrieved for analysis and research study [
We are presenting (
Turgeon RD reported in Am J Med. 2015 Jun in his article “Antiviral management of Bell’s palsy involved on starting point severity: a systematic review and meta-analysis”
S. No. | Name of the patient M/F/Age | Duration of Diabetes | Co-morbidity | Nature of Neuropathy | No of sittings of DAMM therapy/out come | Photo Link |
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1 | Mr. DB aged 68 years | 20 years | CAD post CABG | Right sided Bell’s Palsy | 2 sittings/75% improvement | www.tagvhsdrc.com /damphotos.asp |
2 | Mr. PS aged 72 years | 15 years | CAD of 10 years | Left sided Bell’s palsy | 10 sittings/ 100% improvement | NIL |
3. | Mrs. CM M aged 60 years | 10 years | HTN/10 years | Diplopia & drooping of eyelid, right side | 4 sittings/50% improvement | NIL |
4 | Mrs. J V aged 65 years | 22 years | dental infection/treated with (Root canal procedure). | Left sided facial palsy | 10 sittings/80% improvement | www.tagvhsdrc.com /damphotos.asp |
5. | Mrs. SP aged 55 years | 10 years | HTN. | LMN (Bell’s palsy) of right VII cranial nerve | 7 sittings/100% improvement. | NIL |
6. | Ms. SS aged 19 years | No DM. | Nil | right sided Bell’s palsy | 6 sittings/80% improvement | www.tagvhsdrc.com /damphotos.asp |
7 | Mr. Y.P. aged 66 yrs | 6 years | Nil | Right Lateral Rectus palsy/VI Nerve Palsy, with Double vision | 7 sittings/100% improvement | www.tagvhsdrc.com /damphotos.asp |
Name | Mr. DB | Mr. PS | Mrs. CM | Mrs. J V | Mrs. SP | Ms. SS | Mr. Y.P. |
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P.ID | 1012 | 846 | 3172 | 307 | 708 | 3740 | 3734 |
Demography. | Triplicane, Chennai | Ponpadi. R.S. & .P.O Tiruvallur | Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, 2nd Cross, -Chennai | Greenways Road, Chennai | Mylapore, Chennai. | Oddanchatram, Dindigul Dist | Kotturpuram, Chennai. |
Pulse Rate | 66 | 80 | 80 | 76 | 80 | 70 | 84 |
Height | 174 | 169 | 164 | 159 | 162 | 162 | 175 |
Weight | 75.3 | 69.6 | 66.1 | 55.3 | 96 | 67 | 86.5 |
BMI | 24.9 | 24.4 | 24.6 | 21.9 | 36.6 | 25.5 | 28.2 |
Body Fat % | 29.8 | 29.4 | 37.7 | 35.6 | 51.4 | 29.3 | 32.6 |
BP/Cys | 150 | 120 | 110 | 130 | 150 | 110 | 130 |
BP/Dia | 90 | 80 | 70 | 80 | 80 | 70 | 70 |
Sugar/Fasting | Nil | 134 | 277.7 | Nil | Nil | Nil | 220 |
Sugar/PP | Nil | 246 | 307.8 | 340 | Nil | Nil | 282 |
C B G | 250 | NIL | 250 | NIL | 316 | Nil | 215 |
HbA1c | 9.4 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 9.5 | 12.8 | Nil | 8.7 |
Serum Fructosamine | 3.26 | 2.99 | Nil | Nil | 3.40 | Nil | 2.88 |
stated that Antiviral agents are not efficacious in improving the proportion of patients with Bell’s palsy who achieved whole recovery, irrespective of baseline symptom severity [
Alternative rehabilitation methods like physical therapy (facial retraining workouts, transcutaneous electrical stimulation, acupuncture), botulinum toxin injections, dynamic facial reanimation were prescribed by various physicians all over the world. Out of these various modes of interventions, physical therapy has been subjected to controlled trials, and at the end of the trial there was no overall benefit over placebo was found [
For complete recovery from facial palsy, the new healing modality that is being researched at the TAG Voluntary Health Services Diabetic Research Centre, which we have termed Dynamic Acupuncture Mediated Metaphysical Therapy (DAMM) is an manifestation of physical energy of healing. When a needle is inserted and positioned, the local free-nerve endings and specialized neural receptors receive the stimulation that is then transformed into nerve impulses. In turn, these impulses are sent to the central nervous system (CNS) through afferent neural pathways. Every level of the CNS responds to the signals, leading to downstream effects―a possible healing process [
All the above cases reported in
1) We thank Prof. S Suresh Honorary Secretary, VHS, Chennai for his cooperation.
2) We thank Prof. B. M. Hegde, Our Co-Chairman and Director Clinical Research & Energy Medicine division and former Vice-chancellor, Manipal, University, Mangalore, whose inspirational guidance and help and introduction of the concept of intracellular Energy Balance and “Wisdom of the Human Body” has taken us to the successful Journey so far, and resulted in this important observational research paper.
3) The team of specialist nurses led by Y. Ramalakshmi and Subhashini, paramedical team, and IT support group (Health Track Info. Solution) for following up this case, documentation and preparation of this paper.
4) All our donors who support the research endeavours at TAG VHS DRC since 2011.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
This study was funded by philanthropists.
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Krishnaswami, C.V., Ramesh, C., Sampoornam, B., Ganesan, A. and Rajan, V. (2016) Metaphysical Energy Therapy in the Treatment of Cranial Nerve Palsies with Special Reference to Bell’s Palsy. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 4, 77-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jbm.2016.410008