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Just for the heck of it: Here is Dr Brown’s and Dr. Kang’s Contact Addresses:
Bill(William) Brown, M.D.
510 793 2404 Office
510 793 1320 Fax
39470 Paseo Padre Pkwy
Fremont, CA 94538###########Kang /Gipum Seoul Surgery
English Speaking Chaplain Contact: Stephen Kwon at [email protected]Dr. Kang
http://www.gipumhospital.com
Gipum Hospital
122 Dogok-ro
Gangnam-gu
Seoul, KoreaObviously, they are represented multiple times in the forum. I think there is a Search Box somewhere on the site to make that investigation easier.
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Yeh! The size of my hernia really was bad after a constipation incident, so I tried George Hirst Exercises (& Belt) copied from Dr. Andrew Gour circa 1916. It really grew in size then, so I knew I had to get surgery then. Not too long after that the 2nd small one, that was painful, appeared. I don’t blame George, it works for some people; his hernia was small, reducible and caused by boat hitting in the crotch( or happened right after that) which I do not think is typical. It helped him and has helped a few other people all with reducible hernias; but I definitely would not go that way again. I would definitely try something much farther out of the mainline spectrum for the hell of it that did not physically disturb the hernia, then get my hernia operation.
As far as Stephen Kwon, he just thot matching the type of hernia to a specific type surgery was a good idea, and Dr. Brown does that, and he was just next door compared to S. Korea in Lockdown. I still think Stephen Kwon holds the title of Chaplain. I think he was a Christian Missionary to English-speaking countries for a time. You can email him if you want to get his entire past history. He is a very courteous and efficient person- you might receive an email back in less than 10 minutes- that is how efficient he is.
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Also I forgot to add this: a good quality Systematic Enzyme which might contain Nattozyme or etc. I used BioMedicLabs SerraKor-NK and have had no problems. Obviously, great for dissolving excess scar tissue as well if that is what you want.
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I would say that Dr. Kang also has access to more advanced medical equipment than typical American Surgeons at a regular US Surgical Clinic vs Gibbeum, a Hospital dedicated to hernias. At least, that is what I got from watching the videos at that website. Correct me if I am wrong, but I remember him being able glue certain incisions vs suturing them, and look thru a machine to be better able to see what the surgeon was doing during surgery.
I hope Dr. Kang will eventually share and train some US, Canadian and European doctors on his technique someday when the Covid Restrictions come completely off. I believe there are quite a number of things, these other doctors could learn that would make their approaches better, even if they stick with their same tried & true methods.
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Did you have to stay 2 weeks in a hotel in S.Korea before getting the surgery? If not, when was that Covid 19 lifted in S. Korea?
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For me, sneezing comes from an excess of mucous usually. So if I feel my nasal & throat passages are becoming clogged, I eat some part of a serrano pepper(one of the hottest peppers). Right after w/o doing anything else I spit my now melting mucous out into spitoon or sink, and continue for a while til it is all out.
For me it is not sneezing, as it is holding the sneeze, that is painful in my hernia area which you can and will do if you do not hang in there and spit it all out. Once the mucous in my nasal-pharangeal area is low, then I have know problem with sneezing or holding back a sneeze instinctually.
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Usually, there is quite a difference between being non-reducible in 10 min lying down, and being incarcerated. Mine was that way for 1.5 years at least, and I did not worry. It was inguinal hernia though, each hernia is likely different. Never heard of a real life case of incarceration, but likely you should be moving toward getting it taken care of in the future.
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I took zinc, Vit C, Proline, Lysine, and Glutamine before. Dr. Brown commented how good/healthy my tissue looked right after surgery. While, I like Dr. Towfig, don’t see the great improvement with expensive Collagen product now making the rounds in ads on the internet these day. I believe in these basic supplements, you have named.
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I did look at the comparative study, but I have never seen re-occurrence of Mesh that low in my life. Of course, that is where the money is.
My view is that the younger you are, the better your tissue will knit together. Therefore, I would think that the non-mesh option would be the best, and certainly better than when you are older.
If hernias do not run in your family, I always think it wise to ponder what may have caused it as far as lifestyle, eating especially.
Do read as many post as you can. You are young, I don’t think it is the size of a large grapefruit like mine, but I am almost out of the woodwork- 9 months- and about 80% up to where I was as far a exercise max with non-mesh surgery with Dr. Brown. I doubt if I will be trying out for the Olympics at 60, but for you at your age, who knows. Lot of our hernia victims, are athletes.
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A PEMF- earthpulse.net is the one I have, and it is cheaper then many of the rest. Also, have a Sleep Pyramid by Dr Ken Rohla of Fresh & alive. Both are very helpful. I realize this might be outside your price point if you were looking for some kind of a herb or supplement. In that case, a good Cal-Mag supplement helps me.
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Obviously, you have to combine this with supplements that improve you collage formation: Vit C, Lysine, Proline, Peptides, Gelatin, etc.
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I think exercises can help if one has a small direct hernia. The exercises that George suggest comes from Dr. Andrew A. Gour, Therapeutics of Activity book. There are 4 or 5 supposed 5 year testimonials on other hernia forums.
Unfortunately, my experience was that they enlarged the hole in my medium size indirect hernia, so they must be done with great caution. If they in anyway worsen your condition by making the hernia large, then stop. Again, Dr. Gour says his exercises really only helped people with direct hernia.
I now would not attempt exercises until you know the actual cause of the hernia intuitively after lots of research. I know the medical community does not believe in causes, but it is the thing that causes the greatest increase in inner abdominal pressure that you were into at the time you noticed the hernia. For me it was fiber as in Monstyrisky’s book The Fiber Menace. Then after attending to you personal cause, and having a direct small hernia, I would try them. But always surveying your hernia afterwards carefully each day or nite.
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Systematic Enzymes are known to eat up fibrin in scar tissue. Obviously Zinc is a mineral that helps as well. I use Serrakor NK for general use. Most Nattozyme product will do you.
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Indirect: Concentrates on tear in Internal Ring?
Direct: Concentrates on the rupture in theHesselbach’s Triangle on the Abdominal Wall?Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, and forgot or did not read clearly about it.
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Well, that is easy enough to test out and I do not think that it will enlarge my existing hernia like abdominal exercises. It is funny how wide the variety of methods people suggest to try to get rid of a hernia without surgery. Definitely try it out, just to see if has an effect. I practically sleep in the fetal position anyway. Might help me get to surgery in better condition, who knows.
This is probably the 20th or 30 thing I have tried, so I won’t throw away Dr. Brown’s or Dr. Kang’s or Dr. Desarda’s information.
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Torn ACL are not always replaced. With ARP WAVE, they are merely allowed to healed back over as much as possible, then the ARP WAVE square wave current is sent thru the ligament to eradicate excess scar tissue, create flexibility, enhance complete healing, and strengthen weak auxiliary supportive muscles, tendons, ligaments. Football players go out and play again with their same speed and strength with this type of treatment vs grabbing a ligament from a cadaver or another part of the body.
When you are older, the ACL heals slower and you heal with different type of collagen, not collagen type I or II like a child or teenager,but Type III. Ex. Barry Bonds(never ACL, just hamstrings) though terrific using steroids to enhance his home run hitting ability, kept getting hamstring pulls, and could not continue at 39 vs 35 years of age fielding and hitting well. Consequently, you need some treatment like this or other less modern techniques before the ligament can be used again to run.
Note: I am emailing Denis Thompson of Arp Wave just how far he can go in helping small hernias heal beforehand or assisting in complications after surgery. Again, I believe that regenerative modalites like PRP and Prolo Ozone, ARP Wave, and good nutritional supplementation can have a role in the post-success of hernias at least, if not prior.
Obviously, Sclerotherapy or Prolotherapy were used with some success in the far past to heal hernias, so it could be used as post-treatment as well.
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Aren’t these CT scans have 100 x the radiation of an normal X-ray? Looks like 400x according to the FDA. 0.02 mSv vs 8.0 mSv for effective dose. https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/medical-x-ray-imaging/what-are-radiation-risks-ct
Run, quick from these things, especially radioactive tracers which are often not checked before being injected.
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Don’t all of these pure tissue repairs heal? Why would you feel you have to worry more that say 6 months after a pure tissue repair( DeSarda, Marcy, Kang)? Sure you have to stretch the scar tissue, but should n’t it be as strong or stronger after 6 months? I agree with mesh that you have to be continually watchful for rest of your life, it will move on you and etc.
My opinion, I have not gotten mine yet so have no idea, is just be careful & gradual for 6 months and watch how much fiber content you are eating per day as Konstantin Monstyrsky says in Fiber Menace. Again, I think mine is a classic scrotum hernia. So why am I wrong?
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Great, I appreciate your quick and thorough response with the only comment, that Dr. Desarda reports his success rate around 2% and that agree that Lichenstein mesh defective rates are significantly higher How much higher we will ever know, as the mesh companies have been caught in scandals during the late 80’s and 90’s monetarily influencing the FDA and those who are suppose to tabulate such results independently.
So do you agree with Dr. DeSarda’s observation that nearly all people with inguinal hernias(direct or indirect) are missing External Oblique Aponeurotic Extensions in their abdominal wall(some kind of fibrous material derived from the EOA)? If you agree, do you have theory to explain such a phenomenon?
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I have 3 questions for Dr. Kang pertaining to his surgery or any one else that might know:
1. Dr. Kang says he closes the inguinal ring in doing a indirect hernia repair where others before have not been able to for fear of cutting certain channels like the spermatic chord, testicular vessels, lymphatics and sensitive nerves. Please tell me what enables him to do this where other physicians have feared to tread? a piece of machinery? a tool? a technique? sheer skill?
2. The Desarda Method uses External Oblique Aponeurosis(EOA) to close up the inguinal ring in a indirect hernia, why does Dr. Kang believe Traversalis fascia is as good or better?
3. . I noted that in Dr. Desarda’s Hernia Repair video that the posterior wall and many accompanying muscles(EO or IO) are a-dynamic or weak. Dr. Desarda could not stimulate one of these muscles even with a strong electrical current– according to Dr. Desarda happens every time he operates. Hence, they have to re-anchor the External Oblique.
What is Dr. Kang’s theory of why the posterior wall is a-dynamic and associated muscles are so weak and filled with fat? How does he remedy this problem of posterior wall and associated muscle inertness in the indirect hernia case because it just sound like he works on the inguinal ring ?(Even I notice by feeling that my hernia side has a lot more fat in it, then the non- hernia side. I am assuming the all the fat is due to these muscles being inert)