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How to maintain the computer mouse
from Click for How To

Mouse enables faster and easier execution of functions while working on the computer. A mouse comes in very handy, as you do not have to always rely on the keyboard to navigate. It is a time saving and convenient device. In addition, the scrolling facility enables us to work in an easy and fast manner. Mouse can be maintained very well by just taking a few precautions while using it.

Place the mouse in a smooth and clean surface. Get a mouse pad so that the mouse is not kept on furniture that does not have a smooth and polished finishing. Scrolling the mouse on a hard, uneven surface can slowly damage the devices that help in moving it.

Keep the mouse in a clean and dry place. If possible, buy a cover and keep the mouse covered when not in use. In this way, it will not get exposed to dust and dirt.

Keep your hands clean while handling a mouse. Wash your hands thoroughly and dry it before handling the mouse. Do not eat fries or chips, and touch the mouse without cleaning your hands. The grease or oil gets stuck to the surface and will lead to accumulation of dirt and dust particles. If the mouse is white, it may start showing signs of discolouration like turning yellow.

Do not play with the mouse, especially the scrolling button. Do not keep constantly scrolling it. It may be an unconscious activity when we are bored or restless. Do not be impatient if the icon you click at does not respond at once. Do not start clicking the mouse frantically if the system does not respond. It may just be that the system needs more time to extract the data.

Clean the mouse regularly. Refer to the manual provided at the time of installing the mouse. Use a solution especially meant for cleaning computer devices. Do not wash or scrub the mouse with detergents or soaps.

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Eliminating office injury a top priority
from LittleAbout.com

Government, business, and individuals are re-evaluating work station arrangements, regulations, and routines as awareness grows of the consequences of repetitive movement and overexertion from common office tasks.

Of the 2000 hours spent each year at work, an increasing fraction is spent in front of computer terminals, leading to an increase in repetitive strain injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. Though not statistically documented by government agencies, arm, shoulder, back, and headache pain complaints are heard more and more around the office water cooler.

Supervisors are learning they can risk losing fewer workers to disability, time off, and worker’s compensation if they make offices more ergonomically friendly. Though budgets and management support of ergonomic improvements vary widely, human resource departments and small company office managers are beginning to address the problem as awareness grows.

WORKPLACE REGULATIONS
While present guidelines regarding the latest desk arrangements and office equipment demands are largely generalized safety precautions, the government, headed by OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is preparing strict and specific policies with the threat of enforcement and fines. The regulations could be approved by the end of 2000. In the US, where 300,000 ergonomic injuries occur yearly, businesses will have to design plans addressing the specific needs of the given industry. In Canada, government and commercial concern is also growing.

OSHA claims the plan would save businesses $9 billion dollars in worker’s compensation annually. But The National Coalition on Ergonomics, representing both large and small businesses, opposes regulation on grounds that employers will have to spend billions to make the changes. Some work-related injuries statistics show a downward trend, says a coalition spokesman who predicts the mandates will fail to assure the prevention of injury.

ERGONOMIC OUTFITTING
In the meantime, from receptionist desks to CEOs’ suites to the mail room, retrofitted work spaces are sporting ergonomic support devices that form a stark contrast to the lean, upright bureaucratic desk-chair-typewriter workstations that went largely unchanged from WWII through the early 1980s.

A NEW INDUSTRY
Daphne Thaung is an industrial hygienist, hired by companies to see how employee workstations can become ergonomically safer. “We improve morale, productivity, and just improve the overall environment of the workplace,” says Thaung. “You have to address the people’s concerns.”

Thaung has witnessed progressive companies implement a whole new way of thinking about on-the -job safety. “We are in an era of an aging workforce. “We can’t do things that we used to be able to do in the past,” she says. Ergonomic safety principles need to be implemented in all segments of society, and life, says Thaung. “It’s important that we adapt this not only in the workplace but also in the hobbies [and] personal activities that [we] might be involved in.”

Equipment as simple as cushioned rubber floor mats are being brought in for workers like mailroom sorters and loading dock clerks who are on their feet all day. Wheels are being put onto the bottoms of heavy containers that were once hauled around by hand or partially by trolley.

Employee education is also important to reduce injury, according to Thaung. “People are not utilizing all the adjustments, and so the next step of this is training people or getting people to be aware of how they sit, how to use the tool properly,” she says. One tool, called an ergometer, can be used to teach proper lifting. The device is strapped onto the arm so the wearer can hear beeping increase and decrease, reflecting the degree of muscle tension.

SAFETY IS GOOD BUSINESS
Since paying out disability insurance and replacing employees is expensive, precaution measures are generally thought to be in the interest of employers. Established companies and labor unions have ever-evolving manuals outlining policies and procedures regarding actions that may result in injury. Union policies disallow flight attendants from placing luggage into overhead bins, no matter how aged or feeble a passenger may be. Secretarial temp agencies teach new hires to refuse to lift or move anything that may result in injury, even if asked.

MINIMIZE STRAIN
Industrial hygienist Stephen Kowalewsky, who consults with corporations and conducts occupational research at the University of California, San Diego, recommends placing frequently used office devices, like the telephone and the computer mouse, within easy reach.

Computer screens should be about an arm’s length away from the eyes, Kowalewsky says, with the screen at or a little below eye level. Repeated awkward turning or looking up can result in day to day strain and long-term injury, he says.

Kowalewsky also says a footrest can take pressure off legs and back, and arm and wrist rests assure that wrists don’t bend but remain at the same level as the keyboard. Frequent breaks and stretching throughout the day can also reduce injury, he says.

Kowalewsky recommends workers experiment on their own to determine maximum comfort. His general principles have made a significant difference for many. Says Kowalewsky, “They will come back to us later on, and they’ll say , ‘That little change you made for my work station just changed my life.’”

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How to Choose the Best Computer Mouse
from Life123

Early mice had one or two buttons at most and operated with a rubberized ball that transferred motion to a pair of rollers inside the mouse that translated the ball’s movements into a horizontal and vertical position on the monitor. While this type of computer mouse was efficient, the rubber ball sometimes swelled in humid weather and the rollers would clog with desktop debris, making the computer mouse less accurate over time.

Skip the ball for your next computer mouse. An optical mouse uses an LED to track motion, eliminating the problems of dirt buildup. Optical mice work on most surfaces without a mouse pad, but if you have a translucent glass or polished stone desk you’ll need to keep the mouse pad.

A computer mouse with laser optics provides greater precision for designers, architects and digital artists. Unless you need a truly precise mouse, say for freehand drawing or modeling, it’s better to choose a less-expensive optical mouse.

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The eyes have it: Logo from the Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe) project at Stanford. The project’s goal is to use information about where a person is looking in order to develop applications that make interacting with computers easier. Credit: Manu Kumar, the GUIDe Program at Stanford University

An Alternative to the Computer Mouse
A user interface that tracks eye movement may provide an alternate way to use a computer.
By Kate Greene

A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware--a specialized computer screen with a high-definition camera and infrared lights--Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate.


"Eye-tracking technology was developed for disabled users," Kumar explains, "but the work that we're doing here is trying to get it to a point where it becomes more useful for able-bodied users." He says that nondisabled users tend to have a higher standard for easy-to-use interfaces, and previously, eye-tracking technology that disabled people use hasn't appealed to them.


At the heart of Kumar's technology is software called EyePoint that works with standard eye-tracking hardware. The software uses an approach that requires that a person look at a Web link, for instance, and hold a "hot key" on the keyboard (usually found on the number pad on the right) as she is looking. The area of the screen that's being looked at becomes magnified. Then, the person pinpoints her focus within the magnified region and releases the hot key, effectively clicking through to the link.


Kumar's approach could take eye-tracking user interfaces in the right direction. Instead of designing a common type of gaze-based interface that is controlled completely by the eyes--for instance, a system in which a user gazes at a given link, then blinks in order to click through--he has involved the hand, which makes the interaction more natural. "He's got the right idea to let the eye augment the hand," says Robert Jacob, professor of computer science at Tufts University, in Medford, MA.


Rudimentary eye-tracking technology dates back to the early 1900s. Using photographic film, researchers captured reflected light from subjects' eyes and used the information to study how people read and look at pictures. But today's technology involves a high-resolution camera and a series of infrared light-emitting diodes. This hardware is embedded into the bezel of expensive monitors; the one Kumar uses cost $25,000. The camera picks up the movement of the pupil and the reflection of the infrared light off the cornea, which is used as a reference point because it doesn't move.


Even the best eye tracker isn't perfect, however. "The eye is not really very stable," says Kumar. Even when a person is fixated on a point, the pupil jitters. So he wrote an algorithm that allows the computer to smooth out the eye jitters in real time. The rest of the research, says Kumar, involves studying how people look at a screen and figuring out a way to build an interface that "does not overload the visual channel." In other words, he wanted to make its use feel natural to the user.


One of the important features of the interface, says Kumar, is that it works without a person needing to control a cursor. Unlike the mouse-based system in ubiquitous use today, EyePoint provides no feedback on where a person is looking. Previous studies have shown that it is distracting to a person when she is aware of her gaze because she consciously tries to control its location. In the usability studies that Kumar conducted, he found that people's performance dropped when he implemented a blue dot that followed their eyes.

In his studies of 20 people, he found that participants that needed to type and point could point faster using the gaze-based appraoch than using a mouse, although the error rate--20 percent--was fairly high. But overall, about 90 percent of participants reported that they preferred using EyePoint to the mouse.


It's the 20 percent error rate that could cause some problems, says Ted Selker, professor at the MIT Media and Arts Technology Laboratory. "[It's] a huge amount," he says, "because a person can notice a significant decline in accuracy at just 5 percent." Selker adds that the low accuracy could make text editing a challenge.


Kumar concedes that the system isn't perfect, but he contends that many of the errors came from people, who due to lack of practice, clicked links that they thought they had looked at but were only in their peripheral vision. Indeed, he says, trackpads, trackpoints, trackballs do not perform as well as a mouse either but are still viable input devices. Kumar says he's been working on algorithms that show promise for making EyePoint more accurate by accounting for peripheral vision related errors. Still, he allows that EyePoint might work poorly for certain people, such as those with thick glasses, special contact lenses, or lazy eyes.



Even so, Kumar is confident in the technology and its development as a tool for the general population. To that end, he has tested a number of different interface schemes, all under a project called Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe). Another application, called EyeExposé, is made for Apple's OS X feature called Exposé, in which a person can hit the F11 key to miniaturize all open windows, then drag the mouse cursor to the window she wants to bring forward. With EyeExposé, the user can hit the F11 key, then bring forward a window of interest by tapping a keyboard key. Also, Kumar has modified the "scroll lock" key on a keyboard in an application called EyeScroll: as a person reads, the screen slowly reveals more text. In addition, Kumar is testing a modified version of the "page up" and "page down" keys. When a person reads to the bottom of a page, the software automatically scrolls down one page; in order to help a reader keep her place, the most recently looked at part of the screen is highlighted.


The important thing about the Stanford research, says Shumin Zhai, researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA and pioneer in the eye-tracking field, is that Kumar "has been working on making eye tracking practical for everyday tasks." However, Zhai says that there may still be a barrier for the average person because she needs to go through a calibration process in which the software measures how quickly her eyes move.


There are some signs that eye-tracking technology could find its way to the consumer market soon. Apple's desktops and laptops are now equipped with a built-in camera for videoconferencing. If a higher-resolution camera, infrared LEDs, and software were added, Apple's machines would be able to support applications from the GUIDe project, says Kumar. If eye tracking proves appealing to the consumer, and the hardware costs drop to a reasonable range, eye-tracking interfaces could provide an alluring and entertaining alternative to the mouse or laptop track pad. "It's almost like magic when it's working," says Tufts's Jacob. "The sensation you get is that the computer's reading your mind, and that's really very powerful."


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Computer Mouse Help and Troubleshooting Tips
By: Jaceson Maughan

The computer mouse is second only to the keyboard in how you access and operate your computer, so when you need computer mouse help, take the time to troubleshoot what might be wrong before buying a new one.

Optical or Roller Mouse
An optical mouse or roller mouse can cause trouble when the working parts become dirty or grimy. For an optical mouse, clean the optical “eye” on the bottom of the mouse with a cotton swab dipped in some rubbing alcohol. Let it dry thoroughly. Clean up a roller mouse by removing the roller ball ring and taking out the ball. Clean it with mild soap and warm water. With a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol, clean the internal rollers thoroughly and let them air dry.

Wireless Mouse
When your wireless mouse starts to act up, you may notice that the tracking is no longer smooth, it takes more than two clicks to select something on the screen or the mouse doesn’t track for short periods of time. There are several things you can do to get the best performance from your wireless mouse without asking for computer help from an expert.

Check the receiver for the mouse, which is connected to the computer. The receiver should be plugged into the PS/2 or USB port; sometimes it can come loose or get blocked by something. If the signals are not being received from the mouse, poor performance will result.

A wireless mouse runs on batteries. When they run low, the mouse could demonstrate signs of unreliability. If you’ve checked the receiver and it seems fine, exchange the old batteries for new ones. Most wireless mouse setups either use a couple of AA batteries or must be recharged with a dedicated charger. Ensure that the wireless muse is fully charged before trying it out again.

Mouse Drivers
If cleaning and checking the mouse doesn’t work, you may need to reconfigure the mouse driver. You can do this by performing a system restore (that resets the computer to the last time the mouse was working) or you may even have to reload the mouse driver. Depending on your computer setup, refer to the owner’s manual for details on how to do that. A computer repair service can also assist you in this process if you are not comfortable doing it yourself.

If these troubleshooting tips do not restore function to the mouse, you may need to take the wireless mouse to a computer repair service for a more detailed inspection and internal examination.



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How an Optical Mouse Works With Your Computer
By Dachary Carey

Meet the optical mouse: a revolutionary device that eliminates sticky roller wheels, dirty sensors and irritating banging just to get your mouse to work. Gone are the days when you had to worry about opening a mouse to clean the scroll ball or sensors; the optical mouse makes all this bother obsolete by using imaging technology.

What Is an Optical Mouse?
An optical mouse doesn’t use sensor bars and a roller ball like a mechanical mouse. Instead, it bounces light off a surface to determine where it’s located and whether or not you’ve moved the mouse. Because an optical mouse works using a CMOS light sensor, you don’t have to worry about any moving parts. Desktop dirt and dust can still block the lens, but this is easily wiped off and you don't need to take the mouse apart to do it.

Optical mice are ideal in households with pets, because you don’t have to worry about dirt or fuzz accumulating and clogging the mouse sensors. They’re also great if you have an aversion to dusting, and you tend to accumulate fuzz or dirt on your desktop. You can use an optical mouse in a workshop or other area prone to dust or smoke without worrying about the mouse getting gummed up or having to clean it every couple of days.

Pictures Become Movement
An optical computer mouse works by bouncing light off a surface and taking hundreds of pictures per second to determine whether the surface has changed. The digital signal processor analyzes the pictures and measures the change in the surface, which translates to how far and in what direction you’ve moved the optical mouse. Because the mouse works from hundreds of pictures per second, the cursor appears to move very smoothly and you don’t have a jumpy, juddering motion.

This means that you can use an optical mouse anywhere. Because it doesn’t require contact with a slightly soft, tactile surface to manipulate a scroll ball, you can use an optical mouse on any surface, as long as its not transparent. You don’t need a mouse pad or even desk space; you can use an optical mouse on a book, your lap or any other relatively flat surface that can hold it. An optical laptop mouse is a great traveling companion for your laptop.

Precision and Control
Because an optical mouse can detect very small movements, this type of mouse offers superior precision and fine control over your mouse functions. Cursor movement is very smooth, enabling you to be much more precise than you would with a mechanical mouse. Gamers and graphic designers prefer the optical mouse because of its superior precision and fine control.

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The first computer mouse is a far-cry from the technology and functionality of today's warm computer mouse. Take for example, the heated computer mouse generates healing infrared heat to soothe aching muscles and improves blood circulation. Do you think the warm computer mouse was a thought 40 years ago? Probably not!

Douglas Engelbart

Who Invented the Computer Mouse?
By Gene Rodriguez III from Life123


Have you ever wondered who invented the computer mouse? The computer mouse is a pointing device that tracks its position on the desktop and uses the information to control the position of the cursor on screen. While mice are now common computer accessories, their acceptance was slow in coming.

Ancestors of the Modern Computer Mouse
In the 1950s, researchers working for the Royal Canadian Navy used a small bowling ball to create the first track ball. This pointing device was created as part of a top-secret project and never patented.

In 1968, Douglas Engelbart, working at the Stanford Research Institute, invented a single-button mouse he referred to as a "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System." The first mouse was made of wood and used two wheels to track the X and Y positions, which were translated into motion on a computer monitor. Engelbart patented his invention in 1970, but his patent expired before the device became popular.

In 1972, Bill English, a colleague of Englbart’s, developed the ball mouse while working for Xerox PARC. English’s mouse worked like an inverted trackball and came as standard equipment with Xerox 8010 Star Information System distributed in 1981.

In 1984, Apple computer released the first Macintosh (Mac) computer. The graphical user interface of the Mac, which borrowed heavily from work done at Xerox, made extensive use of the mouse. The popularity of the Mac established the mouse as the standard pointing device for PCs.

What Is a Computer Mouse Today?
The ball mouse was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. These older models had a small rubber ball in the base that triggered rollers to determine the X and Y coordinates on a monitor, and they only had one button. There were two big problems with the design: first, early mouse balls would swell in heat or high humidity, making the mouse inoperable. Second, all the dirt on a desk would eventually work its way into the mouse and gum up the roller wheels.

In the 1990s, optical mice were developed that used a light sensor to track the position of the device. Early optical mice needed to be used with special pads printed with a grid pattern. Advancements in technology allowed optical mice to be used on any surface, as long as it's not transparent.

Although the first mice had one button, later versions had two and sometimes three buttons. In 1997, Microsoft introduced the IntelliMouse that featured a scrolling wheel. With support built in to most major applications, the scroll wheel became a standard mouse feature for Windows PCs.

Curiosities: Why do cold hands hurt when warmed?

I WONDER WHY... from Wisconsin State Journal

Q: Why do my fingers hurt so much when they warm up after getting cold in winter?

A: In the cold, the body reduces blood flow to the extremities to keep the vital organs — heart, lungs and brain — warm, says Kristine Kwekkeboom, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.

Reduced blood flow, a condition called "ischemia," starves the extremities of oxygen, forcing them to use a less efficient type of metabolism, and in effect causing a mild injury. "All of these factors, together, cause the release of a chemical soup that triggers inflammation and pain," she says.

Cold can block the transmission of nerve signals, so you may feel no pain in your cold, numb fingers, "but when you come back in and thaw out, the blood vessels dilate, increasing the blood flow," Kwekkeboom says. "More oxygen gets delivered, and you get that throbbing feeling as the blood pulses into the oxygen-hungry areas. Oxygen wakes up the nerves, and you feel pain."

These changes are normal, and not harmful so long as the cold exposure is brief, Kwekkeboom adds. So why do we feel extreme pain after catching a football with cold hands in December? The extra pain results from the pressure and minor tissue damage of impact, multiplied by the low-temperature inflammatory process just described.

— Produced in cooperation with University Communications

Creator of the computer mouse lauded as a visionary

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Caroline Hodge
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Doug Engelbart, best known for his invention of the computer mouse, is about more than gadgets and numbers.

He's a visionary whose pioneering work was driven by a desire to help people, his daughter and co-workers said Tuesday at a Stanford University event commemorating the 40th anniversary of what has been called the "mother of all demos" Engelbart gave in 1968.

Back then, Engelbart and his team of researchers at the Stanford Research Institute — now SRI International — demonstrated a slew of then-revolutionary computer tools, including real-time text editing, hypertext linking, shared-screen teleconferencing and the first computer mouse, at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.

But the man who headed SRI's Augmentation Research Center is not just a tech guru, daughter Christina Engelbart told those gathered at Stanford's commemoration.

"He's about people; he's about improving the human condition and unleashing the human potential," she said.

At the core, her father wanted to find a way to help people work together in a more effective manner to "improve the human intellect" and solve big problems, said Christina Engelbart, now executive director of the Doug Engelbart Institute. Doug Engelbart and his team trail-blazed an approach to solving problems called "bootstrapping," in which each new tool developed is used to develop subsequent tools, greatly accelerating the improvement process.

"These guys had built tools to build tools," said Andries van Dam, a member of the 1968 demo audience and professor of computer science at Brown University. "It was just mind-boggling."

Even though the computer crashed during the 1968 demo, the technology was revolutionary, especially because most people at the time were focused on artificial intelligence.

"They predicted the future by demonstrating it," said Robert Sproull, vice president and a fellow at Sun Microsystems.

Also different about Doug Engelbart and his team was their emphasis on using and testing their own technology.

Early on, members of the research team would post papers in the office documenting who was working on what, Christina Engelbart said. But as soon as they developed the oN-Line System, or NLS, which presaged the Internet, the team could put that documentation online. "The user is the developer, that's a very tight feedback loop and that can really speed up the development process," she said. Andries van Dam, a member of the 1968 audience and professor of computer science at Brown University, lamented that the team's emphasis on the inter-operation of tools and "deep" design methodology has been lost in today's more commercialized technology scene.

"It's about studying and being really analytical, really reflective about what you're doing," he said. "We've lost that."

Alan Kaye, president of Viewpoints Research Institute, echoed van Dam's comments, comparing the computer to a television, a device used more for leisure than for connecting people to solve complex problems. "We could have made the most powerful media ever for distracting ourselves to death."

Christina Engelbart encouraged today's computer scientists to make the transition from an "information superhighway to an innovation superhighway." "If we could take the vision and same accelerative, strategic approach that got such incredible levels of results and embed that into today's teams of organizations levering next-generation interactive computing, then just imagine the incredible levels of innovation that could be unleashed," she said.

"That is the grander revolution that Dad imagined from the beginning."

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Far Infrared Medical Facts - Detoxification and Research from Japan
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Far Infrared (FIR) Healing Medical Facts and Research Data From Japan And Other Sources.
Over the last 25 years, Japanese and Chinese researchers and clinicians have completed extensive research on far infrared medical treatments and report many amazing discoveries. In Japan, there is an 'infrared society' composed of medical doctors and physical therapists dedicated to further infrared research. Their findings support the health benefits of far infrared therapy as a method of healing.

Therapeutic Effects of Far Infrared Heat - Chapter 9 of Therapeutic Heat and Cold, Fourth Edition, Editors Justus F. Lehmann, M.D., Williams, and Wilkin. Infrared Heat Therapy does the following:

Decreases joint stiffness.
Relieves muscle spasms.
Increases blood flow.
Leads to pain relief.
Affects soft tissue injury.
Increases the extensibility of collagen tissue.
Assists in resolution of inflammatory infiltrated, edema, and exudes.

Far Infrared Therapy:
* Improves micro circulation by exerting strong rotational and vibrational effects at molecular level.
* Enhances the delivery of oxygen and nutrients in the blood cell to the body's soft tissue areas.
* Promotes regeneration and fast healing.
* Increases metabolism between blood and tissue.
* Enhances white blood cell function, thereby increasing immune response and the elimination of foreign pathogens and cellular waste products.
* Removes accumulated toxins by improving lymph circulation which are often at the core of many health problems.
* Stimulate the hypothalamus, which controls the production of neurochemicals involved in such biological processes as sleep, mood, pain sensations, and blood pressure.

Far Infrared therapy increases blood circulation and oxygen supply to damaged tissues (aiding reduction of chronic joint and muscle pain or sport injuries), promotes relaxation and comfort, induces sleep and relieves stress.

Far Infrared Healing With Photons.
"From first hand experience, I can tell you (FIR) is a miraculous tool that on the surface seems contradictory. It can help alleviate the sensation of numbness, but it can also bring back a sense of feeling in areas that have gone numb. It can remove overgrown scar tissue and it can stimulate tissue growth. It can remove excess pigment, but it also restores pigment in areas where needed. It can activate healing components within the immune system, but also decrease the body's sometimes harmful inflammation response."

"One of the fastest growing complaints in this country today,carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) responds to (FIR) as well. CTS is caused by motion and trauma to the median nerve passing through the wrist. Assembly line workers are particularly prone to the problem. The standard medical treatment for CTS is still surgery, which has a dismal success rate of less than 10%. Dr. Wayne Good, the plant physician at General Motors Flint Assembly, has treated close to 600 patients (with FIR) and achieved positive results in over 70% of patients. He is in the process of submitting his results for publication as further studies continue."

"Photobiotherapy (FIR) will become one of the premier healing tools of our future. It will eliminate the need for many of today's common surgical procedures. I can see the day when every household in the country will have a (FIR) unit on hand. When used properly, it is a safe, effective, natural tool that can enhance, rather than oppose, the body's own innate healing powers." - G.E. Poesnecker, N.D., D.C.

How fast are you aging?
Common problems associated with lifestyle and aging, such as hypertension and osteoporosis, headaches and digestive problems, are attributed by some scientists to be the result of excess acidity in our system. The American Medical Journal found that in patients with bone loss, alkalizing their system caused a decrease in bone loss. Their conclusion was that our typical American diet is acid producing. The acids deposited in our blood are often stored by the body in forms of cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, and other villains that cause havoc in our system. Sang Whang, the author of "Reverse Aging" claims that these excess acids can be eliminated with the use of far infrared products, along with consuming certain alkaline minerals and foods. The far infrared resonance heats up the internal temperature of the body, increasing circulation, thus enabling the blood to melt out the acidic toxins that have been deposited for years in one's arteries. - www.takionic.com

Far Infrared Detoxification
Toxic accumulation is a root cause behind most physical challenges,
including the aging process and diseases such as cancer.

Far Infrared is thought to be 7 times more effective at detoxifying heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum, and even cholesterol's, nicotine, alcohol, ammonia, sulfuric acid and other environmental toxins, as opposed to conventional heat or steam saunas.

The human body is a reservoir of all kinds of bio-toxins which cannot be expelled immediately and become stored in the body, thereby triggering illness. When toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, or potentially fatal heavy metal toxins such as mercury, lead and chlorine, meet large water molecules, they are encapsulated by clusters of water and trapped in the body. Where these toxins are accumulated, blood circulation is blocked and cellular energy is impaired. However, when a 7 to 11 micron FIR wave is applied to these large water molecules, the water begins to vibrate. This vibration reduces the ion bonds of the atoms which are holding together the molecules of water. As the water evaporates, the encapsulated gas and toxins can be released.

Toxic Cleansing With Far Infrared (FIR) Waves:
"One of the reasons FIR has beneficial results in a variety of illnesses is the ability of FIR waves to remove toxins, which are often at the core of many health problems. Toxins that cannot be removed immediately after they enter the body are encapsulated by clusters of water. Blood circulation becomes blocked and the cellular energy impaired where these toxins accumulate. However, when a 10-micron FIR wave is applied to water molecules containing toxins, the water begins to vibrate. This vibration reduces the ion bonds of the atoms that are holding together the molecules of water. As the breakdown of the water molecules occurs, encapsulated gases and other toxic materials are released. One study done by American researchers showed that the sweat released by users of a FIR sauna was different that the sweat of people using a conventional sauna or doing normal exercise. The non water portion of sweat released in a FIR sauna was cholesterol, fat soluble toxins, toxic heavy metals, sulfuric acid, sodium, ammonia and uric acid." - Dr. Kyuo, Japan.

Toxic overload has been implicated in many health conditions, from fibrocystic breast disease (FBD) in women to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. Symptoms of toxic overload include fatigue, headaches, joint or muscle pain, frequent colds and flu, signs of allergy and hormonal imbalance, chemical sensitivity, sinus congestion, psoriasis and other skin conditions, loss of dexterity, insomnia and more. Psychological symptoms include poor concentration, memory loss, mood changes, mental confusion and changes in behavior. - www.balancedlives.net

A great overview on FIR history and its therapeutic value is available in an article: 'Warming Up to FIR' published in the Jan. 2001 issue of Alternative Medicine Magazine by Dr. D.J. Fletcher.

Here is an extract:
Detoxification from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome: Randy Gomm in Vancouver, became a distributor of FIR saunas after his life was turned around by detoxification. As a firefighter, his health had begun to deteriorate until he was no longer able to work. He was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and eventually it was realized that the root of his problem was toxic overload from occupational exposure. During the eight years he was ill, he says, he had a lot of time to research alternative modalities to regain his health. "I discovered that leading researchers in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome stated that their patients had high toxic loads," says Randy. "When their loads were reduced, their symptoms often improved dramatically. It worked for me. Detoxing really helped put me back on my feet."

JAPANESE RESEARCH - FAR INFRARED BENEFITS:

Aging and Far Infrared Heat Therapy
The following health challenges have been reported in Japan to be alleviated or reduced by the use of far infrared therapy:
Asthma, bronchitis (cleared up).
Rheumatoid arthritis (7 out of 10 cases resolved in one clinical trial).
Benign prostatic hypertrophy (reduced).
Cancer pain (greatly relieved pain in later stages).
Cirrhosis of the liver (reversed).
Chrone's Disease (gone).
Cold hand and feet (a physical therapist discovered 20-50% improvement was maintained).
Cystitis (gone).
Duodenal ulcers (eliminated).
Compression fracture pain.
Gastritis (relieved).
Hemorrhoids (reduced).
Hepatitis (gone).
High blood pressure (in the case of a diabetic a systolic decrease from 180 to 125 +
concurrent weight loss).
Keloids (significantly softened and, in some cases, completely gone).
Leg ulcers (healed when previously static and resistant to other care).
Menopause.
Pain preventing sleep or limiting sleeping positions (relieved).
Post-surgical adhesions (reduced).
Radiation sickness (relieved signs and symptoms).
Sequel of strokes (Herniparesis relieved over time).
Dr. Masao Nakamura of the O and P Medical Clinic in Japan reports success with the use of far infrared heat treatment for the following:

Acne.
Arthritis.
Ear Diseases.
Gastroenteric Problems.
Insomnia.
Menopause.
Whiplash.
Sciatica.
Shoulder Stiffness.

Musculo-skeletal Improvements with Far Infrared Heat
Success has been reported from infrared treatments by Japanese researchers for the following musculo-skeletal conditions:


Arthritis, Gout, Rheumatoid, DJD (each substantially relieved or improved).
Adhesions (common in competitive athletes, trauma, and repetitive stress syndromes).
TMJ Arthritis.
Acel-Decel Injury Sequelae.
Low-Back Pain (relieved).
Bursitis (eliminated).
Brain Contusion (accelerated healing).
Disc-Protrusion Related Neuralgia.
Compression Fractures (in one situation pain stopped for three days with one treatment).
Muscle Tension (relaxed).
Muscle Spasms (reduced or eliminated).
Post-Exercise Muscle Pain (good results - vital to competitive athletes).
Shoulder pain (relieved or improved).
Spinal Chord Shock (reversed post traumatic shock).
Tight Shoulders (more relaxed).
Traumatic Arthritis.

Ear, Nose, and Throat Conditions Relieved with Far Infrared Heat
The Japanese report the following ear, nose, and throat conditions relieved with far infrared heat treatments:

Body Odor.
Chronic middle-ear inflammation of infection.
Clogged pores (unplugged of cosmetics, unexcelled skin texture and tone).
Dandruff (increased blood flow through the scalp).
Eczema and Psoriasis (respond well).
Lacerations (healed quicker with less pain and scarring).
Nettle rash.
Nose bleeding (reduced).
Skin Conditions (improved).
Teenage skin problems (clearing acne and blackheads).
Poor skin tone - Scars and pain from burns or wounds (decreased in severity and extent).
Sore throats.
Tinitus (chronic severe case cleared with 10 infrared treatments).
Used routinely in burn units throughout Asia.

Benefits:

1) Far Infrared expands capillaries which stimulates increased blood flow, regeneration, circulation and oxygenation.

2) Far Infrared is excellent for detox. Scientists in Japan report that in the FIR treatment of clogged capillary vessels, heat expands the capillaries and then initiates the start of a process to dissolve hidden toxins. Far Infrared thereby promotes elimination of fats, chemicals and toxins from the blood: Poisons, carcinogenic heavy metals - toxic substances from food processing - lactic acid, free fatty acids, and subcutaneous fat associated with aging and fatigue - excess sodium associated with hypertension - and uric acid which causes pain. Furthermore, if sebaceous glands are activated, accumulated cosmetics in pores can be eliminated through the skin (sweat and oil glands) rather than by the kidneys.

3) Far Infrared stimulates enzyme activity and metabolism - One hour under the HotHouse burns over 900 calories by raising the metabolism and body temperature. FIR heat also breaks down cellulite - trapped water, fat and waste.

4) Far Infrared promotes the killing of many pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.

5) Far Infrared promotes rebuilding of injured tissue by having a positive effect on the fibroblasts (connective tissue cells necessary for the repair of injury). Furthermore, it increases growth of cells, DNA syntheses, and protein synthesis all necessary during tissue repair and regeneration. Excellent for healing burns, scar tissue and skin problems.

6) Far Infrared relieves nervous tension and relax autoneuro muscles thereby helping the body make the most of its intended healing abilities. FIR reduces soreness on nerve endings and muscle spasms, as muscle fibers are heated.

7) Far Infrared strengthens the Immune System by stimulating increased production of white blood cells (leukocytes) by the bone marrow and killer T-cells by the thymus.

8) Far Infrared strengthens the Cardiovascular System by causing heart rate and cardiac output increase, and diastolic blood pressure decrease - Extensive research by NASA in the early 1980's led to the conclusion that far infrared stimulation of cardiovascular function would be the ideal way to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space flight.

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Infrared Mediterranean Heat by Lukas Novak

Infrared light from the Sun accounts for about 49% of the heating of the Earth. Most of us don't have much free time to absorb the sun's heat. We are stuck behind a desk or in front of a computer most of the day at work. There's much chat online about the healing effects of infrared heat.

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If you or a loved one suffers with a cold mouse hand, a warming mouse a solution. Plus, if pain from arthritis or poor circulation causes painful computer use, the warming mouse will relieve stress and muscle tension in the hand and wrist.

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