09/28/2017
How vital is the Hubbard Sauna Detoxification in drug rehab?
Read about it in this paper:
www.academia.edu/33625287/Remarks_on_a_2006_paper_on_sauna_detoxification_of_responders_to_the_9_11_World_Trade_Center_disaster
"Chemical Exposures at the World Trade Center: Use of the Hubbard Sauna Detoxification Regimen to Improve the Health Status of New York City Rescue Workers Exposed to Toxicants."
Authors: Marie A. Cecchini, MS; David E. Root MD, MPH; Jeremie R. Rachunow, MD; and Phyllis M. Gelb, MD.
ABSTRACT and COMMENTS
The study group included 484 firefighters, paramedics, police, sanitation workers, and other responders involved in the clean-up after the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11. The site continued to produce toxic smoke for many weeks after the collapse, thus exacerbating the negative symptoms of those exposed. The study group was surveyed for change in symptom severity pre/post use of the Hubbard sauna detoxification protocol. A Health History and Symptom Survey consisting of 50 items on ten scales for systems commonly impacted by chemical exposure was used to assess changes in symptoms over the course of sauna detoxification, indicating a wide range of reported improvements in symptoms.
What is interesting is the parallel of these positive changes to symptom severity scores in many peer-reviewed and other published studies (listed below on this site). One similar chart of positive changes in symptom severity after sauna detoxification can be seen in the 1995 APHA proceedings of a study of Narconon drug rehabilitation students who underwent the same sauna detoxification procedure as part of their rehab program.
Among other measurements in this 9/11 treatment study were improvements in nervous system function among a random cohort of 58 persons selected from the 484 fireman and others who were involved in the clean-up at the disaster site: Postural sway test (used in the field to measure mean speed along the path moved with eyes open and closed) compared pre and post-detoxification results. The sway test determines impairment of vestibular function (Statistical significance: p
