Healing from Broken Ribs - Rapid Bone Formation with KAATSU Cycle Sets

Chris Morgan competed in a Tough Mudder race in 2012. The 12-mile endurance event through the mud, hills, and a variety of obstacles in New Hampshire tested his spirit.

He enjoyed the challenge - until he smashed into rocks on the log hurdle obstacle.

"I knew immediately that I broke my ribs," the former Olympic coach who was coaching the Harvard University women's swim team at the time recalled. "I had broken my ribs many years before and the feeling was the same.

I immediately was bummed, but I also knew that a bone break could heal faster - much faster - by doing KAATSU Cycle sets. Basically, a bone is an aggregation of cells that are in a perpetual metabolic cycle of breakdown and rebuilding. I also knew that the more strongly a muscle is exercised, the stronger our bones become.

So I started doing a series of KAATSU Cycle sets morning, afternoon, and evening.

It was so efficient. I hurt to move, but it did not hurt to do KAATSU Cycles on my arms and on my legs.

At the time, I was learning KAATSU from an experienced KAATSU Specialist from Japan who worked side-by-side with Dr. Sato. He encouraged me to do repeated KAATSU Cycle sets. At the time, it was a stretch of imagination to think that the repeated compression and decompression phases of the KAATSU AirBands would actually lead to an increase in bone alkali phosphatase (BAP) levels and a concurrent suppression of bone resorption (destruction of bone via lowering of N-telopeptide of type I collagen).

I knew that osteoblasts are involved in bone formation - and that these are regulatd by hormones and cytokines. Essentially, the bone remodeling encourages proliferation of the osteoclasts - and the calcitonin serves to suppress bone resorption.

In this way, KAATSU enhanced my body's ability to turnover old bone by replacing it with new. The new bone formation is also enhanced by KAATSU's production of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) which, in turn, induces blood vessel formation in the bone.

By doing repeated KAATSU Cycles, I literally felt much better, much more quickly than I had felt years before in my previous rib injury.

This was confirmed when I visited the Harvard University Athletic Department and got my ribs x-rayed again. The technician said to me, 'It seems that you broke your ribs some years ago. I can see remnants of an old rib break.'

I smiled and told him, 'No, that injury just occurred 6 days ago.'"

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Improving Speed With KAATSU Equipment and Protocols

Speed can mean a variety of things for different sports, different activities, and at different ages.

But the fundamentals of building speed with KAATSU equipment are based on the following protocols:

*Warm-up using the Progressive KAATSU Cycle mode on your arms, starting in the Low Pressure setting and gradually increasing to higher pressure settings.

*Continue your warm-up using the Progressive KAATSU Cycle mode on your legs, starting in the Low Pressure setting and gradually increasing to higher pressure settings.

*At the higher pressures, replicate your desired movements or drills at your optimal speeds. First with the KAATSU AirBands on your arms, and then on your legs. These movements can include track starts for runners, agility drills for football players, running or skating backwards on defense in basketball or ice hockey, swinging a golf club, tennis racquet, baseball bat or cricket bat, spinning quickly in cycling, throwing a baseball or water polo ball, sprinting on a track, exploding upwards for a rebound or dunk, shooting a quick jump shot, moving laterally or backwards on a tennis court, reacting on a volleyball court, or diving off a swimming start block.

*With the KAATSU AirBands from your arms, replicate your movements or drills at speeds at which you wish to compete (or achieve) until you reach technical failure. These movements or drills can be done in the KAATSU Constant mode. That is, when your technique starts to falter or decrease from optimal, then stop and remove the KAATSU AirBands from your arms.

*With the KAATSU AirBands from your legs, replicate your movements or drills at speeds at which you wish to compete (or achieve) until you reach technical failure. These movements or drills can be done in the KAATSU Constant mode. That is, when your technique starts to falter or decrease from optimal, then stop and remove the KAATSU AirBands from your legs.

*Relax a bit, hydrate, and then refocus on your next set of movements or drills. You can rest a little here because your hormonal response will peak somewhere around 12 minutes after you remove the AirBands from your limbs.

*You wish to focus on your speed as your hormones are optimized.

*Without the KAATSU AirBands on your limbs, replicate the same movements or drills. The movements or drills should initially feel easier. You may feel lighter and faster. Even without your KAATSU AirBands on, you will experience the hormonal effects and increased vascular elasticity of KAATSU. This is an ideal time to focus on building speed as well as agility and balance when moving quickly.

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