Lewes, DE -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/03/2016 -- Roger H. Coletti, MD a practicing cardiologist based in Lewes, DE believes he has been able to identify what keeps the muscle in chronic spasm and developed an effective treatment. Dr. Coletti says that by identifying what keeps the muscle in chronic spasm he has been able to develop a treatment that turns off the spasm and lets the muscle return to normal function.

The trigger that locks the muscles in spasm had been overlooked by other physicians and had been thought to represent simply "noise" in the electrical evaluation of muscle and nerve function. What Roger H. Coletti, MD found was that this "noise" represented electrical instability of the muscle keeping the muscle in a state of chronic contraction.

Dr. Coletti believes that the electrical instability takes place after an initial spasm has choked off the normal blood supply to the muscle, reduced blood supply causes "membrane instability". This is the same phenomena that occurs in the heart muscle, as a cardiologist Dr. Roger Coletti recognized it as the obvious cause of chronic contraction in the muscle. Just as ventricular fibrillation of the heart leaves the heart in a state of quivering, muscle fibrillation, which he calls "myofibrillation", leaves the muscle in a state of chronic contraction.

Once he found the source of chronic muscle spasm, Dr. Roger Coletti set out to develop a treatment that would return the muscle to normal function. He used a device called an EMG, similar to an EKG but an EMG is used to measure electrical activity of nerves and muscles. He researched the work of others in this field of research and found several failed attempts which led Dr. Roger Coletti to try and complete the work that others had abandoned. Initially he found a way to use a very dilute concentration of BOTOX, injecting muscle while looking for "noise" in the muscle with the use EMG.

This seemed to work reasonably well but the full effect took weeks to occur and the high cost of BOTOX was never covered by insurance. Dr. Coletti found another medication, dibenzyline. Dibenzyline had been tried for use in chronic muscle spasm and had received three US patents. However, the neurologist who had received those patents abandoned them after having no published clinical success.

In the history of medicine physicians have not uncommonly tried new treatments on themselves before attempting to treat others. As a cardiologist with decades of wearing heavy lead aprons in hospital X-ray rooms, Roger Coletti, MD had plenty of chronic muscle spasms to treat on himself. Working closely with a sterile compounding pharmacy and their advisors, he came up with an appropriate dose concentration of dibenzyline.

After many tries, he incorporated other short term medications into the injection mix to minimize discomfort and improve outcome. The medication is FDA approved for treating high blood pressure but it had been found in the past to bind to muscle and block electrical activity. Its use as an injection is what is considered an "off label use".

As he has continued to develop his treatment, Dr. Roger H. Coletti has submitted his findings to the medical community. His work has been published in the highly respected peer reviewed journal Muscle & Nerve, he has presented his findings at national meetings of The American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Additional recent findings were accepted for publication and will be presented at the national meeting in September.

His findings have been placed in the public domain so that no patent or restriction of use can occur. He is seeking a trademark for this procedure as CMECD, so that physicians who take on this treatment will be following a specified treatment protocol. CMECD is an abbreviation for "Coletti Method of EMG guided ChemoDenervation".

About Dr. Roger Coletti
Dr. Roger Coletti has now treated hundreds of patients and believes the treatment protocol is mature enough to teach it to other physicians, treatment requires injection of the muscle in chronic spasm but in most all cases only a single treatment is required. His work represents a major advance in trigger point therapy treatments. Patients who have had chronic spasms that had lasted for decades get immediate relief and the spasms do not return, nearly half of Dr. Roger H. Coletti's treated patients have had prior back surgery without relief.

As he puts it, "the surgeon may have done a good job but the muscles never got the memo". Many of his patients incurred their injuries via car accidents and even without broken bones, they suffered for years. Here again a single treatment has been enough to reset or as is a more common saying these days, "reboot" the muscle back to normal function. Common conditions treated resulting from chronic muscle spasm include overuse and over training from sports, sciatica, IT Band Syndrome, Piriformis Syndrome as well as the most common complaint of chronic low back pain.

Roger H. Coletti, MD is still practicing as a cardiologist but his alternative treatment of chronic pain has become a growing part of his practice. His office is in Lewes, DE and can be reached at 302-645-1500.

See the practice web site InterventionalHealth.com for further information.

Contact Info:
Dr Roger H. Coletti
16529 Coastal Hwy #125
Lewes Delware 19958
Phone: 302-645-1500
Website: http://www.interventionalhealth.com