This is a draft page.
Disclaimer: The variable-wavelength wellness therapy is not intended to treat any disease or disorder.
The people in the interviews gave me personal permission to share their stories about their recoveries from chronic pain and impaired functioning.
This page is an invitation for you to join me to show that “impossible” is merely a mirage. It is the gratitude from restoring lives that has spurred me along for 24 years.
Beyond the "Impossible"
By Allan Gardiner
I didn’t know that overcoming disbelief that healing is possible would be my greatest challenge. But that’s the mission now.
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You can change your expectations by changing one concept: stop thinking "chronic is forever" by replacing it with "delayed healing" period. Delayed healing removes the cognitive dissonance imposed by the never ending "chronic."
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The aim is to restart physiological functioning despite being “impossible” according to conventional thinking. Beth and Mark showcase the possibilities. Now, it is time to scale up.
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Improving Quality of Life
I am grateful for working directly with more than 500 people who volunteered in feasibility studies that I funded.
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Beth and Mark tell their stories. I am grateful to their families who brought them to the studies and supported them during our journeys together.
Beth and Mark had no path forward after having exhausted available interventions and therapies. Beth needed assistance with her basic activities of daily living. Mark lived in a nursing home where he received care when he choked on his food and for other activities of daily living.

Figure 1 Beth had "plateaued" from her physical rehabilitation for her C5/C6 quadriplegia. She made steady progress during a year of the Variable-Wavelength Therapy that helped to ride a manual wheelchair. Mark arrived with impaired coordination and Huntington’s chorea. With the therapy, he moved out of a nursing home to live independently and regain custody of his kids. Progress could have been faster if they had access to the therapy each day. I think about them as an antidote to the damage caused when other believe that “chronic means forever.”
Scaling Up
The L.C. and Lillie Cox Haven of Hope (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) has a project to make the therapy available to people like Beth and Mark. The project lends a variable-wavelength device and trains the family to apply individualized therapy. The team and I are fulfilling the project to get it going. Scaling up requires external funding.
Please share this page or links with your family, community, and help find practitioners.
Contact me to join me in the next mile.
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Allan Gardiner
The interviews are long form. Please feel free to skip around.
Getting on with their lives
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Beth and Mark tell their stories about their improving quality of life that began during the first session and continued to improve incrementally. Improving the ability to perform activities of daily living also provided relief for caregivers.
Their efforts, joy, and gratitude for small improvements still stoke my passion.
Links to share:
Highlight for Mark:
Beth: From a life of being fed to helping others.
"Beth" had been in a car accident the first time that her parents let her ride with a teenage driver. The driver was not at fault but the accident left Beth with C5-C6 quadriplegia. Beth started PhotoMed's therapy about 18 months after her injury and after her physical therapy progress had plateaued. Beth quickly achieved improvements that were sufficient for her to resume insurance-paid physical rehabilitation. The combination of PhotoMed's therapy and PT helped Beth transition to riding a manual wheel.
Figure 2. Beth achieved progress from her first session. She transitioned to a manual wheelchair about 13 months after starting PhotoMed's therapy. (8:38)
Beth tugged at my heart as she worked hard to regain her strength and independence. She made steady progress during the year. Her efforts and progress were exciting and gratifying for everyone.
Mark: Huntington's - restoring functions improves his quality of life
The events and discussions below may be shocking to doctors who care for patients having Huntington's disease. The following presentation may help families and practitioners observe the progression of improvements that peaked after about two years. The disease progressive erodes coordinated functions such that each "new normal" is only a step towards death and is usually considered to be irreversible. ​
Overview
Mark and Debbie were on the Huntington's path to immobility and early death. Their mom had died of Huntington's at age 46. Mark wanted to be a good father to his kids. But living in a nursing home to be fed and bathed wasn't how he wanted to live his remaining life.
I'll focus on Mark because his improvements showed me the importance of including people in studies even when no one expects even the slightest improvement.
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I funded the feasibility studies such that the team didn't need to have a hypothesis beyond learning if the therapy might improve quality of life, or not.
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Now, development of the therapy and device are finished. It is time for scaling.
The clips show only highlights. This page is about quality of life. I have unedited interviews for researchers to learn more.
Before the first therapy - family interview
I met with the family to go over study details. I thought that nothing would improve and that the study might last 2 only weeks. You can decide for yourself why I continued to fund Dr. Haber for 5 years of therapy for Mark. Debbie decided to "let go" after about 2 years because she didn't have kids as reasons for continuing.
Figure 3. Mark and Debbie have Huntington's disease. Their mother died at age 46 and they know what lies ahead. Watch Mark's unintentional mouth movements. You are welcome to sample the conversations. (11:28)
Reactions to the improvements achieved after the first 40 minutes of therapy
Mark demonstrates his walking and then drinking from a Styrofoam cup that he reported was previously challenging for lack of dexterity and crushing the cup. The family describes their observations.
Figure 4. Mark demonstrates his improved walking and drinking from a cup. His family tells us why they are surprised. (6:03)
At the first anniversary interview
Mark's family talks about the observed improvements during the first year. After the first session, the family went to a buffet restaurant. Mark surprised everyone by carrying his tray and eating without choking.
By this anniversary, Mark had moved out of a nursing home to live independently again in an apartment.
Figure 5. Mark's family recalls their surprise at the buffet restaurant where he carried his tray and didn't spill anything. Life changing, he moved out of a nursing home where he had been fed and bathed. (2:58)
Involuntary movements
Slow-motion data from the interviews yielded clues about how the body recognizes and corrects unintended movements. That is, homeostasis and the sensorimotor processing systems detect errors (involuntary slow mouth opening) and corrects the error (mouth closes quickly).

Figure 6. Data extracted from Mark's family videos show a reduction in his unintended movements of his mouth beginning after his first therapy session (about 40 min). Mark was not aware of the movements. The improvements parallel the improved coordination in his swallowing and gait.
Homeostasis depends upon accurate low-level recognition impairments that can then be corrected.
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Mark was not aware of his unintended and uncoordinated movements. Like how you would not notice your own limp, the choreic movements present a "learned non-awareness" of the spontaneous unintentional movements.
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Mark's loss of awareness of unintended movements was separate from the disease that was suspected to have caused the impairment. The therapy prompted homeostasis to revert to an earlier state that included awareness of movement. The homeostatic awareness detected movements earlier and prevented the large excursions.
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Real-time recordings show a slow opening with a rapid shutting. The measured motions look to me, an engineer, like his mouth "servo" system's position sensing loop had been interrupted until the positional errors became large enough to be detected. Upon detecting a large excursion, the error was corrected as seen as a rapid closing of his mouth.
After nearly 2 years of therapy
Mark demonstrates his ability to walk forwards and backwards. He reports on how his renewed ability to talk allowed the courts to give him back custody of his kids again. He talks about why this is important to him.
Figure 7. Mark's walks for the record. He talks about his ability to testify to get back custody of kids. Custody was given up when he entered a nursing home. His gait is affected by an injury to his foot. (6:51)
Mark continued with the therapy for 5 years. His physical abilities and strength peaked at about 3 years then declined despite an increasing frequency of sessions. However, he still lived in an apartment with his son where he enjoyed time with his grandchild.
Mark's intentional efforts were a key to improving the flows of information and energy. He was able to become the father that he wanted to be.
A Closing Note
I am grateful for Beth and Mark who exemplify possibilities beyond the "impossible" dogma.
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I invite you to share the good news.
A non-profit organization, the L.C. and Lillie Cox Haven of Hope, has a project to lend devices to families and practitioners who care for people like Beth and Mark.
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