Sleep Review (sleepreviewmag.com):
(2006-08-10) Edison Health Innovations Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of No-Mask, No-Surgery Therapy for Sleep Apnea and Hypoxemia


ZHT History:

Based on increasing body of latest scientific research findings on sleep apnea, sleep disordered breathing, heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, asthma, cancer and chronic intermittent hypoxia as well as obesity,  the scientific and medical community have come to realize the importance of sleep disordered breathing, chronic intermittent hypoxia and common pathway of sleep apnea for all other major fatal conditions and diseases.

Entire world is seeking and making devices, drugs and surgical procedures to stop snoring and sleep apnea based on our current sleep apnea model of how upper airway is collapsed due to snoring.

The current sleep apnea understanding is incomplete and inaccurate, as it failed to identify the main anatomical, neuro-physiological factors and mechanisms for decades in not only how sleep disordered breathing, from upper airway silent resistance to collapsing, but also daytime vocal cord dysfunction and how they are equally and continually co-conspiring in inducing chronic intermittent hypoxia and central apnea.

Undiagnosed and untreated prolonged hypoxia is the connecting link and a common pathway for many medical conditions, including obesity, heart attack, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, allergy, cancer, and mental disorders as well as chronic musculoskeletal pain syndrome.

From late 2003 to early 2004, Dr. Jin Zhou researched on this area and reviewed latest vocal cord dysfunction (VCD), trachea caudal displacement (TCD) and sleep apnea research findings. In late 2004 Dr. Zhou hypothesized and clinically observed that vocal cord dysfunction, apnea upper airway collapsing are mainly due to TCD, which in turn causes mild to moderate hypoxia. Dr. Zhou identified this TCD - Hypoxia Model, and developed a unique, simple, yet most effective clinical therapy, Zhou's Hypoxicology Therapy (ZHT).

If Dr. Zhou's concept and theory are proven to be true ultimately and scientifically, ZHT/TCD could be the most significant health care advancement in this decade.

Dr. Zhou was able to make these discoveries in part because of his unique background. Prior to coming to the United States in January, 1988, Dr. Jin Zhou worked as an orthopedic surgeon at China Air Force General Hospital in Beijing China, where  physicians and surgeons are practicing both integrated Western and Eastern disciplines with scientific advancement along with wholistic traditional Chinese Medicince (TCM).

He studied Chiropractic Science at Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, Iowa in 1988 and graduated in 1991. Then Dr. Zhou enjoined his clinical practice in chiropractic and acupuncture in state of Illinois since 1991.