Light, Heat, Gas, Pressure and Fields: What Each Kennewick Service Delivers to the Body
The services at Spinal Fitness Health and Wellness Center in Kennewick, WA deliver 6 different physical inputs to the body: light from 480 to 3000 nm, radiant heat up to 155°F, a breathed gas, air pressure at 1.3 ATA, pulsed fields, and mechanical load.
Light: the 7 Wave panel
The 7 Wave Full Body Light Panel emits 7 wavelengths: 480 nm (visible blue), 630 and 660 nm (red), and 810, 830, 850 and 1060 nm (near-infrared). Chapter 20 of Eileen Durfee’s book, Spinal Fitness, states that red light is visible and primarily reaches superficial tissue, while near-infrared light is invisible and penetrates more deeply into muscles, fascia, joints and nerves. The book names the cellular target as cytochrome c oxidase, an enzyme in the mitochondrial electron transport chain that plays a role in oxygen consumption and ATP production. A session runs 10 to 20 minutes, standing, with bare skin and eyewear, plus about 5 minutes to undress and 5 to dress.
Light and heat together: the hot exercise room
The hot room uses a low-EMF Sauna Fix radiant tent that emits 550 to 3000 nm light and radiant heat, has no preheat period, and reaches a maximum of 155°F. The book describes the full-spectrum incandescent source as delivering visible red light, near-infrared light, and mid-infrared and far-infrared heat from the same bulbs. Its stated effects of heat on the body: blood vessels widen, blood flow to muscles, fascia and joints increases, and heart rate rises. A session runs 20 to 40 minutes, standing or sitting; a public session is a swimsuit and a private session is bare skin, with eyewear and towels for wiping sweat.
Gas: Brown’s Gas and the HX-600
Brown’s Gas is about 66% hydrogen and 33% oxygen, produced on site by electrolysis of water, and breathed through a nasal cannula while you sit or lie down, fully clothed. The HX-600 is a separate machine that produces hydrogen by PEM electrolysis of purified water at up to 600 ml per minute and 99.9% purity; its manufacturer recommends sessions of 30 to 60 minutes. A free Brown’s Gas session for a new visitor is 30 minutes, with your own nasal cannula or one for $15.
Pressure: the mild hyperbaric chamber
The soft-sided chamber pressurizes to 1.3 ATA, 30% above sea-level air pressure, while an oxygen concentrator supplies enriched air through a nasal cannula. You lie on a grounded mat, fully clothed in cotton, shoes off, with no electronics inside. A booked session is 90 minutes for $100, including gradual pressurization and depressurization, and a membership session is 1 hour.
Pulsed fields: PEMF and the BioCharger NG
PEMF equipment produces brief, rhythmic magnetic pulses through a targeted loop, hand paddles or a full-body mat, while you sit fully clothed in a zero-gravity chair for 10 to 20 minutes. The BioCharger NG generates 4 kinds of energy fields: pulsed electromagnetic fields, electrostatic high-voltage fields, light frequencies, and harmonic frequencies of radio waves and sound. A BioCharger NG session runs 9 to 30 minutes, depending on the recipe used, seated and clothed with nothing attached; the service page notes a light tingling from the electrostatic field. Both services exclude anyone with a pacemaker, defibrillator or other implanted electronic device, and the PEMF list adds an insulin pump.
Mechanical load: Spinal Fitness
Spinal Fitness delivers a mechanical input: resistance from the anterior direction, in 5 steps: Back Trac rolling, the Pelvic Tilt over a fulcrum, the Sit-Up over the PowerCushion, Neck Flexion, and the twist with the Neck and Back Shaper rolls. In Dr. John Scherger’s lever analysis, cited by the book, a body moving forward against anterior resistance needs about 77 lbs of total muscular effort with proper structure and about 1,166 lbs with poor posture, a 15-to-1 advantage. A Spinal Fitness evaluation is 60 minutes, 20 of them lying over the rolls; the book caps the supported rest phase at 18 to 20 minutes. The book’s stop signs are pain, numbness, tingling and dizziness: they are signs to stop, get evaluated, and then proceed with a therapeutic exercise program designed by a Spinal Fitness expert.
Building a visit from the inputs
The 7 Wave service page states that many members book light sessions back-to-back with a sauna, hyperbaric or PEMF session in the same visit. The time for a visit is the sum of the session lengths plus changing time:
- Hot room, then 7 Wave: 20 to 40 minutes plus 10 to 20 minutes plus about 10 minutes of changing, 40 to 70 minutes.
- 7 Wave, then PEMF: 10 to 20 minutes plus about 10 minutes of changing plus 10 to 20 minutes, 30 to 50 minutes.
- Hot room, 7 Wave and PEMF: 50 to 90 minutes.
- A member hyperbaric session plus a 20-minute PEMF session: about 80 minutes.
The 7 Wave panel takes bare skin, and the hot room takes a swimsuit or bare skin; Brown’s Gas, hyperbaric, PEMF and the BioCharger NG are taken fully clothed. The Brown’s Gas page states that members often pair a Brown’s Gas session with a sauna or light session in the same visit. Members use Brown’s Gas at no additional charge, first come, first served, and Brown’s Gas Deluxe is a booked 1-hour session for $50.
What a membership includes
The $150 Month-to-Month membership includes 1 one-hour mild hyperbaric session monthly, the PEMF mat and paddles, the near-infrared saunas, general and spinal fitness equipment, hydrogen gas inhalation, Brown’s Gas inhalation and the BioCharger NG. The Annual Membership, also $150 a month on a 12-month agreement, adds 4 one-hour hyperbaric sessions, 31 7 Wave light panel sessions and 31 targeted PEMF loop sessions monthly.
Booking a visit in Kennewick
Spinal Fitness Health and Wellness Center is at 214 E. Albany Ave, Building E101, Kennewick, WA 99336, serving Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, West Richland, Benton City and Walla Walla. Call or text 509-670-9713 to book, evenings and weekends included. Members use their door code for 24/7 access once training is finished. Every Thursday from 2 to 6 PM new visitors can come in for a free session of 1 rotating service: the BioCharger NG, the 7 Wave light panel, Brown’s Gas, PEMF or the hot room. Eileen Durfee founded the center and is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and the inventor of Spinal Fitness.
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