Who am I?
Pain Relief and Orthotic Research
By Edward S. Glaser, DPM
From birth, through Podiatry College I lived in New York. Thirteen years as a Podiatrist outside of Nashville, TN was followed by a 27 year career re-inventing the foot orthotic. I founded a foot orthotic company in TN (Sole Supports, Inc.) and am now semi-retired on the beautiful gulf coast of Florida.
In my travels, teaching at medical conventions, I came across a muscle relaxation technique that seems to relieve the vast majority of Muscle and joint pain. I have had surprising success with this simple technique and would like to measure the effects and publish the results so that more people can benefit from these gentle, easy relaxation techniques. I want to teach these techniques broadly for FREE so that anyone and everyone can achieve pain relief at home without drugs, surgery, machines…..just your hands and some knowledge.
What are we doing?
If you have chronic pain in your body, I am offering to attempt to relieve your pain for FREE and then see if I can keep the pain in remission by influencing the posture of your feet; removing tension on ligaments that amplify and start the positive feedback loop we call chronic pain.
The pain relief technique is called: Relax, Release, Relief or RRR.
It involves gently, passively positioning your body, having you apply a very gentle force against resistance while I press gently on a big ligament for less than 30 seconds.
The results are fairly immediate and may be long lasting. People have reported beneficial and often permanent results with Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Post-surgical, Post-implant, and Post-traumatic pain. Lesser or no results have been observed in people with neuropathy, osteo-arthritis, PMR and Gout. The purpose of this research is to turn those experiences into quantifiable results with documented proof.
The duration and severity of the pain do not usually have any influence on results.
Only a few medications interfere with the releases, and not the ones you might think.
There are NO known side effects other than the desirable effects of pain relief, increased flexibility and less tenderness. It is like hitting a reset button for your muscles.
Why are we doing this?
In short, we’re trying to find out how effective this gentle, non-invasive relaxation technique is at helping to reduce pain. In order to do this, we obviously need volunteers. All participants will also be cast for foot posture orthotics, and receive these at no cost. Our second area of research involves comparing the effectiveness of different casting and imaging techniques.
There is NO GUARANTEE of Success. That is exactly what I am researching. I am NOT nor will I be your doctor. I am NOT practicing medicine as I am NOT a licensed doctor in Florida. I will NOT diagnose, treat, or test you for any disease. I will NOT report your findings to any database other than this research, period.
I am comparing data you report in your medical history to the pain relief obtained to identify indications (when it works), contra-indications (when it doesn’t work), drug interference, duration and level of relief obtained, when combined with foot orthotics.
If you sign up, I will send you some specific history and consent forms. Please fill out and bring to your first session or we’ll fill them out then together.
This research is completely and totally voluntary and you can opt out or discontinue at any time.
What’s this about free custom orthotics?
The second part of this research project is to evaluate the data collected from different foot images taken on an iPhone X and a foam casting box, used to capture your foot in it’s ideal posture to fabricate for you a custom foot orthotic device for the study.
An example of a fully custom orthotic (final appearance may differ).
We will make you a custom orthotic from this data and we ask only that you give your honest opinion of the orthotic and the way the orthotic relates to your pain relief results.
Casting will take under two minutes for each cast.
Orthotics will be dispensed within two weeks of casting and a RRR technique will be done at dispensing during the second and/or later visit(s).
Your identity is not relevant data, therefore feel free to use a “User name” instead. I will not report your results to ANYONE, so it will NOT effect your disability rating unless you report the changes when you deem appropriate. The only place I will need your real name is on the consent to participate in the study.
I will need feedback immediately after the second session and at One, Three, Six and Twelve months in the form a simple feedback form that will be emailed to you and will only take less than a minute to complete.
Who is Eligible?
The physical location of our research is centered around Palmetto, FL, and anyone interested in participating would be required to travel to this location.
Covid 19 Vaccine Policy, Safety and Privacy for Participants and Observers
For OUR safety I am only admitting participants and observers who are FULLY Vaccinated for Covid 19 AND Masked. FULLY Vaccinated means: Two weeks after the second shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after the single shot of the J&J vaccine.
I highly encourage and prefer you to bring observers to learn the techniques that work on you so that they can release your muscles again whenever you need it. We only ask that they ALSO be FULLY VACCINATED. Medical professionals are also welcome under the same rules. ALL research sessions will be videotaped, to document results such as changes in range of motion of joints and the progression of pain relief. No one’s personal data will be shared with anyone. Within the Consent, participants and observers give permission for segments of the videos to be posted for instructional purposes and as your honest observations and evaluations while blurring your face to mask identity.
We recommend you wear flexible, loose fitting clothing such as those appropriate for exercising in a gym.
YOU WILL GET A FREE PAIR OF CUSTOM FOOT ORTHOTICS THAT USUALLY COST $375 TO $800.
And you MAY walk away pain free.
How do I schedule a session?
Again, the physical location of our research is centered around Palmetto, FL, and anyone interested in participating would be required to travel to this location.
Before your first session, all participants will be required to sign some consent forms necessary for us to do our research. You can view those consent forms below, and they will also be provided to you in person when you show up for your appointment.
We currently plan to provide free pain relief sessions that also include a free pair of orthotics in this study.
To schedule an appointment, simply text Dr. Glaser at (615) 579-5846.