Recently, my brother purchased a Farabloc square and mitt from you, in hopes it would give me some much-needed relief from my osteo-arthritis pains. My arthritis progressed rapidly, swollen joints which are now becoming deformed and sleep was almost impossible, and the more tired I got the more the pain increased. I cannot tolerate the usual medications that are prescribed such as Motrin, endorphin etc., so I appeared a hopeless case. I am happy to say that I now enjoy relief from the excruciating pain and I am now able to fall asleep and be comfortable. I wear the cloth on my shoulder and the mitt on my most painful hand. I feel a lovely airy warm glow instead of the terrible pain. I will certainly tell my Doctor about your cloth, and I thank you for manufacturing it and I can't thank brother enough for getting them for me.

It is my pleasure to relate my experience in the use of Farabloc. In March 2004 I underwent total knee replacement by Dr. Kendall at Richmond Hospital. At that time I was put on his list for a hip replacement on the same side. He told me he would not perform the surgery for at least six months, in order for the knee to completely recover. In the meantime he arranged for me to have cortisone shots in the hip to relieve me of pain in the hip. They worked extremely well for many months but then the pain came back with a vengeance. Having listened to Dr. Hister on CKNW promoting the use of Farabloc I decided to call your Coquitlam office. A very pleasant lady told me it may help, after I told her my situation, so I ordered some material.


Back in August I had spent all morning thoroughly cleaning my car inside and out. When I was finished I was experiencing excruciating pain, but as luck would have it, when picking up our mail there was a brown envelope from Farabloc. I could not open the envelope fast enough to see if it would have any effect on my pain. When opened it was a piece of fabric neatly folded in about a 7" square, I put it inside my shorts and sat down, within minutes I felt wonderful relief from the pain. I have worn it every day, except at night, since mid August without pain. I'm well aware that it is not a cure but if it will keep me pain free for a length of time I am happy. At 86 years of age the less surgeries the happier I am. I have told many of my friends what relief it has given me and given them all your information.

Thank you for the pain free period I have enjoyed and I hope it will continue to be effective.

W. H.
Vancouver, B.C.

Hi Frieder,
I haven't been training much these past few months; actually been on more of a maintenance program for most of the year when I think about it. Then the other week I picked up a bug while in Alberta and spent a week with the flu and really no energy at all. Some friends invited me to go rock climbing at the indoor wall in North Vancouver Friday night, and I really didn't feel up to it. All throughout the week my whole body ached with that horrible body ache you get with the flu. So I passed on Friday night, but put myself down as a maybe for Sunday, thinking I still wouldn't be ready.

As it turned out I did go on Sunday, and considering I hadn't lifted a finger all week, I felt remarkably good. So good in fact that I ended up climbing an over hanging route that afterwards left me thinking, "Wow, you really should not have done that; you're going to be so sore the next day".

With that in mind I wore the Farabloc jacket to bed that night. For some reason I didn't sleep very well that night. I was quite hot, and I wondered whether it might be the jacket making me hot, but didn't take it off, as I really wanted to see if it would make any difference to what I felt would be a quite stiff and sore body over the next few days.

To my amazement; I woke up absolutely fine; not even the slightest bit sore in my forearms even, which really surprised as like I said; I hadn't lifted a finger all week, and really hadn't climbed for months prior to that. Usually, my forearms, back and shoulders would be quite sore.

regards, Warren
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To: Farabloc,

I want to tell everybody about how happy I am since I got my sheet of Farabloc.

I have suffered menstrual pain since I was 11 years old. The first day of my period the pain was so strong that I didn't go to school or to work. I used to vomit, had diarrhea and back pain. I have gone to many doctors here in Canada and back home. I have tried all the medications prescribed by doctors, over the counter, teas, hot bags, grandma's advices, anything you name it.

July last year my husband gave me a Farabloc sheet for my birthday. The best present ever!!!!!! I never thought that a peace of fabric could relieve my pain as it did. I just put it on my tummy and no any symptoms at all. My life is back to normal.

I am 34 years old and I only wish I would have gotten this before. I took it everywhere; it is my first thing in my suitcase where travel.

Thank you so much for making my period a normal day in my life! :)

Sincerely,
Silvia R.

On March 15 of 2006 I was at the blood lab at Gilbert and Westminster Hwy in Richmond and I passed by the office of Dr. Nixdorf and saw an advertisement in the window regarding phantom pains so I took down their information and made a few phone calls and I made an appointment to have a cover made for my stump and shoulder as I lost my left arm about 40 years ago and have had phantom pains for hat
long.

Since I've gotten the Farabloc cover I've noticed a great improvement in my life. Now when I get pains I put on the Farabloc and within minutes the pains lessen and start spacing out decreasing in intensity. I sleep much better and am not nearly as tired the following day. I strongly recommend the Farabloc to anyone who suffers with phantom pains and I am sure it will help make your life much better - don't wait 40 years to find relief like I did.

Sincerely, FA Richmond, BC

In 1964, at the age of 16, I was the youngest member ever on the French Olympic track team. All my life I had loved to run, play games, chase friends and fly like the wind. To train, secretly at night, I had to jump the wall that separated the Catholic girl's boarding school from the boy's school next door. They had the only track!

The trial to qualify for the team were held in Paris. When I lined up to run, I didn't even have the appropriate spikes. A kind runner lent me her spare pair. Coaches and of officials were wondering who this scrawny kid was. They found out 100 meters later. I was not only the scrawniest, I was the fastest! I was going to the Olympics Games in Tokyo.

On a beautiful Sunday, two weeks before leaving for the Games, I asked my father to take me for a drive to enjoy the freedom and excitement I felt because my dream had come true. It was not to be. A drunk driver suddenly came around a corner, head on. When I woke from a coma three months later I learned I might never walk again. And that my father had been killed.

I did learn to walk again with the aid of crutches then a cane. After graduating from La Sorbonne, I came to Canada, married and had two children.

In 1985 cancer overtook my left leg. Several amputations followed starting at the ankle and ending just below the knee. It was at the time Steve Fonyo was running across Canada. He inspired me, as had earlier another young amputee I had met, Terry Fox, and then later another found another friend in Rick Hansen. All three inspired me to pursue my ill-fated running career interrupted twenty-one years before.

Three months after the last operation I challenged the Mayor of Nanaimo, British Columbia, where I was living at the time, to a marathon run to raise money for cancer research. Together we raised $20,000. To top it all I ran the final miles into Victoria with Steve Fonyo.

For me the rest is history. Three years of intensive training with able-bodied athletes in Calgary and world class competition culminated in a Gold and silver medal in the 100 and 200 meter sprints at the 1988 Paralympics in Seoul, Korea. From 1988 to l995 I held the world record in the 100 meter event and still have the world record in the 200 meter event. My 1964 dream had finally come true!

But this type of intensive training. (read wear-and-tear on my stump and body), did not come without a price. A price in pain.

After Seoul it was time to get on with making a living as a motivational speaker and as I was to learn, living in pain. When you train at a high level you expect some aches and pains, but through repetition you don't notice that much, or ignore the pain for the ultimate goal. Not so in daily living.

I began to experience phantom limb pain much more frequently than before. My usual remedy was to transfer the pain to the other foot by applying equal or more pain by manually squeezing the other foot until relief came. This would work at home, but imagine me taking off my shoe and squeezing my foot in public.

One day in early 1994 on a visit to my prosthetist, Tony van der Waarde, I was venting my frustrations on not being able to deal more effectively with the phantom pain better and earlier. He told me about a new alternative pain relief system called Farabloc.

Tony had a sample of Farabloc which looks and feels like an ordinary piece of linen but contains extremely thin steel fibres. The sample he gave me was about the size of a large handkerchief. I took it home and upon my first hint of phantom pain I wrapped it around my stump. Lo and behold the pain was caught in the bud! I didn't need to squeeze and I didn't have to take a pain-killer pill!

Shortly after that I met the inventor of Farabloc, Frieder Kempe. He explained to me how Farabloc through its shielding effect protects damaged nerve endings. It stimulates blood circulation and aids muscle relaxation and can be applied for uscle
strain and some arthritic pains. A seamless stump sock of Farabloc was made for me so I could wear it full time or whenever an attack of phantom pain announced itself.

Interestingly, I've noticed that since I received the sock, even though I don t wear it all the time, the frequency of phantom pain has diminished.

Recently I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, an incurable disease that causes severe pain in the joints plus daily exhaustion. This unfortunate development has been attributed to the strain of extreme over exertion in my training for the sprint events.

Some other complications have also contributed to the onset of Fibromyalgia. Medication has been prescribed. To add to that, I'll be using a larger blanket of Farabloc on my shoulders and back, where most of the pain is centered. I'll be the first to let you know the results!

Claude Poumerol,
Motivational Speaker, Gold and Silver Medal Winner, 1988 Seoul Paralympics

Dear Farabloc,

As an above knee amputee of over 31 years, I was delighted to discover your amputee phantom pain relief product online.

I have endured severe phantom pain for many years. I was prescribed many medications over the years, none of which were very effective and most of which had unwanted side effects.

I ordered a custom fitted limb cover online and received it with much anticipation. The next time the phantom limb pain occurred, I put the cloth over my stump and within a few seconds began to feel a slightly warm sensation and a significant reduction in the pain level, similar to turning my guitar amplifier down from an 8 to a 3.

I am now able to sleep better and generally able to deal with the pain in a natural manner, without the side effects of drugs like tegretol, neurontin and codeine. I wear the limb sock over my stump nightly, and I also have the Farabloc fabric laminated into my socket, providing continuous relief from the phantom pain. For more information about the Farabloc Lamination Technique visit www.awardprosthetics.com.

I have also recently purchased your carpal tunnel Faraband, and it is the best product I have found yet for my wrist pain.

Thank you, Farabloc, for the excellent product and for helping me deal with my phantom pain. I highly recommend Farabloc for pain relief naturally!

Best regards, Larry Gardner - www.amputee.ca

Dear Mr. Frieder Kempe,

Dan has asked me to pen you a note concerning my use of "Farabloc" which she gave me for Christmas. In 1962 I had a radical mastectomy followed by a series of Cobalt treatments. Within six months I began to lose feeling in my hand and eventually lost the use of my hand and arm and had great swelling and edema. By 1978 my chest had begun to decay and they amputated my arm in order to use the flesh from elbow to shoulder to rebuild a chest using continuous flap skin graft. My arm (actually parts of it, ie. elbow, wrist hand and fingers) had been painful since the 60's with the numbness and bloated feeling caused by edema. I have been on painkillers for many years. since the amputation, the same "parts" of the arm, which pained before, still pain today.

A friend helped me by sewing the Farabloc into 4 shoulder covers for my daily use. Since I have been using the Farabloc, I have been able to reduce my pain killers by approximately half.

I found that it was better not to wear my cover 24 hours a day, as sleep has always been one of my means of escaping my pain. So I take it off in the evening before bed. My friend Jeanie, as she was sewing the Farabloc, said she could feel warmth generated by the material. So instead of 5 to 8 Exdol 30's per day, I am down to 3 or 4. I hope this brief account will be of some use to you.

Thank you so much for making this wonder fabric available.
Sincerely, J.S.

Dear Farabloc:

First and foremost, I, on behalf of my father-in-law want to thank all of you for the prompt attention you took to get the limb cover I ordered to my father-in-law. He received it on Friday and says that he hasn't felt this good in the almost 3 years since his amputation.

We are so thrilled. Thank you. We will sing your praises all over the state of Texas. Again thank you for again for this wonderful Christmas present no only for him but for us all.

To whom it may concern,

Since I had my left leg amputated 7 years ago, I've had terrible phantom pains. Pain Your device with the woven stainless steel mesh has been a God send. When it is applied at the onset, it provides complete relief.

Sincerely, A.N.M. Victoria, BC

Hi,
I am a 75 year old retired teacher and coach who lost my left leg, due to diabetes, in December of 1997. It was amputated just below the knee. Max McVey, my prosthetist, in Des Moines, Iowa, phoned you with the measurements on a Wednesday and I had the stump sock the following Monday.

It is a little tight around the knee, but works fine. I put it on when I take my leg off at night and have not had one phantom pain in two weeks (at night). I sleep like a baby.

I'm about due for another socket and when that time comes he will laminate Farabloc into the socket. I have cut my pain pills in half and really think I could do away with the night ones all together, but they are a narcotic so I'm backing off according to my doctors instructions.

I'm pretty active as I substitute teach and still successfully coach 9th grade football in the fall off of a scooter. Not having a phantom pain will make that much more enjoyable. Thank you very much. You will be hearing from us.

Ivan D. Hankins, Eddyville, Iowa 52553

To Whom It May Concern:

On February 17, 1987 my son Andrew, eight years of age, had his left leg amputated at the hip in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Among the many hurdles we had to overcome were the phantom pains Andrew had after the surgery. There didn't seem to be any answers to this problem. One type of medication made the pains tolerable when combined with a T.E.N.S. machine. They took some of the sharpness of the shocks away. I brought the pills and the T.E.N.S. home with us on March 15 because Andrew could not do without them.

On March 20, Mr. Wahl and Mr. Kempe came to Squamish in the hopes that they would be able to help us with these phantom pains. They left a "blanket" with us and told us to wrap Andrew in it when the pains begin, and hopefully this could be a solution.

Wanting to know if this would work I took him off the medication which I had tried to do two days before, but with no success.

When the pains started I wrapped him, waist down, in the blanket and the relief was immediate. The pains stopped and he relaxed. During the night he awoke shuddering from the pains, I used the "blanket" and he went right back to sleep. Now I put it on him for all night and he sleeps comfortably.

He has had no medication since I started the blanket and I have not used the T.E.N.S. machine once since.

I hope other people in the same situation can be helped by this method to deal with a
difficult problem.

My thanks to these gentlemen for their time and caring for our little boy.

Sincerely, P.W., Squamish, BC

You have been kind enough to let me use the Protective Fabric, as I am a war invalid, heavily wounded during the war, with an amputated leg.

I have repeatedly used the Protective Fabric at night against nerve pain in my amputation stump and can now report the following regarding the fabric.

I have been plagued by strong nerve pain at night, not being able to sleep as a result of it. I would wrap now the fabric around my stump and would be able to go to sleep as a result of that. I can warmly recommend therefore the fabric and I would not want to do without it.

For the use of the fabric I would like to thank you cordially and wish you the Best of success with the fabric for the sake of all people with amputations

With friendly regards, S. I. Vancouver, BC

Dear Sir or Madam:

I had my left leg amputated below the knee in June 1994 and has suffered almost constantly from phantom pain. These were truly intense pains and the pills that had been subscribed to lessen the frequency of phantom attacks and pain just did not seem to work.

One morning while reading the morning paper I noticed an advertisement for amputees who suffered from phantom pains and suggested that they try "Farabloc" I was a little skeptical and through the (NET) I found a wealth of information, thinking (what did I have to lose) I ordered a below the knee Farabloc fitting and for me it has worked and the phantom pains have been almost non-existent.

I would recommend FARABLOC to amputees who suffer as I did for three years.

G. P. Toronto, ON

Farabloc:

I bought your product on November 12, 1988 - as an amputee, I had a great deal of pain- your product has changed my life - four friends with chronic pain noticed the change in me and also bought a Farabloc - all are better for it ... now my doctor wishes to have pamphlets and all available information.

Yours sincerely, O. S. Edmonton, AB

My Dear Mr. Kempe:

I have wonderful news to tell you about your Farabloc". My name is Ethel Hiller, and I wrote to you a few weeks ago.

I have suffered phantom pain since Feb/94, twice that month and each time for 19 hours. Six months later, again for 31 hours and still later on for 24 hours. That's when I decided to order your Farabloc - I was desperate --- that was my lucky day, but I did not know it then.

On Jan. 27, 1995, my phantom pain came back and I wrapped your Farabloc around my stump. The pain only lasted 5 1/2 hours. I couldn't believe it!

I sent the blanket back and asked you to please make up one with my specifications which you did expertly I might add!

Well on Saturday, March 11, I was awakened at around 5:30 AM with phantom pain in my right foot (my right was amputated above the knee June 1992).

I immediately put on the Farabloc sock on my stump and could feel the warmth starting to penetrate. I couldn't sleep so at 6:30 - one hour after the pain started I decided to get out of bed.

I put on my special leotards (gobst) then the Farabloc sock and put my stump into my prosthesis. This was only one hour after my pains began, and lo and behold no more pain at 7 AM I use a few death rattles (that's what I call them) and it was all over.

ONLY ONE HOUR - I continued wearing the Farabloc sock for about 5 1/2 hours then very carefully took it off and placed it back in my bureau drawer.

You are a genius to have developed this fantastic cloth and I thank God everyday that I was able to contact you to obtain this miraculous material. I can't believe my good fortune, and you have made a friend for life!

E. H., Vancouver, BC

Within minutes of putting on my Farabloc sock, I felt relief. Since then recurrences of
phantom pain have been quickly and effectively blocked by Farabloc. As I said, "Like
the credit card company, I never leave home without it."

C. P. North Vancouver, BC