At least, that’s how many of his clients see him. His patented Medsonix Therapy System has been offering relief to the chronically ill and pain-plagued for approximately 10 years.

Maxine Crow, 82, had been battling such severe arthritis for the past 17 years that she could not even straighten out her fingers, and she sought help.

“It is painful,” she said. “Everyone knows there’s no cure for arthritis. That’s why I was so surprised when the treatments I found here offered some relief. I can actually straighten my fingers now. I guess I was desperate. I took a chance, and it paid off. This guy isn’t a con artist like so many.”

Cassone discovered the technology, which uses low-frequency vibrations to rejuvenate dysfunctional vessels in the body to relive pain and various ailments (sometimes permanently, according to Cassone), almost by accident.

Cassone worked as a transducer for the military, finding new ways to use low-frequency sound waves to track submarines. He eventually decided to strike out on his own, searching for new ways to use low-frequency acoustics for industrial applications.

That’s when it happened.

“I was working on a certain experiment using low frequency to separate gold from black sand for the gold mining industry.

“There was a gentleman standing next to me who said as he was watching what I was doing, that his legs were tingling. I told him if he was concerned that he should go to the other side of the room. He opted to stay and watch. It was after that things got a little strange.”

Cassone said the next day the man approached him with a story about how he’d been able to walk around the block the night before.

“I couldn’t understand what he was getting at,” Cassone said. “Then he told me he had arterial sclerosis and hadn’t been able to do that for years. He told me he believed it was a result of the tingling caused by my experiment.”

Cassone said he was hard-pressed to believe it but after hearing the man’s story, he began conducting experiments in his garage aimed at determining whether sound waves could actually alleviate certain medical conditions.

One man heard about the technology from Cassone’s brother and flew in from Florida to try it.

“I made no promises, but he was adamant that he had poor circulation and hadn’t had feeling in his feet for years,” he said. “After one treatment, the feeling returned. I got a call from his doctor a week later asking what I had done because the man had been cured of his ailment. That is when I became a believer.”

Therapy sessions are described as simple and painless. Patients sit in a circle around the acoustic pain management machine as it emits undetectable vibrations. Some patients read a book; others listen to music on headphones.

“You can’t really hear anything,” one man said. “Sometimes you can’t feel anything but a tingling. You just feel really good after.”

Cassone is the president and chief executive officer of Medsonix, 2626 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 109.

“We first opened this location, the only one in Nevada, about 10 years ago,” Cassone said. “That’s also when we first partnered with UNLV to research what this technology could really do.”

A study conducted by the university’s Department of Physical Therapy tested 21 adults and found that “the use of acoustic energy as a form of therapy may improve range of motion and decrease pain” for osteoarthritis patients.

Cassone said it took him more than eight years to acquire the patents for intellectual property. The machine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but Medsonix treatments are not covered by private insurance companies, Medicare or Medicaid.

For more information, visit www.medsonix.com. A series of four treatments costs $199. Cassone said 80 percent of people who try the technology report an improvement in their condition.

He also said he understands why some people might be skeptical.

“We’ve found it helps everything from diabetes to arthritis,” Cassone said. “But many people probably think it is too good to be true. It pays to be cautious in this day and age, but why not try it? What do you have to lose?”

Contact Southwest and Spring Valley View reporter Amanda Llewellyn at allewellyn@viewnews.com or 380-4535.

Dear Bob,

I don’t know how to thank someone who has changed my life. How do you go about doing that in such a way that it’s more than words and speaks only from the heart.

These treatments have given me new life, given me hope for my future and made me so anxious to share the good news with so many, some that I don’t even know personally.

Medsonix has been videotaping me before and after lots of sessions, but today Dr. Gordon got to hear my story, the short version, from beginning to end. And when I was done, he was wiping tears away. He and Linda are wonderful people, going thru their own suffering right now.

I don’t think a well-person can understand the change that Medsonix can make in your life. It’s like losing a loved one. If you’ve never lost a child, you just can’t understand that kind of loss unless you have lost a child yourself. It’s the same with an illness.

Unless you have gone thru the pain and suffering of Lyme, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia … the memory loss, the feeling of hopelessness, confusion, the financial burden and no doctor that really wants to hear or understand what you have to say, you can’t possibly appreciate what a day without pain can do for you.

I have spent years in bed and I plan to start physical therapy when I get home to try and build back some muscle in my legs. Before, I couldn’t even think about therapy because I didn’t have the energy to get there.

Thank you for obeying God. Thank you for listening to my story and for leading me to this place. I know rewards and blessings await you.

From the bottom of my heart,
Rita Farmer

P.S. I went fishing today and caught five fish. Now that is normal living!

This is Bev, Silver’s Mom, speaking here.  I just have to report on Silver’s progress because it is absolutely amazing.

Recent backstory: IV rocephin (18 months’ worth) got her off the couch and on her feet and gave her a life again, but it only brought her into the low range of “normal.”  She could not go to college because it would be too much.  She could work part time if she was not in too much pain, but there was no way of predicting it.  She was still in constant pain of varying levels and experienced daily profound fatigue and other symptoms.

Cut to now:  Silver is working 3 days a week at a high-end graphics company (that produces product props for big commercials) as an intern.  She’s running huge printers, machines that make and score boxes, and other fascinating things that I have no idea of.  She has energy.  She comes home excited, a bit tired like anyone would, but in GREAT SHAPE.  Today, she’s working for me as a teleprompter technician and has just flown into Denver.  She is rehearsing top executives of a car manufacturer in their presentations at their convention here, and then prompting their execs at their shows for their dealers, who have come from all over the country.

She worked rehearsing these executives in the LA area, and then worked for MTV/SPIKE on a live broadcast of the XBOX briefing last weekend, and went then straight into the Denver thing.

It’s a life that was unimaginable before Medsonix.

Is it curative?  I can’t say.  What I do know is that she had plateau-ed with antibiotics and LLMD’s.  Now she has a life again.  She visits the Medsonix about every 4-6 weeks.