MICROCURRENT PAIN MANAGEMENT
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Feel like you’re never going to heal?
MICRO-CURRENT THERAPY might be your solution
What is Micro-current Therapy & how does it help with injuries and tissue healing?
Accelerated tissue healing is a well documented effect of Micro-current Therapy. (see references 5,8,9)
Micro-current Therapy increases ATP production to induce faster tissue healing. ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) is the energy currency for our bodies. – the fuel that our cells use for tissue regeneration and repair.
Stated another way, if the cells in our body need to accomplish ANYTHING at all, they MUST HAVE ATP in order to do it. Giving our cells more ATP is just like giving them more fuel to get more work done. Therefore, increased ATP in the body increases the rate of cellular and tissue repair.
While our bodies in theory can produce all the ATP we need, the fact is that it doesn't always do so. Specifically applied Micro-current stimulation is a way of supercharging the tissue with ATP (10) which will reside there until needed.
In a clinical sense, any healing process takes a great deal of ATP and may be accelerated through a means of increasing ATP in the tissue. Micro-current
stimulation accomplishes this by increasing ATP in the tissue by up to 400%.
Research and clinical trials have shown that with Micro-current stimulation, there is a 40-50% reduction in healing time of sprain/strains; fractures heal faster and stronger; and that even bad scarring (keloid scars) remodel to become a healthier, stronger scar.
Stimulatory effects include decreased inflammation, edema and swelling, and increased physical endurance in sports.
Clinically, Micro-current stimulation is not only limited to the effects of increased ATP production as a treatment modality, but its effects to reduce injury healing time in half are truly dramatic.
Applications
A series of treatments have a cumulative effect resulting in long term relief for patients suffering from most acute and chronic neuro-muscular dysfunction (2)
The treatments provide a viable means to greatly reduce common post-operative pain, wound healing(3)(4) and swelling; treating the majority of accident and sports injuries with remarkable results; eliminating pain and increasing range of motion limitations associated with many joint pathologies.
Micro-current Therapy is most effective for the following conditions:
Any time tissue fails to heal normally, or is healing at an unacceptably slow
pace, Micro-current Therapy is indicated.
For example:
(i) Tendonosis, or tendon tear that is not healing. (tennis elbow, shoulder impingement, or carpal tunnel syndrome that fails to respond to normal therapy)
(ii) Cartilage injuries such as degenerative arthritis (6), fibrocartilage injuries (meniscus, sternoclavicula )
(iii) Micro-current is useful in controlling acute neuritis conditions, such as: Neck –Arm Radicular pain (1), Sciatica or any other inflamed nerves such as carpal tunnel
syndrome, etc.
(iv) Scar tissue repair & Tissue Regeneration
(v) Broken bones (7)
(vi) Arthritis Pain
(vii) Knee injuries
(viii) Post-operative tightness and pain
(ix) Sprains/Strains
(x) Headaches
The Equipment
The system includes two separate pieces of equipment, namely the Acuscope and the Myopulse.
The Acuscope reads neurological
impedance along the linear pathways of current flow (nerves, meridians) and can
discriminate points of areas of high and low resistance (acupressure and trigger points).
The Myopulse scans a particular fiber of tendon, muscle fiber, ligament or fascia, specifically to detect abnormalities in the electrical field, generated by tissue composed of contractile cells.
Together they comprise a complete neuro-muscular low voltage, low amperage, feedback modulated system.
Whats unique about our Micro-current Therapy Equipment?
The most unique feature of the Acuscope/
Myopulse system which sets it apart from all the other electrical stim devices is the micro-chip circuitry designed to monitor the tissue placed in between the plates during treatment.
Based upon the information it gathers, each device is programmed to calculate appropriate corrective feedback modulated waveform variance.
It has a very sensitive feedback mechanism, to confirm if the area is being treated, or to determine if we have accomplished enough tissue change or change in tissue resistance. We do not stop a treatment to an area, until that goal is accomplished.
Another unique aspect is the following of tested protocols for the individual treatments. Our treatment protocols are standardized, specific, tested and proven protocols.
References:
1. Riley, Richter: Electrical skin resistance method for neck and upper extremity pain. The John Hopkins Medical Journal, 137(2):71-74, August 1975.
2. Becker RO: The Body Electric. New York, William Morrow, 1985.
3. Alvarez O, et al: The healing of superficial skin wounds is stimulated by external currents . Journal of Investigative Dermatlogy,81:144,1983
4. Carley PJ, Wainapel SF: Electrotherapy for acceleration of wound healing: Low intensity direct current. Archives of Physical medicine and Rehabilitation,66:443-446,1985.
5. Stanish W, Gunnfaugson B: Electrical Energy and soft tissue injury healing. Sportcare and Fitness, September/October, 1988, pp12-14
6. Basset C, Pilla A, Pawluk R: A non-operative salvage of surgically-resistant pseudoarthroses and nonunions by pulsing electromagnetic fields: A preliminary report. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research;124:128-143, 1977.
7. Hinsenkamp M, Bourgois R, Basset C, et al: Electromagnetic stimulation of fracture repair: Influence of healing on fresh fractures. Acta Orthopaedics (Belgium), 44:671-698, 1978.
8. Nessler JP, Mass DP: Direct current electrical stimulation of tendon healing in vitro. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 217:303,1985.
9. Stanish W: Electric Stimulation of torn ligaments cuts rehabilitation time by two-thirds. Medical World News,2/29/84, p45.
10. Cheng N, et al: The effect of electric currents on ATP generation, protein synthesis, and membrane transport in rat skin. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 171:264-272, 1982.
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