"In summary, electromedicine in its various forms is fast becoming
one of the primary safe, efficacious and cost effective treatments of
choice as we enter the 21st century."
Like in any therapy please note:
"Electrical stimulation that is intended to effect changes anywhere
in the body can only be successful if the necessary nutrients are
available when the treatment is applied. For example, researchers
believe that CES helps recovering addicts by stimulating the brain to
make more endorphins, but these can only be produced if the requisite
amino acids and other nutrients are present in the diet and in an
available form. Similarly, microcurrent stimulation of damaged tissue
can not instigate, or potentiate the rate of body repair if the
requisite nutrients are not available at the damaged site, just as
electromagnetic bone healers can not be expected to be successful if
insufficient calcium is available at the fracture site, among a
multitude of other required nutrients."
In addiction to improving and/or changing the diet one must also,
search for, and find the cause of the affliction and remove it - or a
permanent cure is not likely.
Chris Gupta
By Ray B. Smith, Ph.D., M.P.A.
While the use of electricity for healing goes back more than 2,000 years, scientific electromedicine
has only evolved in the past 50 years. The latest treatments involve
only microcurrent levels of stimulation, often sufficiently minute as to
not even be felt by the patient being treated.
Electrosleep treatment, usually involving less than 1.5 milliampere
intensity, came into the U.S. from Japan in the late 1960s, which, in
turn had borrowed it from Russia and other East Block countries. Since
the electricity was pulsed across the head, the FDA renamed it cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) in 1978, and now allows its marketing in the U.S. for the treatment of anxiety, depression and insomnia.
A major use of CES
is in the drug abstinence syndrome in which people are withdrawing from
various substances of addiction, be it nicotine, alcohol, prescription
drugs, cocaine or heroin. Anxiety, depression and insomnia are defining
symptoms of the syndrome, and such patients benefit dramatically from
the use of CES during the withdrawal period.
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), typically using a
strong current of 60 milliamperes, came on the scene in the 1970s
following Melzack and Wall's introduction of the gate control theory of
pain in which counter stimulation could effectively close a spinal
"gate" to peripheral pain messages attempting to ascend the
spinal-thalamic tract to the brain. Microcurrent devices now attempt to
alter or eliminate the pain message by inducing healing at the pain
site, as opposed to serving as a counterirritant to close the gate to an
ascending message.
Following closely upon TENS was the introduction, in the 1980s, of
electromagnetic bone healing devices that are utilized to heal non-union
fractures. For the first time this allows us to prevent tragedies like
that of Dr. Livingston, the discoverer of the Nile, who lived the final
thirty years of his life with an unhealed fracture of the arm that he
suffered from a lion's bite.
So from slow beginnings in the latter half of the 20th century, we
now have many FDA approved electrical devices. Some stimulate muscle
contraction so that persons with paralyzed muscles can maintain muscle
tone in unused limbs. Other disabled persons use them in learning to
walk again, or in developing new skills in using their arms or hands,
for example.
Electrical stimulators are now widely implanted in the body, such as
cardiac pacemakers, electrical stimulators in various parts of the brain
to prevent such things as fine tremor of the hands or whole body
seizures, and dorsal column stimulators to interdict pain from various
causes.
We have had electroacupuncture since the early 1970s when it was
introduced from China via Hong Kong. One of the latest innovations in
this area is the electroacupuncture facelift that is becoming
increasingly popular.
Melzack's group has now centered their theoretical thinking on a pain
neuromatrix in the brain that can fire pain messages in the absence of
incoming stimuli from the body. This can account for phantom limb pain
and may play a role in many types of chronic pain such as fibromyalgia
and chronic spinal pain. Our latest Alpha-Stim CES research is showing
dramatic improvement in pain in various parts of the body even though
the current is applied only across the head.
By using Alpha-Stim technology in a combination of probe stimulation on the body near pain sites, plus CES across the head, a
recent survey of 2,500 patients indicated that 94% of those suffering
from arthritis reported significant improvement, as did 100% of those
suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, 94% of those suffering from
chronic fatigue syndrome, 93% of those suffering from chronic pain at
various sites on their body, 91% of those suffering from fibromyalgia,
98% of those suffering from migraine headache, 93% of those suffering
from back and neck pain, and 89% of those suffering from
Temporomandibular disorder (TMD).
Another recent study of 202 chronic pain patients treated for 30 minutes
or less in several medical clinics with microcurrent probes on or near
the pain site on the body, plus CES across the head, showed that their
pain was reduced by an average of 50% or more, and 17% were entirely
pain free at the end of the 30 minute treatment period. Only 12%
experienced no benefit from that length of treatment. The pain ranged
from head to foot, and no relationship could be found between pain site
and percent improvement. Interestingly, those who had been in pain
longest showed the greatest gains. While inconsistent with
pharmaceutical intervention, that has been a recurring finding in CES
studies of chronic pain.
Electrical stimulation that is intended to effect changes anywhere
in the body can only be successful if the necessary nutrients are
available when the treatment is applied. For example, researchers
believe that CES helps recovering addicts by stimulating the brain to
make more endorphins, but these can only be produced if the requisite
amino acids and other nutrients are present in the diet and in an
available form. Similarly, microcurrent stimulation of damaged tissue
can not instigate, or potentiate the rate of body repair if the
requisite nutrients are not available at the damaged site, just as
electromagnetic bone healers can not be expected to be successful if
insufficient calcium is available at the fracture site, among a
multitude of other required nutrients.
In summary, electromedicine in its various forms is fast becoming one of
the primary safe, efficacious and cost effective treatments of choice
as we enter the 21st century.
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