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In unpublished anecdotal reports of scalp in the area of the rash, rated as a glove, connected to the positive leads priate for actinic keratosis since treatment and placed on the patient’s upper back.
had been effective for his low back pain.1 a warm moist face cloth and placed on the device be applied to the skin on his scalp.
top of the patient’s head so that it covered Case Report
helpful for actinic keratosis since 40 Hz has been shown to be effective for reduc- previously by his dermatologist as actinic pain in the area of the rash. The rash was appropriate to that diagnosis and did not FIGURE 1. Patient’s rash was first diagnosed as
shingles since the distribution was consis- request treatment for the rash during this “actinic keratosis” but, as the pain increased, it tent with the ophthalmic branch of cranial became clear that it was shingles in the 2010 PPM Communications, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
N o n - P h a r m a c o l o g i c T r e a t m e n t o f S h i n g l e s Plus (Microcurrent Technologies, Seattle, periods, was used during the second treat- ment. It provided the desired three digit patient was pain-free in twenty minutes.
and the patient was told to return the next minutes and was restarted after the first FIGURE 2. Illustration of treatment setup: the
two positive contacts for both channels are ment, he rated his pain as a 2/10 on a 0- Treatment Method History
applied to the upper back and the two negative 10 VAS scale and noted that the vision in contacts for both channels are applied to the top ment were obtained in 1995 from a retired of the head along the distribution of the affected shingles lesions on the scalp were notably less red and some had developed scabs.
prescription anti-viral medication and he to address specific tissues and neutralize frequency protocol as before. During this specific conditions. The list acquired from 0/10 within 15 minutes. The patient slept certain tissues. The list also contained a ampere (amp) is a measure of the strength of electric current and measures the rate of flow of charge in a conducting medium.
ment, he reported that his vision was clear used in this case report was noted on the next day for follow up but refused treat- systems such as interferential, TENS, and Follow-up
channel to “address a specific tissue.” The compete against A-delta and C fibers that it is not known what current level it deliv- Treatment Method
ered and there is no reason to suspect that which was not introduced until the 1970s.
The listed frequencies were used, starting current with a ramped square wave pulse.
Two different devices were used to deliver developed clinically using the osteopath’s this patient’s two treatment sessions. The Society and the journal Electromedical Digest served as a forum for physicians to share their research and clinical findings.
since 1997.1,2,4,5 There are approximately In 1934, as part of its effort to standard- 2010 PPM Communications, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
N o n - P h a r m a c o l o g i c T r e a t m e n t o f S h i n g l e s tions and surgery were the legitimate tools “unscientific.”7,8 The biophysics and treatment period. In 2004, when a patient claims can, or will, be made by the author until he awakened after two hours, it was for the specific effects of frequencies on cine would not be done until the 1980s.9,10 biological tissues or conditions. Clinicians may report the observed effects of treat- as three sequential one-hour treatments.
reported in Electromedical Digest ceased, and the last edition of the journal avail- application of the frequency protocol. In order to be effective, the contacts must be medications, such as aspirin or penicillin, Clinical Experience With FSM Protocols
proximal to the distal end of the affected About Shingles
this treatment protocol is useful for the or cranial nerve by the herpes zoster virus.
infection in the nerve that lasts for the lifeof the host and may become active attimes of stress or immune system compro- “Clinical experience demonstrated that this treatment protocol is mise.12 Pain in the affected nerve usuallybegins during the viral prodrome and can useful for the same class of virus in oral or genital herpes but is not last up to three weeks before red raisedlesions and blisters break out along the useful for any other condition.” course of the nerve. Herpes Simplex 1(HSV1) is part of the same family ofviruses that causes “cold sores” or lesions frequencies from the osteopath’s list were taken at face value and speculatively used in clinical practice for various chronic and frequency combination was not effective.
the genital or anal area. All are related to acute conditions–including shingles—to the varicella or chickenpox virus and the Epstein-Barr virus is included in this class in symptoms and clinical improvement.
possible to blind patients to active versus Proposed Mechanism of Action
that there was finally a patient for whom the protocol was not effective. The physi- ment viral samples taken in shingles treat- frequency treatment protocol relieves the week and it was discovered that the device pair—described on the list as being useful for “virus”—was first applied to a patient with acute shingles blisters using alternat- shingles patient treated with that device for this effect is unknown. It is not known that the practitioner’s expectation that if applied by an auditory source since it and resolved the blisters within two days after the final treatment. Clinical trial and 2010 PPM Communications, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
N o n - P h a r m a c o l o g i c T r e a t m e n t o f S h i n g l e s herpes family of DNA viruses has a double Effects of Frequencies
Frequencies refer to the number of pulses energy production dramatically as long as consists of polyamines, lipids and glyco- hertz is a single waveform or cycle passing proteins. The glycoproteins give the virus applied across rat skin increased glycine a fixed point in one second. In engineer- its distinctive properties and provide the ing terms, the word “frequency” should with untreated controls and current levels interferential field includes both frequen- ing a dramatic increase in protein synthe- ics instead of using sine waves because the cies. The interferential field created by frequency of 40 Hz is technically a pulse train of 40 Hz—i.e., 40 square waves that waves delivering the frequency pulses.
Any or all of these frequencies may partic- frequencies simultaneously. The frequency ipate in the observed clinical effect. There thought to neutralize a condition is deliv-ered on one channel. The frequencythought to address a specific tissue is deliv- “In an unpublished blinded placebo controlled trial in mice, one ered simultaneously on a second channel.
In an unpublished blinded placebo frequency combination.reduced arachidonic acid induced lipoxyge- controlled trial in mice, one frequencycombination, 40 Hz on channel A and 116 nase (LOX) mediated swelling in the mouse’s ear by 62% in four minutes.” Hz on channel B reduced arachidonic acidinduced lipoxygenase (LOX) mediated swelling in the mouse’s ear by 62% in four 430 Hz is used alone. The clinical effect levels as compared to untreated controls.
the viral structure it is possible that it resonates with either the crystalline struc- ture of viral polymerases in the capsid or there was no residual effect in rat skin.
the glycoprotein envelope so as to disman- This study has not been replicated in vivo tle a crucial bond or change its structure in such a way that it cannot maintain its relationship with the nerve. It is also possi- ble that the frequency resonates with the ent. One half of the response was present attachment impossible, releases the virus into the circulation and makes it available to be dismantled by the immune system.
This mechanism, wile possible, seems less needed to maintain the current levels set likely because of the speed of pain relief being useful to “reduce inflammation.” Use of this frequency in a clinical setting Microcurrent Effects
suggested that it did only that and was not strate any palliative or curative effect on nally-applied microamperage current.
that the contacts be placed so the current and substance P and to increase β-endor- function, it may do so simply by increas- 2010 PPM Communications, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
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