What is it and why does it work? Microcurrent is a subcurrent that is directly immersed to repair and stimulate or provide a charge at the cellular level. The application is done through the use of probes or rods, brass plates, or in combination with acupuncture needles or rollers using various currents, voltages, intensities, polarities, and waveforms. This instrument and its application heal by picking up where the body’s own electrical current has failed.
To understand the breadth of this treatment and its potential to heal many, many problems, we must begin and understand ourselves at the cellular level. The Nobel Prize was won by two Germans in 1991 for discovering that the cell membrane wall is the true intelligence of the whole being. To be truly healthy, the 18 to 44 gates or pathways through this membrane wall in every cell of every organ system in our body must function effectively. The number of openings or doors depends on the specialty of that cell that allows specific nutrients to enter and certain waste products to exit.
After trauma (which, interestingly, can be emotional or physical, such as surgery, injury, or the evolution of aging), intake of vital oxygen, minerals, and nutrients fails or is greatly diminished. Our cells tend to become more or less paralyzed and normally do not function to take in nutrients and then expel waste products. The power plant or mitochondrial function of the cell is significantly decreased. It is known that the more efficiently your cells work to transport essential nutrients across the cell wall into the mitochondria (our cellular energy source) and rapidly remove toxic waste from the cell, the faster your cells can receive vital nutrients to promote cell metabolism. health and prevent aging. . Studies from universities in Germany have shown that the most important event in long-term chronic pain relief is restoring normal cellular electrical potential in the cell membrane (thus restoring normal functionality). The main factor that almost all researchers in antiaging programs are missing is this fuel burning factor. By repairing and increasing the function of these cell walls by as little as 1%, we can increase the lifespan by up to 10 years.
The main reasons for aging are oxidative stress and free radical damage from environmental factors such as pollution, radiation, cigarette smoke, and herbicides, all contributing to our load of free radical accumulation that only accelerates with age. aging process. .
We don’t exactly consider ourselves electric beings, but we are to a great extent. Throughout our body, all communication is electrical and is moved by positively and negatively charged ions. Remember that electrical currents like to take the path of least resistance. Now what happens to injuries, surgeries, trauma, and aging when these pathways are disrupted or even disconnected? Essentially, that area that we have traumatized is no longer working properly. The current now moves around the lesion or defect instead of through it. The cells that make up the traumatized area are no longer sufficiently charged and do not function effectively or efficiently. The person “gets better” but the body has reached a point of lower functioning by compensation and does not truly repair itself at that site of injury. Later, in many cases that “old wound resurfaces” to our surprise and frustration. We never heal it in the first place and usually due to some “stress” in our mid-life it comes back to offer us that opportunity to do the actual healing we need to do. We have to repair the cell.
Other than acupuncture, some form of electrical healing, faith healing, abundant frequencies, practice, or just plain voodoo, electrical microcurrent in my experience is the most effective of all. Because?
How does it work to heal wounds? Many studies have been done on wound healing. In reviewing the evidence and in comparison to other means of wound healing, electromicrocurrent healing has been shown to outperform all others. “Superior performance” is experienced most dramatically in the realm of accelerated healing. One of the best scientific papers is by Dr. Mark Biedebach of the University of California at Irvine entitled “ACCELERATED HEALING OF ISCHEMIC SKIN ULCERS THROUGH THE USE OF MICROCURRENT ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AND THE INTRACELLULAR MECHANISMS INVOLVED.”
By looking at the various types of electrical current: waveforms, output characteristics (voltage and amperage), frequencies, duration of treatments, and many other variables, Electro-Tech’s microcurrent systems combine the best of microcurrent waveforms, frequencies and other output characteristics with treatment modalities to produce the latest and greatest results on the market today and seems to outperform other systems. Wound care results have provided results far beyond any expectation.
By looking at the actual wound healing mechanisms (which are fully observable with this technique), an orderly sequence of mechanisms occurs. First, a connective tissue sheath forms. This is observable from start to finish and sheath formation is seen very often during the first treatment. Once the sheath or fascial layer begins to regenerate, the skin will continue to heal at a rapid rate. We know that the body is making new collagen and protein to effect this change.
Micro-Current increases the production of new skin cells in the germ layer. As teenagers, we rapidly produce new skin cells that rise to the surface and exfoliate in around 7 days. With aging, around 50, this same process can take 7 weeks, leaving those cells to dehydrate and degenerate. Studies from the University of Washington show that with 10 consecutive days of Micro-Current therapy collagen can increase by 37%.
We know that with wound care patients, if this collagen is being reformulated, this should also apply to Micro-Current facials. Facial rejuvenation has flourished using microcurrent technology. Although change can be seen with just one treatment, over a series of sessions: wrinkles fade, skin tightens, a “lifted” look can be experienced to facial features and contours, and skin is re-hydrated as in younger times. .
What is really going on here?
– The product is being penetrated into the deepest layers of the skin’s surface.
– The skin is increasingly hydrated.
– Collagen is formed and rehydrated.
– Elastin is being formed.
– A new layer of connective tissue is being re-formed, particularly between the skin and the underlying muscle.
– Muscle cells and skin cells in targeted areas receive more nutrients through the cell membrane
– The waste products of normal cellular activity are released at an accelerated rate.
– New skin cells are being formed at an accelerated rate in the germ layer
– The neuromuscular reeducation aspects of the treatment are resulting in an improved appearance of facial features.
– Balancing techniques are creating more facial symmetry from right to left of the face.
– Beneficial neurotransmitters (helpful brain chemicals) are being released, causing general relaxation and stimulation of the central nervous system that has positive effects on overall health and well-being, far beyond a simple facial.”
With microcurrent treatments, cell activity is repaired and tissue hydration and detoxification is achieved. What will be the effect of the treatments before and after surgery? Will it be worth the difference and the effort? Wound healing time will be more than halved, almost all scarring will be avoided, pain will be drastically reduced, swelling will be reduced, and bruising time will be significantly reduced. Microcurrent therapy is perhaps the most NATURAL form of therapy available today, as you are simply putting back what was once there. Through this return of electrical activity to an area that has lost it, we can promote real and rapid healing.
Who uses microcurrent electrical therapy? Many versions have been around for the last hundred years. The machines have been developed for exclusive use; others have been constantly improved for broader adaptive use depending on the training of the therapist and the intended use.
Physiotherapists have used micro-current for all neck, back and knee pain problems, strains, tendinitis, sciatica, TMJ, joint problems, shoulders, plantar faciitis, whiplash, chronic and acute pain, neuropathies, spinal disease, disc, soft tissue injuries, arthritis and even stroke rehabilitation.
Athletic trainers have used microcurrent for: injury rehabilitation, strength training, pain, inflammation, neuromuscular disorders, muscle strain, tennis elbow, ton ligament, and rotator cuff.
Microcurrents are currently used by estheticians for facial rejuvenation, wrinkle removal, skin toning, acne, lymphatic drainage, spider veins, varicose veins, and dermatitis.
Other Uses: Wound Care, Link Healing, Osteoporosis, Swelling Reduction, Bruising, Scar Tissue, Burn Victims, Esophageal Sphincter Repair, Bell’s Palsy, Surgical Incisions, Abdominal Cramps, Macular Degeneration, Facelifts, Post-Surgical Repair.
Cell atrophy and possibly cell death can be reversed by electric microcurrent therapy. I believe this treatment technique is one of the most insightful in the field of antiaging and should be considered by everyone entering the baby boom years.