From Chronic Pain To Face Lift

By Carolyn Richards

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) is a new system of treatment using microamperage current and the resonance effects of frequencies on tissues and conditions to create beneficial changes to symptoms and health.

Microamperage current is the same kind of current your body produces on its own within each cell. This is current in millionths of an amp. It is very small; there is not enough current to stimulate sensory nerves so the current flow cannot be felt.

Microcurrent was first used in the 1980’s by physicians in Europe and the US for stimulating acupuncture points, stimulating healing in injured athletes and stimulating bone repair in non-union fractures.

In 1982 Ngok Cheng published, “The Effect of Electric Currents on ATP Generation, Protein Synthesis and Membrane Transport in Rat Skin in Clinical Orthopedics.” This study showed that microcurrent increased ATP production in rat skin by 500%. ATP is the chemical that the body uses for energy. The current also increased amino acid transport into the cell by 70% and waste product removal.

The implications for human healing and repair are obvious. ATP production was increased as long as the current was below 500 microamps. When the authors increased the current to 1000 micro amps, or one milliamp, a current range delivered by TENS devices and other types of electrical stimulation therapies, the ATP production was actually reduced.

In 1994, Carolyn McMakin, DC and George Douglas, DC began using frequencies obtained from Dr. Harry Van Gelder, a retired osteopath, on Dr. McMakin’s chiropractic patients to see if any effects could be observed. The results were immediate and fascinating. The frequencies appeared to do exactly what they were alleged to do. Further use of the frequencies demonstrated effects that included changes in inflammation, range of motion, nerve and muscle pain, shingles pain, visceral organ function and even emotional states in response to frequencies. Later frequencies were added from the writings of Dr. Albert Abrams and from Dr. McWilliams. Dr.

McMakin developed protocols for the treatment of myofascial pain in 1996 and presented her clinical data at the American Back Society national meeting in December 1997. She published a paper on the “Treatment of chronic resistant myofascial pain in the head, neck and face” in 1998 in Topics in Clinical Chiropractic.

The frequencies appear to change a variety of conditions and tissues and change pain and function in a large number of clinical conditions. The frequencies have created observed effects in asthma, liver dysfunction, irritable bowel and many other conditions. It has been observed that patients who are treated within four hours of a new injury including auto accidents and surgeries have much reduced pain and a greatly accelerated healing process. The frequencies can even be used to revitalize aging skin tissue making them possibly the safest way to have a face lift.

There are no guarantees that any protocol is going to be effective in any given patient on any given condition. In general, the frequencies either work or don’t work and if they don’t work they simply have no effect. As long as appropriate proven therapies are not delayed or withheld, FSM “Can’t hurt. Might Help.” Every practitioner is trained in the concept that FSM is to be used as an adjunct to therapeutics appropriate to their discipline for the patient after proper diagnosis.

After treating patients and observing these effects for over a year Dr. McMakin began teaching FSM to see if the effects of FSM were reproducible. By June of 1997 it was clear that the effects were reproducible and since then hundreds of practitioners around the world have taken the FSM seminar and use this amazing new technique to help patients recover from myofascial pain, fibromyalgia, sports injuries, concussion and many other health concerns.

Further information about FSM can be obtained from the Frequency Specific website at www.frequencyspecific.com.

Carolyn Richards is a Nutritionist and Sports Therapist practicing at The Heal Center in Sandy Springs. She has trained with Dr McMakin and specializes in treating chronic pain conditions such as Fibromyalgia with both FSM and Lifestyle and Nutritional Counseling.