Part 1

Pain – the Terrible Lord of Mankind! …. What’s New?

By Kim D. Christensen DC, DACRB, CCSP, CSCS

Albeit Schweiltzer stated,  "Pain is the terrible lord of mankind."

Today, Americans spend billions annually on pain related products and services. Billions more dollars are lost each year by American workers who are put out of work for extended periods of time due to pain debilitations. And billions more dollars are lost each year by American businesses that suffer hundreds of thousands of hours worth of lost productivity due to pain-debilitated workers.

Clearly, the costs of pain debilitations are enormous. For example, the treatment costs for back pain alone runs over $20 billion annually.  In America today, there are over 35 million  pain victims nationwide.  Painful osteoarthritis afflicts over 16 million Americans, costing them, over $ 1 billion and over 200 million per month for prescription pain medication alone.  The list of pain-related victims, amid the incredible costs of their affliction, goes on and on. 

Indeed, over 40 million Americans suffer from some form of serious acute pain at least once each year, and over 60 million more endure chronic pain. And that’s just the figures for people in the age range of 25 to 60 years old .  The end result is that each year, more than one in every three adult Americans have their lives disrupted by pain. Clearly, pain is not a superficial problem, either in terms of its overwhelming cost to individuals, businesses and society as a whole, or in its devastating personal effects upon those afflicted with it. As American Health magazine stated, ‘Pain can literally ruin lives by sapping energy, spoiling sleep, prompting intense anxiety and depression, causing drug addiction, destroying personal productivity, and straining family ties. Often, it totally disrupts everyday life.”

Acute and Chronic Pain 

Although there are numerous forms and causes of pain, medical researchers today divide pain into two broad, general categories acute pain, and chronic pain. According to Dr. Norman Marcus, director of the New York Pain Treatment Program at Lennox Hill Hospital: “Acute pain is that which results from a specific, identifiable injury or trauma. When the injury or trauma is healed, the pain generally disappears. Thus, acute pain may be severe, but it is usually temporary in nature, but with chronic pain, the pain is the disease itself. Chronic pain is more than a pain experience due to a specific injury or trauma. Instead, it’s a long-term interruption of a person’s life.” For definitions sake, most pain experts describe acute pain as “temporary pain with a clearly definable organic cause,” whereas chronic pain is described as “daily

or recurrent pain that has not gone away after three months, and which often does not have a clearly definable organic cause". 

Masking and “Managing’ Pain 

Whether acute or chronic, the relief of pain has become the major concern in life for literally tens of millions of Americans. In fact, the search for relief from pain has spawned entire new industriesand sub-industries.  In America over the last 20 years, with professional “Pain Relief Centers" and "Physical Therapy Offices” cropping up in nearly every moderately-sized city block  from coast-to-coast, and local hospitals have added entire medical departments specializing in pain treatment and pain research. 

Yet, even with the advent of these new industries and sub-industries, pain remains the single-mostprominent long-term debilitation suffered by Americans today. In large part, this is because pain remains one of the least understood of all debilitating human conditions.  As Dr Robert 0 Becker, author of  “The Body Electric and Cross Currents” has lamented, if you ever want to embarrass a neurophysiologist just ask for an explanation of pain. 

In fact, the causes of pain in the human body are still so little understood by the vast majority of orthodox medical practitioners that many of them don’t even bother to try to help their patients get rid of acute and chronic pain, instead, they merely prescribe pain masking medications, or they teach their patients methods of  coping  with pain. As Dr. E. Richard Blonsky of the Center for Pain Studies and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago affirms, " The role of  pain clinics is not to end pain, but to help patients manage it.” 

In short, due to a broad lack of understanding of the underlying causes of pain, most conventional ‘pain experts’ either resort to masking their patients’ aches and pains with an array of analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs, or merely ‘manage their patients’ pain via tedious, cost1y and time-consuming physical therapies. 

Fortunately, this situation is rapidly being confronted, thanks to the chiropractic profession's growing  understanding of the nature of pain. However, the battle against major drug company’s money advertising pain remedies continues.

Part II 

The Electrical Nature of Pain 

The perineural cell system accompanies every part of the nervous system, reaching into each area of the body to create a normal electrical environment around each cell. This system enables most all tissues to sense the type and extent of damage anywhere in the body, and transmit the ‘current of injury,’ with it’s by-product of pain, to the central nervous system.

Today, chiropractors around the globe have dedicated themselves to finding a cure for pain and its causes, rather than merely masking or ‘managing’ pain. In most instances, these far-sighted chiropractors have achieved astonishing results. Additionally, research and experimentation which has centered around the electrical nature of pain in the human body has demonstrated the curative results of chiropractic treatment.

Electro-Medical Pain Relief 

Many clinicians are aware of the fact that pioneer medical researcher Robert 0. Becker mapped the body’s electrical control system,  which is involved with the conscious perception of pain. Becker’s research has been largely responsible for the various innovations in electromedical pain relief and healing. Explaining Becker’s discoveries, input electrical signals (i.e., the “current of injury”) carry the information that injury has occurred along specific neuro-pathways that run throughout the body to the brain. As the signals travel through these pathways, they pass through a number of electrical junctures, which serve as booster amplifiers to keep the electrical signals moving efficiently. 

Once these electrical signals reach the brain, which is the master control center for the body’s entire electrical system, part of them stimulate the conscious feeling of pain (so that the organism consciously knows it has been injured), and the remainder of them stimulate the output signals that surge back to the site of the injury and trigger the cellular and chemical reactions needed to produce repair of the injury. As Becker noted at the time, “This is a complete closed-loop electrical control system...” 

In short, Becker reported that the conscious perception of pain involves an electrical (as opposed to biochemical) process that stems directly from the body’s electrical control system. Becker went on to demonstrate his discovery by conducting controlled animal experiments in which he used minute outside electrical currents in order to block the internal electrical current in various animals including salamanders, whose internal electrical systems are remarkably similar to the internal electrical systems in humans. Becker used a tiny electrical current — nowhere near strong enough to produce shock — in order to block the salamander’s internal electrical current. He found that when he passed this minute current front to back through the salamander’s head, it cancelled out the normal internal current and quickly produced full anesthesia. Becker’s experiment showed that as long as his tiny electrical current was on, the salamander remained unresponsive to pain stimulus. But when the outside current was shut off, the salamander’s internal electrical current reasserted itself, and the salamander woke up from the anesthesia. These experiments clearly demonstrated for the first time ever that a blockage of the body’s internal electrical current shuts off the conscious perception of pain. Hence, Becker had discovered that the conscious perception of pain was controlled by the body’s electrical system” 

Due to Becker’s research into the electrical nature of the healing process in the human body, modern medical science now knows that the pain response is electrical in nature rather than biochemical, and that the conscious perception of pain can be shut off via the use of an outside source of electrical current. 

Becker’s discoveries quickly led to the development and widespread usage of a number of electro-medical pain relief devices, which are generally referred to as TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) units. We’ll look more closely at some of the pros and cons of using these adjunctive devices in order to gain relief from acute and chronic pain. We’ll also examine a brand new breakthrough in electro-medical pain relief — based upon Becker’s work with microcurrents — that many believe will soon make most TENS units obsolete. 

Becker’s discoveries has allowed allopathic clinicians due to a broad lack of understanding of the underlying causes of pain, to continue to mask their patients’ aches and pains with an array of  electromedical cost1y and time-consuming  physical therapies.  Fortunately, chiropractors around the globe have dedicated themselves to finding a cure for pain and its causes, rather than merely masking or ‘managing’ pain 

Part III

Electro-Medical Healing 

Today’s growing field of electro-medical technology is not limited to merely helping people achieve relief from pain. Electricity is also being used in order to stimulate healing in affected areas of the human body, particularly in cases where the body’s own natural healing mechanisms have for some reason slowed to properly respond. In essence, the outside source of electricity is used to “jump start,” or simply boost, the body’s own natural electrically-controlled healing mechanisms. 

For example, Becker was one of the first medical scientists worldwide to use negative electrical currents in order to stimulate healing of bone fracture non-unions — a therapy now widely in use across the globe. He also demonstrated how to use negative electrical currents in order to safely destroy the bacteria involved in life threatening bacterial infections that had failed to respond to conventional treatments. 

Today, physicians are using a wide variety of electro-medical techniques to help heal an astonishing number of bodily ailments ranging from severe bone fractures to skin ulcers, ligament, tendon and muscle injuries, bladder dysfunction — even to relieving depression, drug addiction and more. 

Canadian doctors have reported using electrical currents to stimulate muscle growth in former paralysis victims, thereby enabling them to walk. The patients, who had been unable to walk since birth because of injuries to their spinal cords, had virtually no muscle growth in their legs due to the forced inactivity caused by their paralysis. Even with their spinal injuries later repaired, they didn’t have the muscular strength in their legs to carry their own body weight. Electro-stimulation of their leg muscles resulted in usage of their limbs. In this particular case, the electro-stimulus administered by the Canadian physicians was used to “trick” the patients’ muscles into growing stronger and stronger by causing muscle contractions similar to those normally induced through heavy exercise.

The Dark Side of Electro-Medicine

Dr. Robert Becker stated, “I was horrified to find that the levels of current and voltage were very high... With such large electrical forces being administered directly, electrolysis and cellular damage had to be occurring.” Today, the use of electricity in treating chronic pain, and in stimulating healing, is being practiced by a growing number of physicians and researchers at all levels of medicine. In genera1, this is another example of confusing news for the public. Electro-medicine promotion offers profound new hope, and in most cases concrete results for victims of pain, injury and disease — including substantial help for many individuals whose conditions have been completely unresponsive to traditional medical treatments. Many of these patients have never experienced the results from chiropractic care. 

However, some crucial, perhaps even dangerous mistakes are being unwittingly made by many medical practitioners in their rush to jump on the electro-medicine bandwagon. This is occurring largely because they have not taken the time to fully examine the scientific literature on electro-medical pain relief and healing, and therefore have too little fundamental knowledge regarding the effects of outside electrical currents on the human body — particularly the effects that can occur on the cellular level.

The Problems With TENS 

Becker admits that he is “horrified” to see what many electromedical practitioners are doing today, especially in regards to the overly-high levels of electrical current being used. In his original research, he demonstrated that it was only necessary to apply very minute, completely safe levels of current—as low as 1 microampere—in order to achieve pain relief, or stimulate healing. He also discovered that higher levels of electrical current like those now used in most TENS units, while sometimes achieving the desired pain relief result, often also created grave cellular damage as an unwanted side effect. That’s because the electrical output of most TENS units is in the milliampere range, which is 1,000 times higher than the microampere range (ie., 1000 microamperes equals one milliampere). 

Becker warned , “There has been no recognition of, or search for, the deleterious side effects of electrical stimulation of the body in the milliampere range. This latter aspect is particularly important  in that each TENS unit exposes large volumes of a patient’s tissues to substantial electrical currents and such electrical forces do have very undesirable side effects.” 

As Becker later noted, there are three main problems connected with the use of the high electrical currents  which include: 

1. Heat damage: Becker stated, “First of all, electricity passing through any substance may produce heat. - For human skin, the rule of thumb is that one milliampere per one square centimeter is just below the level at which cell damage due to heat is produced. While currents in excess of this may not produce perceptible heating, nonetheless cell damage may still be occurring.” 

2. Metallic ion poisoning: Becker further states, regarding high current electrotherapy, ‘if the electricity is administered via electrodes made of metal, the positive electrode will give off ions of the metal itself. In many cases, such as with stainless-steel electrodes, these ions will be quite toxic to cells. This toxic effect is not limited to the cells in direct contact with the electrode, because the positively charged ions will be electrically repelled by the positive field of the electrode and driven some distance deeper into the body. Thus, the harmful effects occur not only at the point at which the electrodes are applied, but can be far more widespread.”

3. Electrolysis: Furthermore, Becker discovered that, “With any level of voltage, the water within the tissues will be subjected to electrolysis, a process in which the water molecules are broken apart. In biological tissues, this produces gases, such as hydrogen, that are extremely toxic to cells. The rate at which these gases are produced is proportional to the level of voltage in that the higher the voltage, the greater the amount of gas. At low voltages, the circulation of blood and tissue fluids will carry the hydrogen gas away and neutralize it, however, as voltage is increased, a certain level will be reached at which gas production is greater than the ability of the circulation to carry it away. This higher voltage is called the electrolysis level, and it results in the rapid accumulation of hydrogen gas and the death of all cells at the site.”  

Becker later went on to document that much of the healing that seemed to be achieved using higher currents of electricity was actually created by the body’s response to the gross new injuries being inflicted by the overly-high electrical currents. In other words, the high-current TENS units were not necessarily stimulating healing, but instead, were creating additional injury which caused the body to react in self-protection. 

This reaction to the new injury would occasionally help generate some peripheral healing of the original injury, creating the false perception that the high electrical currents were actually stimulating healing. Becker demonstrated in one controlled experiment after another that only very low electrical currents in the bottom end of the microampere range could actually stimulate healing in the human body without causing reinjury to the original injury. 

Unfortunately, many electro-medical practitioners today have largely ignored this research and warnings, and continue to use the higher levels of electrical current in spite of the clear risks to their patients. As Becker ominously sums up, “Most people who employ or promote these high electrical currents for treatments are either unaware of these effects, or simply choose to ignore them.”

Part IV

Microcurrent Therapy 

Dr. Kenneth R. Morgareidge states,  “Microcurrent Therapy (MCT) has arrived on the scene at an opportune time to help health care professionals in their quest for more effective patient treatment techniques. No doubt healing of certain types of injuries is significantly accelerated by appropriate application of microcurrent. Much of this is due to externally triggered increases of ATP formation and protein synthesis within cells. It remains for therapists and researchers to explore with sensitivity and care the best uses of this powerful new tool.”  

A small but growing number of electro-medical researchers, engineers and practitioners finally are beginning to heed the warnings of Becker and others, and have recognized the inherent dangers in using the higher levels of electrical current. Because of this, several electro-medical pain relief devices have been developed over the past several years as direct altematives to the more risky TENS units. These are generally called MENS (microcurrent electrical neuromuscular stimulation) units, or more simply MCT (microcurrent therapy) units. 

MCT differs profoundly from TENS in that the electrical current produced by an MCT unit is generally kept well under 500 microamperes, with average treatments being in the range of 40 to 250 microamperes. This is in direct contrast to most TENS units, which, as mentioned earlier, use currents ranging as high as 1,000 to 5,000 microamperes (one to five milliamperes) or more. 

In other words, a standard TENS unit emits as much as 400 to 2,000 times the electrical output, or more, than the newer MCT units emit. 

In short, whereas most TENS units are based upon the erroneous conclusion that “more stimulus is always better,” MCT is based upon the well-documented Arndt-Schulz law, which states: “Weak stimuli increase physiologic activity, and very strong stimuli inhibit or abolish activity.” Applied to electro-medicine, this would mean that the lower the electrical current, the greater the beneficial physiological effect, and the higher the electrical current, the less the beneficial physiological effect.   

The Case for Microcurrent Therapy 

In 1982, bio-electric researcher Dr. N. Cheng began studying the crucial differences in physiologic effects produced on cells by higher and lower electrical currents. His goal was to determine whether the higher currents, or the lower currents, produced the most beneficial effects. What he discovered was astonishing. 

First, he measured ATP levels (ie, adenosine triphosphate, a scientific designation for cellular energy levels) in skin cells that had been stimulated with only 60 to 500 microamperes of electricity. Then, he measured ATP levels in skin cells that had been stimulated with currents ranging from 1,000 microamperes to 5,000 microamperes. Remarkably, he found that ATP levels increased by as much as 500% when the cells were stimulated with only 60 to 500 microampares. But the cells showed no ATP increase at all when stimulated with 1,000 microamperes. Furthermore, ATP levels actually nose-dived when the cells were stimulated with 5,000 microamperes. 

Cheng’s experiments proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the body’s cellular energy levels could be dramatically boosted via the application of very low electrical currents such as those used in MCT units — but that higher currents such as those used in TENS units actually limited, and even dramatically decreased the body’s important cellular energy levels! 

Furthermore, Cheng found that crucial amino acid transport within the cells could be increased by a dramatic 30% to 40% when the cells were stimulated with electrical currents ranging from only 100 to 500 microamperes. But as the currents were increased to higher levels, amino acid transport was markedly inhibited. At 1,000 microamperes, amino acid uptake in the cells was inhibited by as much as 73%. What’s more, protein synthesis within the cells was also inhibited by as much as 50% at the higher levels of electrical currents. 

Cheng’s ground-breaking bio-electrical research has given even greater credence to Becker’s long-time contentions that higher levels of electrical current are indeed detrimental to the body’s cellular functioning, whereas lower levels of current are actually quite beneficial. As electro-medical researcher and practitioner Dr. Robert I. Picker recently has stated, “All along we had been ‘shouting’ at the body with milliamps, when we would have been much better advised to ‘whisper’ to it with micro-amps.  Micro-current stimulation is much more consistent with the body’s own natural bio-electric healing mechanisms.” 

More Evidence for MCT

Recent studies regarding the way in which outside electrical stimulus travels through the body’s cells have added to the growing weight of evidence against high-current therapy. These studies have shown that painful injuries to the human body have the tendency to adversely affect the electrical potentials of cells in the damaged tissue — in essence, creating an electricity-resistant “blockage” in the traumatized area of the body. Since electricity always takes the path of least resistance, it follows that very little therapeutic effect can be achieved by introducing high levels of outside electrical current to such injuries. That’s because the electric current will tend to travel around the traumatized area, where there is no electrical resistance, rather than try to penetrate and flow through the electrically resistant damaged tissue. 

When rnicro-currents are applied, being far less volatile in nature, and far more compatible with the body’s own natural electrical signals, they appear to have the ability to easily and quite readily “seep into the area of injury, gently surrounding and penetrating the damaged cells, and thereby helping to restore the normal electrical potential of the cells throughout the area of injury. Once the normal electrical potential of the cells is restored, cellular activity increases rapidly, the injured tissue is repaired, and any pain from the injury is completely relieved. 

As Dr. Peter H. Lathrop reports, “The weak electrical currents transmitted to the injured tissue produce an effect similar to recharging a battery. The result is an immediate reduction in edema and inflammation, a rapid increase in range of motion and muscle strength, release of muscle knots, and long-term pain relief.” 

As Dr. Lynn Wallace, who completed his doctoral work in bioelectricity stated, “MCT is far more compatible with what is going on bioelectrically in the body. It not only relieves pain, but it activates the body’s natural bioelectric components, which promote healing. You get a local increase in ATP, a local increase in cell transport ability, and a local increase in protein synthesis. Because of the effectiveness of this technique, we don’t really use other modalities for pain relief at our clinics anymore..” 

In short, unlike any other pain treatment available today, micro-current therapy not only brings about dramatic relief from both acute and chronic pain, but simultaneously stimulates the body to promote healing . In combination with the chiropractic adjustment resolving the cause of dysfunction,  MCT assists in the relief of pain and healing. 

Pain T.E.M. - Pain Relief Made EASY!

Nonetheless, in spite of its numerous remarkable benefits, standard micro-current therapy does have several drawbacks. First of all, the MCT units are fairly expensive. Because of that, not every clinician can afford to own one. Finding a practitioner that utilizes micro-current therapy can be difficult, particularly if one doesn’t live in a major metropolitan area where there are usually a greater number of practitioners available.  

Secondly, micro-current therapy can be very inconvenient because generally, the patient can’t take the bulky MCT unit home.  

Thirdly, micro-current therapy can be very expensive  considering the costs of the therapy sessions themselves. 

There now exists a radically different, and new high-tech breakthrough in micro-current therapy that offers all  of the proven pain relief and healing benefits of standard MCT therapy, and then some. Yet it completely eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks to standard MCT therapy. It offers a number of additional personal benefits as well. Commercially, it’s called Pain T.E.M. (i.e., therapeutic electro membrane). After examining this unique new product, I’ve found that it offers five exclusive benefits unavailable through any other electro-medical pain relief modality: 

1. It is very inexpensive, particularly in comparison to physical therapy, ultrasound

treatments, prescription medications, TENS therapy and standard MCT treatments. 

2. It is amazingly convenient, because it is specifically designed for personal use, and does not restrict your ability to work or travel. 

3. It uses no electrodes and does not attach to any wires or machinery.

4  It is completely safe! 

5. It is as easy to use as applying a bandage. 

Most importantly, I’ve found that Pain T.E.M. relieves pain and promotes healing in most cases even more effectively than the far less convenient MCT therapies available today. Here’s what I’ve discovered about this new electro-medical breakthrough that “switches off” pain, and promotes healing with unbelievable ease and convenience:

The Pain T.E.M. Story 

In the mid-1980’s, Professor Sun Caoming of the Beijing Institute of Technology recognized the need for an absolutely safe and effective alternative to standard micro-current therapy. He felt that a new type of micro-current therapy would have to fit two important criteria: 

1. It would have to provide quick and completely convenient pain relief — that is, the patient would have to be able to use it on the spot virtually anywhere, at any time pain relief is needed, without having to go to the doctor’s office. 

2. It would have to completely eliminate the use of electronic machinery, wires, electrodes and any other potentially dangerous electrical connections. 

With these two criteria in mind, Professor Caorning became intrigued by previous research and experimentation that had been conducted by Japanese scientists regarding “electrets.” Electrets are unique, man-made materials that can hold an electrical charge after being polarized in an electric field, much as a piece of iron can be magnetized after being exposed to a magnetic field. Professor Caoming knew that as early as 1919 Japanese navy Captain Kawao Wantachi had been able to create an artificial membrane by mixing bee wax with Brazilian palm gum and resin. The resulting material was then polarized in an electric field, and had maintained its charge for a long time afterward — resulting in the world’s very first electret! 

In the 1940’s, many different forms of electrets had been created by Japanese researchers and others. But it wasn’t until 1963 that Japanese Professor Elichi Fukada, working in conjunction with Professor Iwao Yasudo, began investigating the possible therapeutic effects of such electrets. Working on bone fractures in rabbits, they found that by applying an electret membrane to the fracture they could stimulate healing, causing a complete rejoining of the fractured bones in under four weeks! 

Professor  Caoming recognized the dramatic potential of electrets for achieving quick and convenient pain relief and healing without having to use bulky electrical machinery, wires and electrodes, In 1985, after much research, he developed a special non-woven, water-repellent polymer which, when electrically charged, functions as a semiconductor, and can hold a large negative charge for an extended period of time. His unique electret, which resembles a small (approximately 3” x 5”), wafer-thin cloth patch, has been clinically tested for over six years on victims of acute and chronic pain, with absolutely astounding results, as you’ll see in just a moment. In fact, its average rate of effectiveness for relieving pain and stimulating healing in soft tissue injuries is as high as 90%, compared to only 30-40% for most TENS units, and somewhat more for standard MCT units. 

Since receiving a patent in 1986, Caoming’s unique electrified membrane has won numerous accolades in scientific circles, including the prestigious Eureka Gold Medal at the 35th Brussels World Fair of Invention, Research and Industrial Innovation. It has been in widespread usage throughout the Orient for numerous years, and has now been introduced into America under the commercial name Pain T.E.M

How Pain T.E.M. Works 

The very first thing noted is that Pain T.E.M, is literally as easy to use as applying a bandage. The patient simply places the thin cloth-like membrane over the painful area of the body, covers it with a small patch of gauze, and secures it with adhesive tape or an ace bandage. 

Immediately, the electrical charge held by the electret membrane begins seeping into the body. This takes place because of the fact that injured, strained or otherwise traumatized body tissue tends to accumulate an excess of positive ions, whereas the Pain T.E.M. is negatively charged. Therefore, when the membrane is applied to the area of pain or injury, a completed electrical circuit is created instantly. With an electrical circuit thus established, the negative charge from the Pain T.E.M. then begins to flow directly into the body in the form of an electrical current! 

What’s more, because this electrical current ranges from only five to 10 microamperes, it is completely compatible with the body’s own natural electrical environment — even more so than standard MCT units, which operate in the 60 to 500 microampere range, as discussed earlier in this report. Additionally, since Pain TEM. is on the very low end of the micro-current scale, it is completely sub-sensory — that is, the electric current cannot be felt by the patient as it penetrates directly into the area of pain or injury, so there is no discomfort whatsoever. Laboratory tests examined show that the minute negative electrical charge continues to flow into the affected area of the body until the membrane becomes completely discharged, which takes approximately 48 hours. During that time, research shows that the PAIN T.E.M. current accomplishes a number of significant functions, including: 

·         It triggers a gradual but highly effective analgesic (i.e pain relieving) effect, just as Becker has demonstrated in his laboratory research using minute negative electrical currents. 

·         It rapidly begins to restore the natural e1ectrica1 balance of each and every cell in the area of pain or injury, recharging the cells much as you’d recharge a weak battery. 

·         It eliminates aberrant nerve transmissions, allowing knotted muscles to release as a direct result. 

·         It helps restore the proper electrical interrelationship between the cells in the area of pain or injury, with the cells outside the area. 

·         It imitates the body’s natural “current of injury,” thereby triggering the body’s own natural biochemical healing processes so that intracellular fluid levels are restored, electrolyte levels are replenished, toxins are flushed, nutrients taken in, and healing begins. 

·         It effectively stimulates reduction of inflammation and edema, thereby further reducing pain. 

·         It stimulates the production of ATP (i.e., stored cellular energy) within the mitochondria, so that vigorous cellular function can resume, and infection and other foreign bodies can be resisted and repelled. 

·         It stimulates a strong influx of intracellular calcium, further strengthening cellular balance and activity, and aiding in healing. 

·         It dramatically stimulates amino acid uptake, as well as protein synthesis, aiding in tissue repair and regeneration.

Specific Applications 

Because of these effects, Pain T.E.M. has proven itself successful in relieving most forms of acute and chronic pain, as well as in dramatically accelerating healing in soft tissue and other closed-wound injuries. Conditions effectively treated by Pain T.E.M. include, but are not limited to, the following: 

·         chronic pain

·         contusions, sprains and strains 

·         neck pain 

·         digital arthritis 

·         frozen shoulder 

·         tennis elbow 

·         backache 

·         knee injuries 

·         bursitis 

·         knotted muscles 

·         myofascial pain 

·         fracture (after treatment) 

·         tendonitis 

·         phlebitis and zoster 

·         breast lumps 

·         mastitis 

·         swelling and inflammation

Results and Safety 

Most importantly of all, Pain T.E.M. is completely safe to use, unlike some of the more conventional electro-medical pain relief devices in use today. Tests conducted in 1990 by Dr. Andreas Marx of Berliner & Maloney concluded that “Because the device is not line-powered, and thus excludes the possibility of component failure, it cannot harm the user.” Dr. Marx further found that, “Because the device does not use electrodes, thermal bum hazards cannot occur. Skin bums are impossible under any circumstances. Since dangerous power sources and AC power outlets have been eliminated, and the device is charged only with static electricity, it is therefore absolutely safe to use.” 

Additionally, tests by Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig of the Institute for Biophysics in West Germany further documented the complete safety of Pain T.E.M.. Their official report states: “There is no danger of electrical shock. According to physical laws, it is impossible to become shocked by the membrane. The voltage is sufficient to activate a cell with low electrical potential. This voltage is absolutely harmless and without any negative side effects. Injured tissue heals much faster than without treatment.” 

Dr. Ludwig’s further states, “Because the electro-membrane has a negative charge, it is also able to pull positive charged toxins out of the body. A patient with chronic prostatitis described the treatment as ‘a great release’. In pharmacology, one expects normal 70% results and 30% therapy resistance. The electro membrane suggests much better quotes:  80% results in chronic cases and 90% in acute.”

Remarkable Case Histories  

In the course of researching this report, numerous files containing summations of the medical case histories of literally hundreds of individuals are reported as treated with Pain T.E.M..  The documented clinical evidence of the effectiveness of this unique new product include some very prominent sports personalities who use Pain T.E.M. These included: 

Evander Holyfield, World Champion heavyweight boxer— Dr Winston Green reported. “We used many different applications of TE.M.’s, most often to trigger points and muscle tears. Excellent relief within two applications.” 

Bernie Kosar, Cleveland Browns quarterback — treated for right elbow pain following a severe blow to the elbow. His trainers later reported, “The application of T.E.M.’s created about 25% faster healing.” 

Art Stringer, former professional football player — After five knee surgeries Stringer suffered pain and swelling 24 hours a day. Documented Pain T.E.M results: “Two applications resulted in total relief of pain, and relief of 95% of swelling.” 

Tim Hallmark, well-known professional trainer — His case study states: “Right levator scapulae tendonitis of shoulder blade: 80% relief after 12 hours wearing T.E.M.’s 

Furthermore, the orthopaedic departments of Beijing Union Medical College, relate the following results:   

Chart 1: Micro Current Analgesic Membrane Research. The Orthopaedic Departments of Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Bejing Red-Cross Chao Yang Hospital, & Beijing Jishuitan Hospital treated 251 patients with an 86% effectiveness rate

Beijing Red Cross Hospital, and Beijing Jishiuatan Hospital recently conducted a joint clinical study in which Pain T.E.M. was used to treat a total of 251 patients suffering from a wide range of debilitating acute and chronic pain conditions.

The summarized transcripts of those case studies, which are further summarized in the above chart. These clinical studies documented an incredible 86% effectiveness rate for Pain TEM., which is a remarkable rate of success by any standards. It clearly puts PainT.EM. in a class by itself in comparison to all other electromedical therapies, as well as in comparison to all of the more orthodox medical treatments such as ultrasound, prescription pain medications, and the various physical therapies such as traction, massage, etc.

Chiropractic Adjustment followed by Pain TEM

Pain is probably the single-most frustrating conditions known to man. When you’re in pain, your whole life is affected, as well as the lives of everyone around you. The sheer helplessness involved in being in pain — the feeling that it will never end, and that you may never feel good again — can be absolutely agonizing. What’s more, the resulting desperation for relief, for any kind of relief, can cause one to make desperate decisions, such as injesting potentially harmful and possibly addictive prescription drugs just to enjoy a few pain-free moments. But the drug wears off, the pain returns, and the desperation strikes again, often setting in motion a vicious cycle that can devastate one’s life.

Fortunately, chiropractors around the globe have dedicated themselves to finding a cure for pain and its causes, rather than merely masking or ‘managing’ pain. Furthermore, Pain T.E.M. administered following the chiropractic adjustment is one step forward taken by modern science in the quest for safe, sane and effective pain relief. Today, complete pain relief and healing can be a reality for literally tens of millions of individuals who suffer from acute and chronic pain conditions.

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