Breakthrough Pain Relief
Micro Current Therapy
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What Is Micro Current Therapy
Micro-Current Therapy is a breakthrough revolutionary
process of supplying extremely low electrical current,
similar to that found naturally in the body, to the affected
pain area, where it can reach injured cells, potentially
restoring and regenerating them to alleviate chronic pain.
Micro and Other Currents And The Body
The Micro Currents are nely tuned to the level of the
normal electrical exchanges which take place at the body
at the cellular level. These currents being more biologically
compatible than any other electrical stimulation device,
have the ability to penetrate the cell – as opposed to
passing over the cell as other stimulation devices do. The
Painmaster MCT technology is based on the ARNDT –
SCHULTZ Law which states that: “Weak stimuli increases
physiological activity and very strong stimuli inhibit or
abolish activity.
(A) The injured cells resist the body’s
natural electrical current, preventing the
supply of blood, oxygen & vital nutrients
A
INFLAMED
INJURED
CELLS
BODY’S
ELECTRIC
CURRENT
The Human Body Is Electricity Based.
Electricity made inside the body cells, using low levels of
electric currents at one-millionth of an Ampere –called a
micro-current– provides power for the body.
Injured cells resist the body's natural micro-current. This
causes the natural micro-current to take the path of least
resistance around the area of injury rather than through it.
This prevents the supply of blood, oxygen and vital
nutrients to the injured cells, causing pain and retarding the
healing process.
The Device Acts As An External Battery
This sends the body's natural micro-current through the
area of injury. Therefore,
the effectiveness of microcurrent therapy stems from
its ability to closely mimic
the human body's natural
current. It acts at the
cellular level and helps
increase ATP production
(the major energy currency
molecule of a cell), which
corrects and re-establishes
proper cellular functions,
thereby potentially accelerating the healing process.
Multiple Applications for Use
The properties and applications of micro-current therapy
are: Pain Alleviations, Wound and Tissue healing,
Reductions of swelling and Inammation, Stimulation of
soft tissue regeneration, Muscle rehabilitation, Lymphatic
ow and detoxication. This also reduces reliance on
drugs, some of which may have been proven to cause
kidney, liver and gastro-intestinal problems.
Lower Back
Neck/Shoulder
Elbow
(B) Painmaster patch micro-current
penetrates the inflamed cells, restoring
the esssential blood supply, removing
cell waste and bringing direct pain relief
B
PAINMASTER
PATCH MICRO
CURRENT
Overall Benets of Micro
Current Therapy
(See appendix for references)
Studies have been conducted which demonstrate the
efcacy of microcurrent electrical stimulation for:
♦ Reduction in pain improvement scores with
accompanying substantial reduction in serum levels of the
inammatory cytokines IL-1, IL-6, and TNF-X, and
neuropeptide substance P. Betaendorphin release and
increases in serum cortisol.
♦ Signicant pain reduction and increased range of motion
in chronic back pain, bromyalgia, cervical pain, Carpal
Tunnel Syndrome, and arthritis patients
♦ Reduction of pain in degenerative joint disease of the
temporomandibular joint
♦ Reduction in pain and increased mobility in peritendinitis
calcarea of the shoulder
♦ Reduction in post-operative pain and edema,
♦ Reduction in healing time in soft tissue injury
♦ Increasing range of motion in ankle dorsiexion in CP,
♦ Increase the rate of healing in injured athletes, control
pain, increase the rate of fracture repair, and treat
myofascial pain and dysfunction
♦ Reduction in pain at power-grip and lifting a weight load
with pronated forearm, improvement in grip-strength in
chronic lateral epicondylitis patients,
♦ Superiority to conventional physical therapy in number of
treatments required to relieve pain, severity of side effects,
total cost of treatment and patient satisfaction,
♦ Reduce severity of muscle damage signs and symptoms.
Knee
Foot/Ankle
Menstrual
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Micro Current Therapy
ATP and The Effects of Microcurrents
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleoside triphosphate
used in cells as a coenzyme often called the "molecular
unit of currency" of intracellular energy transfer. It is also
referred to simply as 'Cell Energy'. With the application of
Microcurrents, ATP is replenished in injured tissues and the
membrane active transport is increased, thus allowing the
intra-cellular ow of nutrients and the extra-cellular ow of
waste materials.
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It works because of its ability to stimulate cellular
physiology and growth. One classic study showed that
micro amperage stimulation could increase ATP (See
Below) generation by almost 500%. Increasing the current
actually decreased the results. This study also
demonstrated the ability of microcurrent to enhance amino
acid transport and protein synthesis.
Tissue Trauma Or Dysfunction
Whenever there is tissue trauma or dysfunction, there is a
decrease in ATP and disruption of the sodium pump. The
cells increase their electrical resistance and the injured
area will have a higher electrical resistance than the
surrounding tissue. This decreases electrical conductance
through the injured area and decreases cellular
capacitance, leading to impairment of the healing process
and inammation. The cells become less able to receive
nutritional input, water, minerals etc. nor are they as able to
remove toxins.
Ball-and-stick (ATP) model, based on x-ray diffraction data
The Emergence Of Healthy Tissue
This process allows the emergence of healthy tissue. ATP
also provides the energy source that tissues need to build
proteins. Electrical signals initiate the healing process by
replenishing ATP, increasing the membrane transport of
ions, and facilitating protein synthesis. This allows the
external microcurrent to run parallel with the body's current.
Therefore microcurrent electrical therapy can be viewed as
a catalyst helpful in initiating and sustaining the numerous
chemical and electrical reactions that occur in the healing
process.
Augmenting Healing & Repair (Ref:1)
Microcurrent is a current in millionths of an ampere (micro
amperage range). Bioelectric currents in the body are
generally found to be in the micro ampere range.
Microcurrent therapy is a low-volt pulsed micro amperage
stimulation delivered to the body. Microcurrent therapy is
based on the evidence that micro amperage currents
closely approximate the naturally occurring bioelectric
currents in the body and therefore effectively augment the
body's tissue healing and repair. Microcurrent therapy
produces electrical signals like those naturally occurring
when the body is repairing damaged tissues.
All of these events are perceived by an individual as pain.
This is not an environment that supports healing and tissue
repair. Damaged tissue cells produce an electrical current
through the loss of intra-cellular ions and the disruption of
the sodium pump mechanism. This phenomenon is termed
the current of injury. The current then changes the normal
electrical potential patterns. The uninjured cells attempt to
restore normal function to the damaged tissues by restoring
the normal electrical potential.
Correct application of microcurrent to injured tissue
augments the endogenous current ow, allowing cells in
the traumatized area to regain their capacitance.
Horizontal or vertical placements shows. Each pad is placed on either side of the centre of pain.
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Microcurrent Levels Critical To Results
The work of Cheng (Ref:2) has shown that under the
inuence of microcurrent electrical stimulation ATP
concentrations increase when the applied electrical ow is
in the 25 to less than 1000 micro amp range. What this
means is that nerve cell membrane potentials, which
normally are about -85 mV in healthy tissue, are reestablished by microcurrent stimulation. Levels of
intracellular metabolic waste (i.e. lactic Acid) are reduced
and fresh concentrations of usable cellular metabolites are
introduced unto the exhausted cell. At this point, the cell
can enter its regenerative phase, pain levels are noticeably
reduced and tissue regenerative functions can be reestablished.
History of Micro Current
Therapy (Ref:2)
Examples of placement of externally applied
Micro Current.
Preclinical studies have shown that externally applied
(Micro Current) stimulation can:
♦ Cause migration of epithelial and broblasts into a wound
site
♦ Increase ATP (adenosine triphosphate) concentrations in
tissues
♦ Increase protein and DNA synthesis
♦ Promote healing of soft tissues or ulcers
♦ Accelerate the recovery of damaged neural tissue
♦ Reduce edema, and
♦ Inhibit the growth of various pathogens.
Shoulder
Neck
Electricity was rst used to treat surface wounds over 300
years ago when charged gold leaf was found to
prevent smallpox scars (Robinson, 1925). There are
several recent studies supporting the benecial effects
of treating wounds with an articial current (Goldin, 1981;
Jeran, 1987; Ieran, 1990; Mulder, 1991). Experimental
animal wound models in the 1960’s demonstrated that
electrical intervention results in accelerated healing with
skin wounds resurfacing faster, and with stronger scar
tissue formation (Carey & Lepley, 1962; Assimacopoulos,
1968). Assimacopoulos (1968a) published the rst human
study using direct current for wound healing. He
documented complete healing in three patients with chronic
leg ulcers due to venous stasis after six weeks of
electrical therapy. One year later Wolcott and Wheeler
(1969) published the most frequently cited work in
the history of electrical wound healing.
They used direct currents of 200-1,000 microamperes on
67 patients. Gault and Gatesn (1976) repeated the Wolcott
and Wheeler protocol on 76 additional patients with 106
ischemic skin ulcers. Rowley et al. (1974) studied a group
of patients having 250 ischemic ulcers of various types.
These included 14 symmetrical control ulcers. The
lelectrically stimulated ulcers had a fourfold acceleration in
healing response compared to the controls. Carley and
Wainapel (1985) performed one of the only studies on this
subject published with equal and randomized active and
control groups. All of these studies documented signicant
accelerated healing from electrical stimulation.
Heel / Foot
Calf
Lower Back
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Micro Current Therapy
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2. From: A Practical Protocol for Electromedical Treatment of Pain in Pain Management: A
Practical Guide for Clinicians. by Daniel L. Kirsch, Ph.D., D.A.A.P.M., Mineral Wells, Texas. copyright 2001
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Micro Current Therapy is available for consumers without
prescription in Australia through Painmaster
www.Painmaster.com.au. Ph: 1300 558 252
(Earthed Choice P/L trading as Painmaster)
Painmaster Micro Current Therapy is TGA, CE, FDA listed.
It is a Class II Medical Device. ARTG ID: 220278