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Frequency specific microcurrent


Frequency specific microcurrent or frequency specific microcurrent therapy (FSMT) is the practice of introducing a mild electrical current into an area of damaged soft tissue. Practitioners believe that the introduced current enhances the healing process underway in that same tissue. Quackwatch includes FSMT in its index of "questionable" treatments.

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) uses specific frequencies resurrected from a list of frequencies used by thousands of medical physicians between 1910 and 1935. In 1935, the AMA decreed that drugs and surgery were going to be the only legitimate medical therapies and the devices that delivered the frequencies ended up in the back rooms of clinics all over the US and Canada. In 1946, an osteopath named Harry Van Gelder bought a practice in Vancouver BC and found a machine in the back room of his new clinic that was made in 1922. That machine came with a list of frequencies. Van Gelder learned how to use the machine and the frequencies and combined them with other therapies to treat very difficult patients successfully. Dr. Carolyn McMakin discovered Van Gelder's list in 1995 and began to use a two-channel microcurrent machine to deliver the frequencies. There are frequencies used on two channels simultaneously applied so the frequencies from the two channels intersect or cross in the area to be treated. Clinical experience shows that both frequencies need to accurately reflect the condition causing the problem (like inflammation or scarring) and the tissue being affected (like the nerve or spinal cord) in order for the treatment to be successful. The therapy is used for treatment not diagnosis. It is not to be used in the treatment of cancer except as palliative care for reducing pain, metastatic bone pain and for eliminating the nausea caused by chemo therapy.

At first the frequencies and micro current were only used to treat myofascial pain. Myofascial pain and myofascial trigger points are considered very difficult to treat with manual and medical therapies but FSM appeared to treat the trigger points easily and successfully. "Microcurrent treatment of myofascial pain in the head neck and face" was published in Topics in Clinical Chiropractic Vol 5 (1) 1998. and "Microcurrent therapy: a novel treatment for chronic low back myofascial pain." was published in Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (2004) 8.

The technique was first taught in 1997 to determine if the results achieved were reproducible. By 1998 it was apparent that the results were reproducible as determined by the successful treatment of myofascial pain by practitioners trained to use the technique. At this point in 2016, there are over 3,000 practitioners using FSM in clinics all over the world to treat a wide variety of conditions.


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