It is not my desire to tell you how to do my treatments here. You will have to buy the book or e-book for that. But I will describe them for you.
Anti-Inflammation Electro-Acupuncture (AIEAC)
This uses an electro-acupuncture machine and works a lot like a cortisone shot. It uses electricity instead of chemistry. Like cortisone, you have to do the right spot for it to work. From treating an inflamed Achilles tendon I know it treats an area about a little smaller than a dime. The big advantage is you can do it as many times as you need. You are not limited to 3 like cortisone. I know treating something like carpal tunnel syndrome you don’t always know where the problem really is. With carpal tunnel, it can be farther up in the palm or farther up in the wrist. So it is nice to not have that limitation. This is the first treatment I came up with and have been using it for over 30 years. It works great. That is if you can locate where the problem is coming from. Now if you can’t locate it for any reason, all is not lost. You can just treat the whole nerve from the spine to the hand or foot with Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM). Mine will take less time and usually less treatments. But from my experience, Both work. Mine typically takes 15 minutes per point. And you can do multiple channels at the same time. So you can easily do 4 points on one limb in a treatment. That will come in handy when treating low back pain where on one side you can easily find 4 or more very tender points (such as L4 and L5 nerve roots, 1 or 2 points along the SI joint, and even at the attachments of the upper band of the gluteus maximus muscle). The upper band gets tight from the pain from the low back. Then pulling on the attachments causes them to become inflamed as well, but that usually doesn’t manifest itself until later but is quite common. I have found AIEAC works great on any inflammation. And if it doesn’t work (no relief but no worsening either) you know you did not get the right spot. And if the patient actually gets worse, you then know it wasn’t inflamed but probably torn or broken or degenerating. So that can guide your next treatment. It is even a good idea to inform your patient of these possibilities. Now you can run into several kinds of problems if you do it wrong. I talk about them in my book and how to avoid them. Depending on the severity of the inflammation, it will usually take only 1-3 treatments per point. You will find the tenderness at the point will decrease or disappear with treatment (even only one oftentimes).
MOVING Extracellular Fluid with Acupuncture (MEFAC)
You can use needles to influence the flow of extracellular fluid. I know it works because I have used it successfully in my practice. I have used it to treat lymph edema. For this there is also an FSM protocol for it. They work good together. You can also use it to help flush out toxins from the tissues. I have done that and it worked. There are frequencies in FSM for toxins but they don’t flush out toxins. The current thinking is that they correct the disturbance on the cell membrane that they cause that makes it behave differently and that is why you don’t get the flu like symptoms when you use FSM for toxins. But they should work good together. My results have been mostly with needles alone. For example, I had a patient who had burning in her feet that the doctors assumed it was a reaction to anesthetics used in a surgery she had. But they offered no treatment for it. She then saw another acupuncturist for eight treatments with no effect on the burning in her feet. A friend of hers suggested she see me, and she did. Right away I knew what the problem was and how to treat it. So I explained it to her and then did the treatment. We got 50% improvement from one treatment! With continuing improvement with follow-up treatments. We then hit a plateau and then I realized I wasn’t treating the channels between the channels (yes there are more channels than you were taught). So, I palpated for points on the additional channels and included them in the treatment and we got further improvement. I have treated lymph edema once with needles alone and once adding FSM to the treatment as well. Both times it worked to improve the swelling. I have also tried it to help with pain in the feet and lower legs due to diabetes and gout. In both cases I was trying to flush out toxins that were bothering the tissues. So how do you do this type of treatment? Get the book.
Anti-Inflammation with Acupuncture (AIAC)
Just sticking a needle in the body can cause an anti-inflammation effect if done correctly. And you don’t need to get qi. Sticking a needle in anywhere in the body causes the free electrons on the skin to travel through the needle (and even through the hole after the needle is pulled out) and collect under the skin. Then electro-osmosis causes the extracellular fluid to move towards the needle. So if you needle an inflamed area but needle shallowly enough to not allow the electrons to get to the site of the inflammation (which would make the inflammation worse) you will get the inflammatory fluids to migrate towards the needle and be carried away by normal processes. So, I suggest needling all tender points with the depth of needle insertion depending on whether you are doing AIEAC on it or not. I will give you this one for free.
repair Tears with Electro-Acupuncture (RTEAC)
If the ahshi is a suspected tear, don’t needle that ahshi point, rather needle on either side of the tear. Then you use a specialized version of electro-acupuncture across the tear. using the proper waveform and frequency, you will reduce pain by releasing endorphins and fill in the tear and strengthen the tendon or meniscus or whatever. The same approach can be used to speed up healing of broken bones. I have treated myself for cracked ribs from a snowboarding accident and was back on the slopes in 3 weeks. I have used it the most on torn meniscus of the knee, but also on rotator cuff tears (catch it early because most patients will wait till it gets bad before seeking help and because it is not a weight bearing joint the tear can be pretty bad or complete. The worse the tear the longer it will take to get relief. Here you are using the electric field to guide the repair process. I describe exactly how to do it and how it works in my book.
Treating Degenerative Tissues (Disks, Joints, etc.)
It happens that degenerating tissues are electro-positive in nature. If you remember your chemistry, electrons (-) are what holds molecules together, so a lack of electrons makes sense. So, if you want to stop the degeneration you just have to supply more electrons to the area. Simple, right? Here is how to do it with acupuncture. Needle the ahshi point (where the degeneration is ). Needle it the way you always would. Getting Qi is fine. Here you are getting the electrons from the surface of the skin. The electrons will go through the needle and collect under the skin to cancel out the positive charge located there, then they will be attracted to the positive charge from the degeneration and once there will slow down of stop the degenerative process. Of course the effect will depend on how much electrons are available to participate. So depending on where the problem is will determine how strong the effect will be with just a needle. I have seen this problem the most with degenerating disks of the spine. This is usually caused by inflamed nerve roots that were not adequately treated. This then caused the disk to become polarized. Then the side of the disk closest to the nerve to become positively charged . Thus starts the degeneration. Have you heard about this anywhere else? Of course not. Doctors are not that smart. But when you palpate your patient, check. If they have a problem with their disk, the associated nerve roots will most likely be tender too. Then you can use the nerve roots for the electrons and can treat both at the same time using an Ion Pumping Chord You could also get them from the lower arm or leg using an electrode pad. Or an electro-acupuncture machine.
Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM)
FSM is what I call a needle-less form of electro-acupuncture because it doesn’t use needles. Instead it uses either electrodes like in TENS or a graphite glove (is conductive) wrapped in a warm wet towel so the whole towel becomes an electrode. You place the electrodes so the current goes through the area to be treated. It uses an interferential setup but you put both + leads on one electrode and the – on the other. F1 is the frequency for the condition or problem the tissue is having (like inflammation), while F2 is set to the frequency of the tissue affected (like a nerve). So you have to think more like a doctor than an acupuncturist and think what tissue(s) is involved and what is wrong with it. Ms. McMakin (who essentially brought this technique into the 21’s century has written two books that you should read if you want to learn more about FSM. Her organization also offers workshops for training to become “Certified in FSM”. See http://theresonanceeffect.com/ for more information.
I have been using it in my practice for some time now and usually it does seem to work when you use the right frequencies. All the protocols that come with the machines seem to work when you are using them for what they were designed for. They were developed by Ms. Makin and others by treating people so they will work when used properly for the condition they were designed for. I have also made my own protocols with good results and have also modified protocols (such as increasing the time for inflammation) with good results. You just have to guess right what tissue is involved and what’s wrong with it. The only thing I have found that doesn’t seem to work is removing scars on the skin. Because of its versatility, I recommend the Custom Care device by Precision Distributing, Inc. Of course you can use a signal generator (Such as Models CJDS66-60M, -50M,-40M, -30M AND -15M ) for treatments using only one pair of frequencies is the cheapest way to go to do FSM manually. She also offers beginner and advanced workshops to learn how to do the treatments and what frequencies do what. FSM can be a valuable addition to an acupuncture practice by allowing you to do treatments without needles and allow you to treat things you won’t be able to treat otherwise. I would just add the advice to not use it if the patient has cancer. Microcurrent increases the production of ATP in the cells that see the current so it could increase the cancer cells activity. Maybe you could use it away from the cancer but do you really want to take that chance? My book containes tables that show the kinds of conditions they have protocols for and one that shows what you can do using only two frequencies. Now the precision of frequencies is 0.1 Hz which no electro-acupuncture machine is capable of. One of the machines I am designing will. The Custom-Care has a protocol for Plantar Fascitis that I have found works pretty well. Not as fast as my AIEAC, but doesn’t use needles and you should know that putting needles in the heel is not pleasant. So, having an alternative is nice. I did not make up FSM, but it is worth knowing about for all it offers. It is just expensive to have a machine that can do the protocols.