Re: [Norton AntiSpam]Re: Calmare Theropy

May 12, 2012

This from a excellent Q & A with a doctor on this website,

-straight-from-the-doctor-s-mouth-

Q-How does it work?

The mechanism is completely unique. The primary issue with CPRS is the so called

physiologic " wind-up " in the brain. This is a complicated change in the nervous

system and can be traced at least in part to changes in NMDA receptors in the

brain. We need to get to the brain to help with this disease. The use of

electricity for the management of pain is not unique to the Calmare system and I

am sure many RSD sufferers have tried traditional TENS therapy. However, the

Calmare system is not anything like a TENS unit. Injury or other noxious

stimulus in the body creates pain chemicals. These chemicals in turn get

converted into electrical impulses by your nerves which get transmitted to the

brain and get INTERPRETED by the brain. When we use the Calmare system we

" control " the electrical impulses that the brain is recieving. By manipulating

the input into the brain we " convince " the brain that the area of the body where

pain was present is now normal. We know that the brain can be taught, in

medicine we refer to thoses changes as Neuroplasticity and there is quite a bit

of interesting reading on that topic on the internet if you have the time. I was

the worlds biggest cynic prior to actually treating patients with the machine. I

thought it was TENS or Placebo but nearly every patient I have treated has

already tried TENS therapy and they can tell you this is nothing like TENS.It

works!

Dale

> Diva wrote:

> How is this therapy different from TENS treatments?

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