The Successful Treatment of Chronic Pain Using Microcurrent Point Stimulation Applied to Scars

Chronic pain affects millions of people every year and the effects of pain result in tremendous health care costs, in terms of rehabilitation and lost worker productivity, plus the emotional and financial burden it places on patients and their families. According to a recent Institute of Medicine Report: Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research, pain is a significant public health problem that costs society at least $560-$635 billion annually, an amount equal to about $2,000 for every living person in the U.S. This includes the total incremental cost of health care due to pain that ranges from $261-$300 billion to $297-$336 billion related to lost productivity (based on days of work missed, hours of work lost, and lower wages) [1,2]. In addition, there is currently a massive concern with the enormous use/abuse of analgesics and opioids throughout the USA [3-5]. If pain control can be achieved through other means as exemplified in this report, this could then impact favourably on this problem. Scars and trauma have long been recognized in neural therapy as a source of chronic pain as a result of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) (in particular sympathetic nervous system) upregulation [6-10]. It is theorized that damaged local cells lose their normal membrane potential, transmitting abnormal electric signals throughout the rest of the body via the autonomic nervous system, acting as physical agonists to sympathetic upregulation (stress) and pain [11].