What is Frequency Specific Microcurrent?

FSM is used to treat nerve and muscle pain andfractures.
many other conditions using specific frequenciesWho is Dr. Carolyn McMakin?
and micro amperage current. There are hundredsDr. McMakin developed protocols for the
of practitioners in the US, Australia and Canadatreatment of myofascial pain in 1996 and
using FSM to create remarkable changes inpresented her clinical data at the American Back
patients to reduce pain and improve health. MostSociety national meeting in December 1997. She
of the time FSM produces immediate dramaticpublished a paper on the "Treatment of chronic
changes in tissue that make it an indispensableresistant myofascial pain in the head neck and
tool in treating pain and many other healthface." in 1998 in Topics in Clinical Chiropractic. Dr.
concerns.McMakin began teaching FSM in 1997 to see if the
For example, there is one frequency that is onlyeffects of FSM were reproducible. By June of
useful for shingles and herpes. In the shingles1997 it was clear that the effects were
prodrome it eliminates the pain and prevents thereproducible in the differential diagnosis of pain
blisters from breaking out. In herpes outbreaks itgenerators and neurologic conditions.
eliminates the pain and heals the blisters in hoursOriginally developed in the early 1900s,
with only a one hour treatment. This frequencyMicrocurrent was introduced as a battery
combination is only good for this purpose and isoperated therapy modality in the 1980s and
not useful for anything else. We have not foundMicrocurrent devices deliver frequencies and
anyone it does not work on or any othercurrent in millionths of an amp and have been
condition for which it is useful. In a blind animalshown in published studies to increase energy
study the frequency to reduce inflammationproduction in cells by 500%.
succeeded more effectively than any drug everFrequency protocol development began in 1995
tested in this animal model. No other frequencyand Dr. McMakin began teaching FSM in 1997.
reduced inflammation at all. The frequency specificSince then hundreds of practitioners around the
effect is remarkable and reproducible.world have taken the studied FSM and use this
Micro current is current in millionths of an ampere.amazing technique to help patients recover from
An ampere is a measure of the movement ofmyofascial pain, fibromyalgia, sports injuries,
electrons past a point. Microamperage current isconcussion and many other health concerns.
the same kind of current your body produces onProtocols for treating neuropathic pain were
its own within each cell. This is current in millionthsdeveloped by Dr. McMakin in 1998. In 1999 she
of an amp. It is very small; there is not enoughthen developed a protocol for treating the full
current to stimulate sensory nerves so thebody pain from fibromyalgia caused by neck
current flow cannot be felt but can be monitoredinjuries. The paper was published in the Journal of
using the conductance meter on the machine.Bodywork and Movement therapies in July of
The History of FSM2005.
Microcurrent was first used in the 1980s byIt documents unheard of changes in inflammatory
physicians in Europe and the US for stimulatingcytokines and neuropeptides with the use of a
acupuncture points, stimulating healing in injuredspecific frequency protocol and microcurrent
athletes and stimulating bone repair in non-unionapplication.