MICROCURRENT TREATMENT OF SCARS

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1 MICROCURRENT TREATMENT OF SCARS ALLEN BERGER, DC CONFLUENCE WELLNESS CENTER PC 1776 S JACKSON ST. STE 418 DENVER CO ALLEN.R.BERGER@GMAIL.COM

2 PATIENT ONE 64 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH LEFT LOW BACK PAIN RADIATING TO HER LEFT ANTERIOR THIGH PAIN STARTED 9 YEARS PREVIOUSLY WHEN SHE STEPPED INTO A HOLE WITH HER LEFT FOOT AND FELL SEVERAL EPISODES OF PAIN OVER THE INTERVENING YEARS, WITH VARYING INTENSITY

3 PATIENT ONE 3 EPISODES OF SEVERE PAIN IN THE LAST YEAR CURRENT EPISODE PERSISTING A FEW MONTHS GRADUALLY GETTING WORSE UNRESPONSIVE TO TREATMENT BILATERAL KNEE PAIN TOLD SHE HAD BONE ON BONE

4 PRIOR HISTORY HISTORY OF SPLENECTOMY FOR ITP AGE 31 HISTORY OF 2 BIRTHS BY C-SECTION HISTORY OF TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY 9 YEARS PREVIOUS

5 PREVIOUS CARE PHYSICAL THERAPY ACUPUNTURE CHIROPRACTIC ALL INEFFECTIVE FOR CURRENT EPISODE

6 EXAMINATION SIGNIFICANT LIMITATIONS OF THORACOLUMBAR EXTENSION AND BILATERAL FLEXION WITH PAIN AT THE EXTREMES FIXATION OF THE LEFT SACROILIAC JOINT FLEXED, HEAD FORWARD POSTURE BILATERAL DES PLANUS BILATERAL LEG VARICOSITIES

7 EXAMINATION LEFT KNEE LIGAMENTOUS LAXITY LEFT KNEE SUBPATELLAR BURSA EDEMA LIMITATIONS OF BILATERAL HIP RANGES OF MOTION LEFT WORSE THAN RIGHT TRANSVERSE LOWER ABDOMINAL SCAR VERTICAL LOWER ABDOMINAL SCAR CROSSING TRANSVERSE SCAR

8 TREATMENT MICROCURRENT A-P WITH ELECTRODES FROM LOWER ABDOMINAL SCAR TO SAME LEVEL ON BACK 171/57, UA, ALTERNATING POLARITY ALSO PROBE TREATMENT 171 HZ, ACROSS SCAR INTERSECTION IN SEVERAL DIRECTIONS TOTAL 2 30 MINUTE TREATMENTS

9 RESULTS REMISSION OF BACK, LEG AND KNEE PAIN IMPROVEMENT IN ALL EXAMINATION FINDINGS TWICE IN LAST 18 MONTHS SHE REQUIRED FOLLOW- UP TREATMENTS AFTER HURTING HERSELF SAME TREATMENT WAS EFFECTIVE FOR THE LOW BACK THE LEFT KNEE REQUIRES PERIODIC TREATMENT

10 SCARS TRADITIONALLY TREATED BY ACUPUNCTURISTS THOUGHT TO BLOCK FLOW OF QI CURRENTLY TREATED BY NEURAL THERAPISTS AND PROLOTHERAPISTS VIA INJECTION THOUGHT TO BE HYPOMETABOLIC AREAS WITH POOR NERVE, BLOOD, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC SUPPLY THOUGHT TO HARBOR AND ACCUMULATE TOXINS AND MICROBES

11 PATIENT TWO 31 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH ACUTE SACRAL PAIN OF A FEW DAY S DURATION, UNSURE OF CAUSE HISTORY HAD BABY BY C-SECTION 5 MONTHS PREVIOUSLY

12 EXAMINATION SEVERELY LIMITED THORACOLUMBAR RANGES OF MOTION WITH PAIN AT THE EXTREMES + RIGHT 30 AND LEFT 70 FIXATION OF RIGHT SI JOINT LIMITATIONS OF RIGHT HIP RANGES OF MOTION WEAKNESS OF RIGHT TIBIALIS POSTERIOR AND PYRIFORMIS MUSCLES

13 TREATMENT A-P MICROCURRENT TREATMENT FROM C-SECTION SCAR TO EQUIVALENT AREA ON BACK 171/57, UA, ALTERNATING POLARITY TOTAL 2 TREATMENTS OF 20 MINUTES

14 RESULTS FULL RESOLUTION OF PAIN AND OBJECTIVE FINDINGS NO RECURRENCE IN 2 YEARS

15 PATIENT THREE 85 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH HISTORY OF MULTIPLE LOW BACK AND NECK PROBLEMS SINCE BEING THROWN FROM A HORSE AT AGE 14

16 COMPLAINTS BILATERAL LOW BACK PAIN, WORSE ON LEFT LEFT BUTTOCK PAIN SOCK DISTRIBUTION NUMBNESS OF BOOTH FEET AND ANKLES SWELLING OF BOTH ANKLES FOR LAST 45 YEARS PAIN AND CRAMPING IN BOTH LEGS SOMEWHAT HELPED BY GABAPENTIN

17 HISTORY TYPE 2 DIABETES 3 LOW BACK SURGERIES AT AGE 69, 71, 77 THE LAST SURGERY WAS A FUSION WITH HARDWARE 2 FRACTURES OF LEFT FOOT THYROID CANCER AND SURGERY AGE 38 2 C-SECTIONS BLADDER REPAIR SURGERY HYSTERECTOMY SAME SCAR USED 4 TIMES

18 EXAMINATION FLEXED POSTURE SEVERE LIMITATIONS OF THORACOLUMBAR RANGES OF MOTION WITH PAIN AT THE EXTREMES SEVERE LIMITATIONS OF CERVICAL RANGES OF MOTION RESTRICTION OF INTERSEGMENTAL MOTION THROUGHOUT THE SPINE VERY RESTRICTED RANGES OF MOTION IN BOTH HIPS

19 EXAMINATION NO RESPONSE TO PLANTAR SCRATCH DIMINISHED PATELLAR AND ACHILLES DTR S EXTENSIVE MUSCLE WEAKNESS ON MANUAL TESTING DEEP TRANSVERSE ABDOMINAL SCAR LARGE RIGHT NECK SCAR FROM OCCIPUT TO CLAVICLE CENTRAL VERTICAL LUMBAR SCAR

20 TREATMENT MICROCURRENT FROM ABDOMINAL TO LUMBAR SCARS A-P 171/57, UA, ALTERNATING POLARITY AFTER TWO TREATMENTS LOW BACK PAIN SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED BUT ACUTE LEFT NECK PAIN STARTED ADDED MATRIX REPATTERNING MANUAL THERAPY AND MICROCURRENT TREATMENT FROM BEGINNING TO END OF NECK SCAR

21 RESULTS AFTER 4 TREATMENTS BOTH LOW BACK AND NECK PAIN SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER EXAM FINDINGS WERE MOSTLY UNCHANGED LONG TERM: PATIENT SLIPPED AND FELL AND INCURRED NEW INJURIES

22 PATIENT FOUR 56 YEAR OLD MAN HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINEER WITH A HISTORY OF MULTIPLE INJURIES PREVIOUSLY UNDER TREATMENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS HAD LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA SURGERY WITH MESH IMPLANTED ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS HAD NEW INJURY COMPLAINTS WHICH WERE COMPLICATED BY APPARENT TRACTION INJURY TO THE INGUINAL SCAR FROM THAT TIME ON VARIOUS MUSCULOSKELETAL COMPLAINTS WOULD NOT RESOLVE UNLESS SCAR WAS TESTED AND TREATED

23 PATIENT FIVE 32 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH CHRONIC ABSCESSED BARTHOLIN CYST

24 HISTORY PAINFUL, SWOLLEN AND INFLAMED 1 cm LABIAL CYST PREVIOUSLY TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS TWICE, THEN LANCED CYST KEPT RECURRING 5 MONTHS LATER PATIENT REFUSED ANOTHER LANCING AND WE TRIED MICROCURRENT

25 TREATMENT MICROCURRENT VIA ELECTRODES A-P FROM SACRUM TO LABIAL CYST 171/21 100UA, ALTERNATING POLARITY PATIENT LIGHTLY MASSAGED CYST DURING TREATMENT 3 20 MINUTE TREATMENTS

26 RESULTS PAIN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED AFTER FIRST TREATMENT PUS WAS DISCHARGED AFTER THIRD TREATMENT CYST HEALED WITHOUT RECURRENCE

27 PATIENT SIX 40 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH 17 YEAR HISTORY OF DIFFUSE ABDOMINAL PAIN OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN PAIN WAS UNRELATED TO MEALS OR MENSES PREVIOUS DIAGNOSTIC TESTS UNHELPFUL LABS WERE ESSENTIALLY NORMAL SHE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH IBS BUT NO TREATMENT HELPED, CONVENTIONAL OR ALTERNATIVE

28 EXAMINATION PATIENT CAME IN WITH HER 17 YEAR OLD SON IT S HIS FAULT SHE SAID HE S A PAIN NO FINDINGS OTHER THEN A TENDER ABDOMEN AK REFLEX TESTING UNREMARKABLE ONLY FINDING A TENDER TRANSVERSE LOWER ABDOMINAL C-SECTION SCAR

29 TREATMENT MICROCURRENT A-P WITH ELECTRODES FROM ABDOMINAL SCAR TO SAME LEVEL ON BACK 171/57,120 MICROCURRENT WITH PROBES ACROSS SCAR AT SEVERAL POINTS BOTH 100UA, ALTERNATING POLARITY

30 OUTCOME FULL RESOLUTION IMMEDIATELY AFTER 1 TREATMENT IT WAS HIS FAULT

31 MICROCURRENT TREATMENT OF SCARS ALLEN BERGER, DC CONFLUENCE WELLNESS CENTER PC 1776 S JACKSON ST. STE 418 DENVER CO ALLEN.R.BERGER@GMAIL.COM