From: "C. A. Owens" 
Subject: Re: Elecromedicine helps chronic pain!
Date: 1999/02/12
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Next thing you know, they will all have us sitting around pools of
mesmerizing liquid, equalizing our humors.

Chris Owens

Hako-Med wrote:
> 
>   This is an excerpt from http://www.electromedicine.com
> 
>   Check it out!
> 
>   The Changing Face of Medicine.
> 
>   The last decade has seen a shift in the way Americans view medicine.
> Despite the various benefits of pharmacological treatments, problems such as
> side effects and addictiveness have demonstrated to many in the medical
> community a need for investigation into new approaches to patient care. As
> such, many physcians have found that electromedicine offers a viable and
> effective alternative to drug therapies. Having been used in many other
> countries for decades, U.S. practicianers are now finding that there are
> many inherent advantages to electromedicine. These include:
> 
>   Non-invasive
> 
>   Non-toxic
> 
>   Minimal side effects, easily avoided
> 
>   Easy to administer
> 
>   Safe and effective
> 
>   Consequently, an increasing number of clinics, hospitals, and private
> practices accross the country are re-evaluating their treatment options with
> the application of electromedicine in mind.
> 
>   What is Electromedicine?
> 
>   Put simply, electromedicine is a discipline within the field of medicine
> that deals with the use of electricity to aid in the treatment of a variety
> of physcial ailments.
> 
>   How Does Electromedicine Work?
> 
>   In basic terms the science is this. Electricity is found naturally in all
> of us. Certain electrical impulses in our bodies help facilitate bodily
> functions including actions needed for healing. By mimicking the electrical
> impulses that occur in us, we can help facilitate a specific effect.
> Electromedicine is able to trigger these impulses by varying the frequency,
> wave length, intensity, and location of the electricity applied to the
> patient. Understanding how these elements interplay to create a desired
> effect is the basis for the science.
> 
>   A Brief History of Electromedicine.
> 
>   Electromedicine, or the use of electricity to treat physical ailments, is
> considered one of the oldest and most documented sciences known. Medical
> professionals of ancient Greece learned that the electrical impulses emitted
> from electric eels in clinical foot baths relieved pain and produced a
> favorable influence on the blood circulation. Doctors Largus and Dioscorides
> (cc 46 AD) documented substancial therapeutic results with electrical
> currents in circulatory disorders and in the management of pain from
> neuralgia, headache and arthritis.
> 
>   In the 1700s, European physicians used controlled electrical currents from
> electrostatic generators almost exclusively for numerous medical problems
> involving pain and circulatory dysfunction. During that period, Benjamin
> Franklin also documented pain relief by using electrical currents for
> "frozen shoulder."
> 
>   In fact by 1910, approximately 50% of all U.S. physcians used
> electromedicine in their practice daily. Unfortunately for the science, an
> incorrect and unfair report emerged at this time. This report, produced by
> powerful special interest groups and discredited the value of both
> electromedicine and nutrition in medical practice. With fear of condemnation
> from certian medical institutions, (that were funded by these special
> interest groups), almost all American physicians abandoned electromedicine
> and nutrition from their practices. Although nutrition has re-established
> itself as a credible medical discpline in the U.S., electromedicine
> continues to face both the same special interest groups and the widespread
> prevailing misconceptions about the science.
> 
>   Modern Clinical Electromedicine.
> 
>   As a consequence of this occurence in the United States, most
> electromedical treatments or electrical stimulation therapies were developed
> in Europe, accepted by the medical establishment there, and transfered with
> varying degrees of speed and acceptance to the U.S. Today, hundreds of
> doctors and medical researchers worldwide are investigating electromedicine
> as both an effective alternative to traditional methods of treatment and an
> avenue for discovering new possibilities for treating conditions such as
> spinal cord injury, muscular restoration, nerve regeneration, brain
> stimulation, bladder disorders, heart disease, tumors and other chronic
> catastrophic disorders.