From: "Hako-Med" 
Subject: Elecromedicine helps chronic pain!
Date: 1999/02/11
Message-ID: #1/1
Newsgroups: alt.support.chronic-pain,fido.chronic_pain

  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.