Microcurrent Research
Carley and Wainapel: Electrotherapy for Acceleration of Wound Healing, 1969
Thirty hospital patients with non-healing ulcers were divided into two groups, one with conventional wound dressings and one with microcurrent stimulation at 300-700uA. The latter group was given 2 two hour stimulation periods per day. After 6 weeks of such treatment, the group treated with microcurrent showed a 150-250% faster healing rate with stronger scar formation, less pain and lessened infection in the treated area.
Wolcott, Wheeler, Hardwicke and Rowley: Accelerated Healing of Skin Ulcers by Electrotherapy, 1969
Researchers applied microcurrent stimulation ranging from 200-800uA to a wide variety of wounds. The treated group showed 200-350% faster healing rates than the control group. There was stronger strength of scar tissue and antibacterial effects in infected wounds in the group treated with microcurrent.
Gault and Gatens: Use of Low Intensity Direct Current in Management of Skin Ulcers, 1976
100 patient with skin ulcers were treated with microcurrent stimulation. Six of them had bacterial ulcers with one side used as controls. Stimulation of 200-800uA was applied. Patients had a diagnosis ranging from burns, diabetes, fracture, and amputation. The lesions with patients treated with microcurrent showed approximately twice as fast a healing rate.
Cheng, et al: The Effects of Electric Current on ATP Generation, Protein synthesis and Cell Membrane Transport in Rat Skin, 1982
Researchers used in vitro slices of rat skin to determine some of the biochemical explanations for accelerated wound healing. By applying various levels of samples, and then chemically analyzing them, they determined that skin treated at levels below 1000uA showed up to 75% higher amino acids and up to 400% more available ATP than controls, and some treated at levels above 100OuA showed depressed levels of these substances.
Tomoya Ohno: Experimental Studies of Influences on Healing Process Mandibular Defect Stimulated by Microcurrent, 1982
50 uA microcurrents were applied to one side of the jaws of a group of dogs with lesions in their jaws. The other side was untreated. The dogs wee examined in 56 days. "It seems likely that microcurrent promotes normal bone formation within the affected area and accelerates healing."
Lambert, Marcus P. Burgess, T. Naokes: Electro membrane microcurrent therapy reduces signs and symptoms of muscle damage, 2002
Thirty healthy men were recruited for a double-blind , placebo-controlled trial. The muscles of their non-dominated arms were damaged using an eccentric-exercise protocol. Subjects were randomly assigned to treatment with either microcurrent or a placebo and monitored for a total of 169 hours. Data shows that treatment of muscle damage with microcurrent therapy reduced the severity of the symptoms.
Park, RI-Son, H. Kim: The Effects if Microcurrent Stimulation on the Foot Blood Circulation and Pain or Diabetic Neuropathy, 2011
This study was performed to investigate the effect of microcurrent electrical stimulation on the foot blood circulation and the degree of pain experienced by diabetic patients. Twenty nine patients with diabetic neuropathy over the age of sixty were randomly divided into an experimental and control group. Results show that the foot blood rate increment after intervention was significantly different between the experimental group and the control group. Based on study results, " we consider that microcurrent electric stimulation of the foot may be helpful for preventing the pain and diabetic ulcers by increasing the foot blood circulation in diabetes patients.
Thirty hospital patients with non-healing ulcers were divided into two groups, one with conventional wound dressings and one with microcurrent stimulation at 300-700uA. The latter group was given 2 two hour stimulation periods per day. After 6 weeks of such treatment, the group treated with microcurrent showed a 150-250% faster healing rate with stronger scar formation, less pain and lessened infection in the treated area.
Wolcott, Wheeler, Hardwicke and Rowley: Accelerated Healing of Skin Ulcers by Electrotherapy, 1969
Researchers applied microcurrent stimulation ranging from 200-800uA to a wide variety of wounds. The treated group showed 200-350% faster healing rates than the control group. There was stronger strength of scar tissue and antibacterial effects in infected wounds in the group treated with microcurrent.
Gault and Gatens: Use of Low Intensity Direct Current in Management of Skin Ulcers, 1976
100 patient with skin ulcers were treated with microcurrent stimulation. Six of them had bacterial ulcers with one side used as controls. Stimulation of 200-800uA was applied. Patients had a diagnosis ranging from burns, diabetes, fracture, and amputation. The lesions with patients treated with microcurrent showed approximately twice as fast a healing rate.
Cheng, et al: The Effects of Electric Current on ATP Generation, Protein synthesis and Cell Membrane Transport in Rat Skin, 1982
Researchers used in vitro slices of rat skin to determine some of the biochemical explanations for accelerated wound healing. By applying various levels of samples, and then chemically analyzing them, they determined that skin treated at levels below 1000uA showed up to 75% higher amino acids and up to 400% more available ATP than controls, and some treated at levels above 100OuA showed depressed levels of these substances.
Tomoya Ohno: Experimental Studies of Influences on Healing Process Mandibular Defect Stimulated by Microcurrent, 1982
50 uA microcurrents were applied to one side of the jaws of a group of dogs with lesions in their jaws. The other side was untreated. The dogs wee examined in 56 days. "It seems likely that microcurrent promotes normal bone formation within the affected area and accelerates healing."
Lambert, Marcus P. Burgess, T. Naokes: Electro membrane microcurrent therapy reduces signs and symptoms of muscle damage, 2002
Thirty healthy men were recruited for a double-blind , placebo-controlled trial. The muscles of their non-dominated arms were damaged using an eccentric-exercise protocol. Subjects were randomly assigned to treatment with either microcurrent or a placebo and monitored for a total of 169 hours. Data shows that treatment of muscle damage with microcurrent therapy reduced the severity of the symptoms.
Park, RI-Son, H. Kim: The Effects if Microcurrent Stimulation on the Foot Blood Circulation and Pain or Diabetic Neuropathy, 2011
This study was performed to investigate the effect of microcurrent electrical stimulation on the foot blood circulation and the degree of pain experienced by diabetic patients. Twenty nine patients with diabetic neuropathy over the age of sixty were randomly divided into an experimental and control group. Results show that the foot blood rate increment after intervention was significantly different between the experimental group and the control group. Based on study results, " we consider that microcurrent electric stimulation of the foot may be helpful for preventing the pain and diabetic ulcers by increasing the foot blood circulation in diabetes patients.