Pre and Post Surgery Benefits of Microcurrent Therapy - a case study.

By Guy Odishaw Bhakti Wellness Center provides services that boost your body’s natural healing processes. Our experienced health care providers take a whole person approach to your needs incorporating cutting-edge technology, alternative medicine and natural healing, delivered in a warm, caring and supportive environment. We offer a variety of microcurrent therapy (MCT), massage, natural medicine, and energy medicine services in one convenient location. We help people reduce symptoms, heal wounds, improve conditions and most of all restore health. Our focus is on your long-term health, vitality and well-being. Our goal is to facilitate your healing and help you attain wellness. What is Microcurrent? Microcurrent Therapy uses energy that is equivalent to the energy your body to facilitate your healing process. Normal household current is measured in amperes (amps), whereas microcurrents are measured in microamps or millionths of ampere. The instruments used at Bhakti are state-of-the-art, computerized medical devices capable of measuring the bio-impedance of your tissue and customize current output to meet your specific needs. Supporting your body to heal from any wound or injury while also offering you relief from pain. The ‘current of healing’ plays an important role in your post surgery recovery. In order to understand how Microcurrent works, it’s helpful to understand the concepts of the “current of injury” and the “current of healing”. Living tissues have bioelectric circuits that originate within the body. When the tissue is injured, current leaks from the skin and a short circuit occurs causing a “current of injury” The circuit can be restored thru external means. The “current of healing” induced by microcurrent therapy plays an important role in healing injured tissues. (Becker RO (1961) The bioelectric factors in amphibian-limb regeneration. J Bone Joint Surg Am 43-A: 643-56)

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Microcurrent therapy has been demonstrated to have potentially multiple effects on all phases of healing. - Pre-op it is used to optimize the tissue to

tolerate the surgery and speed recovery after.

- Post-op, it is used to maintain the lift and to treat blood stasis, scarring and numbness.

- Enhances proliferation and protein synthesis of cultured human fibroblasts.

- Increase collagen deposition in excisional wounds.

- Enhances collagen fiber alignment that is better organized by comparison to control wounds.

- Enhanced tensile strength. - Proven to increase ATP levels - Increase collagen thickness in connective

tissue by 10% - Increase blood circulation by 35% - Increase collagen elastin productivity by

45%** - Enhances fibroblast activity (collagen) - Maintains strength and support for elastin

- **Emil Y Chi, PhD, Director of

Washington’s Department of Pathology

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