The club has adopted electrical brain wave therapy, which helps pan relief and cuts recovery time Top international football stars are being offered electrical brain wave therapy to speed up their recovery from injury. Premier league side Everton have adopted the...
Looking Ahead In the Wake of CES Device Reclassification In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its intention to reclassify cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) devices from a class III to a class II designation, ending a battle that the CES...
New rules on narcotic painkillers cause grief for veterans and VA The DEA restrictions, adopted to curb opioid abuse, mean many vets have to make more appointments with an already overburdened VA Craig Schroeder, who was injured in 2006 while serving with the...
COLORADO SPRINGS – The right prescription for veterans and active duty service members, may not be a prescription at all. Alternative treatments, like yoga, meditation, acupuncture, electrotherapy and chiropractic work are proving extremely helpful for military...
As a survivor of four deployments – Operation Desert Storm; Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Iraq; and Afghanistan – as well as being a survivor of the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre, I am well acquainted with the ravages of posttraumatic stress disorder. Using...
At VA, exploring alternative therapies for chronic pain and other ailments Alpha-Stim is being evaluated as one of the alternative treatments being evaluated at the Richmond, Virgina VAMC. Marine Cpl. Parker Harbold, 23, said he hopes the NIH researchers speak...
Alpha-Stim is a tool used to treat various conditions from anxiety to chronic pain through electrotherapy. Stephen Jordan, PhD, and Mark H. Kinder, PhD, psychologists on staff at Saint Francis Medical Center, have been using Alpha-Stim for about one year to treat...
I see a variety of concerns from clients seeking mental health counseling and coaching. Anxiety, insomnia, and depression are some of the most prevalent. And even if my clients don’t meet criteria for a full diagnosis, most all people at some time in their lives...
Since the beginning, Alpha-Stim has been known as a proven and effective therapy. Watch this compilation of TV news and talk shows from the early 1980s, when Alpha-Stim was first launched.
When Harry Beeman began his quest earlier this year for a Purple Heart, the World War II vet had visions of a 90th birthday party where he would be pinned with the medal. That is not to be. The former gunner’s mate 1st class, who served aboard the USS Ellet in the...
Cranial electrotherapy stimualtion (CES) is a category of prescriptive medical devices using microcurrent levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to the brain via transcutaneous electrodes for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and depression. It is also...
“I sing the body electric” wrote Walt Whitman in his 1885 Leaves of Grass, but what was he referring to? It was obviously not the the electric current that would later be used to provide light and radio communication. Nor was it the electric shock from...
Criminal justice professionals are becoming increasingly aware that biogical predispositions contribute to offender behavior as much as soical and psychological issues. The study presented here examines a treatment that can change the way the brain functions...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Are you depressed or anxious and just can’t sleep? Believe it or not, electricity may be the remedy. CBS 2’s Mary Kay Kleist reports on an at-home treatment that makes a difference for some people. Several times a week, Karen Parziale uses an...
As the “zero-stress class” strides into the cities, many of them, notably among the high-stress, white-collar workers, still suffer from anxiety and insomnia. How can we really say no to anxiety and say goodbye to insomnia in order to live with confidence...
About 50 years ago, who would have thought we would have so many products to enhance our health? Yes, you heard it right! Now-a-days, technology has advanced so much that apart from other usual innovations that make our life easier, we also have various products that...
By affecting the electrical activity of the brain, cranial electrotherapy stimulation may be a safe alternative to drug treatment for conditions rangin from depression, insomnia and drug addiction to headaches and even AD/HD. VIEW ARTICLE PDF
Is it you or them? Is your stress making your pet (or horse for that matter) nervous or did they just get that way? Animals have survived through centuries by observing everything around them. They are constantly taking in sights, sounds, smells, touch perceptions,...
It is hard to see how clipping a small electrode to each ear could make you feel calmer, reduce depression or improve sleep. Yet advocates of microcurrent therapy claim that it can do all these things and more. VIEW ARTICLE PDF
The impact of multiple deployments into the wartime theater, continued exposure to combat, endless family sparations, and returning to the home front to face economic hardships only convey a small portion of those stressors to which our men and women in uniform are...
