| Injuries to our body can be very debilitating to say | | | | minor cuts and scrapes, scarring is a common result |
| the least. Unlike bone breaks, the injury to soft | | | | of any bodily damage. |
| tissues such as muscle tissue, can take literally years | | | | For years we've known of the ability to facilitate |
| to heal and can result in permanent disability. Much of | | | | faster healing using electrotherapy devices especially |
| the healing process deals with whether the patient is | | | | for wounds; decubitus ulcers, as well as non-union |
| doing rehab. exercises or not and can the patient | | | | fractures, bones. Electrical input from an external |
| withstand the pain of the process. It is widely | | | | source, be it classified as high voltage, micro current, |
| recognized that following a bone break in which the | | | | interferential or tens; supplies the sources of healing |
| bone is treated by immobilization, usually casted, that | | | | power to the body and the body then uses the |
| the bone heals fairly quickly and with little residual bad | | | | elements of the supplied power to effect positive |
| effects such as weakening of the bone itself. That is | | | | changes. Our body is constantly trying to return to |
| not true with muscle or soft tissue injuries and much | | | | normalcy and will do so with little intervention from |
| of that is due to the scar tissue that replaces the | | | | us. The process of living and growing is a process of |
| original tissue in the area. | | | | electrical currents assisting the body to produce |
| Scar tissue is composed of fibrous connective tissue, | | | | chemical changes. Death is not a depletion of |
| which is not flexible, is low tensile strength, non | | | | chemicals but a depletion of electrical energy in the |
| conductive electrically, and interrupts blood flow | | | | body. |
| thereafter to surrounding tissues. The connective | | | | The supplying of electricity is no different than a |
| tissue forms through tissue such as skin, muscle or | | | | person knowing they need nutrients so they may eat |
| internal organs. It can be found on any tissue on or in | | | | a banana, cereal, meat, potatoes, cheese, and |
| the body. The human body is incapable of reforming | | | | heaven forbid a little dessert now and then! Our |
| damaged areas back to their original composition, | | | | bodies can then take what is supplied, use what is |
| exception being formative years and somewhat | | | | needed and discharge what is not. Our body is |
| through first 6 months of life, so fibrous tissue is | | | | actually far smarter than our conscious thinking mind |
| rebuilt in its place. This replacement tissue has limited | | | | gives credit for. Where you see this repeatedly is in |
| capabilities compared to the original, and also may | | | | the use of vitamin supplements and our body can |
| weaken the structure due to the loss of original | | | | not process them in the form ingested, or due to |
| muscle tissue being replaced by scar tissue. When | | | | some other reason. Our body will then pass through |
| skin or organs are damaged, the body naturally | | | | the vitamin/nutrient rather than absorb it. |
| wants to heal itself. Since the body cannot re-create | | | | It is the same with supplying an electrical charge. The |
| healthy skin or tissue, it puts together new fibers | | | | body decides if it needs the positive ions, the |
| that are not as functional as the original tissue, but | | | | negative ions and discards what charges are not |
| that serve as a protective, useful barrier. When this | | | | needed once it has chosen it's "electrical nutrients". |
| barrier is completely healed, it is known as a scar. | | | | We still remain somewhat in the dark in deciding what |
| Scar tissue can be found on any tissue on the body, | | | | aspect of the electrical charge/field our body needs |
| including skin and internal organs, where an injury, cut, | | | | so we offer a smorgasbord of choices and let the |
| surgery or disease has taken place, and then healed. | | | | body use what it needs, discarding what is not |
| Thicker than the surrounding tissue, scar tissue is | | | | needed as it does with vitamins/nutrients. With the |
| paler and denser because it has a limited blood | | | | advent of the use of interferential therapy we can |
| supply; although it takes the place of damaged or | | | | now do so much more to aid our body, not only for |
| destroyed tissue, it is limited in function, including | | | | pain, but in effecting more rapid healing with less long |
| movement, circulation, and sensation. Other than with | | | | term disability. |