Why Doesn My Ophthalmologist Know About Microcurrent Stimulation?
Western physicians have been using the technology of microcurrent stimulation since the 1960’s to treat a variety of conditions. Some of the earliest work in the 60’s involved the use of this type of electrical stimulation to promote the healing of bone fractures that were not otherwise healing. Microcurrent stimulation is used to promote healing in soft tissue wounds and pressure sores that are slow to heal. It is used extensively in Sports Medicine, it is used by the plastic surgeons in certain cases because of its ability to decrease the amount of scar that forms after surgery, it is used with good success in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome and in the treatment of tempero-mandibular joint syndrome (a disease of the jaw). Ophthalmologists do not typically read the literature associated with their colleagues in orthopedics, physical medicine, sports medicine, hand surgery or oral surgery, so they are usually unaware even that the technology exists. To date, the work that has b
