What is Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM)?
Frequencies are pulses per second measured in hertz. They can be sound waves or electronic pulses. The frequencies used in FSM are electromagnetic pulses used on two channels firing at the same time. The frequencies are delivered using a ramped square wave that includes high frequency harmonics to create the square wave. The makes the frequencies more accurately pulses rather than the pure frequencies achieved with a sine wave generator. Most microcurrent devices use square wave pulses because they have been observed to be more effective clinically.
What is Microcurrent?
What is a Frequency Specific Protocol?
How Are the Frequencies Used??
How Can FSM Help Me?
Treating Lyme Disease with FSM
What Other Conditions Can FSM Treat?
The frequencies appear to change a variety of conditions and tissues, and change pain and function in a large number of clinical conditions. FSM is especially effective at treating nerve and muscle pain, inflammation, and scar tissue.
- Cytokine Changes with Microcurrent Treatment of Fibromyalgia Associated with Cervical Spine Trauma
- Microcurrent Increases Fat Loss with Exercise
- Microcurrent Therapy – A Novel Treatment For Chronic Low Back Pain
- FSM Treatment for Head – Neck – Face Pain
- Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Using FSM
- Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Shingles
- The Efficacy of FSM on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
- Treating Lyme Disease with Frequency Specific Microcurrent
- Visceral and Somatic Disorders – Tissue Softening with FSM
Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) for Pain and Tissue Damage
The frequencies appear to change a variety of conditions and tissues, and change pain and function in a large number of clinical conditions. FSM is especially effective at treating nerve and muscle pain, inflammation, and scar tissue.
No technique is 100% effective and FSM is no exception. The effectiveness of FSM depends almost entirely on an accurate …Read Full Article
Does FSM Help Everyone?
Every patient is advised to drink at least one quart of water in the hour preceding treatment. Patients who are dehydrated do not find FSM as helpful. Athletes with large muscle mass and inadequate water intake and patients over 70 who are chronically dehydrated have the most problems. Patients who are chronically dehydrated may need more water over several days prior to their treatments.
Women who are pregnant or may be pregnant should discuss treatment with their physician. It is not known that FSM will harm the fetus, but studies have not been done. No problems have ever been observed in a patient treated who was found later to have been pregnant at the time of treatment so the recommendation is based on prudence rather than negative experience.
Patients with cancer may also avoid treatment. Again, this is based on caution rather than known negative side effects. Consult your practitioner to find out whether this applies to you.
There are frequencies used to remove scar tissue that should not be used with 6 weeks of the time of a new injury.
What Is the Difference between the Microcurrent and a Laser?
What Is the Difference between Microcurrent and TENS?
Microcurrent delivers subsensory microamperage current, 1000 times less than milli-amperage current, which has been shown in published studies to increase ATP production in tissues.
What Is the Difference between Microcurrent and Ultrasound?
What Kind of FSM Treatments Are Available?
We recommend that you have one or more sessions in the office in order to find how your body responds to FSM. Your home unit can be programmed specifically for your use. Working with a body tech in advance will allow us to choose programs designed especially for you.
How Do I Prepare for a Treatment?
What Is Involved in an FSM Treatment?
You should feel no discomfort during the session. GMA doctors have found that patients who are chronically ill may be unable to tolerate the amperage that other less ill patients do well on. They will check with you, and lower the strength of the current to the place that is best for your body. You may feel a slight buzzing, but no more than that. Being well hydrated will make the treatment most comfortable as well as most effective, and also assists the detoxification that can occur after treatment.
How Often Will I Need a Treatment?
Home care is even more individual. Some conditions can be treated in a brief session of a few minutes, one time only. Other conditions require longer periods of time, with repeated treatment to maintain the improvement. Most of the individual frequencies in a protocol will run for 1-3 minutes, with the full protocol running for 30-60 minutes. If you are taking a unit home to try out, you may run as many protocols as your practitioner recommends.
Does FSM Require a Prescription?
Home Care FSM units do require a prescription to ensure you have the correct protocols to run for your individual needs.
Is There Anything I Can/Should Purchase?
Home FSM units are available for purchase or rental programmed with custom protocols for your specific needs. If you choose to use these home units with self sticking electrodes or gloves rather than wet cloths, you will need to purchase those items.
Contact the office through the Patient Portal or (707) 575-5180 to find out the fees involved and how to order units.
Is It Safe?
There are frequencies used to remove scar tissue that should not be used with 6 weeks of the time of a new injury. Sometimes when muscles are successfully treated range of motion increases so much that joints and nerves can become temporarily painful until range of motion goes back down.
Practitioners are aware of these possible reactions and are advised to warn patients about them. After muscles are treated there is sometimes a detoxification reaction that occurs 90 minutes after treatment similar to that seen with massage therapy. This can be lessened by having the patient drink water and take an anti-oxidant combination.
Articles, Podcasts, and Videos on FSM
- Cytokine Changes with Microcurrent Treatment of Fibromyalgia Associated with Cervical Spine Trauma
- Frequency Specific Microcurrent: A Versatile New Tool for Healing – podcast
- FSM Treatment for Head – Neck – Face Pain
- Microcurrent Increases Fat Loss with Exercise
- Microcurrent Therapy – A Novel Treatment For Chronic Low Back Pain
- Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Using FSM
- Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Shingles
- Seegers-2001-ATP
- Seegers-2002-TENS-ATP
- The Basis for Microcurrent Electrical Therapy
- The Efficacy of FSM on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
- The Liberated Body Interviews Carolyn McMakin on FSM – this podcast also has a transcript on the page if it is easier for you to read.
- Visceral and Somatic Disorders – Tissue Softening with FSM
The Resonance Effect by Carol McMakin, DC - Now Available!
“The Resonance Effect” describes the development of a new medical therapy, called Frequency Specific Microcurrent, that uses frequencies resurrected from the 1920’s to reduce pain, scarring and inflammation, change emotional states and improve health. At the same time it tells the powerful story of what happens to your world when you listen to the sometimes quiet sound of your own inner guidance.
Carol McMakin, DC