Microcurrent therapy is a noninvasive, painless procedure that promotes healing and has often been successful with issues that have not responded to other treatments and/or medication.
Acuscope Myopulse Therapy is unique in microcurrent therapy because the technology works off of biofeedback from your cells and treats specifically according to the current condition of your tissue.
The Acuscope and Myopulse are FDA approved equipment that have a two-way function to help the cells repair and function at a higher level. Unlike traditional TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) units and other electrotherapy devices, the Acuscope-Myopulse system uses a much smaller current referred to as a microcurrent. This is the same current used by the cells in the body. This microcurrent enables this modality to communicate with the cells more effectively and then read the output of the tissue. This output will indicate where cells are responding normally (healthy), where cells have a low conductivity, and where cells are overactive or “hot”.
By evaluating the feedback, the correct current can be applied so that the cells can be corrected and function optimally, allowing the tissue involved to begin the healing process in a faster more efficient manner.
The Original Microcurrent TENS and EMS Modalities
Considered the category-creator when it was introduced in 1978, the Acuscope—now in its sixth generation—is still the most advanced therapeutic biotechnology in its field.
It is the only nerve stimulation modality to combine biofeedback input with microamperage output. As an Input/Output (I/O) device, it is programmed to acquire information from the tissue between the electrodes, analyze the data for abnormalities, and configure and deliver a corrective influence in gentle, biologically-compatible square waves of microcurrent electricity. By this process—which is completely comfortable—the Acuscope can restore healthier nerve transmissions throughout the Nervous System: boosting cellular metabolism, promoting regeneration of damaged nerve tissue, and resolving many stubborn pain and stress syndromes commonly seen today.
FDA Registered
Non-invasive transcutaneous nerve stimulation
Biologically compatible microcurrent square wave output
Completely comfortable; no sensation during treatment
Improves nerve cell metabolism
Boosts natural cellular self-repair mechanisms
Accelerates resolution of both acute and chronic conditions
Addresses impaired nerve conductivity
Accelerates dispersal of acute swelling
Reduces inflammation
Rejuvenates depleted or atrophied tissue
Safely restores brainwaves to relaxing frequencies
Relieves stress and anxiety
Promotes improved sleep patterns
Contributes to resolution of many Nervous System issues
Beneficial pre-surgical conditioning
Reduced pain and quicker recovery post-op
About the Acuscope
Introduced in 1983 and similarly unique in its field, the Myopulse is programmed to pick up biofeedback input from the connective tissue, analyze it, and deliver its output in pulse trains of biocompatible sinusoidal microcurrent waveforms—also soothing and comfortable. This read-treat process serves to help resolve issues in muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia. After an injury, tissue damage, surgery, unidentified pain, restricted movement, joint inflammation, scarring, or from poor circulation, faster resolution and full recovery typically result from a series of treatments.
FDA Registered
Non-invasive transcutaneous muscle stimulation
Upgraded T Model Technology
Biologically compatible microcurrent sine wave output
Completely comfortable; no sensation during treatment
Applied directly to large connective tissue structures: hamstrings, glutes, biceps, calves, chest and back muscles, as well as hip, shoulder, and other joints
Produces immediate relief from tightness, knots, spasms, sprains, strains and tension
Reduces the pain of injury
Restores circulation in muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia
Speedier dispersal of acute swelling
Reduces inflammation
Improves muscle strength and tone where depleted
Rejuvenates atrophied connective tissue
Boosts natural cellular self-repair mechanisms
Accelerates recovery after surgery
Contributes to resolution of many painful Connective Tissue Conditions
About the Myopulse
The Cumulative Effect
Acuscope and Myopulse Treatments Cause Beneficial Tissue Changes at the Cellular Level
Between treatments, this subtle energetic adjustment is absorbed and utilized by the body. Each successive treatment further boosts cellular capacitance until it can reach and hold a full charge—like a trillion tiny rechargeable electrolytic batteries being put on a biological charger—supporting overall health as well as addressing specific issues and injuries. To achieve this result usually requires a series of treatments over days, weeks, or months if necessary in severe cases.
Unlike a pain-suppressing injection or oral medication, this biotechnology enhances the cells’ ability to self-repair by natural, non-invasive means. This may take time and persistence but the results are lasting with no negative side-effects. Recovery often occurs, which had previously been deemed impossible.
What is Bioelectricity?
Biological Electricity can be Measured
Microcurrent biotechnology grew out of the field of science called electrophysiology: the study of the electrical properties of cells. Scientists in this field recognize that living bodies are electrically wired, and that cells generate electricity referred to as bioelectricity.
When this biological electricity is measured, the results are known broadly as biofeedback. You are likely to be familiar with some of the more well-known biofeedback devices:
Brain (EEG) Electro-Encephalograph
Skin (GSR) Galvanic Skin Response
Heart (EKG) Electro-Cardiograph
Muscles (EMG) Electro-Myograph
Biological Electricity can be Improved
The Acuscope is programmed to acquire precision biofeedback from the nerves, like an NCS (Nerve Conduction Study) or NCV (Nerve Conduction Velocity) test.
However, unlike commonly administered nerve conduction testing, it does not send a painful, powerful blast of milliamperage current through the nerve tissue in order to elicit an electrical response, observable as a graph on a screen, to be analyzed and scrutinized for a diagnosis.
Instead, the Electro-Acuscope derives biofeedback by delivering electrical current at a natural, biologically compatible microamperage level of force. The readout in the digital display reveals the condition of the underlying tissue in real time. Then, it analyzes that data, and during treatment, it sends an individualized corrective influence on the Nervous System in non-invasive, painless, biologically identical square waveforms of microcurrent.
Unlike a standard EMG, which elicits a response to a blast of milliamperage current driven through a muscle producing a graphic display, the Myopulse gathers biofeedback from an imperceptible microcurrent stimulus and analyzes it in real time. Based on this biofeedback, all during treatment, it is sending a corrective influence in biologically compatible sinusoidal waves of microamperage electricity, producing a normalizing influence on the muscles (and other connective tissue – tendon, ligament, fascia).
Unlike the precisely calibrated corrective influence of the Acuscope and Myopulse, all other electrical nerve and muscle stimulation devices provide “blind output only”—they do not measure bioelectric feedback—and therefore lack the ability to respond adaptively or precisely to the immediate needs of the tissue.
What is Microcurrent?
Microamperage (μA) is the level of current generated by living cells
The Acuscope and Myopulse generate microamperage current (a microamp is one thousandth of a milliamp, or one millionth of an amp.) Microcurrents are continuously moving through living tissue. Microcurrent biotechnology generates the level of electricity scientifically proven to match—and therefore produce the most beneficial effect on—the body’s cells.
See the study by Ngok Cheng, et al to understand how microcurrent causes enhanced cellular metabolism by:
increasing ATP production* (which milliamperage stimulation reduces);
improving intra/extra cell membrane transport by cell membrane repolarization;
helping to flush out metabolic wastes and bring in bioavailable nutrients through reactivation of the ion exchange process—the Sodium Pump Function;
resulting in a boost to collagen and elastin production and protein synthesis which are necessary for tissue building and self-repair.
Our health depends upon the ability of currents to move freely throughout the body and brain. When electrical currents are blocked in the heart, brain, and/or peripheral nerves, fatal results can follow. The gentle push provided by biocompatible microamperage currents restores conductivity.
*Microcurrent reactivates dormant mitochondria in the cells, stimulating greater production of Adenosine Triphosphate or ATP, which is the reservoir of energy for the tissue, and fuels cellular metabolism. ATP is involved in virtually every activity of the cell including nerve transmission, muscle contraction, and protein synthesis. ATP is the fuel the cells require for self-repair and new cell growth. Microcurrent treatment naturally boosts this process, thereby assisting the body in restoring normal, healthy tissue.
What is Impedance Monitoring?
The Only Self-Adjusting Microcurrent Equipment Available in Healthcare Today
When conductivity is blocked or reduced in the body’s tissues, we refer to that resistance as Impedance. The Acuscope and Myopulse are input/output devices, constantly detecting this impedance and using that biofeedback to immediately configure doses of microcurrent that are beneficial to the cells. This monitoring and adjustment is what sets the Acuscope apart from all other electrical stim devices.
When using the Acuscope, biofeedback input from the nerves regulates square wave output to the Nervous System. When the Myopulse is in use, biofeedback input from the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and fascia regulates sinusoidal (sine wave) output to the connective tissue.
The goal of treatment is to return the tissue to a normal level of bioelectrical activity. When resistance is reduced, improved conductivity allows all types of tissue to more effectively use proteins and other nutrients for cell growth and self-repair. Restored bioelectricity levels are observable in the digital and auditory displays.
Similarly in both instruments, two electrode contacts are placed on the body in locations appropriate to the issue. The polarity of the electrodes reverses every two seconds—when one is positive, the other is negative—then they switch. This occurs continuously during treatment producing the following effect:
Input – As the current moves in one direction—from the body into the Acuscope—information is being “picked up.” Utilizing Impedance Monitoring (IM) advanced nerve conduction biofeedback acquisition, proprietary programmed computerized circuitry first “reads” the condition of the cells.
Analysis – Once biofeedback information is acquired, it is analyzed (comparative analysis) by the next microchip processor.
Output – Then, the results are the foundation of a precision-calculated corrective influence. This Output is delivered into the cells via biocompatible microcurrent carrier waves.
