Has anyone ever heard of or tried Frequency Specific Microcurrent therapy? I've been offered the opportunity to have it done for me, and my doctor gave the green light to do before the ketamine infusion. I just don't know anything about the process, and would love some "real" feedback! Thank you!!!

I had some microcurrent therapy on my area of CRPS. (toe/foot) It was available at my chiropractor. There were many different frequencies that we experimented with. Unfortunately, this therapy was of no help for me. In fact, it seemed to aggravate the area some (not all) days.

But as everyone knows with CRPS, "your results may vary". Everyone is different and everyone can respond differently to different meds and therapies. There is only one way to find out. Try it.

My daughter also did this treatment and her results were the same as yours, She also did the treatments at the Chiropractor's office, did about 4-5 treatments but felt her pain was getting worse and stopped going. Hope they work for you.

I have fibromyalgia and most of my pain is in my neck and shoulders. FSM completely relieved the pain. The more treatments you do, the longer you get the pain relief. I also have the brainfog of fibro (and menopause) and it helped with that. I think if you are not getting results, it may be that the person giving the treatment is not well trained. I use a lady who actually trains others in how to use it.

Sounds like you got great results. I don't suppose I can impose on you to provide the name of your provider, i would ask them for a referral for someone in the Philly area. My daughter suffers from chronic neck pain with brain fog.

Thanks

Hi polarman,
Does your dd have RSD or Fibromyalgia, or some other condition?

We also have a thoracic outlet syndrome forum (aka TOS) that has many posts for neck pain & spasms, it is something most of us deal with.
here-
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum24.html

My daughter was diagnosed with CRPS (RSD) when she was 9 (5 years ago). She had allodynia in her arm and foot and light sensitivity in one eye. After extensive inpatient physical therapy those symptoms disappeared but for the past 3 years she has had neck muscle spasms that cause her pain. She has tried anti muscle spasm medication, physical therapy, acupuncture, lidocaine injections but nothing has helped her. She also is often in a mental fog where she can't retain anything she reads and has a very difficult time with school work. We are looking into FSMT as a possible treatment.

Have they explored other possible causes for the neck spasms?
Or do they think the RSD spread there from the arm?

PT hasn't been able to help at all with the spasms? Have they tried ultrasound, IF stim or electric simulation of some type, low level laser, manual trigger point work, massage?

A few members benefited from chiropractic care (expert & gentle).

RSD docs think she has RSD - we are not convinced. She just went through 4 weeks of phys therapy for RSD in neck but no improvement.

Have not tried Ultrasound, Tens unit does not help. We did do light therapy early on with her RSD and she had no improvement. The acupuncturist was working the trigger points. Was encouraged by Diana_in_CA's post and hoping will speak to her therapist about a referral. Hadn't heard of Brain Fog previously.

I had a Radio Frequency treatment which sounds like Frequency Specific Microcurrent treatment, my Dr. might have called it FSM but I just remember the radio frequency part. Anyways, I had it done just at the beginning Nov. 2011 lasted until End of Feb. 2012. It worked wonderful for me. I have Permanent ulnar nerve damage, RSD, CPRS, Neuropathy, ect. in my upper right arm. I was forewarned before the procedure that all the pain will not go away and its not a cure if it does work, but also, the more treatments you get the longer its suppose to last each time. Which I can't tell you if it does or not because when I scheduled my 2nd treatment unfortunately my insurance denied it, and can't afford the $3,000 bill.

I did get from the treatment was a huge relief in pain, gained lots of use of fingers back and progressed and thrived in PT. Within in 15 min of the procedure, muscle spasms stopped, within an 1/2 hour the pain started subsiding significantly. The next day my arm was feeling weird cause it felt like my other arm, normal, with only some soreness at my elbow with some pins n needles in my pinkie and ring finger but so much less intense. My pain level over the next few months were no higher than a 5. There were some days that I did get a high level of pain, but that is because I did things I use to do before I was injured and hadn't done in 5yrs and my arm was not strong enough too. I also, had much better sleep at night, so wasn't napping during the day, again unless I over did myself forgetting I still had issues with my arm and my appetite improved. The pain didn't just come back overnight it came back slowly so it really wasn't until March that my arm was back to being just something that hangs from my shoulder and disrupts my life. The only thing that scared me was the danger of the needle scraping or peircing the carotid artery in my neck but it was done under the ultra violet xray light machine thing. Don't remember the name of the machine but since for me my injury was from a cortisone shot into my ulnar nerve I will not have any needles going near any major nerves unless they use this machine in which they can see your nerves and veins. I think its a great treatment and wish I could keep getting it as my only choices are being on all the meds I'm on now, having a similar treatment except with heavy meds injected in the neck every 2 weeks (which costs my insurance company $1800 each time) and the spinal stimulus implant.

Any questions I'll try to answer the best I can. But I think its worth the try, just make sure they are doing it with that machine though!

Best of Luck

TTFN Jill aka The Scrapoholic