Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSM)

A Restful Therapy to Address Tough Challenges

Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy is a deeply restful treatment that provides clinically verifiable relief for tough somatic and visceral issues. No exercise or painful movement required.

Increase ATP Production to Repair Tissues Quickly

Speed Healing for Acute Conditions

Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy is a highly targeted add-on therapy many patients like to include in their sessions. It works by increasing ATP production in the tissues of your body. Since ATP is a primary energy source in these tissues, increasing its production can allow the tissues to heal themselves more quickly. This leads to much faster recovery from acute injuries or conditions like broken bones, torn ligaments, or illnesses like shingles.

patient laying down while using Frequency Specific Microcurrent machine on wrist
Widespread relief – even for chronic conditions

Find Relief for Stubborn Challenges

Since ATP fuels all cells in your body, Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy is also effective for stubborn chronic conditions like COPD, ongoing anxiousness, sleeplessness, or feelings of helplessness and apathy. There are Frequency Specific Microcurrent settings that have been mapped to thousands of conditions, even chronic ones. If you’ve been struggling with a stubborn health condition, connect with a Synergy physical therapist to see if a Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy can help you.

David (patient) with Shauna Burchett, occupational therapist at Synergy Healthcare

I have COPD, and I was just about ready to give up. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t do anything. Even walking up from our basement, I’d be out of breath instantly. At the top of the stairs, I would have to go sit down. Over the last eight treatments, I can go up and down the stairs 4 or 5 times at once, and I might only be a little out of breath. Now I can mow the lawn. I don’t have to sit down; I can keep going.

I got treated with the Frequency Specific Microcurrent. It doesn’t hurt; you can barely sense it going on. I have to rate it very well. You get to come in a take a nap for an hour. It will almost put you to sleep throughout the rest of the day. I had a treatment for PTSD, and that really helped. It calmed things down; it stayed with you. It keeps going; it’s your body healing the whole time.

David U.

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Table of Contents

  1. What Is Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSM)?
  2. What Is a Microcurrent?
  3. What to Expect
  4. What does Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy Treat?
  5. Who Benefits from Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy?
  6. Are there any risks or dangers?
  7. Is Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy Effective?
  8. Microcurrent vs. Laser
  9. Microcurrent vs. Tens vs. Ultrasound
  10. Frequency Specific Microcurrent History
  11. Frequency Specific Microcurrent Cost
  12. How long do the effects last?

What Is Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSM)?

Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSM) is the practice of introducing a mild electrical current (one-millionth of an amp) into an area of damaged soft tissue. The introduced current enhances the healing process in that tissue. Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy takes advantage of the body’s ability to respond to specific frequencies to heal new or chronic injuries.

What Is a Microcurrent?

A microcurrent is a tiny electric current that is only a few millionths of an ampere. An ampere is the measurement of the movement of electrons past a certain point. Your body produces this type of current within each cell on its own. You can tell the machine is running by watching the conductance meter on the device, but the current is so small that it cannot be felt as it flows through the sensory nerves.

How does Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSM) work?
When treated with Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy, your healthcare provider uses an FSM device to deliver a mild electrical current to specific body parts. The electrical current used in this treatment is exceptionally mild — one-millionth of an ampere. Such a small amount of electrical current is safe. Interestingly, the human body actually produces its own current within each of your cells.

Depending on the tissue involved, specific frequencies will be selected to encourage natural healing of the body and to reduce your pain. There are frequencies for nearly every type of tissue in your body.

One of the ways FSM works is by potentially increasing the production of a substance called ATP that’s inside injured tissues. ATP is the primary source of energy for all cellular reactions in your body. Because treatment with FSM can increase the amount of ATP created in your damaged cells by as much as 500%, this treatment may help your recovery. Depending on the condition, treatment with FSM can “loosen” or soften the muscles, which can help relieve pain or stiffness.

What Can I Expect in a Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy Session?

Patients cannot generally feel the current, nor do they have any significant side effects. Some frequency settings can make the patient feel much more relaxed; others help memory and thought processes while reducing pain.

What Does Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy Treat?

The purpose of the machine is symptomatic pain relief, and it is FDA-approved as a TENS device for that purpose.

The frequencies treat pain and function in a large number of conditions. Frequency Specific Microcurrent is especially effective at treating nerve and muscle pain, inflammation, and scar tissue.

Fibromyalgia associated with spinal trauma, which is particularly painful and difficult to treat even with narcotics, can be treated with one specific frequency combination. That combination has been observed to eliminate pain in patients with this condition. Shingles has been shown to respond very well to another specific frequency combination that eliminates the pain in 20 minutes and causes the lesions to dry up and disappear in about two to three days. One frequency combination has been 100% effective in eliminating kidney stone pain; however, it does nothing to remove the stone itself.

Some frequencies have been observed to affect asthma, liver dysfunction (reducing elevated liver enzymes), irritable bowel, and many other conditions. Patients treated within four hours of a new injury, including auto accidents and surgeries, have shown reduced pain and an accelerated healing process.

There are no guarantees that any protocol will be effective for a patient on any condition. In general, the frequencies work, or they don’t; if they don’t work, they simply have no effect, as there are no adverse side effects. Frequency Specific Microcurrent is to be used as an adjunct to other therapeutic approaches for the patient after identifying the challenge at hand.

Conditions For Which Others Have Reported Benefits with FSM:

Achilles Tendinitis • Adhesions • Asthma • Back Pain • Bell’s Palsy • Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) • Bronchitis • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome • Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) (Formerly known as Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy [RSD]) • Concussion • Anxiety • Endometriosis • Fibrosis • Fractures • Fibromyalgia Associated with Cervical Spine Injury • Frozen Shoulder • Goiter • Gout • Herpes • Interstitial Cystitis • Irritable Bowel Syndrome • Kidney Stone Pain • Migraine • Lymphedema • Headaches • Myofascial Pain • Osteoarthritis • Neuromuscular Pain and Inflammation • Peripheral Neuropathy • Postherpetic Neuralgia • Post-Surgical Pain • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) • Restless Leg Syndrome • Scar Tissue • Sciatica • Shingles • Sinusitis • Spinal Disc Pain • Sports Injuries • Sprains and Strains • Temporomandibular Joint Pain (TMJ) • Tendon and Ligament Injury or Pain • Tension Headaches • Tennis Elbow • Whiplash • Wound Healing

Who Benefits from Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy?

FSM can significantly shorten the healing time of tissues and reduce pain in the first several visits. Pain from nerves, bones, muscles, and soft tissues, such as ligaments, tendons, connective tissues, skin, etc., can easily be reduced or eliminated. People with COPD, low back pain, brain and spinal cord injuries, depression, and scar tissue are among the many people who can be helped.

Is There Anyone Who Will Not Benefit From FSM?

Dehydrated patients will not benefit from Frequency Specific Microcurrent. Patients should drink at least one quart of water one hour before treatment. Chronically dehydrated patients may need more water over several days before their treatments.

Are There Any Risks or Dangers to the Patient?

There are no risks to the patient that we know of, as long as the practitioner follows the proper contraindications and precautions associated with both Frequency Specific Microcurrent and the use of microcurrent. There are frequencies used to remove scar tissue that should not be used within six weeks of a new injury. When muscles are successfully treated, the range of motion can increase so much that joints and nerves may become temporarily painful until the range of motion returns to normal. Also, after muscles are treated, a detoxification reaction may occur 90 minutes after treatment. This can be lessened by drinking water and taking an antioxidant combination supplement.

The following populations are advised against using Frequency Specific Microcurrent:
People with pacemakers.
People with implanted pumps.
Pregnant women.
People who have uncontrolled seizures.

Finally, it is NOT recommended that the frequencies be used to treat cancer. The condition is too severe and complicated to address with this technique. Specific frequencies also shouldn’t be used in cases of acute infection, new scar tissue (within six weeks), and acute fractures. Talk about any of these concerns with your healthcare provider before treatment.

Is Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy Effective?

As the name implies, the frequency is tissue specific so the effectiveness of FSM therapy is based on using the frequency or combination of frequencies, for the symptomatic tissues. Shoulder pain can come from muscles, tendons, bursa, discs, nerves, or joints. FSM will treat all of these pain generators effectively. For example, if you are treating shoulder muscle pain, and the pain is from nerves or the bursa, you may change the muscle, but you won’t change the patient’s pain since it is not coming from the muscle.

FSM provides clinically verifiable relief from somatic and visceral issues, and there is still widespread acceptance that visceral dysfunctions can elevate bodily muscle tension. For example, flank muscle hypertonicity can arise secondary to renal dysfunction, and trigger points can be activated in acute appendicitis, peptic ulcer, ulcerative colitis, and diverticulitis. Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy, acupuncture, and other energy medicine techniques document interactions between the epidermis and internal organs.

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Book a discovery call with a physical therapist today. We’ll discuss your pain challenges, posture, and other symptoms. Then we’ll take an honest look at your treatment options: no referral needed and no strings attached.

Frequency Specific Microcurrent Precision Care unit

What is the Difference Between the Microcurrent and a Laser?

Microcurrent provides electrons and has been shown to increase ATP production in cells. Lasers provide photons and use one frequency at a time from an oscillating set of frequencies, unlike microcurrent, which uses dual frequencies. Lasers provide their benefits through methods different from Frequency Specific resonance and ATP enhancement.

What is the Difference Between the Microcurrent and a Laser?

Microcurrent provides electrons and has been shown to increase ATP production in cells. Lasers provide photons and use one frequency at a time from an oscillating set of frequencies, unlike microcurrent, which uses dual frequencies. Lasers provide their benefits through methods different from Frequency Specific resonance and ATP enhancement.

What Is the History of Frequency Specific Microcurrent?

Working with the frequencies of the body began in the 1920s when scientists measured the frequency of each body part. For example, they discovered that when they placed a very low voltage (124 millihertz) on a bone (59 millihertz) that it stimulated the natural tendency of the healing cells in the bone and it mended much more quickly. Scientists continually find new combinations of frequencies to speed the healing of the body.

There are a number of devices that can deliver a micro amperage current; however, all of the research and papers published on Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) have been done using a device manufactured by Precision Microcurrent, Inc.

What is the Current Cost of Frequency Specific Microcurrent

Frequency Specific Microcurrent is a unique and effective therapy. Our clients often want to add more Frequency Specific Microcurrent sessions to their appointments. The cost for Frequency Specific Microcurrent therapy is 1$ per minute. Most Frequency Specific Microcurrent programs last 30-90 on average.

How long do the effects of a treatment last?

Depending on the condition and your pain level, the effects of an FSM treatment for pain can last several days or longer. For acute injuries, lasting pain relief can often be achieved.

Practitioners at Synergy That Use Frequency Specific Microcurrent

Don’t let anything separate you
from an active lifestyle.
Try Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy.

Connect with our team to see if Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy can help your symptoms.

Sometimes a new injury or a tricky acute condition can set off a cascade of other health challenges. When these challenges separate you from engaging in those activities you love, your world can feel smaller and smaller.

That’s why we offer Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy here at Synergy Healthcare. It’s a powerful add-on therapy showing observable improvements across many tricky conditions. Try Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy if you have anything that’s holding you back from the active lifestyle you seek.

– Shauna Burchett, Owner