Guest guest Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Hi , As he will still be at hospital a few more days, you have a bit of extra time to prepare. On this one, you want to limit the current, if you decide to use it, to about 200 microamps or .2 milliamp. Also, for this one, you will want to totally avoid the " twitch " from uncontrolled polarity reversal. So, you will need to either use a fixed resistor or a meter and a 50 K ohm pot to control the current. For a battery supply of 6 volts, a series resistor of ~ 30,000 ohms will limit current to 200 microamps. For a battery supply of 4.5 volts, a ~ 22,500 ohm series resistor will limit current to 200 microamps. You want to reverse polarity each 30 seconds to a minute but if you can have extra resistance above the value of 30 K or 22.5 K at the time of reversal, all the better. Once the reversal spike is over, you can take the extra resistance above 30 or 22.5 K ohms, out of the circuit, until just before the next reversal. That's why I mentioned using a 50 K pot, you can simply turn the pot to a higher value (more resistance) before a reversal, then back it down, over and over. The area of tissue you have to go through is large and will charge up, discharging into the reverse polarity with quite a bang, so if there is a good limit on the current, it makes it much more comfortable. You don't want that area to be jumping around on reflex and make a moment of strain or pressure. Because to get to this area, you need to go through muscle, the muscle will steal a lot of the current flow from what you would expect as a straight line between the electrodes. This will try and fool you unless you know about that. The current minimum for effective production of ATP, at the target site, is 20 microamps and again, remember that muscle will route some current electrode to electrode, the long way around. If you have 200 microamps electrode to electrode, with the shunting muscle will do, you should get the minimum 20 microamps through the desired target area. You want to keep below action potential in the sensitive area, that is, you will want to be below twitching. If you look at the MRI, if you have a copy, you can see the area needing treating and hopefully be able to figure the muscle configuration on both sides where the electrodes will go. If you avoid as much as possible same muscle connections you can cut down on the currents they will shunt. There will always be leakage to some extent but you can plan ahead to cut that down. I've done a lot of mapping with an isolated microamp meter while another system was feeding currents to a patient. That meter showed what areas were stealing currents through the muscle, what directions it was coming from and going to, as well as how much. I noted that it was much less with avoiding connections to closely connected muscle groups. Back muscle, long and thick would steal or shunt quite a bit of even a wrist to wrist connection and you could read it easily from mid ribs up through the neck muscles. I ended up using this path taking learned to my advantage when mapping out a session. Good luck, take it easy and gentle. Regards, Mike Colon question > My husband went into the ER Friday with terrible bowel cramps. He'd been > having them for a few days and it turned out that he has diverticulitis > (even though he has twice a day normal bowel movements all his life) and > one > pouch had perforated. They have him on iv fluids and antibiotics and > think > that another 5 days, if he continues to improve, should heal the > inflammation and then he can come home. > > Once home he will immediately go on a juice fast to continue giving his > bowels a rest, and proper nutrition. But I'm wondering if anyone has any > thoughts on whether it would be a good idea to use the Godzilla pads on > his > gut area for healing purposes? He will be taking some MMS to kill off any > pathogens the antibiotics missed, but would the electricity through the > gut > increase healing of the actual bowel? Maybe a pad in front and one on his > back? I'm thinking it would certainly help, but thought I'd see if anyone > has any thoughts or experience with this. > > Samala, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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