It's "human"?? It's "intelligent"???
On the "Calmar Pain Relief" page, Dr. Potatohead writes:
"Essentially the only thing in common with TENS is electricity. It is not that Scrambler Therapy is more powerful. It is more intelligent, AND it is human. Therefore it does not get rejected like a TENS. There is no adaptation to it. There is no need to increase the amperage as the brain does not try to reject it."
Funniest looking "human" I ever saw! I can't recall the last "human" walking around with little blinking lights and electric current shooting out its butt! Well, excluding "X-Men" of course.
It "does not get rejected like TENS"???? What can you even say? Just as there is no scientific basis for claiming TENS can get "rejected," there's no basis for claiming whatever calmare produces can't get "rejected." In that respect, no one has produced a single bit of evidence that the alleged "scrambled" signal is reproduced in even a single nerve, much less transmitted to the brain where it "can't be rejected."
"There is no need to increase the amperage as the brain does not try to reject it." Pardon me while I weep! Tell me again what med school this clown graduated from -- I definitely want to start carrying a "medical alert" tag refusing treatment by that school's graduates! I mean, this is one of those "not even wrong" statements -- how do you critique science fiction? The brain doesn't even recognize "amperage" -- it recognizes ONLY the heat produced by the current and/or the muscle contractions caused by the current.
Later in the article, he says:
"Above I mention the milliamps of the TENS as 30 to 150 milliamps. That is quite a wallop. The MC-5A SCRAMBLR THERAPY device MAXES OUT at only 5.5 milliamps."
Again more nonsense! The amount of current depends on the applied voltage and the body's resistance. In humans, resistance can vary from 1,000 to 100,000 ohms. He knows NEITHER how much voltage the machine is developing nor how much resistance the individual has. He must INFER that it "maxes out" at 5.5 mA since that is about the threshold of effect for DC current to cause subcutaneous muscle twitches that the patient can feel. However, THAT number will vary according to the individual's anatomy and/or physiology and/or associated illness, so there's NO basis to claim ANYTHING about the current magnitude.
And then:
"Frankly, with proper use of the device, I don't think there ever will be because of the pathophysiology of the device."
The "device" has a "pathophysiology"???? Do I even need to comment?
In any case, the rest of what he wrote is no better, but I'm too depressed now to continue.
