HealthPoint Electro Acupuncture

HealthPoint Electro Acupuncture

History of Micro Current Stimulation - by Larry Ratliff, President & CEO Dove Alliance USA Inc.
Back in the late 1960’s Dr. Julian Kenyon, a UK surgeon and Master Acupuncturist, had a vision of putting the healing power of acupuncture into the hands of the lay person – and as a consequence improving the effectiveness of acupuncture.

After twelve years of research, the result was the EPS. As the first micro current device of its kind, the EPS incorporated a locating system that allowed the user to locate acupuncture points with 100% accuracy and then stimulate that point with a very minute electronic pulse. When coupled with traditional acupuncture protocols the results were remarkable and repeatable.

Dr. Kenyon’s research was founded on the works of Robert Becker and others that had been researching the electrical properties of the human body. In the course of his study, Dr. Kenyon recognised an amazing connection between this western research and eastern medicine. Western research had identified specific channels of electro-magnetic energy that correspond exactly to the eastern description of meridians. Also small points exist, in exactly the same location as described acupuncture points, which are 10-40 times more conductive than the surrounding skin. When stimulated electrically these points demonstrate a direct correlation to the electro-magnetic fields in the meridians. The voltages in the meridians can be readily measured and change in relation to health or lack of health. Although the western researchers were not aware of it, they had confirmed the theory of eastern medicine.

Now Dr. Kenyon had a tool to work with and a method of cause and effect evaluation. From this beginning Dr. Kenyon went on to refine and define the most effective electrical properties and procedures to use when treating the body. It was found that bi-polar micro currents, in a range of less than 50 micro-amps, having a square waveform and frequency of 10 hertz would trigger the body’s natural healing system and promote tissue regeneration.

The current generation of the EPS is called HealthPoint or HealthTouch and has been successfully used in clinics and by lay people around the world for over 20 years. During the same period of time, it had been discovered that stimulating the body with currents in the milli-amp range could provide relief from some types of pain. As a result, western research was moving forward on devices having much higher output currents. Based on the “gate theory” of pain control, an electrical current is applied to the nervous system and interferes with the transfer of information from one nerve cell to another, preventing a signal from reaching the brain. The pain is there, the condition is there but the body does not acknowledge it. These high current devices are termed TENS devices and are widely used today for the treatment of many painful conditions.

Continued research has brought information leading to improvements in the hardware and techniques of TENS treatment. This refinement has broadened the field of use of TENS stimulation and, interestingly, reduced the usable output currents down into the micro current range. One of these researchers is Dr. Joel Rossen, an acupuncturist and veterinarian, who had a desire to improve the treatment of animals and had started building his own TENS devices.
As always, necessity is the mother of invention. By 1976 all of the ingredients for a breakthrough in Macular Degeneration treatment were in place, but existed separately and apparently unrelated in an arena that was spurned by leading researchers:
1. Dr. Kenyon had joined micro-current stimulation with acupuncture.

2. TENS research had brought outputs down into the area of micro-currents.

3. Advances in nutrition research were bringing the focus from corrective medicine to preventive lifestyle and good health practices.