John said:
Has anyone scoped the waveforms from the Slightest Touch female stimulator ?
Cheers .... John
Not answering your question, but hopefully closely enough related.
Buried somewhere I have an old TENS unit, one old enough that the
"manual" actually included scope shots of the waveforms used.
Most TENS seem to use a pulsed constant current, sometimes
modulating the frequency and occasionally even modulating the
amplitude, usually claiming this reduces the unpleasant feeling
that some people experience.
And on a similar topic, hook electrodes to your head and possibly
help overcome that pesky after-40 memory loss experience.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=BEC346B2-E7F2-99DF-350CC33BA6757700
provides more information than the printed version in the current
issue.
The web page actually currents, frequencies and timing used.
(Save the content of that page if you want it, SA has a nasty habit
of removing content from pubic pages and there are some things
I can't get from them at all any more.)
The Alpha Stim is another commercial product, also providing
trans-cranial electrical stimulation, typically prescribed for
depression and related conditions. I've only been able to discuss
the response with one user, who felt the results were very positive.
Ten years ago I was trying to organize a tiny clinical trial using
TENS, not intracranially, for a somewhat related problem. But I
was never able to get the M.D. understand that he had to stop
telling the subjects what was going on. We did see some promise
in the results but were never able to get clean results. There were
a couple of other independent published results similar to this but
almost everyone else who was working on the problem didn't seem
to understand what they were fumbling with, and doing badly.
Some actually stopped their trials after seeing the injury patients
were doing to themselves as a result of the consequences of the
protocol being used.
At that time I was listening to people using TENS on their own
intracranially, even though that was specifically warned against
in the instructions and some of them were reporting very positive
results.
