The Science Behind CES
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“In spite of an intracranial traumatic brain injury and full body reflex sympathetic dystrophy, WHH continues to serve his country in his position on the Executive Staff of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. Daily 20 minute treatments of CES provides satisfactory pain relief for WHH to complete his tasks and enjoy a relatively higher quality of life than he was able to have with drugs alone.”
Elliott J. Alpher & Daniel L. Kirsch
American Journal of Pain Management
“A clinically noticeable effect of CES on muscle spasticity in patients with hemiplegia and paraplegia and on muscle spasm in traumatic injuries such as low back syndromes were confirmed with EMG readings.”
Sigmund Forster, Bernard S. Post & Joseph G. Benton
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
“Anxiety, depression, nightmares, and irritability disappeared in every case as the sleep patterns improved. Some patients maintained their improvement 4 months later, while others had partial return of symptoms. None regressed completely. The authors concluded that the safety and ease of application of treatment makes it possible to use CES in a manner which would save time for the medical profession and money for the patient. There is enough evidence already to justify the considered use of CES by physicians.”
Ronald R. Koegler, Shelby M. Hick & James H. Barger
Diseases of the Nervous System
“There was 100% accomplishment of symptom relief in 32 neuropsychiatric patients, including severe psychotics, with chronic anxiety, depression and insomnia, frequent conversion headaches and neuromuscular tension who failed to respond to medications, physiotherapy, and psychotherapy. All 32 overcame nocturnal insomnia. 17 (53%) resumed occupational duties with increased efficiency and enthusiasm. 19 (59%) demonstrated more comfort and confidence in their social contacts. 18 (56%) were able to gain insight in regard to their psychodynamics’ and to put their increased understanding to work in their best interests. The mean decrease in pulse rate was 10.5, and 3.8 for respiration reduction.”
Ray C. Long
Journal of the Kansas Medical Society
“Only a mild sedative effect was expected. However, 3 of 4 normal staff controls reported an activation or alerting effect. Two normals experienced feelings of euphoria with periods of silliness or giddiness, along with this they felt a lack of worry about real situational problems. In fact, they were worried over not being able to worry.”
Richard E. McKenzie, Saul H. Rosenthal & Jerry S. Driessner
American Psychiatric Association Scientific Proceedings Summary
“Nine children suffering from severe, long-lasting bronchial asthma, resistant to conventional treatment, including steroids, were given CES treatments once a week. The asthmatic attacks stopped completely in 3 children and 4 months later the children felt well without taking any drugs. No child suffered an asthmatic attack for 24 hours following CES. Placebo conditions did not cause any improvement. The authors concluded that due to selection for trial of the most severe cases available, resistant to any other known treatment, even slight results are encouraging.”
Florella Magora, A. Beller, M.I. Assael & A. Askenazi
Electrotherapeutic Sleep and Electroanaesthesia
“An unexpected finding was that the involuntary movements in the patients with Parkinson’s and dystonia musculorum were changed in character during the passage of current, and eventually completely eliminated, as evidenced by clinical and EMG observations.”
Florella Magora , A. Beller, L. Aladjemoff, A. Magora, & J. Tannenbaum
British Journal of Anesthesiology
“CES therapy is highly effective in a wide range of well selected clinical conditions. It is a new approach to the treatment of so many patients for whom we are now prescribing hypnotics, sedatives, and addictive tranquilizers. In my opinion, since it is a harmless, nontoxic, nonaddictive, quite safe and inoffensive procedure, it is one of the most effective, powerful therapeutic weapons ever known for the treatment of chronic insomnia.”
Jose A. Pleitez
Nebraska Medical Journal
“Total clinical ratings on anxiety, sleep disturbance, and depression in 22 neurotic and personality disorder patients fell from 11.3 before CES treatment to 3.2 following treatment. The placebo group only fell from 12.2 to 9.5. At the end of the CES treatment, patients felt no confusion, memory loss, or disorientation. They usually reported a calm, relaxed sensation during the treatment, and a feeling of sedation with a desire to sleep following the treatment. The author stated that he can not help being a little skeptical at his own results. He added that no treatment in common experience is as effective with this type of patient as these results indicate.”
Saul H. Rosenthal
Biological Psychiatry
“Seven subjects consisting of 1 male psychologist, 3 male medical students, 1 female psychiatry resident, 1 female research assistant, and 1 female secretary received 5 CES treatments. The authors stated that they expected to find a mild sedative effect, but no particular effect on mood. Instead they found 1) activation of alertness seen in 5 subjects, 2) euphoric tranquillity in 4, and 3) not worrying in 4. Four subjects described beneficial effects, such as feeling alert, bright and happy, unusual increased energy for household chores, feeling “very happy” all day, tranquil, alert, pleased, definitely sleeping better, and less anxious about work.”
Saul H. Rosenthal & Lynn G. Calverty
Biological Psychiatry
“The authors stated that the management of anxiety is a significant problem for medical and psychiatric practitioners. Chemotherapy, although highly effective in many cases, cannot be considered the final regime. Total reliance upon prescription medications predisposes the patient to possible untoward side effects, physiologic dependence, and overdose. The development of a safe, effective, and economical treatment for anxiety is worthy of serious investigation.”
Joseph J. Ryan & Gary T. Souheaver
Biological Psychiatry
“The CES group of male alcoholic inpatients made significant gains on the Beta IQ test. The author concluded that in addition to the obvious considerations for the patient such treatment and recovery denotes, it also appears to be a thoughtful thing to do for those involved in other areas of the treatment effort, and whose efforts usually depend heavily on the cognitive functioning of the patient. It should aid treatment immeasurably, for example, if the patient can remember from one treatment session to the next what transpired in the session just preceding.”
Ray B. Smith
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
“The data suggests that CES appears to be equivalent to 35 - 40% N2O or between 0.3 and 0.4 MAC in analgesic potency when combined with N2O. CES also prolongs analgesia after recovery of consciousness. Theoretically, it should be possible to use lower concentrations of inhalation anesthetics and lower doses of narcotics and other intravenous supplements when using CES. As a result, major organ system alterations in function should be less during anesthesia and postoperative recovery should be faster. In addition, the use of CES during operations may provide residual postoperative analgesia without chemical analgesic administration. These possible advantages of CES, if proven true in subsequent studies, could certainly alter both the research and clinical directions of anesthesiology.”
Theodore, H. Stanley, Jean A. Cazalaa, Aimé Limoge & Yves Louville
Anesthesiology
“This research began looking at the feasibility of introducing a mechanism for reduction of trait anxiety among pedophiles. CES, according to the results of this study, has accomplished that task very well.”
Marshall D. Voris & Shirley Good
Medical Scope Monthly
“No matter what will be the explanation of the mechanism of action of CES one day, we can confidently state now that a current applied to the skull flows through the brain and has an influence on the central nervous system. We hope that we were able to show that the results of CES can be striking and are therefore sure that CES as a new method of therapy should not be underestimated.”
F.M. Wageneder
American Journal of Proctology