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Scrambler Therapy

Abstract

From the scientific standpoint, Scrambler Therapy represents a conceptual revolution in pain therapy, now yielding results that were previously unthinkable. Clinical trialing has shown that it is also possible to treat particular forms of pain defined as “resistant” that do not normally respond or respond only slightly to therapy protocols, including morphine.

Scrambler Therapy’s top field of application involves the chronic neuropathic and oncological pain in advanced disease stages that is responsible for an appreciable opioids response inability in the majority of pain suffering patients. In the neuropathic pain field (which typically displays a zero to low response to conventional therapies) it can often provide an effective treatment and represent an actual cure because of the active principle that underlies the method.

Scrambler Therapy is non-invasive, painless and totally free of undesirable side effects. From a purely technological point of view it is a multiprocessing apparatus capable of stimulating five artificial neurons, thus allowing simultaneous treatment of five pain areas in a patient through disposable, single-use surface electrodes.

The treatment is fully automated, and features the dynamic parameterization required to ensure the proper functioning of the method. This feature, which is only to be expected in view of the active principle, ensures a very high degree of repeatability of results as the operating parameters do not have to be selected manually, apart from the simple regulation of the stimulus intensity which is brought up manually to the perception threshold, as well as the choice of application points. During treatment, the pain is completely removed, regardless of its intensity. In the course of subsequent treatment sessions, the pain recurs with constantly diminishing intensity until it disappears completely as soon as the event that originally caused the pain symptoms is resolved or the neuropathic damage is stabilized.

A treatment session lasts about 30-45 minutes.
In chronic benign neuropathic pain cases (inoperable sciatica, HVZ neuropathies, diabetes, traumas, trigeminal neuralgia etc.) a complete treatment cycle consists of 10 sessions, and even if this duration is often sufficient, it can be repeated if deemed necessary.

In the case of oncological pain the required frequency varies according to the patient’s condition and, after the attack therapy (about 10 treatment sessions) a single treatment session every 24 hours may be required as well. Scrambler Therapy has also proved to be effective in the cure of visceral pain like that deriving from pancreas cancer.