Electro Therapies

Restoring Nerve and Muscle Function Through Targeted Electrical Stimulation

At Alexander Chiropractic Neurology Center, we use electrotherapy to stimulate your body’s natural ability to heal, repair, and restore proper function.

Unlike general pain-management clinics that apply generic settings, our electrotherapy treatments are guided by neurological findings — ensuring each pulse, frequency, and placement aligns with your specific nervous system needs.

Electrical stimulation works by sending controlled impulses through the skin to activate nerves and muscles. This process reduces pain, increases circulation, and enhances the body’s own production of endorphins and ATP (cellular energy).

When applied strategically, electrotherapy helps retrain communication between the brain and muscles, restoring movement patterns and balance.

Why Electro Therapies Are Important in Chiropractic Neurology

Your nervous system communicates through electrical signals. When an injury, inflammation, or misalignment interrupts these signals, muscles weaken, pain persists, and coordination declines. Electrotherapies help restore that communication, “reminding” the nervous system how to activate, contract, and heal properly.

By integrating electrotherapy into a neurologically based chiropractic plan, we can:

Reactivate dormant or inhibited muscles
Calm overactive pain pathways
Improve proprioception (your body’s sense of position and movement)
Accelerate soft tissue and joint recovery
Support balance and coordination training

This combination of chiropractic care and electrotherapy forms a complete circuit of healing—from brain to body and back again.

Advanced Systems We Use

LSI International & Dynatronics Solaris Systems

Our clinic uses industry-leading platforms known for precision control and safety. These systems allow us to customize the waveform, intensity, and frequency for each patient’s condition—ensuring maximum benefit without discomfort.

Interferential Therapy (IFC)

Interferential therapy uses two slightly different medium-frequency currents that intersect deep in the tissues, creating a therapeutic effect below the skin’s surface.

This deep penetration reduces pain, relaxes muscles, and promotes circulation without the surface irritation caused by traditional low-frequency treatments.

Common Uses: joint pain, muscle strain, inflammation, post-surgical swelling, and nerve entrapment syndromes.

Russian Stimulation

Russian Stimulation delivers pulsed medium-frequency current designed for muscle strengthening and re-education.

It’s particularly effective for patients recovering from surgery, injury, or neurological weakness, as it triggers controlled muscle contractions that retrain the nervous system to recruit and fire correctly.

Common Uses: post-ACL repair, rotator cuff rehabilitation, muscular atrophy, and postural support.

TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation)

TENS therapy applies gentle electrical impulses to surface nerves to block pain signals traveling to the brain.

It also increases endorphin release—the body’s natural painkiller—providing drug-free pain management that can be used in both acute and chronic conditions.

Common Uses: chronic low back pain, arthritis, sciatica, and tension-related pain.

Acutron Mentor Micro-Current Therapy

Low-Intensity, High-Impact Healing

The Acutron Mentor Machine represents the most advanced level of micro-current therapy available. Unlike traditional electrotherapy, which stimulates nerves to create contractions, micro- current works at the cellular level—helping cells restore their normal electrical charge and metabolic function.

The result is faster tissue repair, reduced inflammation, and enhanced energy production inside the cell.

Micro-current therapy is so gentle that many patients barely feel the treatment, yet its effects are profound and measurable.

How It Works:

Restores electrical potential in damaged or inflamed cells
Increases ATP (cellular energy) production by up to 500%
Promotes collagen and elastin synthesis for connective tissue healing
Accelerates lymphatic drainage and toxin removal
Reduces inflammation and pain without heat or vibration

Common Applications:

Nerve pain and neuropathy
Tendonitis, bursitis, and arthritis
Post-surgical recovery
Facial rejuvenation and muscle tone restoration
Sports injury recovery and chronic inflammation

Because the nervous system itself communicates via micro-electric signals, this therapy is an ideal match for Chiropractic Neurology, which focuses on restoring the body’s electrical and chemical communication networks.

What to Expect During Treatment

Your session will begin with a targeted evaluation to determine which therapy—IFC, Russian, TENS, or Micro-current—will best address your condition. Small, comfortable pads are placed on the skin to deliver the stimulation, and sessions typically last 15–30 minutes depending on the application.

Most patients describe the sensation as a mild tingling or rhythmic pulsing. After treatment, muscles feel more relaxed, joints move more freely, and pain levels are significantly reduced.

Electrotherapy is safe, non-invasive, and drug-free. When combined with chiropractic neurological care, it becomes a powerful catalyst for long-term healing and restoration.

Integrating Electro Therapy Into a Comprehensive Plan

At Alexander Chiropractic Neurology Center, electrotherapy is never used in isolation. It’s part of a multimodal approach that may also include chiropractic adjustments, therapeutic exercises, balance training, or complementary modalities like laser or light therapy.

This combination ensures that both the structural and neurological components of healing are addressed — leading to faster recovery and more sustainable outcomes.