What is Calmare-Therapy?

Calmare-Therapy is a non-invasive and drug-free solution for pain management and treatment resistant nerve pain.

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2023 Paper Shows Scrambler Therapy May Offer Lasting Relief for Chronic Pain

A new review paper co-authored by two Johns Hopkins pain experts suggests that scrambler therapy, a noninvasive pain treatment,  can yield significant relief for approximately 80%–90% of patients with chronic pain, and it may be more effective than another noninvasive therapy: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).

Scrambler therapy, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2009, administers electrical stimulation through the skin via electrodes placed in areas of the body above and below where chronic pain is felt. The goal is to capture the nerve endings and replace signals from the area experiencing pain with signals coming from adjacent areas experiencing no pain, thereby “scrambling” the pain signals sent to the brain, explains the study’s primary author, Thomas Smith, M.D., the Harry J. Duffey Family Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and a professor of oncology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

All chronic pain and almost all nerve and neuropathic pain result from two things: pain impulses coming from damaged nerves that send a constant barrage up to pain centers in the brain, and the failure of inhibitory cells to block those impulses and prevent them from becoming chronic, says Smith, who also is the director of palliative medicine for Johns Hopkins Medicine.“If you can block the ascending pain impulses and enhance the inhibitory system, you can potentially reset the brain so it doesn’t feel chronic pain nearly as badly,” Smith says. “It’s like pressing Control-Alt-Delete about a billion times.”

Many patients “get really substantial relief that can often be permanent,” he says. They receive from three to 12 half-hour sessions.

As a physician who treats chronic pain, Smith says, “Scrambler therapy is the most exciting development I have seen in years — it’s effective, it’s noninvasive, it reduces opioid use substantially and it can be permanent.”

Why Calmare?

  • Non-invasive: Calmare does not require any needles or surgical procedures to provide lasting relief for 80%+ of patients
  • No pills: Tired of being prescribed pain pills and going through life in a haze? Calmare is non narcotic.
  • Some patients are treated forever: Unlike injections and pain meds, Calmare therapy can last forever.
  • Minimal side effects: There are minimal, if any, side effects of Calmare pain therapy treatment

What we treat

  • General chronic neuropathic pain: If you're suffering from chronic neuropathy (from diabetes, cancer treatment, or general nerve damage), Calmare may be the non-invasive answer you need.
  • Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Calmare Scrambler Therapy is a non-invasive, non-medication treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) that uses low-energy electrical impulses to send a "no-pain" signal to the brain. The MC-5A device uses 16 algorithms to trick the brain into thinking the area of pain is normal, which can result in prolonged pain relief.
  • Sciatica and Chronic Back Pain: Calmare-Scrambler therapy is an exciting drug and opioid-free alternative treatment to combat nerve damage as a result of medication and therapy-resistant sciatica or lumbar nerve damage (chronic back pain)
  • Shingles Nerve Pain: Calmare therapy has been shown to reduce or alleviate nagging Shingles nerve pain, called Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN), a notoriously treatment-resistant type of neuropathy.
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