Slightest Touch waveforms.

The regular or the steel belted version?

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I tried, but she just couldn't hold still....

Luhan

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.

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.