Scenar Therapy

I would like to tell you a story about my partner and his experiences regarding an injury he suffered to his left knee. This story is written from his perspective. It goes like this….

"It was only a few months ago when I stopped playing with my children. It wasn't out of choice but rather circumstance. It happened one afternoon when my two young children wanted a game of cricket. I said, 'OK, let's have a game.'  Five minutes later I was in pain and could hardly walk. It was just a simple swing of the bat that did it. The pain I felt in my left knee was excruciating, my knee had 'locked' and I was hopping around screaming out in agony as if I was demonstrating some primitive tribal voodoo dance. The kids didn't know what to believe at first, but they soon caught on that it was serious.

This was the first time I had ever experienced a 'locked' knee. I put myself straight to bed and for two days that's basically where I stayed. Once my knee finally did unlock, I was able to walk again albeit very gingerly. After a few days though, my knee improved and felt as good as new, or so I thought.

Convincing myself that it was only a once off occurrence, I commenced going back to doing household duties. I was washing the car and before I had a chance to finish the job my knee suddenly locked on me, yet again, and I was back in bed. No warning, no indication that it was coming. Only that wrenching sensation of something tearing deep inside my knee following by, what was to become, that familiar excruciating pain.

Since that occasion I had an MRI Scan on my left knee which revealed a badly torn medial meniscus and that the only solution was to operate and remove (not repair) the meniscus. The Doctor assured me that the operation would stop my knee from locking and return me to a functional state. 'Doesn't removing the meniscus increase the chances of arthritis?' I said. The Doctor replied, 'Well yes but that's the decision you're going to have to make.' 'What the?' I thought. Surely, there must be another way. Of course, the doctor knew of no other way.

Well it was my neighbour who came up with the answer to my dilemma. He told me about a therapy he had a couple of years ago that fixed his knee problem. 'What was it? I asked. 'Scenar,' he said. 'What's Scenar?' I asked.  'It's an acronym, he replied. That was about all he could tell me about it.  He did give me the name of the local scenar therapist and I rang and left a message with a person who promised that she would return my call. She never did.

Being a bit of a fatalist, I took this as a sign to conduct my own research so I spent the next couple of weeks learning all about scenar therapy. I found out that it is a portable computerised electrical stimulation device that was developed by the same man who invented the Tens Machine, only Scenar is a much more sophisticated technology with biofeedback capabilities. After being convinced from the overwhelming testimonials of people singing the praises of this technology, I decided that rather than see a therapist, I buy one for myself and the family. That way we could always have it on hand as a first aid device to treat injuries and other conditions. After all the things I read it could do were amazing.

I studied all the different brands on the market, both in Australia and Worldwide.  One thing I can tell you is that scenar is both a maze and at the same time amazing. It has a very colourful history dating back to the eighties when the Soviet Space Program was initially developing this technology for use by cosmonauts in space.  There are a lot of scenar wannabe's that lure you with their seemingly good value pricing, but further investigations reveal their limitations either in their clinical applications or the cheap electronic components they employ. Out of all those that did cut the mustard, there was only one which fulfilled the crucial criteria of performance, quality and value; it was the 'Acuscen'.

I ended up buying an Acuscen and coincidently, not just any Acuscen but the first one sold in this country. It was all a series of coincidences that led me to Mike (the Australian Acuscen Distributor) who had only recently taken on the distributorship. He hadn't even had it up on his website yet. It was during the first treatment with Mike when I realised that my body had indeed 'forgotten' that I had anything wrong with my knee. As it is with many chronic problems, the brain/body seems to 'give up' on the problem and doesn't recognise it as needing repair. The Acuscen 'woke' up my brain to the fact that it was neglecting my knee and it took over 30 minutes of concentrated work just on my left knee to get the healing energy flowing again. My knee had indeed become what they call in scenar speak an 'energy cyst' or what I would call, a 'dead zone'.

Mike suggested that I stop wearing the magnetic strap and you know I haven't worn it since that first Acuscen treatment. That was only three weeks ago and my knee has not locked since. I have used my Acuscen regularly to keep the healing processes working. My knee no longer aches, there is no pain or discomfort and I am doing all those things that I was doing before that day I had locked it for the first time. I can even get down on my knees and up again without them locking. A miracle, perhaps? No its just scientific technology that had rescued me from the clutches of the operating surgeon and I am so thankful to Acuscen for giving me a second chance.

Am I playing cricket again, you may ask? No, not yet.  I do not want to spoil the second chance that Acuscen has given me. I intend to take it easy and allow my knee to heal properly, the way it should have from the beginning. I want my knee to last me for many more years yet."