Microcurrent therapy (Microcurrents are one millionth of an ampere) is now more widely used by health professionals to alleviate pain and facilitate faster healing because scientific studies have show that lower amperage is less invasive and can more effectively accelerate cellular healing mechanisms than treatment using higher amperage.

Our society tends to believe that "More is better". In the case of electro-therapy this is not true. Most TENS units, which use the stronger milli-amps, are used based on this erroneous conclusion. The well-documented Arndt-Schulz law states: "Weak stimuli increase physiological activity and very strong stimuli inhibit or abolish activity"

Higher amp devices like TENS may be counter-productive in helping your horse to heal. Higher amperage electro-therapy may actually damage tissue and increase the healing time of the injury.

"Scientific research shows that in order to produce positive responses, minute levels of electrical current, as low as 1 micro-ampere, are required and when compared with mill-ampere devices such as TENS units, which operate up to 1000 times higher (then Equicurrent does), negative and damaging results may occur, such as heat damage, metallic ion poisoning, and excessive electrolysis within the cells. " Dr. Robert O. Becker Cross Currents.

When a part of your horse’s body is traumatized, the injury disrupts the bioelectrical functions of the cells and positive electrons accumulate. There is more electrical resistance in injured cells, so the normal energy flow through these cells is lower, impeding the healing processes and maintaining the presence of pain. If the electrical resistance of such injured cells can be reduced, allowing the horse’s own electrical energy easy access to those cells, the health of the cells can improve. Inflammation may decrease, the healing process will be enhanced and pain can be lessened.

Using the principles of Microcurrent therapy, the negative charge flows directly into the horse’s body in the form of an electrical current, which is low enough to assimilate with the horses’ own electrical environment. The application of extremely minute electrical charges to cells helps to increase amino acids and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production within the cells, as well as facilitating the transport of nutrients and wastes through the cell walls.