Credit for the initial development Frequency Specific Resonance was based on frequencies developed and clinically applied by Dr Harry VanGelder, an osteophathic physician who practiced in Canada and the US between 1947 and the early 1991’s. The frequencies clinically developed by Dr VanGelder were less than 1000 Hz (cycles per second) and applied via transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) skin electrodes. In the 1990’s, two chiropractic physician, Dr. Carolyn McMakin and Dr. George Douglas, started applying the frequencies developed by Dr VanGelder. This history is well documented on the www.frequencyspecific.com web site and Dr Carolyn McMakin’s two books; Frequency Specific Microcurrent Pain Management and The Resonance Effect. In January 1997, Dr McMakin started teaching seminars on the clinical application of specific frequencies via microcurrent TENS. Over the past 25 years thousands of health care practioners have been trained in the clinical application of Frequency Specific Microcurrent. Published controlled studies in the medical literature (PubMed search) are very limited to date. The majority of the clinical data is from clinical practice.

   The first fundamental hypothesis is that structural elements or biological tissues have specific resonant frequencies. The resonant frequency or frequencies of the structural elements and biological tissues were determined by practicing Clinicians based upon the patient’s clinical response. Once the structural elements and biological tissues/organs of interest were identified, the dysfunctional aspects of the identified tissue/organ system was determined. For example, if the patient presents with shoulder pain, the structural elements of the anatomical tissue and organ systems is determined i.e. the shoulder capsul and ligamentous structures, collagen structures, osseous structures, joint fluid, arterial and venous structures.

   The second fundamental hypothesis is that the functional attributes of tissue and organ systems have specific resonant frequencies. The resonant frequency or frequencies of the functional elements were determined by practicing clinicians based upon the patient’s clinical response. For example, the dysfunctional aspects of the functional elements of the anatomical tissue and/or organ systems is determined: inflammation, necrosis, sclerosis, calcification, infection, rupture, tears, hemorrhage and disruption of structural elements such as collagen, ligaments, and capsuls.

Concepts of Frequency Files: Frequency Syntax

Frequency programs are constructed with the following concepts in mind:

1. Individual frequencies are considered “Frequency Letters” of the “Frequency Alphabet”
2. “Frequency Letters”, based upon structural and functional considerations, are combined to from “Frequency Words”
3. “Frequency Words” are multiple frequencies that are generated at the same time and require at least one “Functional Letter” and one “Structural Letter”.
4. “Frequency Words”, represent a set of frequencies that are generated at the same time for the same duration.
5. “Frequency Words” are combined to compose “Frequency Sentences”
6. “Frequency Sentences”, are “Frequency Words” played sequentially
7. “Frequency Sentences” form the composition of “Frequency Files” targeting a specific structural dysfunction or imbalance.
8. And finally a “Frequency Paragraph” is a series of “Frequency Sentences” that are generated sequentially; i.e. a series of sequentially generated frequency files.

   For a given patient, multiple Frequency Files are often required. Frequency Generators have the capability of generating magnetic, electric or electromagnetic frequency files sequentially or simultaneously.

In addition, resonant frequencies can be amplified by the following techniques:

• Generating the same frequency on multiple magnetic inductor coils (concept of phase array), skin pads, multiple LED 650 nm class 2 lasers or activated electrical plasma fields.
• Generating harmonics of a frequency on multiple magnetic inductor coils, skin pads, multiple LED 650 nm class 2 lasers or activated electrical plasma fields.
• Generating Frequency Modulation on each magnetic inductor coil, skin pad, or multiple LED 650 nm class 2 lasers or activated electrical plasma fields.

   The frequency files applied by the Frequency Generators is determined based upon an understanding of the anatomy and structural elements of the tissues or organ system involved. The greater the accuracy in identifying structural tissues/organs and the dysfunctional aspects of the identified tissue/organ system the better the clinical outcome.

In brief summary for a treatment protocol to be clinically effective the following elements had to be correctly identified:

1. Identification of the Structural Elements involved;
2. Identification of the Functional/Dysfunctional Elements involved;
3. Treatment protocol requiring identification of the treatment field, treatment duration of the structural and dysfunctional elements.