Physical therapy : the therapeutic application of the various electric modalities / by Albert C. Geyser.

  • Geyser, Albert C.
Date:
1907
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    [Reprinted from Journal op Thbrapbutics and Dibtbtics, February, 1907.] PHYSICAL THERAPY. THE THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION OF VARIOUS ELECTRIC MODALITIES.*\^\ -7 DEC 0 VOI-TO. '^•5^ BY ALBERT C. GEYSER, M.D., NEW YOR Mr. President, Members and Friends of the iYeto Therapeutic Association: It is indeed a privilege and a pTeSStrre'fo be invited by this association to Boston, the city of learning. We have just shared the pleasure of listening to a paper that could only be produced by such master minds as that of Dr. M. W. Brinkmann. undulatory vibrations. Unfortimately, it only too often happens that we are obliged to make therapeutic applications of some of these various modalities without thoroughly comprehending their underlying laws. The task assigned to me for this evening is, therefore, comparatively simple. It will be my pleasure to elucidate “ The Therapeutic Application of the Various Electric Modalities.” Every form of motion, every form of vibration, is amenable to the law of conservation of energy. Should we desire then to apply to diseased conditions of the human body the vibrations which are the results of electric modalities, we could do no better than be guided by the principle that “ Living means nutri- tion, nutrition means chemical action, chemical action means an electric current, and, finally, an electric current means vibration.” Vibration originates and perpetuates all motion, force, heat, light chemical action, and electric currents. Rhythmic and harmonious vibrations are the results of natural laws; arrhythmic and inharmonious vibrations are deviations from natural laws. Health is a condition corresponding to physiologic rhythm, a sequence of harmonious vibrations. vibrato^' ’‘til, or arrhythmic, Death IS silence, or the cessation or permanent interruption of organic v.brat.ons. Should, therefore, we be able to arrest all vrbrations ofthe universe tor even a fraction of a second, silence, death, and destruction would be the inevitable result. Upon the proper appreciation of thes^ factors depends the selection of any particular rate of vibration or the combination of several to form a harmonious whole. h„. m “ ““ D.,„. /