Principles of the weak Direct Current Therapy

    Micropolarization (brain DC polarization, direct current stimulation) is a highly effective therapeutic method which lets change the functional status of the different links of CNS selectively by the application of a weak direct current (up to 1 mA). Transcranial micropolarization and transvertebral micropolarization combines simplicity and noninvasiveness of the traditional physiotherapeutic procedures with the rather high selective application which is particular for the stimulation through the intracerebral electrodes. The selective application can be achieved by the using of small area electrodes (100-600 mm2) disposed on the cortical or segmental projections.

  The clinical use of micropolarization is based upon the fundamental research according to the application of direct current onto the neural tissie by E.Pfluger (1869), B.P.Verigo (1883), parabiosis doctrine by N.E.Vvedensky (1901), dominant one by A.A.Ukhtomskii (1925) and also the theory of rigid and flexible links by N.P.Bechtereva (1978), determinant theory by G.N.Krizanovsky (1980), experimental reseaches of the polarization dominant by V.S.Rusinov (1969), upon the works of G.A.Vartanian (1981) who showed the opportunity to modulate the memory processes using the selective application of the weak direct current upon the different structures of brain. 

   Micropolarization can be used both as an independent treating method and as an optimizing mode in the complex treatment of different neural system diseases at children and adults of any age.  Transcranial micropolarization and transvertebral micropolarization let improve or restore moving, psychical and speech functions, decrease the severity hyperkineses, convulsive fits, normalize functions of pelvic organs, reduce of the destruction locus at the patients with stroke and brain injury in a critical period etc.