In case you have not seen it yet, here is the publication we wrote on the positive effects of ICES-PEMF on long-term TBI:
Now, briefly, unless you are a scientist, there is about a 100% chance that you’ll misinterpret this (and most other) scientific papers. If you are a professional scientist, the chances are somewhat better, maybe only a 90% chance of totally drawing the wrong conclusion from any peer-reviewed scientific publication.
I’ll save you the long hours of confusion and frustration: Scientific papers generally never report the optimal protocol for anything, medications, supplements, medical devices, etc. I could give you hundreds of examples, but just as an example: look at any medications, supplements, or medical devices, and if you dig deep enough, you find that they basically just took a guess, tweaked it, and rammed it through an experiment with a large enough “N” value to get p<= 0.05. This basically summarizes essentially all of medical literature.
Finally: people have different types of injury, different life conditions, levels of health, and sensitivity to, well, just about everything. So, in reality, every medical intervention is always an experiment. That is why every physician everywhere always says when they write a prescription and hand it to you: “Let’s try this.”
So, let’s forgo any heated discussion about “you (or anyone) published exactly this protocol…” Published protocols are selected to maximize the chances for publication while minimizing the cost of the experiment. But they are not “optimal” for actually having the desired biological effect. The best you can get from looking at any scientific paper is to hope to find that something has some beneficial effect, and maybe a ball park estimate for what that might be.
So, with all of that said and agreed, if you take a look at the paper cited above, it gives pretty convincing evidence that:
(1) ICES-PEMF is very likely to help you recover from long-term TBI
and
(2) you can quantify and track your recovery from TBI using another technology: the Braingauge (full disclosure, invented by Mark Tommerdahl: and me)
Now, keep in mind that Mark and I have seen a lot of data that never made it into this (or any) publication, so we have a much better Idea what actually works best.
Basically, you could do this with a model M1 (no need to buy a C5 unless you really want to). Then place the coils across the head at:
(a) the point of impact or injury as one of the sides, if known
(b) trans-parietally
(c ) trans-temporally
Start with short sessions and low intensity and build up to at least several hours per day.
You should pick a brainwave pattern that you find comfortable: alpha-wave is a good place to start, but you could try theta, delta, beta 1, 2, or 3
NOTE: it is not the “frequency” of the pulse pattern that matters for tissue recovery from TBI, it is the shape of each magnetic pulse, which is exactly the same for all of the patterns on all of our ICES-PEMF devices. Massive amounts of data, trust me on this
(or plan to do a few decades of research)
Note the individual recovery times on the paper I reference above. You can expect the recovery process to take anywhere from 2 weeks to about 3 months or more.
Also, we know with very solid (but unpublished) observations that you need to keep applying ICES-PEMF for a long time, weeks or months, after your test scores have recovered to 100%, or you will slip back into TBI again.