Frequency Specific Microcurrent for the after effects of Concussion (2025)

You don't have to have a concussion to suffer from mild brain impairment after a knock or bump to the head.

The brain is like butter, and the skull has sharp ridges inside it. Anything that pushes the brain against these sharp ridges can cause damage, anything from heading a soccor ball, to falling off a bike, horse, skate board, or chair is enough to cause issues with:
Memory
Focus
Temperament
Headaches
Neck pain
Sleep disturbance
Anxiety, Depression, Low mood
Personality changes
and more.

What is FSM?

A mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is not hard to get, and can be caused by an incidental jolt or hit to the head or body to the point that it jars the brain in the skull. Even minor concussions can cause a cascade of neurological and chemical disturbances in the brain that can impair function, and leave a person wondering why they don't feel how they used to.

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Although research has established that head injuries are a leading contributor to mental health disorders, many mental health professionals remain unaware—largely because psychiatry is one of the few medical specialties that seldom examines the very organ it treats, the brain.​​

Physical

• Headache or pressure in the head

• Nausea or vomiting

• Dizziness or balance problems (Vestibular injury)

• Sensitivity to light and/or noise

• Fatigue or drowsiness

• Blurred or double vision

• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)

• Feeling dazed or stunned

• Clumsiness or slowed physical responses

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Cognitive

• Confusion or feeling “foggy”

• Difficulty concentrating or thinking clearly

• Memory problems (especially short-term)

• Slowed processing speed

• Difficulty with word-finding or following conversations

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Emotional and Behavioral

• Irritability or mood swings

• Anxiety or nervousness

• Sadness or tearfulness

• Feeling more emotional than usual

• Personality changes

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Sleep

• Sleeping more than usual

• Trouble falling or staying asleep

• Sleeping less than usual

• Feeling unrested after sleep

Knowing that even mild concussions can cause traumatic brain injuries, it makes sense that they may increase the risk of:

• Learning issues - Problems with reading, processing and learning

• Social Anxiety - feeling easily overwhelmed outside the home

• Generalised anxiety, easy overwhelm, panic disorders

• Depression and low mood

• Depersonalization or dissociation - feeling detached from their body, as if observing themselves from outside.

• ADD/ADHD - problems with concentration and focus

• Psychosis - loss of contact with reality, often involving hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking

• Post-traumatic stress disorders

• Personality change, aggression, irritability, hypervigilence

• Brain fog and memory loss as the brain's delicate structures become damaged

• Drug and alcohol overuse in an effort to self-medicate

• Suicidal Ideation

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Red Flag Symptoms of Major Concussion

These may indicate a more serious injury that requires urgent medical attention:

• Worsening headache

• Repeated vomiting

• Seizures or convulsions

• Slurred speech

• Unequal pupil size

• Weakness or numbness in limbs

• Loss of consciousness (even briefly)

• Unusual behavior or increasing confusion

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Untreated Concussions can Lead to Long Term Debility

If a person has suffered a serious concussion, the damage to the delicate tissues of the brain can be more severe and take longer to recover from. Medically, all that can be done is to wait, yet this approach can leave a person with a brain injury that is never really identified or acknowledged.

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FSM in the Management of Past Head Injuries

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) is a non-invasive therapy that uses low-level electrical currents—matched to specific frequencies that the body responds to —to promote healing and reduce symptoms in a wide range of conditions, including concussion and post-concussion syndrome.

In concussion care, FSM offers targeted support to the nervous system, brain areas and tissues, and emotional regulation centers, addressing both the structural and neurochemical disturbances caused by head bumps, impacts, shocks, jarring impacts and accidents.

In FSM therapy, concussions are understood not just as a brain event, but as a condition involving nerve trauma, emotional dysregulation, and inflammation affecting the medulla (94 Hz), midbrain (89 Hz), and spinal cord (10 Hz).

Often there is a Vesitublar Injury from the incident, which causes damage to the inner ear, the centre for balance.

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Healing often requires addressing the physical and emotional impacts of the injury, restoring nervous system balance, treating the vestibular system, and reducing inflammation and scar tissue in neural pathways.

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This work can help a person reclaim their life, it really can be life changing.

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When to Use FSM After an Injury

FSM treatment is typically adjusted based on the phase of injury:

• Acute Phase (0–7 days): Focuses on reducing inflammation, calming nervous tension, clearing bruising, enhancing tissue and nerve repair.

• Subacute Phase (1–6 weeks): Repair nerve trauma, clear emotional debris, support endocrine balance.

• Chronic Phase (>6 weeks to years): Focuses on deeper neurological repair, addressing persistent symptoms like headaches, foggy thinking, fatigue, and irritability.

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Many people don’t realize they’ve had a concussion

at all —they just feel “off” and struggle with

everyday tasks that once felt easy.

While major impacts are obvious, even more subtle things that lead to a sudden sharp movement can be enough to jar the brain against the inner edges of the skull, leading to subtle but significant changes in how the brain functions.

Sometimes, the telltale sign is when others notice a clear personality change—the person just isn’t how they used to be and is clearly struggling.

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Case Study 1

Braeden was 7 when he bounced off a teacher running around in the school yard and fell back on the asphalt and hit his head. He had a Loony Tunes style lump on his head the size of an egg that weeks to go down. He came off his skateboard numerous time, and at 12 he came off his bike and hit his head in the fall, and it happened again at 15, cracking his helmet on the road and taking a lot of skin off his legs, elbows and hands.

Braeden was a bright boy growing, but something changed as he struggled more and more with focus and learning

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Braeden's mum set up four concussion treatments for him and he was amazed at the change in himself so quickly. By the second treatment he could retain information more easily, could focus longer, his headaches stopped, he was sleeping better, his mum reported a return of something in him she hadn't seen in a long time, an inner clarity, self contentment, he became less shy, and wasn't as irritable and reactive as before. His school results improved exponentially in a very short timespan.

At his three month review he reported feeling vastly better, he was bright, alert, and self-contained. He was very pleased and rather amazed to think that these incidents had such a dampening effect on his performance at school and in life.

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Case Study 2

Patient: 42-year-old female, car accident 9 months ago
Injury: Rear-end collision with whiplash and head contact (no LOC)​Symptoms included:

• Feeling not quite right since the accident

• Persistent daily headaches (6–7/10)

• Neck pain and tension

• Visual tracking issues making it hard to read and work

• Mood swings, irritability, and anxiety

• Fatigue, poor sleep

• “Floating” sensation, emotional reactivity

• Anxiety and overwhelm at the slightest things

By session 3, sleep was significantly improved. Headaches were gone, a sense of emotional stability and clarity returned, and she reported “feeling like myself again” by week 4. Follow-up at 3 months showed lasting improvements, next she wanted to deal with her ovarian cysts and breast pain, which we did.

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