I am a Scenar practitioner, and have used this wonderful technology on myself, my family, and hundreds of clients over the past 8 years. I never had the opportunity to test its capabilities in a situation involving a serious injury with a great deal of pain, however, until I broke my wrist this past December. I knew that Russian practitioners treat injuries with Scenar at athletic events all the time, but I had not experienced this myself.
Sorry if I’m getting too graphic, but my injury involved a whiplash to my left wrist that broke my radius (the large forearm bone) clear through and tore many ligaments. All I knew at the time, though, was that it hurt so much I thought I would pass out and was deep breathing to keep the pain tolerable. On a pain scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the worst imaginable), it was definitely a 10. Fortunately, I had my Ritm Scenar with me and immediately began treating my wrist while my sister drove to the hospital. I put the frequency on 350 Hz, turned the power up as high as I could take and held it on the most painful spots as well as stroking all around my wrist. For the first 15 minutes, I didn’t feel much relief, but noticed the swelling was minimal and the pain wasn’t increasing, as it usually does when swelling begins.
I continued treating myself non-stop and by the time I was checked in and waiting for a doctor, amazingly enough my wrist was actually feeling better. The whole wrist still felt mangled but the pain was really manageable. When they asked how bad the pain was, I told them it was a 10 so they would take me seriously. But I thought to myself: actually, now it feels more like a 4-5! Wow. The swelling was so minimal (only about the size of a large egg), that it looked like a minor injury. When I broke a smaller bone in my ankle years before, it had swollen to the size of a melon.
During this entire time I had not taken any kind of medication for pain or inflammation. But after 2 hours of Scenar treatment, not only was the pain way down, but I also felt more clear and relaxed because the pain wasn’t dizzying me and making me tense up anymore. My sister couldn’t believe how calm and collected I was, and neither could I. I had to stop using the Scenar while they took x-rays, and the pain started to return. As soon as I could, I slapped it on again!
Having broken bones before, I knew it was broken from the minute it happened, but judging by the swelling and my composure, none of the hospital staff thought it was broken until the x-rays came back. They told me it was broken almost like they couldn’t believe it. But it was broken pretty badly and they wanted an orthopedic surgeon to set it. Unfortunately, none were available on Saturday so they put me in a splint, gave me an Rx for pain meds and told me to call an orthopedic doctor on Monday – 2 days away! I couldn’t believe I was going to have to wait 2 days to have my bone set.
The next 2 days were the most challenging part of the whole ordeal because I couldn’t treat my wrist with the Scenar now that it was in a splint. I knew I could take pain meds, but I try to stay away from medications as much as possible (ok, I’m a purist). But I also wanted to keep testing the Scenar, which had so far exceeded all my expectations for reducing pain and inflammation. I went home, exhausted and daunted at the prospect of having to treat myself constantly for the next two days. An hour after they put on the splint, the pain was creeping back in. How was I going to do it? To make myself feel better, I even thought how lucky I was compared to a pioneer with a broken wrist, with no Scenar or fancy splints bumping along in a wagon for days to find a doctor!
Fortunately, my dear friend and business partner, Penny Bond, came over that afternoon to give me a treatment. We knew from Scenar training that treating the paired, uninjured limb was the next best thing to directly treating an injury. Our instructors said that treating an uninjured limb is 80% as effective in treating an injury as treating the injured limb. This is because the nervous system does not distinguish between the nerves of paired limbs, and sends almost as much healing energy to the opposite limb as to the one being treated. But honestly, I didn’t believe it would help that much. I just couldn’t see how treating my right arm was going to relieve the intense pain in my left. Amazingly, it did. As soon as she started treating my right wrist, my left felt markedly better.
This experience gave me the courage to continue treating myself by laying my right wrist on the Scenar and using electrode patches on my right wrist for the next 2 days. The pain was worst at night, when I went for hours with no treatment, but I managed to make it until Tuesday morning, when I went in for surgery, without taking any pain medication whatsoever. I feel that this is nothing short of a miracle. I only wish that every sports team and every hospital and doctor in our country utilized Scenar technology the way they do in Russia and much of Europe.
Christina Morrison recently joined our Healing Innovations team. She is a certified Scenar practitioner who introduced Penny to the Scenar back in 2004. She has also practiced massage, energy balancing and movement therapies for over 20 years. An NC native, she returned last summer from Austin, TX, and is very happy to be back in her beloved mountains. She can be reached at 828-273-7131. (See her interview with Penny, posted below.)
Healing Innovations, SCENAR | Penny | 
April 21, 2011 8:06 pm | 
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