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Keesey Treatment - History
The Keesey treatment, or negative galvanic treatment, was invented
by a gentleman named Keesey, a medical doctor in Chicago. At
the time, in the mid 1930s, he and a guy named Druyck were kind of
competing with each other, trying to come up with a nonsurgical treatment
for hemorrhoids. And they
both came up with this galvanic idea in a similar time period. Keesey
ran with it first and got his name put on it. He experimented
with different galvanic currents, discovering distinct purposes for
negative and positive currents. Physiologically, positive
galvanism offers just as much therapeutic
effect, but the metallic tip on the unit ionizes and corrodes, so
it needs to be replaced after just a couple of sessions. But the negative pole delivers
similar physiological effects without destruction of the electrode.
I’ve tried the positive and as expected, it just fries the
tips. It was OK, I used disposable tips, but it just doesn't
work quite as well. And all of the literature is on negative
so I just used the negative.
Prior to about 1980, we sterilized the tips of the handheld unit
in an autoclave (high-heat bath). Since then we’ve used
disposable tips, which of course are changed after each treatment.
The actual electrodes have changed too. We used to use a single-tipped
electrode, and now I use a double-tipped electrode, and we even had
some made with four tips experimentally. They did work faster but
were more difficult to control, so we decided to stay with the double-tipped
electrode.
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