The ION Bath device utilizes direct current to create an electro-magnetic ionic field in which an individual places their hands or feet in an aqueous salt and mineral solution to increase energy and the positively charged cellular activity. This current is sub-threshold to muscle contraction therefore patients may experience only minor tingling or nothing at all.

Using the Arndt-Schulz Law (Figure 2) which states; “weak stimuli excite physiological activity; moderately strong stimuli favor physiological activity; strong ones retard physiological activity and very strong ones arrested physiological activity.” A good analogy of this would be a person who is getting an area of their body massaged which is a good stimulatory effect. However, if you were to add more pressure to that area you would actually cause a mechanical depolarization of the pain receptors as well as a loss of circulation to the area, which could lead to damage of the area. If you were to go one step further, and actually cause a striking force to the area not only would you create pain, but if the trauma was severe enough it could cause slow degenerative damage to that area, such as seen in degenerative arthritis.

The ION Bath field uses the Arndt-Schulz law of low stimuli excitatory affect. This affect can be seen in similar therapeutic devices such as micro current and cold laser therapy, which has been proven to increase cellular ATP (Cell energy). This influx of bio available energy created by the ionic field helps to restore the cell back to its natural frequency and homeostasis. Every cell in the body needs oxygen and predominantly glucose in order to create ATP (energy or fuel of the cell). Without this energy, the body could no longer function. ATP is required in order for the nervous system to work, for a muscle to contract, and for a muscle to relax. Clinical trials using the ION Bath device prove that we substantially increase the range of motion or relaxation of the muscle and increase muscle strength. This could not be accomplished without an increase in cellular ATP.

Bio-Therapeutic Technology Explanation

As Ionic electrical currents penetrate quietly into a muscle's cell through the skin's layers "under human perception signals”, the ION Bath non-invasively stimulates the Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) level into the cells. This flow is the basis for human cells to function. Under this "phenomenon", the biological chemical effects are repairing both aging and injured cells, improving circulation and metabolism. Moreover, there is an increased absorption of nutrients and transportation of waste products. Reinforcement of the skin and muscle’s elasticity, relaxation of muscles and neutralization of lactic acid produced.

Ionic therapy is based on the beneficial effects of ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies) pulsed magnetic fields of biological substrates. The scientific research demonstrates that Ionic fields featuring correct frequencies are able to restore the exchange of nutrients between the cell and the external environments, allowing the cell metabolism to reactivate. The effects of the application of the ELF ionic field are equivalent to the action of the body’s sodium potassium pump, which keeps the concentration of positive and negative ions correct across the cell membrane. This guarantees the presence of the correct electric potential that is altered in many degenerative processes. The application of ELF pulsed Ionic field raises the pain perception threshold, thereby stimulating the immune system, and promoting the healing of muscle and cartilage. The body is composed of individual cells that are negatively charged inside and positively charged outside. Because of the generally accepted ATP mechanism for cellular activity, positive ions are “pumped out” of the cell and a charge/concentration gradient is established between the cellular membrane/extra-cellular fluid and the negatively charged intracellular fluid. This concentration gradient when functioning properly allows for potential energy of the cell to be stored between depolarization actions. Normal excitatory stimuli to the cell results in an opening of the ion channels such that a depolarization occurs and then the process repeats to re-polarize the cell. When balance is not achieved (ratio of positive to negative ions between the outside and inside of the cell), there become either too many or too few negative ions in the cell as compared to outside the cell. The extreme of too many anions (negatively charged ions within the cell) can be explained by hyper-polarization. This phenomenon makes depolarization of the cell very difficult and therefore much less sensitive to stimuli. The result can be secretion of the cell whereby the opposite of swelling occurs and the cell subsequently implodes. The opposite is true when not enough anions are in the cell and intracellular swelling occurs making the cell too susceptible to stimuli. This makes depolarization of the cell at such a high state that all functions become hypersensitive—a prime example of someone who feels pain very easily. Cellular destruction ultimately occurs because of too much cellular swelling causing the cell to explode. That it is why it is so critical to maintain this proper balance between the negative inside of the cell and the positive outside of the cell.

Muscles and Nerves

Muscle is an excitable tissue, meaning that it can be stimulated mechanically, chemically or electrically to produce an action potential. An action potential is an electrical change across a cell membrane due to changes in the conduction of ions across the membrane. Nervous tissue is also an excitable tissue. Muscle cells contain a contractile mechanism that is activated by the action potential. There are 630 muscles in the human body. About 40% of the body is skeletal muscle with an additional 5-10 % for cardiac and smooth muscle. Yet the Nervous System requires 60% of all the glucose that the body produces. A living person in its most simple form is primarily an electro-chemically driven organism that is also further influenced by resulting magnetic fields. These magnetic fields are always created as a consequence of electrical current no matter how large or small. The combination of electricity and magnetic energy is known as the ionic field theory. This exists in all aspects of nature and can be further reduced to negative and positively charged ions. Ionic tendency is toward balance as evidenced by covalent bonds as opposed to unbound ions. A general example of a covalent bond is Sodium Chloride (NaCl) whereby a single molecule of positively charged sodium has an affinity for a single molecule of negatively charged Chloride. By definition, an unbound ion within the body is a free radical. Most free radicals are positively charged and looking to attract a negative counterpart. Free radicals can therefore be best neutralized by providing an oppositely charged ion therefore resulting in a covalent compound.