Read this before the first session
The rules, in one place.
This is a small electrical device that you wear against skin. That comes with a short list of obligations rather than a long one, and the list still matters more than anything else we have written anywhere.
- Off in one press
- 316L contacts, no gel
- Manual ships in the box
Hard rules
Do not start it on your own in these cases.
The manual that ships inside the box is the final word and it stays with the device. What follows is the short version of it, written out so nobody has to open a box to find out whether they should have bought one.
Do not use it
- You have a pacemaker, a defibrillator or any other implanted electronic device.
- You are pregnant, or you think you might be.
- You have epilepsy or any other seizure disorder.
- The skin under the band is broken, burned, inflamed or has no feeling in it.
- It would be going anywhere other than a wrist. This is not a neck, chest or belly device.
- The person who would wear it is not an adult.
Ask your clinician first
- You have a heart rhythm condition, or you are being treated for one.
- You have a nerve condition in the hands or arms, or reduced sensation in them.
- You are being treated for a skin condition on either forearm.
- You carry any implanted pump, port or monitor.
- You are not sure whether something above applies to you. That is one question for the person who has your chart.
None of this is guidance about your treatment. It is the list of situations where a wearable stimulation device is a question for somebody qualified rather than a purchase.
Calibration
Four levels, and what each one is for.
A level is a step in how hard the pulse lands. There is no sequence running underneath it, nothing counts down, and nothing is lost by going back down a step.
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Level one
A tap you have to go looking for
This is the calibration setting, not a working one. Feeling it here tells you the band is sitting where it should. Feeling nothing at all means move the band before you move the level.
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Level two
A tap you stop noticing
Clear when you pay attention to it and easy to forget when you do not. Plenty of ordinary hours happen here without anybody thinking about it.
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Level three
A pulse with a rhythm you could count
Steady and unmistakable. Your fingers may move very slightly in time with it. That is the current reaching the nerve, and it is not a fault.
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Level four
The ceiling, and nothing past it
The strongest setting the device has. It should still read as a firm pulse. If it reads as a sting, a burn or an ache, four is not your level and there is no prize for staying up there.
No level works better for being endured. The right one is the highest that is still comfortable, and on a bad day that is lower than it was on a good one.
Sensations
Normal, and not normal.
Two short lists. The first one is the device doing its job. The second one is the device coming off your arm.
Tapping or buzzing under the contacts
Even, in time with the device, and it ends the moment you switch off.
A small twitch in the fingers or thumb
More likely on the upper settings. It follows the pulse and it should not hurt.
A faint mark where the steel sat
The shape of the contacts, pink rather than red, gone within the hour.
Anything sharp, stinging or hot
Switch off first, then look at the skin. Do not go down a level and carry on over the same patch of arm.
Skin that stays red, raised or itchy
Band off, arm left alone. If it has not settled by the following day, have somebody qualified look at it.
A headache, dizziness or feeling faint
Take it off and sit down. Do not put it back on for the rest of that day.
If something happens that is on neither list, the answer is still the same: switch it off, take it off, and ask somebody qualified before you put it back on.
Care
Keeping it clean, keeping it charged.
Two steel contacts and a strap. There is no gel, no adhesive pad and no cartridge, so looking after it is mostly about the two small surfaces that touch you.
Wipe the contacts, leave the rest alone
A dry cloth after a session, or a barely damp one after a warm day. The steel is the only part of the device that asks for anything.
None of it goes in water
Off before a shower, a bath or a swim. Do not hold it under a tap and do not leave the strap soaking to get it clean.
The cable lands by itself
It is magnetic, so it finds the contact without being lined up. Ninety minutes takes the device from flat to full.
The case is not packaging
Steel picks up whatever is loose in a bag. The case exists so the contacts do not turn up at the next dose day carrying it.
Everything here is maintenance, not repair. A device that has stopped behaving the way this page describes is a device to write in about rather than open.
Scope
What a physician reviewed, and what that covers.
A physician review is worth exactly as much as its scope, so here is ours, itemised.
Dr. Karen Whitfield, MD
Internal Medicine, ABOM Diplomate
Reviewed
- Where the device sits on the wrist
- The range the four levels cover
- The safety and use wording on the product page
That is the whole of it. A review of placement and wording is not a study, not a diagnosis and not a recommendation for you in particular. Anything outside those three items is ours and not hers, and the person who knows your chart is still the person to ask about your own case.
Keep reading
Rules read. Now the other two.
One page explains why the band sits where it sits. The other one is about your money and how to get it back.
See the device and pricingDrug-free, no prescription, and sixty days from delivery to send it back.
- 4
- Levels, every one of them yours to set
- 316L
- Surgical steel, the only part touching skin
- 0
- Gels, pads or cartridges to reorder
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