Boosting my Body-Battery at Regenerate Health Medical Center

Dr. Alexandra Carswell Engle Is One of the Few Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF) Practitioners in California

Boosting my Body-Battery
at Regenerate Health
Medical Center

Dr. Alexandra Carswell Engle Is One of the Few
PEMF Practitioners in California

By Gareth Kelly

Credit: Courtesy
Read all of the entries in our “Self-Care in Santa Barbara, 2023 Edition” cover here.

Zap! Dr. Alexandra Carswell Engle, or Dr. ACE, as she prefers, held my finger and I felt what I can only describe as a shot of low voltage. Not painful in any way, but not something one regularly experiences. I was receiving Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy, or PEMF, at the Regenerate Health Medical Center on the Mesa. 

As Dr. ACE got me used to the unusual sensation, she explained the theory behind PEMF. Our bodies are like batteries, she said. They’re electric. But the current can decline over time as we get older, leading to injury and illness. PEMF helps our bodies restore that charge, which facilitates healing, pain relief, and many other beneficial effects.

As luck would have it, I’d been having trouble with my left shoulder, the perfect thing for Dr. ACE to demonstrate on. I lay back and she put a metal plate under my right calf that was connected to an Electron Plus cube device. As Dr. ACE touched me, she completed the circuit, and I felt an electromagnetic pulse flow through my body. Massaging my shoulder, she described how the therapy can awaken “dead” zones in muscle tissue. 

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