How to Find the Injury Site When Using a SCENAR

If you are a chiropractor, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or anyone who helps clients relieve pain, one of the first things you will discover is that a point of pain on the body doesn’t always correlate to the injury area. The body is a complex and fascinating ecosystem. When something gets off kilter, it can create effects throughout the body, like ripples in a pond causing pain in different areas. For example, a bad knot in the muscles of the back could cause pain to radiate into the shoulders or neck. A talented healer must be able to use experience, intuition, and the body’s clues to follow the path of pain to the true site of injury even if the patient themselves doesn’t know where it is!

The Skin Is Your Map

The SCENAR makes this hunt easy, because it is able to read the subtle signals that the skin gives off in order to find the true point of pain. The skin is in many ways a mirror to what is happening beneath it, and if you know how to read the skin, you can find any injury on a patient. When a patient receives an injury, the biochemical properties of the skin will change as it reacts to the injury. This is known as the galvanic skin response, or GSR. The SCENAR was designed to read and interpret your GSR so that an operator can easily use the SCENAR to find the true site of injury.

Using the SCENAR to Find an Injury

The SCENAR is so advanced that it can actually take a reading of your galvanic skin response and give a reading that indicates the level of injury. If you are looking for an injury spot, place the electrode of the SCENAR on the area of pain for three seconds and wait until the screen gives you a reading. Here are what the readings mean:

·         30 or lower = No injury

·         45 = Mild injury or close to an injury point

·         65 or greater = You’ve hit a point of serious injury or damage and should use the SCENAR

If you place the SCENAR at a point of pain and receive a reading or 30 to 40, it is likely that you haven’t actually found the real injury yet. Now, the detective work begins. Every few seconds, move the SCENAR a few inches away from the pain point and take a new reading. If the numbers go down, then you’re getting colder. If the numbers start to rise, then you are getting closer to the real injury point. (It’s kind of like playing the childhood game of Hot/Cold.) Keep experimenting until you see readings in the 60s. This is when you’ll know you’ve found the injury. Explore around the injured area to get a sense of how big the injury is. You’ll want to use the SCENAR at the point of the highest readouts and in the surrounding areas that give high readouts.

Once you become adept at using the SCENAR, it should only take five or ten minutes to find the true site of a client’s injury even if they can’t give you a good idea of where the injury is. If you want to learn more about becoming an expert operator of the SCENAR, consider signing up for our next Level One Training Class in San Diego, or request direct mentoring on the SCENAR.