Scenar - How It Works

S.C.E.N.A.R. stands for Self Controlled Energy Neurone Adaptive Regulation.  A Scenar is a hand-held, battery-powered device. The Scenar "listens" to the body by recording changes in the skin's electrical impedance, returns a new signal back to the body, and again listens to the reply -- a bio-feedback and treatment loop.

With Scenar, there is no diagnosis in the conventional medical sense - the body, via the Scenar device, will itself indicate what it needs, and the Scenar device will prompt it to focus its own resources on that need. Scenar's interactive nature helps it to stand out even among the most powerful complementary therapies, coaching the body to finish its own repairs, not just intermittently, but continuously, second by second during the treatment session. 

The Scenar's electrical impulses are extremely safe. They're designed to mimic the natural electrical signals of your nervous system, and when you see the two waveforms on monitoring equipment, they look similar. Except for very acute or emergency situations (in which the Scenar signal will feel very strong), they’re set at a low level which feels tingling, prickly or pressured, yet soothing.

Scenar is based on principlces similar to acupuncture, exploiting the fact that an embryo's skin develops from the same tissue as its nervous system. We treat skin areas that map to internal structures and energy pathways.  

Unlike other electro-stimulation devices, Scenar is able to communicate with all types of nerve fibre, including the slowest and thinnest -- the C fibres -- which represent 80% of the overall nervous system. Crucially, these are able to release a far greater spectrum of proteins, called regulatory peptides, than the A and B fibres.

These substances control most of our biological functions (e.g. endorphins for pain relief, vasopressin for memory). Other electro-stimulation devices like TENS simply excite the nervous system's easy-to-reach A and B fibres, the rapid information highways that communicate primarily with the muscles.

Scenar re-activates healing resources

After an accident, surgery, chronic or extreme stress, or disease, the body commonly repairs itself to at least some degree, but how fast, deep and comprehensive this is depends on what other issues the body is dealing with. If it's is in a weakened, stressed or distracted state, its reaction to the damaging event or pathogen may be slow, leading to the condition becoming better established.

After giving it a period of attention, the body usually moves on to other priorities, allowing this part of the body or its systems to remain “stuck” in a low-energy pain and disease state. The area of injury or pathology (alongside non-physical traumas) is also virtually sealed off, in a communication sense. These "energy cysts" take energy to maintain, and deplete our overall vitality. This process seems to be increasingly common as we grow older, and in our stressful, polluted 21st century lives.

What the Russian researchers discovered was that they could help the body recognize and re-connect with these areas of pathology, stimulating the C-fibres to produce cascades of neuropeptides, and shaking the body out of the negative equilibrium it reached in those areas.

With chronic conditions, the challenge is to disrupt these stuck, often subconsciously safe and familiar, states that the body has formed. Scenar nudges  the body into disequilibrium, reminds it of forgotten healing priorities, and guides it back into both a positive balance (homeostasis) and lack of pain. The body has powerful resources for balance and self healing. Scenar breaks the "cyst", reminds it of the priority, and coaches it to finish off the repairs. 

Intimate areas of the body are not exposed, examined or treated directly. However, as with acupuncture, any areas of the body can be treated indirectly from remote points. As explored in Chinese and Korean acupuncture systems, "Micro maps" are particularly useful, such as small areas on the hands which map across to other parts of the body.

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About the author: Paul Lowe has Scenar practices near Brighton in Sussex. He tackles many issues including back pain and joints (slipped disc, sciatica, rheumatoid and osteo arthritis, frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel, RSI), neurological (migraines, IBS, TMJ, RSD, fibromyalgia), burns, wounds and sports injuries.