Some Folks Call the Trigger Probe the “Positive.”
You Call it the “Active.” Why?
Answer:
It is confusing to call the Trigger Probe the Positive because it is actually in Negative Polarity when the Acuscope is in readout mode, while it is showing us numbers on the digital display.
During this time, the current is moving only in one direction (a Direct Current), from the body into the instrument, acquiring biofeedback and revealing the degree of resistance between the two electrodes. And the Trigger Probe (or any electrode in the Red Ring Jack) is in Negative Polarity while this is happening!
Negative (-) Polarity pulls and Positive (+) Polarity pushes.
The Trigger Probe (or any electrode plugged into the Red Ring Jack) is in Negative Polarity, pulling information from the tissue into the Acuscope for analysis; and the other electrode (plugged into the Blue Ring Jack) is in Positive Polarity pushing the current toward the other electrode.
Once you initiate treatment, the Polarity of the tips switches, and does so thereafter every two seconds. Remember, Negative (-) Polarity pulls and Positive (+) Polarity pushes. Then they switch. This causes the current to move back and forth from tissue into instrument (reading) and from instrument out to tissue (treating) and vice versa, again and again. This is called Alternating Current (AC). The directionality of the current continually reverses until treatment stops.
Labeling a probe as Positive or Negative is therefore inaccurate. Any electrode being used for treatment—including the Trigger Probe—alternates between Positive and Negative Polarity every two seconds, causing the microcurrent to move back and forth continuously between it and another electrode of the opposite Polarity. Thus, we cannot name it one or the other.
Why call it the Active?
It helps to keep our perspective clear. Any single tip Trigger Probe (or any electrode plugged into the Red Ring Jack) we now call the “Active” electrode. The other electrode (plugged into the Blue Ring Jack) we now call the “Reference.”
This is because we know that where the Trigger Probe Tip (or any electrode plugged into the Red Ring Jack) is placed is the location where biofeedback is being picked up from. During
treatment, it is also the location where the microcurrent is being delivered into the tissue as a corrective influence. It is where the microcurrent activity enters and is received, thus very Active!
Understanding how the Acuscope delivers microcurrent—sending and receiving—is key to Understanding Proper Electrode Placement. >>
