Erin shown smiling again with Dr. Michael Cooney and her beautiful baby.
Sometimes the words of our patients are the only words needed:
“Many of you have been asking what CRPS is like, how I treated it and ultimately failed while doing so.
I wanted to create this video to show that there is HOPE amongst this terrible disease. I wouldn’t lie by sharing all of this information, I have friends who suffer with CRPS and I know the desperation.
I’m here to pass along some hope, an understanding that there IS something that works!
Allow me to set the stage–
Before I left for Calmare treatment with Dr. Michael Cooney in New Jersey, I was a new mother, nearly bedridden and unable to take care of my home and or life.
Today, I can truly see the other side of the rainbow.”
Erin
To schedule your no-fee phone consultation with Dr. Michael Cooney beginning in mid-June, email us at info@calmaretherapynj.com, including your name, cellphone number and a little about your medical history, and we’ll promptly reply back with a few proposed dates and times.
You are also welcome to contact our pain management clinic at (201) 933-4440.
Our deepest thanks to Erin for sharing her heroic story and candidly sharing her medical history and successful Calmare Therapy outcome. We are forever grateful for your generosity and your candor.
Spine Universe has been a longtime leading professional and patient-targeted publication for pain sufferers and professionals who treat acute and chronic pain related to spine damage or disease.
Today, longtime health journalist Susan Spinasanta released a new report on the merits of using alternative therapy to lessen or eliminate neuropathy.
Her article is told through the vantage point of one of our Calmare patients, Sharlene, who treated with us earlier this year after a three-decade-long battle with arachnoiditis pain.
Sharlene arrived at Calmare Therapy NJ USA after trying to reduce her pain for 30 years (2021).
“Michael J. Cooney, DC, is Clinical Director of Calmare NJ USA based in Rutherford, NJ and one of 7 Calmare Certified providers in the United States. He said, “Sharlene came in and after 2 weeks [10 treatments] she was pain free. I also recently completed treatment of another patient with arachnoiditis who had been in pain for about 3 years. Now his pain level is between zero and one.“
Remarkably, it is non-invasive, drug-free, has no side effects and is painless to undergo.
Regardless of pain level and physical symptoms, neuropathic pain can be significantly reduced—or fully alleviated—after a series of 10 scrambler therapy treatments, performed once per day.
On behalf of Calmare Therapy NJ USA, we would like to thank Susan and the Spine Universe team for their continued support of medication-free, painless and non-invasive therapies that can free people in pain–without debilitating side effects.
Your support of our efforts is immeasurably appreciated.
As travel opportunities continue to reopen worldwide, we are now scheduling appointments for new patients and booster treatment appointments beginning mid-June-July 2021.
The Calmare team, including Dr. Michael Cooney, is fully vaccinated against Covid-19. We continue to support all the virus prevention guidelines recommended by the CDC.
We will continue to schedule one patient in the clinic at a time as a precautionary measure. Doing so does reduce the number of daily appointments, so please reach out promptly.
Calmare NJ USA clinical director Dr. Michael Cooney and patient.
No fee phone consultations are required for all potential patients. We request that people interested in pursuing Calmare first learn more about the therapy on these web pages prior to scheduling your consultation.
When new/future patients have some basic understanding about how non-invasive scrambler therapy is performed–and how it can lessen or eliminate chronic pain–helps us focus our discussion more specifically on the exact nature of your neuropathy and understand your pain management goals after therapy.
Any essential reason for this consultation, which is held only with our clinical director, Dr. Michael Cooney, is because Calmare is not right for everyone.
We will not treat patients for whom Dr. Cooney does not feel there is a high probability of pain reductionafter scrambler therapy treatments.
If you would like to schedule a new consultation or booster treatments, please complete the quick form below, and we’ll get back to you within 48 hours of receipt of your message. If you prefer to call our New Jersey clinic, please reach out at (201) 933-4440 between 10 am and 5 pm weekdays.
During the course of your life, you may experience chronic pain, which is generally described as consistent pain lasting for at least three months. The neuropathy may result from an injury; side effect from a chronic disease treatment for a condition, such as chemotherapy; or simply wear and tear on an aging body.
Regardless, choosing a pain management provider requires special preparation to find the right doctor to relieve your pain and achieve your desired outcome.
Unlike a broken arm or a case of shingles, neuropathy can’t be observed with the naked eye. Therefore, it is essential for the patient to be able to describe their pain, including the level of pain, based upon a verbal conversation.
Dependent on how long you have lived with long-term pain, it is important to clearly delineate your treatment goals—
Do you want to eliminate the need for prescription pain medications or invasive therapies?
Do you want to be completely pain-free, or would you be satisfied if your pain level remained under 3/10?
Do you want to alleviate a need for mobility devices?
Is your goal to return to work full-time or attend school?
Once you have stated your pain therapy goals, the next step is to determine if the doctor has the tools and mindset to lessen or eliminate your pain successfully.
Doctors who treat neuropathic pain generally specialize in a specific sub-specialty such as pediatrics, orthopedics, gastroenterology, psychiatry, neurology, geriatric care or rheumatology, for example.
I was a clinical chiropractor for 30+ years before administering Calmare scrambler therapy exclusively at my New Jersey clinic.
For me, working with the body’s central nervous system for three decades served as an essential skill in optimally placing the leads required for successful scrambler therapy outcomes.
With the explosion of opioid abuse over the past decade, just prescribing pain medications to people with chronic pain is no longer a long-term solution to managing pain for most people.
I have been a strong believer that medications are not usually required to overcome pain throughout my career.
Ask how frequently the doctor treats people with your specific medical condition/s and describe the overall success rate (pain elimination or significant reduction).
In our practice, we have a list of patient volunteers who are willing to speak with potential patients about their Calmare scrambler therapy treatment experiences.
Note: I’d like to thank our Calmare patients and chronic pain friends on Facebook who contributed their firsthand input to these questions below:
Do you regularly treat patients with my condition? If not, how many patients have you treated with my condition and what was the outcome for the majority?
What is your area of medical specialty in treating nerve pain?
Can you offer a typical outcome for patients with my condition and pain level?
What percentage of your patients experience a significant reduction in pain within six months?
For my condition, what are the most common treatment protocols you prescribe, starting with the least invasive?
Do you feel pain medication is the primary treatment plan for me? Why?
Do you support alternative pain therapies and, if so, can you describe them?
Based upon your expertise, what do you project my ‘best-case outcome may be?
Remember, the doctor works for you and is being paid to provide you with healthcare that will make you feel healthier, less pain and improve your quality of life. This is a tall order that will require a significant commitment.
Ensure that you are working with a care provider you believe is best suited to meet your needs and health goals.
Calmare scrambler therapy is not right for everyone experiencing neuropathic pain; after a clinical consultation (sometimes performed by phone for clients residing outside of our metro New York City geographic area and out of country patients), we will not recommend this therapy for you if Dr. Cooney does not feel there is a strong possibility for significant pain relief, elimination of pain, markedly improved mobility or a significant improvement in quality of life.
When someone whose life has been sidelined by chronic nerve pain finally achieves pain relief–or a pain-free state–the feeling we get is pure joy.
As I’ve stated over the years, most of the time, people with chronic pain arrive at our clinic feeling skeptical, exhausted, financially spent and almost numb to the possibility of finally winning the war against pain.
This week, Sharlene is undergoing her second week of treatment with us after carefully weighing her decision to trust us with her health while helping lessen her pain after a 30-year battle with arachnoiditis. This debilitating condition causes chronic shooting pain, the feeling of bugs crawling on the skin, weak legs and even neurological problems.
Better yet, we’ll let her tell it:
One of the many reasons Calmare Pain Therapy has changed the face of pain management is the fact that is can lessen, or in Shar’s case, eliminate neuropathy caused by various types of injury or diseases, like arachnoiditis, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), postherpetic neuralgia(PHN) after Shingles, fibromyalgia and light bruises to extensive surgery.
You won’t find needles, pain or a prescription drug list at Calmare Therapy, either.
This FDA-cleared alternative pain management therapy is non-invasive and has 0 side effects.
Yes, there are no side effects or pain when undergoing Calmare, other than you may be more tired for a period of time during and up to a month after treatment.
That’s it.
If you or a loved one feels that you are at the end of the line of pain management options, you are not.
Sharlene posted this Facebook message near the end of her 10 Calmare treatments and gave us permission to share it:
Reach out and let’s talk about your battle. You and I will speak directly and there is no consultation fee, of course.
Call our clinic, located outside New York City, at (201) 933-4440 or email us at info@calmaretherapynj.com.
Let’s start fighting back against your pain today, no more waiting for tomorrow.
Ten-year-old Zion experienced a fall in 2019, resulting in chronic pain in his hand, arm and eventually his upper back.
After endless pediatric pain management consultations and a plethora of lab tests, he was eventually diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).
Zion’s mother, Laura, was told by pediatricians and neuropathic pain specialists that her son would require daily pain medication and live with some degree of pain for the rest of his life.
Laura refused to accept this future for her young son and began researching alternative treatments for Zion’s pediatric CRPS.
She discovered Dr. Michael Cooney and Calmare Therapy on a Facebook group for parents of children living with chronic pain.
Meet Laura and Zion in the video below:
Zion and his mother arrived in New Jersey from Florida in January 2021; upon arrival the young boy presented with these symptoms:
Chronic pain level ranging from 5 – 9/10
Allodynia
Skin discoloration
Burning and extreme sensitivity
Intermittent hand numbness
After 10 Calmare treatments, performed one-time daily, Zion was pain-free and his physical symptoms were visibly resolved.
Calmare scrambler therapy is an ideal pain management treatment for children battling chronic pain:
• No medication • Non-Invasive • Painless treatment • No side effects • FDA-cleared
Clinical Director Dr. Michael Cooney has been performing Calmare Therapy for children, teens, adults and seniors since 2011.
He is one of only seven Certified Calmare providers in the US and frequently acts as a trainer for new doctors introducing this alternative treatment to their pain management protocols.
To determine if Calmare might be right to help overcome your chronic nerve pain, call our New Jersey-based clinic at (201) 933-4440 or email us privately at info@calmaretherapynj.com about your chronic pain condition.
Hearing from our previous patients months and years after their Calmare treatment is the gift that keeps on giving. It sustains us to keep looking forward with hope.
Last week, we heard from this young man’s mother, who brought him to us in 2012, as a 12-year-old boy, with treatment-resistant shoulder neuropathy.
This is a family of very bright people, who aggressively traveled to see the top pediatric pain management doctors and treatment centers in the US. Finally, a pain management clinic in the Midwest recommended they pursue an alternative pain treatment called Calmare Therapy , because it is non-invasive and has no side effects.
Jamie was one of the first children we treated; thankfully, his successful treatment outcome opened to door to Dr. Cooney helping many other children and teenagersthereafter.
His mother describes their long journey:
As you may know from our Patient Stories, we use non-invasive, drug-free scrambler therapy to treat adults as well.
The scrambler therapy device doesn’t just lessen or eliminate nerve pain. Dependent upon the cause of the neuropathy, physical symptoms can also be alleviated after undergoing the standard Calmare 10-treatment series, including:
Allodynia
Severe temperature fluctuations
Extreme sensitivity to touch
Healing of lesions and blisters
Neurological and cognitive challenges
Muscle weakness and reduced mobility
Ultimately, our goal is to retrain the patient’s brain and eliminate the misfiring ‘there is pain here‘ message to a ‘there is no pain here, so we will no longer need to send the pain message.’
If you have tried traditional pain medications, pain management and/or physical therapy for neuropathy and have been disappointed with the results, contact our New Jersey team, with 10 years of Calmare treatment expertise, led by clinical director, Dr. Michael J. Cooney.
This time of year, I become rather sentimental, thinking about the previous 11 months and what we accomplished. Certainly, this year has been one for the record books (and not in a good way).
Remarkably, even since the onset of Covid-19 in March, we still welcomed new patients battling treatment-resistant chronic pain, who were determined to reach outside the confines of traditional pain management options (pain medications and invasive procedures) and traveled from around the country to undergo Calmare Therapy.
Masked, treating only one patient at a time, with family and friends waiting in their cars, we fired up the MC-5A Calmare device, and went to war, fighting chronic nerve pain as a result of disease or injury.
I was shocked by how many patient success stories we have posted since we introduced this little-known painless treatment for neuropathy back in 2011.
I lost count, but we are closing in on nearly 100 first-person patient reviews; I hope you will watch a few patient review videos to learn more about how Calmare works, especially if you are considering treatment with us in 2021.
Registered Nurse Andrea was here from PA in July 2020.
If we haven’t had an opportunity to speak directly about your chronic pain battle and mutually determine if Calmare might be right for you, please feel free to reach out to us at the clinic by calling (201) 933-4440 or email us at info@calmaretherapynj.com.
We are confirming new patients into May 2021 and hope you add you to our family of patients early next year.
As always, we will make every effort to accommodate patients traveling from outside the US.
2020 has been a rough year for all of us, but there are many better days up ahead on the horizon. I can see them. Until then, take good care.
One of the frustrations about chronic sciatica is that medications, injections, physical therapy and independent exercises–even surgery–often fail to resolve the debilitating pain.
Sciatica and low back pain affects millions of people of all ages, from all walks of life. While people as young as their 20s can suffer from sciatic nerve pain, it’s most common in adults in their 40s and 50s, affecting more men than women.
And yet, traditional medicine is often hindered by how to relieve this type of neuropathy.
The cause of sciatica or chronic back pain may be due to injury, failed back surgery or generalized aging of bones and joints.
Eventually, medication and treatment-resistant sciatica can result in leg weakness and mobility challenges. Further, overall health quality can be diminished due to poor sleep.
For people whose pain is nerve-focused, we are increasingly recommending Calmare Therapy, particularly for people battling chronic back pain for six months or longer.
Calmare uses biophysical “scrambler” technology, a painless treatment for nerve pain that uses electrodes placed on the skin emitting low amounts of electricity scrambles the pain message from the brain so that it stops sending the pain signal.
Yes, in fact, it’s as simple as it sounds.
Most importantly, 75 percent of the chronic nerve pain patients we have treated here in New Jersey have “significantly reduced–or even eliminated their neuropathic pain.”
How the Calmare MC-5A technology can significantly lessen treatment-resistant lumbar and sciatic neuropathy
The device’s technology painlessly reduces sciatic and spinal neuropathy by creating an artificial neuron that retrains the brain. This is accomplished when the device sends a mild ‘no-pain’ signal along the sciatic root to the brain.
Calmare scrambler therapy has been performed at our pain control clinic since 2011. It is performed exclusively by Dr. Michael Cooney, one of only seven Calmare Certified doctors in the US.
Sciatic neuritis versus sciatic neuropathy
Sciatic neuritis is usually a structural or biomechanical problem, such as a pinched nerve or ligament damage.
It is acute (short term, not chronic) and often successfully treated by chiropractors or physical therapists who specialize in treating musculoskeletal injuries.
In most cases, Calmare Therapy may not be the ideal treatment for this condition.
Sciatic neuropathy is the second most common neuropathy of the lower extremity. Symptoms often include foot drop, mimicking common fibular neuropathy.
The neuropathy (chronic pain) is constant; the pain may vary from low to high, but the discomfort never goes away completely.
This diagnosis is ideal for Calmare scrambler therapy since neuropathic pain is the root cause of the discomfort.
Calmare treats diagnosed chronic nerve pain.
Meet Rina Stiano, who received 10 scrambler therapy treatments for her sciatic neuropathy, performed by Dr. Michael Cooney:
How is Calmare performed and is it painful?
Via small electrodes strategically positioned by Dr. Cooney, a low grade, ‘no-pain’ message is then transmitted directly to the damaged nerve for approximately 35 minutes per session.
Regardless of severity, pain and physical symptoms caused by the sciatica can be significantly reduced or even alleviated by the conclusion of the 10-treatment series.
For severe neuropathic pain cases, subsequent Calmare booster treatmentsare sometimes, but not always, necessary for patients who have lived with the chronic pain condition for an extended period of time before undergoing Calmare Therapy treatment.
First, let us be perfectly transparent—while this non-invasive therapy has been successful for more than 75 percent of our patients with chronic nerve pain, it does not significantly reduce or eliminate pain or everyone, unfortunately.
We have seen notable success (pain reduction or remission) for children, teens, adults and seniors battling these neuropathic pain conditions:
In most cases, by treatment 3-4 we are able to foresee if a patient’s neuropathy will be significantly minimized or a pain-free state can be achieved. Many patients experience pain relief as early as 10 minutes into their first treatment session. As the number of treatment sessions increases, the duration of pain relief is prolonged.
What if my pain comes back?
Depending on the severity of the original condition and the length of time the patient has been experiencing chronic pain, periodic booster treatments may be required to combat any return of pain.
No. The Calmare® MC-5A device creates a low energy electrical impulse that travels through the patient’s nerves delivering a “no-pain” signal to the brain.
This scrambles (disrupts) the brain’s misfiring pain signal that the area of pain is normal and eventually results in prolonged pain relief.
TENS units are self-use devices that can temporarily lessen pain but when discontinued, provide no lasting pain resolution.
To find out if your chronic back pain or sciatic condition may be suitable for FDA-cleared Calmare Therapy, contact us using the form below, email us at info@calmaretherapynj.com or call 201-933-4440 during normal business hours.
Ten-year-old Zion experienced a fall in 2019, resulting in chronic pain in his hand, arm and eventually his upper back.
Masked, treating only one patient at a time, with family and friends waiting in their cars, we fired up the 
