FSM Training Overview

If you treat patients with chronic pain, nerve pain, recent injuries, or complex visceral and functional conditions, the FSM Core Seminar gives you a practical, frequency-based approach you can apply in clinic right away. It is designed to fit alongside the work you already do, within your existing scope of practice.

The FSM Core Seminar teaches the fundamentals of microcurrent and how specific frequencies and protocols are selected and applied to different tissues and conditions, based on the principles of bio-resonance. The first portion of the course introduces the frequencies, protocols, and conceptual framework most often used in physical-medicine settings, including approaches explored for myofascial complaints, recent injuries, discogenic and nerve-related presentations, and post-concussive recovery. The second portion focuses on the frequencies and protocols explored for visceral and functional-medicine applications. Throughout, the material is presented as an educational framework to be applied within each practitioner’s own scope of practice.

The full FSM Core training is taught over 5 days and is required as a prerequisite to the FSM Advanced training.

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) is taught as a 40-hour 5-day Core seminar in person and as an online course. FSM is useful as an adjunct to every medical discipline licensed to use electrical stimulation devices and has MD’s, DO’s, DC’s, ND’s, NP’s, LAc’s, PT’s, OT’s, Sports Trainers and massage therapist as FSM practitioners.

At the end of the course the practitioner is presented with a slip that they can submit to their board documenting attendance and hours. Practitioners wishing to submit the course for CE credits sign in and sign out every day to document attendance. The CE slip and a copy of the sign in sheets are made available to the attendee at the end of the course. If CEU credits are important to you, please contact your licensing board to see if this documentation is sufficient for credit. Every board for every discipline in every state has different policies on what courses are approved for CEU’s. Frequency Specific Seminars has made the decision to make the course affordable rather than spend the resources needed to apply for CE credits for 10 disciplines in 50 states. The course is currently pre-approved for CE credits for licensed acupuncturists and Oriental Medicine practitioners in California.

The course includes lecture time and 4-6 hours of hands-on practice time. Students are also given access to the growing FSM Practicum Video Library allowing them to follow along with real patient treatments. The lecture includes the frequencies, frequency protocols, research data, and conceptual framework within which the observed and documented FSM effects can be used and explained.

The conceptual framework comes from physics, biophysics, and thermodynamics but is structured in lay terms. The frequencies and treatment protocols for myofascial pain, disc, facet, and nerve pain are taught on the first day. The protocols and frequencies for treating new injuries, the nervous system, and visceral conditions, and emotional issues are taught on the second and third days.

The 4-6 hours of practical sessions include how to use the protocols to treat pain complaints in various body parts. The treatment method and application is different than any other way of treating muscular pain for example because the contacts are placed in such a way as to allow frequencies and current to flow through the tissue being treated and pressure is used only to move the tissue while the frequency is breaking up the scar tissue.

To support the online course and live-stream training there are at least 6 FSM Core hands-on practicum weekends offered each year in every region of the US and abroad by Dr. McMakin. Students can also choose to do practical hands-on instruction provided by a certified FSM practicum instructor. For those in Ireland and the U.K. Denise Curtis MSc, PT teaches an FSM Core seminar at the National Training Centre ( ntc.ie ) in Dublin, Ireland that is held over two weekends.

Once a year, there is a two-day 16 hour FSM Advanced course that provides the complete list of frequencies and protocols not taught in the Core seminar. In the afternoon there are 90-minute advanced in-depth workshops presented by various expert practitioner faculty.

Every other year on this same weekend, there is a two-day International Symposium with guest lecturers and presentations by practitioners sharing case reports and research findings and workshops for both diagnosis and treatment. There is a two-day instructor training and certification for people wishing to be considered as instructors for the practical sessions.

The FSM Advanced training is also available on video and as a live-stream for those who are unable to travel to one of the in-person seminars.

After taking one of the Core FSM Trainings students are encouraged to join the private facebook group.  With over 1200 members the group provides additional support and networking for FSM practitioners.

Look up frequencies fast and easily with our custom FSM App for your mobile phone.  Developed by one of our FSM Practitioners who is also a software developer, the app lets you search for a tissue or condition to find the frequency associated.  Or you can search for a frequency and find out what tissue or condition it matches with. There are many other features built into the app as well. This app combined with the new mobile-friendly website will make learning and using FSM more enjoyable.