Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

2 Years Later: Why Pain Scores Stayed Down 📉

14 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this commentary, the speaker reflects on clinical research involving a six‑week electric field stimulation (EFS) treatment for musculoskeletal pain. The original study followed participants for one and two years, finding that both pain scores and functional outcomes remained stable over the long term. The speaker highlights how rare such durable results are compared with many other therapies and even routine chiropractic adjustments, which can see regression without ongoing care. He argues that the sustained benefits of the EFS device likely stem from its ability to interrupt inflammatory pathways and promote reparative processes in cartilage tissue, offering a mechanistic explanation for the observed durability.

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My experience matches what they found in the research with this type of electric field stimulation, that when they put people through treatment and they did it like in a 6-week trial, okay, and then what they did is they did a 1-year follow-up and they did a 2-year follow-up. Their pain scores and their function scores remain relatively stable. I mean, how many therapies have we used over the years that, and even like our adjustments, that, that we can say that, you know, a year or two down the road, you know, that they're good. Now we can say that I think overall for our adjustments, but there are cases where you know that they have ongoing problems. If they don't get treatment, they're going to regress, you know, within a certain time frame. Well, this gives you a pretty good clue as to the effectiveness of this type of device and what it actually does to help break up that inflammatory pathway and cause some reparation to occur within that cartilage tissue.