Eat a meal with 35-50 grams of protein prior to your ARP. Since an ARP treatment is a type of workout your body needs protein for neurological and muscular development. Protein 60-90 minutes prior to treatment is ideal.

Some examples of 35-50 grams of protein:

                3 eggs with bacon or sausage

                8oz steak

                8oz burger

                8oz pork chop

                8oz beef jerky

                Whole chicken breast

                6oz can tuna

                1.5 cups cottage cheese

                10 tablespoons peanut butter

When choosing your protein source, meat from hooved animals is the best

 

• Don’t be alarmed if you feel exhausted after an ARP treatment, especially your first one or first in a long while. That’s a sign some weak muscles were woken up and worked harder than they are used to.

• Some patients notice some workout stiffness after the first or second ARP session. This is a good sign – muscles working that are not used to being worked

• Heavy alcohol consumption and ARP therapy DON’T MIX

• Drink plenty of water after your ARP therapy and again, have a protein rich meal following your ARP session in addition to the protein had before.

• Ideally a patient’s pain or discomfort should be reduced by 25% with each ARP treatment. It is important to be consistent with your ARP treatments – initially visits need to be at least every couple of days for best response. Sometimes with a complicated case it takes a treatment or two to find the exact problem spots to work on – kind of like peeling back the layers of an onion.

• The routine course of ARP treatment consists of 4 treatments to reduce inflammation and 6 treatments to regain strength. Patients with high inflammation or stress or patients with aggravating factors at work may take longer.

• Sometimes the ARPwave needs to be used on the nervous system itself rather than the problem area. Your ARP tech will know when you need a neurological treatment.

• ARPwave can give quick relief to headaches, sinus pressure, and neck kinks. When working with an injury or a chronic problem however, it is important to follow through with your treatment schedule. This ensures the injured area is fully rehabilitated and not likely to be reinjured in the future.