Better healing through Science-Fiction

Now really, when someone tells you that they are going to put an electrode on you and use electricity to shoot medicine into your body, doesn’t that sound like you’ve wandered into a SF book? And yet, that’s what they did to me today. Apparently, Iontophoresis is very effective at dealing with inflamed joints and such. So after doing physical therapy which involved such high-tech gadgets as giant rubber bands and foam pool toys, they attached electrodes to my arm and handed me the control. It wasn’t as shiny as I like my SF gadgets, but I guess not all the toys in the future will be over-designed the way they appear in the media.

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3 thoughts on “Better healing through Science-Fiction”

  1. It was just a very few years ago that designers thought that black was the high tech colour.
    -d-

  2. Those car battery style clips are rather ominous looking…umm, what exactly do they attach to?
    -e-

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