1. In all walks of life we would ideally like to select the people we interact with; in the field of complementary / alternative healthcare, this becomes particularly relevant. You are after all about to enter into a healing partnership with somebody on whom you will be relying to help you heal your body. It therefore pays to take time to select the right practitioner, whether with SCENAR or any other healing discpline.

All ISTA-registered practitioners accept that the interpersonal relationship between them and their patient-client is important and are therefore ready to accept you advising them that you wish to move to another practitioner if you do not feel comfortable with your current practitioner. If you do not have another therapist in mind, your current one will help you find one.

Please, to be fair to our members, see through any treatment programme agreed with your practitioner after your first, trial, consultation.

2. Take your time and use your intuition when selecting your practitioner with the aid of our Locate a Therapist. Do not necessarily select one just because of their geographic proximity to you, even if this might be convenient for the course of treatments you can expect. Typically SCENAR requires a programme of attendance consisting of around 5 treatments; in Russia some programmes provide 2-3 treatments a day, for a period of a week or more. Should your requirement be for such a heavy treatment programme, explore with your practitioner whether it might not be better for you to attend one of the SCENAR establishments in Russia or the Ukraine , where some offer teams of up to 12 doctors, all SCENAR trained, who will be able to provide intensive residential treatment better and more cost-effectively than anywhere else for the moment. ISTA will also be able to help.

3. There is no such thing as a right or wrong treatment with SCENAR, there is only appropriate and effective SCENAR Practitioners may use one of a number of SCENAR devices and may use a number of protocols; by being eligible for registration with ISTA, they will have satisfied this organisation that they have been trained to the level at which they will know which device and treatment protocols will best alleviate the condition your body wishes to have treated at that particular visit. Some practitioners may also combine SCENAR with another treatment, if you feel comfortable with this, rest assured that this practitioner, guided ISTA's' Code of Practice, will have ascertained with ISTA whether this is an acceptable approach.

4. Study the pages of this Website, ask questions, go for a trial treatment and then decide. Almost three decades of SCENAR practice in Russia have demonstrated that most who commit to a course of SCENAR therapy achieve often remarkable improvements in their conditions. Although SCENAR is usually permitted to be presented as a pain-treatment device, which it most excellently does, the Russian experience, as well as the intention of SCENAR's designer, suggests other results are possible. As a matter of fact, the Russian experience suggests successful treatments with a very wide range of disorders.

5. The better you prepare yourself for the healing-journey you will be commencing with your practitioner, the greater your success is likely to be. When you have completed you research, call the practitioner you have put at the top of your list and ask her or him any of the questions you have prepared. You may want to include questions about ISTA-membership (if you came to him or her via another route, rather than this Website); about medical malpractice insurance cover and the type of insurance (professional indemnity alone or coupled with medical negligence, it is the latter you are looking for to be protected in the event of a something untoward happening). The latter issues will not apply in countries in which practitioners are typically not insured or required to be insured.

6. Allow plenty of time for a visit to a SCENAR practitioner - treatments can last from 25 minutes to an hour (the first session will almost cetainly last closer to one hour and more). The duration of this treatment is determined by the "conversation" that takes place between the SCENAR device and your body. The device requires skin-contact, so please wear easy to remove clothing. On your first visit with every practitioner, expect to be asked a number of questions about your medical history and current symptoms. Please understand that this is a requirement of their professional status with ISTA.

7. As a general statement, be careful of practitioners who in their publicity material, whether printed or on the Internet make superlative claims, like "the most experienced", "the greatest", even "the first", "the only", "authorised by" and "representing". If in doubt, check with ISTA - even if the practitioner about whom you are enquiring is not a member, we can usually find out about most and let you know what the real situation is. ISTA-members are discouraged from making such claims and where they do, we ask that they substantiate them.

Residential SCENAR Facilities

Certain disorders and disabilities are best dealt with during regular and sustained treatment in the hands of the most experienced SCENAR practitioners.  This is best provided during stays at residential facilities.  The only ones currently existing are located in Russia and the Ukraine

We have listed any residential facilities that we are aware of on independent pages, with as much detail as possible.  All details have been provided by the relevant facilities and have not been independently verified by ISTA.  However, the principals of each listed facility are well known to ISTA's management.

It is incumbant on each patient-client to make their own arrangements and confirm them in writing before travelling to any of the facilities listed.  In the event of any difficulties, ISTA may be able to help.

None of the facilities has paid for this experimental listing; in due course each may be asked to contribute an annual registration fee.

Anybody attending any of the listed facilities is invited to provide feedback.

Ekaterinburg, Russia

Uzhorod, Ukraine

Medical Centre "Ultramed", Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Kuzmova Private Clinic, Assenovgrad, Bulgaria