For the record, my statement on the bent probe controversy is, “Free your mind, and the rest will follow.” A bent probe is a sight better than a poor insertion.
I too had the CTI’s and I really can’t go along with any of the reasons for not bending the probe. If the curve made a difference to the flow of current, we could not use flexible wires in the probe holder, and the whole sanitation excuse for not bending the probe is more mind control claptrap.
It is simple, there are some areas where the only way one is ever going to reach and get a good treatment is to bend that probe and make a tapping, almost sideways insertion.
At least, that is how renegade fools like me do it.