April 21, 2009
As research all around the medical field continues to expand, the number of doctors who are looking closely at magnetic therapy continues to grow as well. With side ranges of benefits that can help those in pain without the use of medications, heat or ice this is starting to look like one of the best treatment options available to athletes regardless of the injury. While not everyone is suited to use magnetic therapy, those who have tried it so far have been highly successful and enjoyed the quick results.
Physicians in all medical fields have been studying the effects of magnets on pain, and now the sports medicine field is paying especially close attention. When studying how something can change the healing process sports medicine professionals are always looking at the athlete’s health first. Using magnets instead of medications has several benefits including the fact that there are no drugs used when treating injuries with magnets. This reduces the risk of detrimental side effects and also helps to ensure that the athlete is fully alert, rather than groggy from taking pain medications.
It is important however to note that the magnets that medical development is using, is not the standard magnet that you find on your refrigerator. Instead, medical technology is developing biomagnets that are much more effective, and offer the maximum benefits. In addition to treating simple sore areas from injuries, magnets are being used in research to determine their ability to help ease the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome as well. The potential benefits to pain treatment are incredible.
Through the continued research into magnets as well as sports medicine fields it seems that the use of magnets is highly anticipated. Doctors have suggested that using the appropriate magnet can reduce healing time for many injuries by as much as half. These types of results are simply phenomenal in a field where quick recovery can mean the difference between a sports career, and sitting on the sidelines watching.
At this time, the number of doctors actively involved in the research of biomagnets if relatively small, however with growing numbers appearing it is a trend that is expected to grow even more in the coming months and years. Many are hoping that the use of the biomagnets will replace all standard heat and ice treatments that athletes are forced to use currently to help speed healing to injuries. While the use of magnets at this point is highly limited, there are many who are carefully watching developments for encouraging signs.
Regardless of sport, magnetic therapy has proven to be a highly effective and versatile treatment option that doctors have to use. With magnets used in various methods, including bracelets and wraps there is almost no limit to the type of injury that is expected to be treatable using magnetic therapy. Sports medicine doctors particularly are looking at the research as highly encouraging because of the vast amount of injuries that they see yearly.
In the meantime, while research continues unfortunately most athletes are forced to continue using the methods of heat and ice to help promote faster healing for their injuries. Once the research is developed further, we can expect that it will be widely available to all athletes, as well as non-athletes alike. From start to finish, magnetic therapy has offered a peek at a much easier and smoother treatment option and while research continues to suggest it is right around the corner there are many who are anxiously awaiting.
For those who are able to see benefits of magnetic therapy now, the results are amazing and provide immediately lower pain levels regardless of whether the pain is from the knee, neck, arm, back, shoulder, or anywhere else. Using the small magnets is a wave from the future and the sports medicine field is anxiously awaiting to see what other great developments are unraveled as the research continues into this important pain relief treatment.
This article was published April 8th, 2009
http://www.blogomator.com/blog/sports-medicine-ventures-into-magnetic-therapy-5/
January 26, 2009
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HONG KONG: South Korean scientists may have found a way to remove dangerous heavy metals such as lead from blood by using specially designed
magnetic receptors.The receptors bind strongly to lead ions and can be easily removed, along with their lead cargo, using magnets, they wrote in an article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a leading chemistry journal.”Detoxification could theoretically work like haemodialysis: the blood is diverted out of the body and into a special chamber containing the biocompatible magnetic particles,” they wrote. “By using magnetic fields, the charged magnetic particles could be fished out. The purified blood is then reintroduced to the patient.”
Lead is a dangerous heavy metal and is especially toxic to children. Safe and effective detoxification processes are especially important.
The South Korean team, lead by Jong Hwa Jung at the Gyeongsang National University’s department of chemistry, managed to remove 96% of lead ions from blood samples using these magnetic particles.
Exposure to lead in developed countries is mostly a result of occupational hazards, from lead used in paint and gasoline. Outside of occupational hazards, children sometimes fall victim to lead poisoning. A child who swallows large amounts of lead may develop anaemia, muscle weakness and brain damage. Where poisoning occurs, it is usually gradual, with small amounts of the metal accumulating over a long period of time.
Article from the Times of India
January 17th, 2009
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October 29, 2008
By Linda Geddes October 15, 2008
JOSH VILLA was 26 and driving home after a drink with a friend on 28 August 2005 when his car mounted the curb and flipped over. Villa was thrown through the windscreen, suffered massive head injuries and fell into a coma.
Almost a year later, there was little sign of improvement. “He would open his eyes, but he was not responsive to any external stimuli in his environment,” says Theresa Pape of the US Department of Veterans Affairs in Chicago, who helped treat him.
Usually there is little more that can be done for people in this condition. Villa was to be sent home to Rockford, Illinois, where his mother, Laurie McAndrews, had volunteered to care for him.
But Pape had a different suggestion. She enrolled him in a six-week study in which an electromagnetic coil was held over the front of his head to stimulate the underlying brain tissue. Such transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been investigated as a way of treating migraine, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and depression, with some promising results, but this is the first time it has been used as a potential therapy for someone in a coma-like state.
The rapidly changing magnetic fields that the coil creates can be used either to excite or inhibit brain cells - making it easier or harder for them to communicate with one another. In Villa’s case, the coil was used to excite brain cells in the right prefrontal dorsolateral cortex. This area has strong connections to the brainstem, which sends out pulses to the rest of the brain that tell it to pay attention. “It’s like an ‘OK, I’m awake’ pulse,” says Pape.
At first, there was little change in Villa’s condition, but after around 15 sessions something happened. “You started talking to him and he would turn his head and look at you,” says McAndrews. “That was huge.”
Villa started obeying one-step commands, such as following the movement of a thumb and speaking single words. “They were very slurred but they were there,” says Pape, who presented her findings this month at an international meeting on brain stimulation at the University of Göttingen, Germany. “He’d say like ‘erm’, ‘help’, ‘help me’.”
After the 30 planned sessions the TMS was stopped. Without it, Villa became very tired and his condition declined a little, but he was still much better than before. Six weeks later he was given another 10 sessions, but there were no further improvements and he was sent home, where he remains today.
Villa is by no means cured. But he is easier to care for and can interact with visitors such as his girlfriend, who has stuck by him following the accident. “When you talk to him he will move his mouth to show he is listening,” McAndrews says. “If I ask him, ‘Do you love me?’ he’ll do two slow eye blinks, yes. Some people would say it’s not much, but he’s improving and that’s the main thing.”
“If I ask him, ‘Do you love me?’ he’ll do two eye blinks. You might say it’s not much, but he’s improving and that’s the main thing”
John Whyte of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, cautions that as intriguing as Villa’s case is, it alone does not show that TMS is a useful treatment. “Even after eight months, it is not uncommon for patients to transition from the vegetative to the minimally conscious state without any particular intervention,” he points out. He says TMS merits further investigation, along with other experimental treatments such as drugs which have temporarily roused three men from a coma, and deep brain stimulation, an invasive technique that roused a man out of a minimally conscious state.
“This is the first and very interesting use of repetitive TMS in coma,” says Steven Laureys of the Coma Research Group at the University of Liège in Belgium. Our understanding of disorders of consciousness is so limited that even a single study can provide new insights, he says.
Pape acknowledges that further studies are needed to demonstrate that TMS really is beneficial, though she is convinced that it helped Villa. He had only been given a 20 to 40 per cent chance of long-term recovery, and until he was given TMS his functioning had not improved since about four months after the accident. What’s more, after the 15th TMS session, he improved incrementally with each session - further evidence that TMS was the cause.
Pape hopes to begin treating a second patient in a coma-like state later this year. This time she plans to adjust the number of pulses of TMS in each train, and to alter the gap between pulses to see if there is an optimum interval.
McAndrews is also in no doubt that her son’s quality of life has improved as a result of TMS. “Before I felt like he was not responsive, that he was depressed almost. Now you move him around and he complains - he can show emotions on that level.”
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From issue 2678 of New Scientist magazine, 15 October 2008, page 8-9
June 30, 2008
Magnetic stimulation blocks migraine pain
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A hand-held device that painlessly sends a magnetic pulse into the head may offer some migraine sufferers relief, a small study suggests.
The device delivers a therapy known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS. It sparks a magnetic pulse that, when held against a person’s head, creates an electric current among the nerves cells of the brain.
This, in turn, disrupts migraines in the “aura” phase, before they trigger pain.
Though migraines strike without warning in most cases, some people experience an aura stage, which is marked by visual disturbances, like flashes of light or zigzag lines, or other sensations such as tingling or numbness.
For the new study, researchers recruited 201 patients suffering from migraine with aura, then randomly assigned them to use the TMS device or a “sham” device the investigators used for comparison. Patients were instructed to apply the device over the site of the migraine, at its onset.
The researchers found that two hours after treatment, 39 percent of the TMS patients were pain-free, versus 22 percent of patients using the sham device.
Dr. Yousef Mohammad, of The Ohio State University in Columbus, reported the findings Friday at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society, underway in Boston.
“This is very significant,” Mohammad told Reuters Heath. “This is a much better response than is achieved with any other method or medication that we have.”
By interfering with the aura phase of migraine, Mohammad explained, TMS essentially interrupts the “electrical storm” that culminates in migraine pain. Continued…
June 30, 2008
Baby’s Blindness Resolved, Nerves in Knee Regenerated and Other Unusual Complimentary Therapies
Doylestown, PA (PRWEB) June 27, 2008 — Imagine learning your new baby is essentially blind from uncontrollable rapid eye motion and there is no therapy to help. Within weeks of using a BiomagScience.com therapy placement, the child can now see and focus. (see Rare Eye Disease of Infant Resolved).
Nine months after surgery and physiotherapy from a fall, a 72 year old man was shocked to hear his doctor say “Due to severed nerves and damaged tissue, you’ll never have any feeling below the knee and it will never be flexible ever again.” After using BiomagScience’s advanced knee circuit, full feeling came back and his leg became flexible - see video.
About a decade ago, a woman in Santa Barbara about the age of 50 went into a coma from acute pancreatitis. When hearing that his mother would probably die, her son asked the doctor if he could try some advanced magnetic therapy. With no hope in sight, the doctor said “try anything.” So he did BiomagScience’s advanced circuit therapy and in 3 days she awoke and a week later left the hospital feeling well (see Woken from Coma - Pancreatitis is able to heal).
BiomagScience represents nearly three decades of advanced placement and circuit therapy development to support pain relief and healing of over 170 separate conditions ranging from minor to acute and chronically degenerative health conditions.
A practitioner reports: “I have had a wonderful adventure learning about your [BiomagScience magnets; they are everything you said they would be and much more! I enlisted as many people as possible to put the magnets to the test with their many different and varied complaints. The one constant was that all the people gained more energy and slept better at night.
Then there was the removal of pain and dysfunction from all sorts of different areas/problems: joint issues, glandular dysfunctions, digestive problems, TMJ, inflamed nerves, and pain relief from insect bites/stings.
Everyone has been most pleased with the results and the fact that the book, pictures and magnets are so user friendly. The magnets are easy to use, do not wear out and can be used over and over again with the same degree of results each and every time. Thank You! The magnets are truly a blessing to all who use them! Cheers.” Joyce F, CA
S L explains, “”I’m a 62 year young dog walker in New York City and I suffered a torn meniscus in my right knee. The doctor prescribed narcotics for the pain and said that I needed surgery. A friend told me about your magnets and I decided to try anything because I did not want the surgery nor did I want to keep taking narcotics.
I got my magnets and instructions on Thursday and I put the advanced knee circuit on right away and I went about my walking the dogs. Well I just can’t believe it, today Friday the pain is gone!!! You have given me hope again that I might not lose my livelihood nor need the surgery and I have stopped the pain killers. Thank you, thank you for your wonderful product and for your help.” NYC, NY
Unlike common testimonials of aches and pains being relieved, BiomagScience case studies are about recovery of unusually acute or chronically ill conditions. Many of BiomagScience’s clients have tried everything and finally, after using BiomagScience advanced therapy, start the immediate road to recovery. See Mother’s life returned after 25 years and businessman able to resume his life.
Peter Kulish, Founder explains “Biomagnetism is an amazing science that affords everyone an easy, daily supplementation of increased energy and when used properly, has helped many with chronic and severe problems. Whether it helps to rapidly heal a broken elbow, relieve pain vomiting and blurred vision from acute whiplash, give instant relief from yellow jacket stings, help reverse long term chronic fatigue or regenerate severed nerves restricting walking, circuit therapy and advanced placement are able to supplement many health issues.
Working with many doctors and studying how the body’s electricity flows has helped us develop the special circuits that support rapid regeneration. For example, in the case of the baby’s blindness from Strabismus and manifest Nystagmus, the energy was placed into the developmental area of the brain to help the cellular and synaptic formation.
Surprisingly the body responds extremely well to properly placed magnetic energies. When you review the before and after microscopic pictures of the blood or the reduction of free radicals/inflammation sites or the cellular voltage tests, it’s easy to understand how the correct placement of the energies complement healing, regenerate nerves and help chronic conditions.”
When asked about other magnetic devices in the market, Kulish explains “Most medical quality pulse devices are very good but limited and expensive. Most bracelets, pads and straps do not have the appropriate instructions which discriminate about the correct polarities of the body. Their use may feel helpful at first, but improper placement can cause cellular stress.
BiomagScience has created the Wellness kit which includes everything to use the advanced placement and circuit technology. The kit has our Super BioMagnetsSM, Water Jar Energizers, the complete therapy book, pictorial instructions, liquid oxygen and a self grip bandage. Everyone should have a Wellness Kit for first aid for poison ivy, burns, stings, sprains, bruises, etc. Just having Water Jar Energizers for energized water is an important daily supplement.
For anyone who is experiencing problems and needs some help, the advanced therapies are simple to use and BiomagScience maintains phone lines and email for discussing therapies.
It is wonderful to live in an age that has advanced so much with such simple answers to some of our complicated health problems”.
June 30, 2008
New Pulse Device Promises Relief With Experimental Method
New York-Most people have suffered from a Migraine headache at one time or another and nearly everyone knows how a truly intense headache can make life a living hell.
Well a new type of experimental therapy promises to try to change all that.
A new Hand held device that delivers a small magnetic pulse into the head and brain of a person that is suffering from a Migraine headache attack is showing a lot of promise in its intial testing.
The device is known as a TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation.
It gives a magnetic pulse that when held up against a person’s head creates a current inside the head along the nerve cells of the brain.
This in turn works to try and disrupt the migraine headache in its “Aura” phase, hopefully before they progress to trigger pain.
Many people experience a aura or pre warning stage of a Migraine headache, which is marked by visual disturbances, such as zigzag lines, flashes of light or other such types of sensation.
After two hours of treatment 39 percent of TMS migraine headache sufferers were pain free, vs. about 22 percent that received a placebo with a sham device.
June 30, 2008
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Jan. 2, 2008 — Magnets have been touted for their healing properties since ancient Greece. Magnetic therapy is still widely used today as an alternative method for treating a number of conditions, from arthritis to depression, but there hasn’t been scientific proof that magnets can heal.
Lack of regulation and widespread public acceptance have turned magnetic therapy into a $5 billion world market. Hopeful consumers buy bracelets, knee braces, shoe inserts, mattresses, and other products that are embedded with magnets based on anecdotal evidence, hoping for a non-invasive and drug-free cure to what ails them.
“The FDA regulates specific claims of medical efficacy, but in general static magnetic fields are viewed as safe,” notes Thomas Skalak, professor and chair of biomedical engineering at U.Va.
Skalak has been carefully studying magnets for a number of years in order to develop real scientific evidence about the effectiveness of magnetic therapy.
Skalak’s lab leads the field in the area of microcirculation research—the study of blood flow through the body’s tiniest blood vessels. With a five-year, $875,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Skalak and Cassandra Morris, former Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, set out to investigate the effect of magnetic therapy on microcirculation. Initially, they sought to examine a major claim made by companies that sell magnets: that magnets increase blood flow.
The researchers first found evidence to support this claim through research with laboratory rats. In their initial study, magnets of 70 milliTesla (mT) field strength—about 10 times the strength of the common refrigerator variety—were placed near the rat’s blood vessels. Quantitative measurements of blood vessel diameter were taken both before and after exposure to the static magnetic fields—the force created by the magnets. Morris and Skalak found that the force had a significant effect: the vessels that had been dilated constricted, and the constricted vessels dilated, implying that the magnetic field could induce vessel relaxation in tissues with constrained blood supply, ultimately increasing blood flow.
Dilation of blood vessels is often a major cause of swelling at sites of trauma to soft tissues such as muscles or ligaments. The prior results on vessel constriction led Morris and Skalak to look closer at whether magnets, by limiting blood flow in such cases, would also reduce swelling. Their most recent research, published in the November 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physiology, yielded affirmative results.
In this study, the hind paws of anesthetized rats were treated with inflammatory agents in order to simulate tissue injury. Magnetic therapy was then applied to the paws. The research results indicate that magnets can significantly reduce swelling if applied immediately after tissue trauma.
Since muscle bruising and joint sprains are the most common injuries worldwide, this discovery has significant implications. “If an injury doesn’t swell, it will heal faster—and the person will experience less pain and better mobility,” says Skalak. This means that magnets could be used much the way ice packs and compression are now used for everyday sprains, bumps, and bruises, but with more beneficial results. The ready availability and low cost of this treatment could produce huge gains in worker productivity and quality of life.
Skalak envisions the magnets being particularly useful to high school, college, and professional sports teams, as well as school nurses and retirement communities. He has plans to continue testing the effectiveness of magnets through clinical trials and testing in elite athletes. A key to the success of magnetic therapy for tissue swelling is careful engineering of the proper field strength at the tissue location, a challenge in which most currently available commercial magnet systems fall short. The new research should allow Skalak’s biomedical engineering group to design field strengths that provide real benefit for specific injuries and parts of the body.
“We now hope to implement a series of steps, including private investment partners and eventually a major corporate partner, to realize these very widespread applications that will make a positive difference for human health,” says Skalak.
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