Magnetic Therapy Studies Confirm Magnetic Therapy Is Not A Placebo

Posted by admin | Magnetic Pain Relief | Thursday 12 February 2009 1:47 pm

Magnetic Therapy Does Work Studies Confirm

Magnetic Therapy Study

Magnetic Therapy Gaining Strength As More Studies Prove It works.

You watched the video and you witnessed for yourself how the Mayo Clinic is finding medical magnetic therapy can work for migraine headaches. Migraine headaches cost individual time off from work, time with their family, and quality of life. The following article will demonstrate how studies are finding more evidence of the power of magnetic healing.

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Many doctors of western medicine have claimed for years that any benefits that an individual received from using magnetic therapy products was due to a placebo effect: patients assumed that it worked, and so it probably did. But there’s now mounting proof that magnetic treatment can be effective. More than three hundred research groups around the globe, at establishments as celebrated and mainstream as Imperial University London, and California, Yale and Harvard schools, have found proof of positive effects. It can even, it is suggested, help to straighten crooked teeth, encourage bone to grow and help people who hear voices but have not answered to drug treatments. Back in ancient Egyptian times and beyond, it’s probable the original idea of magnet care flowered from the strange consequences of natural stones. There seems to be two main methods of using magnets for medical purposes.

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The high tech way is magnetic kick of the brain, while the more conventional method uses others sorts of magnet to excite express areas of the body. There is proof that both approaches work in different ways for different conditions.

One of the landmark studies for the high tech way has come out of an Israel Institute of Technology, which showed clearly that magnetic ignition of the brain eases serious depression.
Half of the patients also had little need for further treatment with electroconvulsive treatment, while all those who had received a placebo did end up needing treatment. In a study at the Medical Varsity of South Carolina, they took twenty depressed patients, who hadn’t found any relief from any medicine, had the treatment for twenty minutes a day for a couple of weeks, and 10 had a magnet applied to their scalp but no treatment.

In twelve the twenty patients, symptoms were reduced by fifty per cent, while not one of the group of ten improved. This permits us, for the 1st time, to stimulate the brain non-invasive while the person is awake and alert.

It was shown by Dr Declan McLoughlin, an advisor psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He stated that it could be demonstrated quite easily. “For example, if I were to take a magnetic coil and move it over parts of the brain that control the movement of body parts, I could make the small finger, then the middle finger, and then the thumb move.”

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The trick with TMS is to put up the fields over the particular area of the brain that wishes retuning. It is understood from the outcome of scanning patients with depression that there’s reduced activity and blood flow in the left frontal lobe, an area of the brain above the forehead that is involved in thinking and planning. In the care, a wire coil is held near to the patient’s scalp above the left frontal lobe to provide a magnetic field that passes thru the skull and into the brain to get activity up to ordinary levels.

In the treatment, an electromagnet is put over the cerebral cortex. This high -tech approach has been used successfully, used in cases of epilepsy and schizophrenia. This magnetic therapy was also used by Yale analysts on patients who had been hearing voices. The analysts said these patients appear to take advantage of TMS for as much as a year, often more.

Researchers at the University of Washington did a study on patients who had suffered chronic pain for many years as a result of spinal-cord injury, they put a magnet on the shoulder of these patients, and after the magnet was put on the shoulder for one hour, pain levels were cut in half.

It was believed by the researchers that the treatment using the magnets might work by the magnet properties acting on the nerves, but it was inconclusive exactly how this action occurred. One thought was that the magnetic magnets worked on blood flow on the blood, research using animals has shown that blood flow does increase by the movement of magnetic fields through tissue. More thoughts by researchers suggest that magnet therapy may alter changes skin temperature; this action has an effect on iron in the blood; improves oxygenation of the blood; alters the pH balance; improves electrical conductivity of cells; or stimulates new cell growth.

An exciting addendum is that Canadian researchers, who reviewed all the research on magnetic therapy and osteoarthritis, propose that magnetic healing therapy stimulates new cartilage cells to grow. Sales of magnetic products such as magnetic bracelets, magnetic necklaces, magnetic back braces, and more extensive list are growing rapidly as more, and more information is proving that magnetic therapy is not a placebo, but the real deal!