Magnetic Arthritis Relief- FDA Approves Magnetic Therapy Treatments
FDA Approves Magnetic Therapy Treatments
Magnetic Pain Relief
Studies and patient trials are starting to point to medical magnets as a genuine course of treatment for many illnesses, and injuries. Medical magnets are finding their way into modern medical facilities to accelerate the healing process after surgery, or injury. Many physicians and everyday people roll their eyes and shake their heads at the thought of magnetic healing therapy. Scam is the word thrown around.
However, if you start to research the new findings and studies you can gain a better understanding of the function of medical magnets. You may decide that magnetic healing therapy is not a quackery of fools, and scam artists trying to make a quick buck.
Magnetic healing is actually an alternative form of healing with many benefits.
There may be some who will tell you that magnetic healing therapy can cure cancer, diabetes or other outrageous claim. You will not find that here. I make no claims of cures.
Magnetic healing has been around thousands of years, but it is just now finding roots in western medicine. Magnetic healing is finding a niche as an add on alternative treatment to modern medical treatments. Used together with other types of treatments to reduce pain and speed up the method of healing.
Where medical magnets shine is not in curing illnesses, but in their powerful ability to reduce pain.
Magnetic healing therapy can be used for arthritis pain relief, tennis elbow, back pain, and many more chronic pain conditions. Magnets work by balancing the body, increasing blood flow, and decreasing inflammation that causes pain. The Mayo Clinic the big wigs of medicine have a magnetic device to treat migraines. Mayo Clinic and they would not have it if it did not work!
Medical magnets to not require a prescription, and have no know side affect unless you have implanted devices, then you should steer clear of magnetic healing therapy.
If you can simply let go of some of your media generated biases toward alternative treatments you may find that magnetic healing is possible and may work for you. Not everyone will get the same amount of relief, but when you take medication no two people will have the same pain relief results either, so give it a try, and if you find out if it will work for you. Medical magnets are relatively inexpensive, but do not try to use your refrigerator magnets they are not strong enough and you might get a rash where you place them on your skin!
Read below an interesting article the new treatment using magnets for depression, and the FDA approves.
New Studies Show ThatMagnetic Treatments Lifts Some Depression
MENTAL HEALTH
By Shankar Vedantam
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Steve Newman had suffered from major depression since age 13.
He had tried many treatments, including medications and psychotherapy. As he approached 60, single by necessity and friendless by choice, he decided that his train had only two stops left. One option: shock therapy, or ECT — a controversial technique that involves inducing seizures. He wasn’t eager to try it. He was working in Florida as an insurance agent when he heard about the other option. The idea sounded like science fiction: the use of high-power magnets to cure depression — a technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS.
“I would have jumped into a volcano to get better,” Newman said. “I decided I would try TMS and then ECT, and, if neither of them worked, I was going to consider suicide.”
He gave up his job and, in 2005, moved to Philadelphia, where he signed up for a magnetic-therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania.
Weeks after the treatments began, he said, he awoke one morning and found that his depression had vanished.
“It was like a light switch went on and I had my life back,” said Newman, who works at the National Institutes of Health in Washington.
In October, the Food and Drug Administration approved magnetic therapy as a treatment for major depression. Many scientists think the technique is a harbinger of things to come. Researchers are probing its effects on schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.
The basic principle behind the treatment is less kooky than it sounds and comes not from psychiatry but physics — the 19th-century discovery of electromagnetism.
TMS uses electromagnetism to induce small electric currents inside the brain. Patients are seated in what looks like a dentist’s chair, and a magnetic coil is placed by the left side of their foreheads. A powerful, fluctuating magnetic field is started.
The field stimulates neurons, or nerve cells, which are electrochemical agents. This alters blood flow and metabolic activity in the brain.
In the trial that Newman participated in, patients received about 3,000 rapid magnetic pulses in less than 40 minutes. Doctors aimed the magnetic field at the patients’ left prefrontal cortex (around the left temple), an area that has been implicated in depression. Patients sometimes reported a tingling in their scalp or slight pain.
“When you give an anti-depressant, the pill alters the electrochemical properties of the cell,” said Mark Demitrack, chief medical officer at Neuronetics, the Malvern, Pa., company that has developed the magnetic therapy device NeuroStar. “This is the flip side of the same coin. It is just a different way of getting at the same end effect: to change, restore or alter the functioning of nerve cells.”
No one really knows what is specifically happening in the brain to cause depression, and no one really knows why TMS, psychotherapy and other treatments work.
Newman’s case is striking but might not be representative. Many scientists think the jury is still out on the utility of TMS for depression.The FDA wrestled with the approval of the magnetic device for years. In early 2007, an advisory committee said it was unimpressed with the results of the trial in which Newman participated.
The concern wasn’t about safety — it seemed that TMS was much safer than medication and shock therapy — but whether it was effective. Only about one in six patients who received the treatment were cured in six weeks. So were one in 20 patients who got the placebo treatment.
A reasonable person could question whether the study had found any benefit at all, said Thomas Brott, the chairman of the FDA advisory committee and a Mayo Clinic neurologist in Florida.
The agency, said FDA spokesman Scott McFarland, determined that the treatment seemed especially effective for a subset of patients.
Patients who had unsuccessfully tried one antidepressant (as opposed to many treatments) seemed most likely to respond to TMS, Demitrack said.
The FDA approval last month recommends the magnetic therapy for patients who have failed one round of prior treatment.
Among patients who stayed on the therapy after the main study ended, Demitrack said, almost one in three were cured after six weeks — a measure, he said, of what patients might expect in real-world settings.
A course of TMS treatment might run $6,000 to $8,000 because insurance isn’t likely to cover it, said Philip Janicak, a professor of psychiatry at Rush University in Chicago who helped conduct the study.
The therapy, he said, is another tool for physicians.
“Is it the new standard of treatment for depression that will replace all other treatments and resolve all the problems we have with depression? No, it is not,” Janicak said. “We don’t have a treatment like that yet.”
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/11/21/1A_MAGNET_TREATMENT.ART_ART_11-21-08_D1_RDBU2K9.html?sid=101
For more information, call 1-877-600-7555 or visit www.neuronetics.com.
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