For most people, pain control means reaching for pills or other medication. If the pain is unbearable, they look to surgery for relief. Now, there may be an alternative solution. Doctors have rediscovered the ancient art of magnetic therapy. Like acupuncture without the puncture. Aided by science and technology, this new approach offers new relief and renewed vigor for people of all ages.. If the pain is unbearable, they look to surgery for relief. Now, there may be an alternative solution. Doctors have rediscovered the ancient art of magnetic therapy. Like acupuncture without the puncture. Aided by science and technology, this new approach offers new relief and renewed vigor for people of all ages. For most people, pain control means reaching for pills or other medication. If the pain is unbearable, they look to surgery for relief. Now, there may be an alternative solution. Doctors have rediscovered the ancient art of magnetic therapy. Like acupuncture without the puncture. Aided by science and technology, this new approach offers new relief and renewed vigor for people of all ages.

Imagine a flexible strip magnet placed on your skin that helps the body knit together broken bones and mend soft tissue injuries such as tendons in a fraction of the usual time required. Imagine a tiny magnet the size of a silver dollar that can aid in reducing the discomfort of carpel tunnel syndrome without chemicals or surgery. Imagine a 6x7" pad that helps relieve chronic back pain that you have been dealing with by taking pain pills every day. Imagine a magnetic mattress pad that enables you to have a restful sleep for the fist time in years.

If this all sounds like Star Trek, you're wrong. This amazing approach to boosting the body's energy to natural healing is here today! It is called Magnetic Field Therapy. Paradoxically, it is one of the oldest and also one of the newest approaches used to restore health and well being. It is based on the natural laws of physics as well as the undisputed medical fact that the body itself is the healer of all disease. Every doctor practicing medicine knows that the human body was designed to heal itself. All any doctor can do is help the healing process along and make sure that the patient does not make things worse. In Japan and other Asian countries, therapeutic magnets are licensed as medical devices and the patient needs a prescription.

Today, all over the world, scientist and physicians are working with magnetic therapy. Orthopedic surgeons are using it to speed the mending of bones. Neurologists are using it to relieve damaged nerves as in carpel tunnel syndrome at the wrist. Chiropractic physicians are using magnets to speed the healing of musculoskeletal injury and pain. Professional horse trainers have been using magnets to speed healing of injuries on multimillion-dollar racehorses for decades!

BALANCING ENERGY FLOW

Magnets work on the same principles as Acupuncture but without the needles. They fit perfectly into the Eastern concept of Medicine. Eastern medicine believes that health is a result of proper and balanced energy flow.

By contrast, our western medical model is based on biochemistry. We are looked at as biochemical machines. If there is something wrong, we use chemicals to fix it.

Acupuncture and Magnetic Field Therapy

Acupuncturist use hair-thin needles. Acupuncture was considered as quackery by Western medicine only 3 decades ago. Not any more. Twenty-one states in the United States license Acupuncturist and many insurance companies now cover it.

Magnetic therapy uses magnets instead of needles. These flexible, rubberized, permanently charged magnet pads, cut into various sizes can be attached to an injury site or acupuncture site. Much like acupuncture, the magnets re-establish order or balance and allow healing to take place, or so goes the theory.

An Orthopedic Surgeon uses Magnets

Dr. Don MacNay, an orthopedic surgeon, says that statistics show a staggering increase in back and other skeletal problems. He wonders if those problems are due in part to waning of the magnetic field of the earth. Dr. MacNay recounts his excitement upon discovering magnetic therapy, "During my 20 years in Orthopedics, I have dealt as best I could with spinal problems while searching for some better way to help my patients. We medical doctors need to create a new medical society based on these newer principles.

A Neurologist uses Magnets

Ron Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D. is a neurologist in Agoura Hills California who uses magnets in his practice. He states that the way the magnets work is being studied but some things we know for sure. One is that it increases the blood flow markedly. Within twenty minutes, we will get as much as a three hundred percent increase in blood flow to the part. The blood stream contains ions, which are positive and negative just like the magnet. The magnet influences and changes certain characteristics of these ions. The basic science research shows that there are other changes at work also, but without getting too technical, blood flow to the part and ionic change are paramount. Dr. Lawrence is the founder of the North American Academy of Magnetic Therapy.

Chiropractic and Magnets

Chiropractic is a non-invasive therapy like magnets that utilizes the body's ability to use its own natural recuperative powers to restore itself to normal function. Chiropractic principles are ironically predicated on Eastern medicinal thought in the sense that Chiropractic itself cures nothing. Instead, it uses the body's natural recuperative powers to heal itself. Chiropractic is best practiced for musculoskeletal injuries of somatic origin. Like Orthodontics and braces, Chiropractic involves balancing or fixing mechanical problems that can and do cause pain. When an Orthodontist straightens a patient's teeth with a fixed brace on the teeth, he is making a structural change in the jaw for cosmetic and functional reasons. Chiropractic is the same. We are all biomechanical machines prone to the stresses of life. Chiropractic treatment is a painless treatment that does not necessarily utilize a continuous brace like Orthodontia, but instead uses machines, instruments and the use of the doctor's hands to normalize the skeletal framework of the body. These days this is done painlessly. Magnet therapy is an adjunct to Chiropractic therapy.

Research Findings at Vanderbilt University Medical Center