When chemical components like cholesterol rise in our body, these pathways become narrow. The blood thickens and may get clot in these pathways. In such situations, a fatal conditions called cardiac arrest takes place. This article tries to understand how magnetic therapy technique of cardiac MRI is beneficial in detecting cardiac arrest.

Benefits of Cardiac MRI imaging technique: The technique involves passing the patients body through a very strong magnetic field. The image of the inner organs of the body can be viewed in a computer. There are no threats of radiation. The technique is useful in following purposes:

• The doctors can understand the state of the various parts and their function of the heart.
• The thickness of the veins and arteries can be examined.
• Detect the build up of cholesterol in the walls of veins and arteries and clotting of blood.
• Identify heart various heart related diseases.
• Study the effects of already existing heart diseases on the organ.
• Assessment of the damage caused by a heart attack.
• Plan a treatment for the patient depending upon the latest state of the heart.
• Assessment of the progress of a heart patient recovering from a heart attack.

In this way, the technique of cardiac MRI is very beneficial to the doctors in dealing with heart related diseases of their patients.

What is Bone Metastasis : Metastasis is the technical name given to spreading of the harmful cancer cells to other parts of the body. One of the most common sites for metastasis to begin are the bones. The harmful cancer cells release the calcium from the bone. This make the bones become weak. The released calcium mix with blood. This rise of calcium in blood in turn leads to several health risks.

Knowledge Gained from Research about Bone Metastasis:

• A research study was conducted (dated Sep.2003) at the Department of Radiology, Institut Gustave-Roussy, 39 rue Camille Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif Cedex, France.
• The researchers wanted to the understand the effectiveness of the magnetic resonance imaging technique in detecting cancer causing lesions in the bones.
• A lesion is any abnormal tissue (collection of cells), found in an organism, damaged by any disease.
• Such tissues are common to be found in the bones attacked by cancer cells during metastasis.
• The lesions or the bone marrow contain fat and water in different proportions.
• The technique of Magnetic resonance imaging, sensitive to the fat and water, use this fact and produce a picture of the cancer infected region.
• The researchers found that the technique is particularly useful after undergoing radiation therapy treatment.
• It can easily detected the newly damaged cancer cells or lesions after the treatment.
• This technique can produce a picture of any harmful, pain causing cancer cells left out, even after the treatment of chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
• In this way, the technique can be instrumental in assessing effectiveness of existing treatment techniques of cancer pain.

“We have systematically researched and reviewed the literature looking at the effect of acupuncture on brain activation as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography. These studies show that specific and largely predictable areas of brain activation and deactivation occur when considering the traditional Chinese functions attributable to certain specific acupuncture points. For example, points associated with hearing and vision stimulates the visual and auditory cerebral areas respectively.”

– Researchers George T. Lewith, Peter J. White and Jeremie Pariente.

Knowledge Gained from Research about acupuncture points:

• Researches were done on these points at the the University of Southampton, United Kingdom and Purpan Hospital of Toulouse, France, in 2005.
• The techniques used by the researchers were the latest ones in the field of Magnetic therapy like magnetic resonance imaging MRI.
• The researchers found that magnetic field influenced some parts of brain. These parts were associated with the vision and hearing abilities of the body.

Neodymium acu-magnets used to influence acupuncture points:

• The strength of these magnets is around 13,500 Gauss.
• Such a magnetic field is powerful enough to enlarge the nerves and tissues surrounding the special points.
• The magnetic energy then reaches these points effectively and influence them providing therapeutic relief.

How Magnetic Therapy Deals with Bipolar Active Disorder: The latest technique in the field of Magnetic Therapy is the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Here, in this technique, electrical energy is used to active the cells of the brain. Especially the region of the brain associated with the mood regulation is influenced by this technique. The effectiveness of magnetic therapy lies in the fact that the applied technique is very accurate. It influences only the intended region of the brain without influences the functions of the other parts.

The Road Ahead in Treating Bipolar Active Disorder: The relief comes with time. The treatment is to be continuously taken for two weeks. After that appreciable changes can be seen. Once the treatment is discontinued, there may be a possible comeback of the symptoms. According to the researchers involved with applying this technique on patients, there are no serious side effects observed. However some patients complained of headache. This technique is mostly in its experimental stage. The researchers are still trying to make the technique more effective and affordable for the people to buy in the market.

Symptoms of Post-polio Syndrome:

• Slow muscle weakness.
• Fatigue.
• Muscle atrophy.
• Change in the bone structure.
• Joint Pains.

Knowledge Gained from Magnetic therapy research about Post-polio pain:

• The research was carried out by Dr. Carlos Vallbona, at the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Taxes in April 1997.
• 50 post-polio syndrome patients were chosen for the study.
• Thirty-nine participants were women and 11 of them were men aged 50. They developed the post-polio syndrome during their 40s.
• Magnets of 300 to 500 Gauss strength were applied on the regions were the pain originated in these patients for 45 minutes.
• 76% patients reported pain relief after the study concluded.

Possible explanation for the post-polio pain relief through Magnetic therapy: According to Dr. Vallbona, there was no clear explanation available for the quick and significant pain relief observed in the patients. However, he supposed that the magnetic energy could affect the pain receptors at the joints. This resulted in the change of signals sent to the brain causing relief. The pain receptors are responsible for receiving and sending signals to and from the brain.

Knowlegde gained from research about Neurorehabilitation by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation:

• Researchers Dr Fortunato Battaglia and Dr Hoau-Yan Wang of the City University in New York conducted the research study(dated May 2007).
• They applied the technique of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on experimental mice for five days.
• This technique involves producing electric current by changing the direction of applied magnetic fields on the subjects.
• The produced electric current, when passed on the brain of the subjects, stimulate the brain cells called neurons.
• The researchers found that this technique caused developing of new brain cells in the mice.
• If the technique will be successful in humans too, then even the dreadful Alzheimer’s Disease can be treated.
• The research study also found that the technique can produce the very useful stem cells.
• The stem cells are the immature cells in our body with the potential to develop in any tissue or organ in the near future.

How Neurorehabilatation is possible with Transcranial Magnetic stimulation: According to the researchers of this study, whenever there ia an injury, there are many ways in which the affected region tries to recover. One such means is the excess functioning of the unaffected regions to compensate for the functions of the affected regions. This is achieved in the case of experimental mice by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation technique. So, the researchers are hopeful that the technique will be beneficial when applied successfully on humans too. They however have to understand the exact mechanism by which the brain cells respond to the magnetic stimulation.

The Basics of Electromagnetic Therapy:

Substances in nature are divided in to different classes electrically and magnetically. This classification is based on the extent to which the substances respond to the electric and magnetic field. Electrically, substances are classified as conductors, insulators and semi-conductors.

Conductors: These are the substances highly responsive to the electric field.

Insulators: These are the substances which do not respond to electric field much.

Semi-conductors: These substances fall in between the former groups in terms of the response the give to the electric field.

Magnetically, the substances are classified in to three groups. They are ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic substances.

Ferromagnetic substances: These substances are strongly influenced by the magnetic field.

Paramagnetic substances: These substances are weakly influenced by the magnetic field.

Diamagnetic substances: These substances repel the applied magnetic field.

How Electromagnetic Therapy works: The human body is highly sensitive to electricity as its is a conductor. Different parts of the body however respond differently to magnetic field. In electromagnetic therapy, electric and magnetic fields are applied simultaneoulsy on an organ. The atom and molecules which make up the organ respond to these fields. These responses of the organ are captured in the form of an image. In this way, the information about the affected organ can be collected. It is the response of these atoms and molecules which produce the healing effects too claimed by this therapy.

Basics required to appreciate the technique:

• The brain is the organ which orders all the other organs of the body to function.
• It passes orders in the form of electrical signals.
• There are millions of cells in the brain called neurons which capture and transmit these signals from one corner to other corner.
• When disturbances take place in the passing of these signals from one neuron to other, disorders like Aphasia take place.
• Patients suffering from this disorder of the brain cannot speak, write and comprehend properly.
• According to an estimate 80,000 people get affected by this disorder every year either by head injury or by stroke.

What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation:

• This technique is based on the law of electromagnetic induction in Physics.
• According to this law, whenever the direction of magnetic field chances, electrical current can be produced.
• Using this principle, electrical signals are artificially generated in the neurons of the aphasia patients.
• These generated signals on continuous basis carry out functions of the body in these patients.
• Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts carried out the study of transcranial magnetic stimulation technique on Aphasia patients with positive results.
• The recent findings about aphasia treatment definitely raises hopes in the hearts of the millions.

What is Fibromyalgia: It is a medical name given to a widespread pain in the body coupled with disturbed sleep, and fatigue. This pain Fibromyalgia take place in the muscles and the soft tissues of the body. The nervous system causes the symptoms of the pain to get intensified several times.

Symptoms of Fibromyalgia: These symptoms repeat themselves after a stipulated period of time and affect the patient whole day.

• Pain
• Fatigue
• Memory and Concentration
• Sleep Disorder
• Exercise Difficulties
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Chronic Headaches
• Jaw Pain

Factors which increase the symptoms are:

• Weather changes,
• Hormonal changes,
• Cold,
• Stress,
• Anxiety,
• Fatigue,
• Depression.

Magnetic Therapy and Fibromyalgia:


Knowledge Gained from Research Study:

• Researchers from the University of Virginia conducted a study on 94 Fibromyalgia patients.
• The study was the largest of its kind and tried to understand the impact of rigorous clinical trials of magnetic therapy on the patients of Fibromyalgia.
• The participants were divided in to four groups.
• Group One: These people slept on specially designed magnetic therapy mattress covers influencing the whole body.
• Group Two: These people used mattress covers which influenced certain affected parts of the body only with magnetic therapy.
• Group Three: They slept with mattress cover that had no magnets in it.
• Group Four: This group used no magnetic therapy technique.
• The study was carried out for a period of 6 months.
• According to the researchers from the University of Virginia, there were significant reduction in the intensity of pain in the first two groups of Fibromyalgia Patients.
• Their study was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
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The human body is made up of charged particles called ions. These charged particles are of two types. The positively charged and the negatively charged particles. From the field of Biochemistry we learn that the negatively charged particles are responsible for our well being. The postively charged particles cause us pain and sufferings. Magnets used in magentictherapy possess magnetic force. This force is charge dependent. It means that charged particles like ions get influenced when they come under the magnetic forces. This article tries of understand the health implications of this fact of nature.



What are Ions: All things in the universe are made up of particles called molecules. The molecules are a collection of atoms in turn. Every atom is made up of charged particles called protons(postively charged) and electrons (negatively charged). Normally, the protons and electrons are equal in number inside an atom. But the electrons can be easily pulled out of an atom. Then, the number of postive particles increase in number and the atom turns into a positive ION called the “cation”, technically. The other atom which captures the liberated electron, now has neagtively charged particles in high number. Even here, the atom turns in to a negative ION called “anion”, technically.

How Magnetic Force Influences Ions: According to Physics, there is a formula which calculates the magnetic force exerted by a magneton charged particles in motion. The formula is F= qvb.

where F = Magentic Force experienced by the ions;

q = The charge of the ion, either positive or negative;

v = the speed with which the ions are in motion;

b = the strength of the magnetic field of the magnet.

How Magentictherapy relieves Pain based on these facts: Biochemistry states that pain and swellings in the body are caused by accumalation of postive ions in a certain region of the body. When magentictherapy is used for treatment, the magnetic force influence the positive ions and push them away from the cite of accumulation. This causes relieving of pain and swelling.

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