Is the electromagnetic therapy safe?
The history of Electromagnetic Therapy Science
In the ancient Greek civilization, there was an intriguing mystery of the impact the magnetic fields had on the human body. Health practitioners had been using all forms of therapies they knew to treat and prevent pain. We may say that early usage of magnetic fields is attributed to Greeks, yet they were not really sure about what they were and what their effects were.
Electromagnetic Fields have been researched and then shown to have therapeutic benefits on its users in 1980’ and 1990’. Numerous researches were done on the effect magnets had on living matter. An important research about the effect of Quadra polar magnets was led by Robert Holcomb and Michael McLean who were both neurologists. Their research project established a credible basis for the therapeutic effects of such magnets in the human body. The course of research changed positively regarding the use of magnetic fields to treat health conditions.
Public research encountered problems due to unfair marketing practices. Yet, such a situation did not stop medical researchers investigating PEMF- related possible benefits. The studies about PEMF were further continued. One of them was William Gilbert, who was the president of the Royal College of Physicians. He wrote a book called ‘De Magnete’ which is often regarded as the beginning of modern science.
Stokes Adams and Bell Palsy were two other colleagues who treated a patient with shoulder pain. They used a 20 pound magnet and the patient reported to have been relieved and restored form the pain. They continued doing such practice on many other patients and their cases were published in a two- volume book titled ‘Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physics”. The publication of credible research raised interest in the field and paved the way for further research.
An important breakthrough in medical imagery came through the use of magnetic fields in the early years of the twentieth century. Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques allowed doctors to better diagnose their patients’ structural abnormalities.
Recently, magnetism has been used to treat pain by neurologists, too. MF therapy is gaining credibility and has largely become a complementary therapy in treating skeletal health problems. The advancement of it and further future research will show just as it has that magnetic therapy can be a stand-alone therapy to prevent and treat pain.
What is the Electromagnetic Therapy?
Electromagnetic therapy is a treatment which makes careful use the of electro-charged magnets to help improve your overall health and to treat certain conditions. Pulsed Electromagnetic field therapy also known as magnetic field is used to treat various musculoskeletal conditions and to promote wellness in humans and animals, too.
The use of electromagnetic frequencies helps body cells stimulate a proper ratio among its elements which is necessary for the well-functioning of our bodies .Promoting good functioning of the cells, the therapy helps reduce pain, improves bone metabolism, and accelerates the bone regeneration process which is vital for a patient diagnosed with skeletal disorders.
There are various sites or phases in the healing process where the body may not perform as expected. Such delay in recovery is the stage where the tissues are most vulnerable to the disease state progression from acute to chronic. Cellular communication in our bodies begins with a signal impulse and finally results in a change in cellular behavior. When the change of the cells is a destructive one, the condition one might have been experiencing develops into chronic. Combating such dysfunction requires the establishment of normal cellular communication, as it was before the malfunction. Dysfunction is presented in the form of pain and inflammation and these two are the most common health conditions treated with PEMF therapies.
The benefits of PEMF therapy are primarily preventative due to promotion of overall health maintenance.It is also used to manage pain without medication, accelerate wound healing process, reduce inflammation, and to promote faster rehabilitation for patients experiencing a concussion. It has a positive impact on anxiety and stress and thus promotes not only physical but also mental wellness.
Is Electromagnetic Therapy safe?
Research has shown that electromagnetic therapy is a safe, effective way for treating, especially at the cellular level.
PEMF technology doesn’t cause any harm to the human body. It has been used for many years and it is considered a safe treatment . There are no adverse effects reported with the use of PEMF devices.
The therapy is described as totally painless by patients. It lasts roughly 50 minutes and the patient has to only lay down on a cloth for the therapy to be applied, in the cases the patient is at the clinic using machines of EMT. It is used for some health conditions in conjunction with conventional medical treatment and there are no impactful complications a patient can experience. Its rare side effects might be nausea and feeling dizzy.
How is Electromagnetic Therapy used?
The therapy consists of the immersion of the magnetic fields in patients’ bodies through the use of magnets on big machine devices. Heavy machines are usually used in clinical conditions in physiotherapeutic, rehabilitation and wellness centers. However, there are numerous portable devices patients can use as at-home-treatment, especially to treat specific sites or to promote wellness. Whether you need one device or the other, is the doctor that decides that based on your diagnosis and/or for what purposes you want to use it for.
Low-intensity electromagnetic fields are very effective to prevent, treat and restore damaged sites. Such fields deal with the resonant mechanisms of the biological effects, making it a safe therapy.
A user of PEMF therapy is normally exposed to low frequency electromagnetic fields. The body adapts to new conditions in a more biological and natural way. Such adaptation is accompanied by the tendency to restore the healthy state of PEMF users.
In other words, PEMF treatment promotes the natural healing processes and it does this without causing intervention in the human body making it an effective and safe treatment.
What does the research say about Electromagnetic Therapy?
Studies conducted regarding EMF therapy demonstrate that its use treats musculoskeletal conditions and promotes general wellness without using medication or invasive methods. It is used as a stand-alone treatment but there conditions which EMF therapy is a complementary treatment only.
The biological effects of magnetic fields are manifested on all levels of a living person and/or animal. The positive impact of magnetic fields results from energy storage, energy transfer, charge transfer which are all biological processes.
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