ELECTRO Magnetotherapy

Therapeutic indications

The use of Magnetotherapy is particularly suitable for the following pathologies:

Fractures

Osteoporosis

Acute and chronic pain

Low back pain

Cervical pain

Dermatological pathologies

Respiratory pathology

Arthrosis

Preparation for dental implantology

Preparation and rehabilitation in hip and knee replacement

Veno-lymphatic drainage

Ulcers

Neuroma at Morton

Reduction of free radicals (antioxidant therapy)

Speeded up recovery in athletic training

Muscle and tendon injuries

Cartilage problems

Stress

Magnetotherapy for fractures, osteoporosis, arthrosis, ulcers, neck pain, cartilage problems.

MAGNETIC THERAPY: THERAPEUTIC AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND APPLICATIONS

MAGNETOTHERAPY

MAGNETIC THERAPY is a form of physiotherapy that uses electromagnetic energy.

It is indicated in cases where it is necessary to stimulate tissue regeneration

after harmful events of various kinds.

Exemplary situations are: the healing of bone fractures, the treatment of skin ulcers

of vascular origin (in diabetics), anatomical and functional recovery

of damaged nerves, the reduction of disfiguring skin scars.

Good effects of magnetotherapy have also been found in treatment

of bruises, joint sprains and all minor muscle-articular traumas.

Strengthens the body's defenses with electrical repolarization of cells.

It produces an anti-stress action, regenerates damaged cells by improving enzymatic kinetics

and repolarizing cell membranes.

Acting on free radicals, trace elements and ferromagnetic substances

of the intracellular environment is of fundamental importance

for the homeostatic balance of the cell; as well as any exposure

to an altered field can lead to repercussions of incalculable magnitude for the cell itself.

Magnetotherapy therefore promotes an acceleration of all repairing phenomena with a clear bioregenerating action,

anti-inflammatory, athyedematous, analgesic without side effects.

 

HOW MAGNETIC THERAPY WORKS

It is known that the cell is enclosed by a membrane that regulates relationships

between compartments, regulates exchanges, adheres to other cells, is the seat

of immunological specificity, participates in movements and division (mitosis),

reacts to mechanical, chemical and electrical stimuli.

The membrane protects the cell and regulates the functions of absorption and excretion

and cell phone recognition; allows selectivity towards permeability

and diffusibility; participates in metabolic processes with surface enzymes.

Magnetotherapy is able to influence the various processes that regulate functions

vital elements of the cell membrane that control what is introduced

in the cell and which produce substances suitable for fighting

anything that is not compatible.

Magnetotherapy, as a particular type of instrumental therapy, uses different types

of devices with different procedures.

The effect of magnetic fields on organisms takes place at the regulatory level

neuro-vegetative and cellular metabolic.

We know that biopolymers and cell membranes are basically tiny

batteries whose voltage delivered could be measured.

More precisely, in healthy nerve cells, it is measured between the internal nucleus

and the outer membrane a potential difference of 90 millivolts,

in the other cells this voltage is around 70 millivolts.

When these tiny batteries in our body run out, the body senses it

the consequences in the form of pain in the back, bones, joints,

inflammatory processes, wounds that do not heal.

When these cells become ill, due to an infection or trauma, or any other cause,

they lose their energy reserve, that is, they run down, therefore a healthy cell should

have a voltage of 70 millivolts, when ill it only measures 50-55.

If this voltage drops below 30 millivolts, necrosis occurs, that is, the death of the cell.

The purpose of magnetotherapy is to recharge and regenerate cells deprived of life force.

INFLUENCES OF MAGNETIC FIELDS

Electromagnetic waves favor: increase in peripheral blood flow resolution of muscle spasm

acceleration of the transmission of the nervous stimulus

Consequently we have:

1. ANTI-EDEMY AND ANTI-PHLOGISTIC ACTION

2. NEUROREGULATION BY ACTION ON THE HYPOTHALAMUS, or ADRENAL, or LIVER

AND SPLEEN WITH CONSEQUENT PAIN RELIEF AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECT

AND AN ACTION ON FREE RADICALS.

There is therefore a more marked well-being over time and a more lasting biological action.

BIOENERGY INFLUENCES OF MAGNETIC FIELDS

1. EFFECTS ON THE PERIPHERAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

Increased ion exchange at the cell membrane level.

Increased amplitude of the electroencephalographic tracing.

Membrane stabilization with hyperpolarization phenomena related to influenza

on the sodium-potassium pump and on ion exchanges.

Normalization of electrical conductivity.

Analgesic effect

Increased mental performance and individual performance.

Neuroregulatory action at the level of the diencephalon, of the substance

reticularis, hypothalamus, adrenal gland, liver and spleen.

EFFECTS ON BONE TISSUE

Pulsed magnetic fields improve osteogenesis; Level action

of the osteoblast membrane and on the piezoelectric effect of the bone.

Lively production and deposition of collagen with greater ordering

and structural orientation.

Increased vascular blood flow (oxygen deficiency is a highly suspected factor

in the etiopathogenesis of pseudarthrosis. )

Increased mineralization and reactivation of quiescent cells.

Organizational effect.

Increased bone strength.

Increased electrical activity (electrochemical in nature) at the fracture site.

It has in fact been demonstrated that an electromagnetic signal on the cell membrane causes reactivation

of the mesenchymal cells of the periosteum associated with a local inhibition of parathyroid hormone.

 

EFFECTS ON THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

The same effects on the cell membrane and the autonomic nervous system are important

described previously.

Regulation of motility.

ANTI-AGEING TISSUE ACTION

Contribution of negative charges. Action on collagen. Vasodilation. Improved metabolism of the skin and connective tissue.

 

EFFECTS ON INFLAMMATION

Anti-edema effect. Effect on the sodium-potassium pump. Modification of membrane permeability. Resolution of intra-axonal edema. Bacteriostatic activity. Resolution of muscle spasm. Analgesic action. Effect on hormonal neuroregulation, even locally. Acceleration of tissue healing processes soft. Normalization of the potential difference between the injured region

of the cell membrane and normal region (there is an imbalance of the potential

rest in many pathologies).

EFFECTS ON BLOOD

Ion diffusion (Lorentz principle). Hall effect (on moving charges). In the case of variable pulsating flow (such as arterial flow) the electromagnetic field

is able to influence circulatory pathology.

Decreased aggregation of red blood cells and platelets. Opening of precapillary sphincters with mechanism of action

also neurohormonal.

Ultrastructural modifications of the capillary walls. Physico-chemical modifications of the blood. Decreased ESR, α2-globulins and mucoproteins. Favorable action on the vessels and their contents (for fields of poor

intensity and frequency).

Accentuation of ischemic pain at the beginning. In the case of trophic lesions, both biomagnetic effects are obtained, with greater use of oxygen,

what an increase in bioelectric effects

with increase in physiological proliferation due to the piezoelectric effect.

Stimulation of the reticuloendothelial system and therefore

of the body's defenses.

Increased peripheral blood flow and increased velocity

of blood flow.

Increased immunoglobulin-G and leukocytosis. Decreased blood sugar (especially in hyperglycemics), nonspecific increase

of SGOT, slight variations more or less in azotemia.

No changes were demonstrated in plasma electrolytes thereafter

20 daily sessions of 30' each.

MAGNETIC THERAPY: PREVENTING AND TREATING INJURIES

Magnetotherapy is a discipline that is halfway between conventional

and the alternative (has been nationally recognized as a therapy

homeopathic and naturopathic).

This situation already highlights how complex it is to talk about it with knowledge

of the cause, without indulging in easy optimism or hasty criticism.

The first difficulty lies in understanding "what" works.

Try asking a therapist and he will surely answer:

"A magnetic field".

Then try asking him what a magnetic field is and in 90% of cases

(not to say 99%) the answer will be evasive, in any case conceptually incorrect.

THE MAGNETIC FIELD

An "acceptable" definition of magnetic field is probably a good test

for a physics major; in fact it is possible to use different definitions

which, curiously, retrace the history of physics of the last 200 years.

Here we are looking for a informative summary, understandable to all.

First of all, let's start by saying that the word field simply indicates

a region of space (with certain properties).

A magnetic field is a region of space where particular forces act;

these forces can be generated by a magnet, by an electric current

or by an electric field that varies over time.

For example, everyone knows the attractive force of a magnet on iron filings.

Less known is the fact that such a magnetic force can be generated

even by an electric current.

Historically, the English physicist Maxwell brought together electricity and magnetism in a single theory

(the cornerstone of which were Maxwell's equations) which connected

the two fields, electric and magnetic (electromagnetism).

Albert Einstein later demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields are actually

two aspects of the same phenomenon.

THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD

At a therapeutic level, low intensity magnetic fields are obviously used.

Note - The unit of measurement of the magnetic field in the cgs system

(centimetre, gram, second) is the Oersted, but almost all instruments give the indication in gauss (G);

the gauss is the unit of measurement of the magnetic flux density in the cgs system, while in the mks system

(meter, kilogram, second) is the tesla: 1 T=G.

The "physical" confusion is then increased by the fact that manufacturers call the density "power" of the instrument

of flow is produced by their device.

Generally speaking, a magnetic field can act on cells

(particularly those of the bone system), helping to re-establish normal biological function, without particular side effects.

There are therapies (see for example tecar therapy) that combine magnetic fields with other therapeutic factors,

while classic magnetotherapy only uses magnetic fields.

THREE TYPES OF MAGNETIC THERAPY

If you didn't get lost in the explanation of the term "magnetic field", it should be clear

that there may be different forms of magnetotherapy, depending on the source of the magnetic field.

We can define three:

static; low frequency; radio frequency (or high frequency).

Static magnetotherapy uses magnets to be applied to the part to be treated, it is the simplest. Low frequency magnetotherapy uses variable fields with frequencies from 10 to 200 Hz (cycles per second) and flux density

also 50 to 300 gauss.

3. High frequency magnetic therapy uses radio frequencies

(from 18 to 900 MHz), therefore considerably higher than those of low frequency instrumentation

(1 MHz means one million Hz).

WORKS?

Obviously, to make the best use of the therapy it is necessary to generate the field appropriately,

ensuring that its action is truly reparative.

This attention is certainly used in the instrumentation, but it is really optimistic to hope

that a "static" magnet applied to the diseased part can interact with it in the best possible way.

Static magnetotherapy must therefore be considered outside of a scientific vision of the medical art.

In the other two types of magnetotherapy there is a fundamental problem:

the duration of treatment.

Serious research shows that magnetotherapy is able to halve the time

of healing pathologies affecting the skeletal system with applications

of several hours a day for several weeks.

The attempt to cure a pathology therefore appears to lack scientific depth

with a 10 minute application 3 times a week (the time effect is exploited).

It is no coincidence that, to have some practical results, it is now possible to rent

the instrumentation and perform the treatment at home.

A serious treatment must have these characteristics:

Session between 30 and 90 minutes; Two sessions a day (with a break of at least two hours between one and the other); If you don't feel any particular discomfort, use the frequency selector

at the maximum expected frequency.

In any case, the efficiency of the therapy never goes beyond 50% (i.e. at most it halves

healing times); therefore it is advisable to use it only for pathologies

of a certain severity with rather long prognoses.

HIGH and LOW frequency magnetotherapy.

"Magnetotherapy" high frequency (HF), low frequency (BF).

The validity of the application of magnetic fields in the therapeutic field has been recognized at an official level

in the medical field only in recent decades, but the study and observation of the relationship

between magnetic fields and living organisms began towards the end of the 1500s.

It has been discovered, thanks to the aid of electron microscopes, that electromagnetic pulses are effective

to excite the cells with the consequence of determining a rapid regeneration action

of bone and skin tissues, and also increase significantly

also the body's immune defenses.

These impulses, especially the high frequency (HF) ones, improve

blood circulation and are able to stimulate production

of endorphins by the autonomic nervous system, with consequent reduction

of pain associated with various pathogenic states and an effective anti-inflammatory action.

Low frequency (BF) pulses, however, have also proven capable

to stimulate greater assimilation of calcium, a very important factor,

as the bones strengthen, they are much less subject to the risk of fractures,

onset of degenerative diseases and osteoporosis.

It is also important to underline that this therapy, contrary to normal pharmacological therapies,

It does not poison the body and does not generate any side effects;

and also offers the advantage, compared to other therapies,

not needing to search for particular points for the application,

as it is sufficient to place the radiating sensor on the painful area.

The effects of magnetotherapy are many, we list some of them below:

analgesic effect (HF) (BF) neuroregulatory action on the hypothalamus, liver and spleen (HF) regulation of intestinal motility (HF) (BF) anti-aging action of tissues (HF) (BF) improvement of skin metabolism ( HF ) ( BF ) bacteriostatic activity ( HF ) ( BF ) acceleration of soft tissue healing processes ( HF ) ( BF ) elimination of muscle spasm ( HF ) ( BF ) increase in peripheral blood flow and blood flow speed. (HF)

And also regarding the effects on bone tissue:

increased bone strength (BF) improved osteogenesis (BF) increased mineralization (BF) increased production and deposition of collagen (HF) (BF) increased vascular blood supply, etc. (HF) (BF)

Magnetotherapy is used for:

relieve muscular and rheumatic pain (HF) accelerate the healing of wounds and sores (HF) treat myalgia, arthrosis, lumbago, sciatica, migraines, headaches, dizziness (HF) accelerate calcification in bone fractures (BF) treat varicose veins, phlebitis, vasculopathies , gingivitis, sinusitis, rhinitis, otitis, tendinitis, talalgia (HF) (BF) cure all inflammatory conditions (HF) rejuvenate the skin by reducing wrinkles (HF) strengthen the body's immune defenses (HF)