Magnet therapy and Arthritis

Quantified - the total cost of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions cost the United States a staggering $86 billion dollars per year.

Why? Arthritis, which means joint inflammation, is an incapacitating illness. One that is chronic in nature. For many of the estimated 70 million Americans who suffer from over 100 kinds of arthritis, such simple active walking, bending, kneeing, or climbing can be an occasion for much pain, swelling, redness and heat between their joints.

Arthritis immobilizes the patient, and makes even basic social gatherings such as visiting family and friends or attending the church almost impossible. Arthritis is in fact the leading cause of disability in the country today.

Arthritis patients take NSAIDs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These drugs offer continuous pain relief. However, NSAID has many serious physical side effects.

The medical dilemma for the arthritis patients is clear. Should he or she continue to take NSAID medication to stop the pains, at the risking of contracting another disease? For using this medication, over long term basis increases the patient’s susceptibility to contract stomach ulcers and perorations.

What does magnet therapy offer patients suffering from arthritis? An opportunity to complement their current medical therapy. To help the patient reduce cut back on medicines, with the use of magnet therapy. What is magnet therapy? It is the use of magnets to heal and alleviate the patient’s suffering. The use of magnet therapy dates back as far as the time of Queen Cleopatra.

Distinguished physicians such as the Swiss doctor and philosopher Paracelsus, of the 16th century, used magnet therapy to heal and treat such conditions hemorrhage, diarrhea and epilepsy. And during 18th century, the magnet therapy gained more adherents. For Franz Mesmer, an Austrian doctor, used magnet therapy, in his healing salon in Paris.

Many advocates of magnet therapy claim the following benefits: Magnet therapy blocks pain, by stimulating the patient’s nerve endings. The theory behind magnet therapy is due to the fact that human being’s central nervous system depends on electrical charges to deliver signals.

Magnet therapy creates charged particles in the blood stream. Thus dilating the blood vessels, and producing relief from pain. The iron found in the blood is magnetized by the use of the magnet therapy. When magnetized the iron increases the blood’s ability to carry oxygen to other parts of the body.

Lastly, the use of magnet therapy, enhance the body’s oxygen levels, as it heals and relieves the pain. Results from the use of magnet therapy greatly vary from patient to the other. There are other factors to consider, the size of the magnet and the frequency of application of magnet therapy.

You owe it to yourself to be pro-active in educating yourself about arthritis and pain management. Yes - consider magnet therapy as a supplement or complementary treatment. But do this, under the guidance and in consultation with your doctor.

Here was Storm helping us train Bowdie in May, 2005

Our Granddaughter and Bowdie at the lake in June, 2005