Subject: Magnet Therapy
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>You would certainly have come across as less pedantical if you had simply
>said that you believe magnets don't work. Your close-mindedness is self
>evident.
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>It is unfortunate that in your academic life you ignore what is occuring in
>the real world. Patients are asking - and in some cases, demanding -
>providers to offer alternatives, including magnet therapy, to surgery and
>drugs. Some patients are experiencing measurable results from these
>modalities. Consider the recent studies at Baylor College of Medicine
>("Study on Using Magnets to Treat Pain Surprises Skeptics," Lawrence K.
>Altman, MD, original article from New York Times, December 9, 1997, and
>"Magnets Attracting Attention for Pain," HealthNews, January 9, 1998) and
>Vanderbilt University Medical Center ("Magnets for Pain #1238," Medical
>Breakthroughs, Ivanhoe Broadcast News, 1998).
>
>Where would we be if we listened to the skeptics and ignored each new
>discovery with potential to help reduce the pain and heal our patients? You
>may disbelieve the clinical environment, but it is here where the provider
>and the patient must interact and find a way to improve the patient's
>quality of life.
>
Just a few concern about these alternative medicines
1 they can be quite costly in their own right
2 placebo effect must be taken into control
3 length of time these must be taken ie) if you are using very small
magnetic fields should they not take a long time to work.
3 compare to injury patterns where magnetic fields occur ie around power
lines or with say hydro workers
just remember if someone says it works it doesn't mean that the treatment
was necessarily the cause but if the patient is able to function better
either physically or mentally then it may be worth it if they can afford the
"new fangled treatment"
just remember the influence of non-organic pain!!!!!!!
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