Open Directory - Health: Alternative: Magnetic Therapy
This category in other languages: - American Cancer Society finds no evidence to support magnetic therapy - Articles on therapy techniques, magnetic water, and history. - Institute of Healthy Minds featuring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Dr. Fermin Briones Jr. He will be the first in San Antonio to offer this procedure in San Antonio, TX. He is trained and certified in this procedure and is ready to help patients with depression. - Commercially focused UK based source of information on the theory and application of magnetic therapy, magnetism, magnetic jewellery and magnetic bracelets. - Explanation of study results, legal and regulatory actions, by Stephen Barrett, M.D. - A double-blind study by Dr. Mark George, a professor of psychiatry, radiology and neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina suggests that magnetic therapy may e effective in the treatment of depression. - Medical fact and fiction concerning magnets and electromagnets. Discusses history, static and pulsed magnets, Lorentz and Faraday forces, medical literature. - Study results and explanation of magnetized water. - A focused and sober review of the state of magnetic therapy from the sceptics' point of view - This fact sheet provides an overview of magnets and summarizes current scientific knowledge about their effects on pain. - Research studies by Richard A. Sherman, MS, PhD about this treatment. - Overview of a new, non-invasive treatment for major depressive disorder. - Explanations of technical features for laymen, explaining all parameters important for pulsed magnetic field therapy - A hard-hitting but very thorough attack on magnetic therapy claims - Neurostar TMS therapy is an FDA approved treatment for major depression. It sends magnetic pulses to the left frontal lobe of the brain (same magnetic waves as an MRI). TMS Therapy was listed by CNN as one of the top 10 most innovative medical technologies of 2009! - TMS Center of Colorado, LLC is a leader in state of the art treatment for Major Depressive Disorder through the use of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS or TMS). - Explains the placebo effect and market size. Links to articles and studies. - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is on the cutting edge of biological psychiatry which is one of the fastest growing fields of medicine today. This site is an effort to keep patients well informed about the use of TMS is the clinical settings. - Offering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy for the treatment of patients suffering from depression with locations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. - Explains magnetic fields, deficiency syndrome, and history. - This is intended as a sceptical look at the skeptics claims about magnotherapy and magnetic fuel and water conditioning. - Psychiatrists are carrying out trials using electro-magnets as a treatment for depression - targeting those people who fail to get better with conventional drug therapy
(April 01, 2011) - Copper bracelets and magnetic wrist straps do not relieve pain or stiffness in people with arthritis, say University of York researchers. (October 16, 2009) - Investigates history, how it works, and Baylor study results. (July 01, 1998)
