Magnetic Therapy - Recent News

A stroke victim speaks for the first time in over a year. A comatose man opens his eyes, turns and looks at his mother. A man living with depression for over thirty years finds relief. An Israeli dealing with the trauma of war is finally able to sleep at night. These are just a few of the miracles people are seeing with magnetic therapy. A process called "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS) is rising in popularity to help where other treatments have failed. Though the therapy is still relatively expensive and has not yet been proven to show long term efficiency, there is a strong potential for electromagnetic wave treatment.

A year ago, a Chicago man drove over a curb, flipped his car and went into a coma. Over the last year, he would occasionally open his eyes but his brain damage was said to be so severe that medical professionals said he'd probably never regain responsiveness. However, after 15 sessions of magnetic therapy, the man opened his eyes and looked at his mother. Doctors believe the electromagnetic pulse from transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) sent a "wake up call" to the nerve cells. Soon he began obeying simple instructions, like following the movement of a thumb around the room and speaking single words. "Erm, help, help me," he would say. While it's too early to say whether or not electromagnetics can work for all coma patients, researchers around the world are excited about the possibility of this non-invasive treatment, which can be done without anaesthetics or drugs.

At the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, doctors are using magnetic therapy to study ways to help patients who suffer emotional strain from war. It is believed that at least 8% of all Israelis who have been exposed to combat suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. A coil containing 20 hertz of electromagnetic waves is held near the patient's head to produce alternating magnetic fields, thereby stimulating deep regions of the brain. TMS tries to alter the way a patient's brain handles memories of traumatic events, explains Dr. Abraham Zangen of the Weizmann Institute. As patients are reminded of trauma, the amygdala activates and the prefrontal cortex becomes inhibited. So the electromagnetic pulse actually stimulates the prefrontal cortex and strengthens the synaptic connectivity to help people process the emotions more efficiently. "In most cases, we have very nice response, very good response; not always lasting forever, not always long lasting, but a good response," Zangen said.

Some patients of magnetic therapy say that the treatment has been a God-send. "One day it was like a light switch went off," explains Steve Newman, 60, who underwent clinical trials for his severe depression. Since he was a teenager, he's lived with this awful feeling, trying every drug on the market to no avail. Doctors say that roughly 1/5 depression sufferers do not respond to any kind of drug treatment. He had been considering shock therapy, but when he heard of TMS, he thought "why not?" After two weeks of feeling nothing, he suddenly started feeling significantly better. "I was awake. I was there," says Newman who still goes for treatment once a month.

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