Magnetic Therapy, the facts (and some myths).Written by Barry Dench
Is magnet therapy regarded yet as a mainstream therapy? I consider it is not and through this series of articles I hope to raise awareness by examining a number of issues that have stood in way of mass acceptance. There is a useful parallel to be drawn between magnetic therapy and acupuncture. Acupuncture today is an accepted alternative therapy but 20 or 30 years ago it was regarded with deep suspicion. So what has happened to make it so popular now that many conventional health clinics have a professional acupuncturist on hand to provide therapy? Well, passage of time has allowed communication of obvious benefits actual patients have enjoyed by having a wide variety of symptoms relieved. If one reads information available at http://acupuncture.com/ science behind acupuncture is still largely theoretical and involves “the common ground shared among meridian system, chakra system and modern sciences” Basically, acupuncture is a successful discipline that encourages body to heal itself. (It is worth noting here that general description of what acupuncture does, includes words such as “electromagnetic fields” and “polarity”. Terms which also are used in any consideration of magnetic therapy.) So, acupuncture has become accepted mainly because of anecdotal results and any number of successful blind trials. Virtually same situation that magnetic therapy finds itself in today! The ‘sceptics’ and ‘doubters’ will tell you there is no basis on which magnet therapy can work; but they said same words with regard to acupuncture all those years ago. They will tell you there is no clinical proof that magnetic therapy does anything. This too is untrue, but like anything it depends on how tests are carried out and what is being measured.
| | Pillowhold & E-Z Clip Corner SheetstrapWritten by Ricky Taylor
For_Immediate_Release: Taylors Mfg Announces Launch Of New Device's The E-Z Clip Sheetstraps (middle or corner) keeps sheet fitted to any bed. Anyone can attach E-Z- Clips in a matter of seconds. The E-Z Clip is designed for convenience, reliability & easy installation We also manufacture Pillowhold for flexible beds (hospital beds) "It's good for people in nursing homes," he says. "A lot of elderly people have arthritis, so they would have a lot of trouble adjusting their pillow or keeping sheet in place on their bed." Order yours today at: Rick Taylor can tell you all about necessity being mother of invention. A decade ago, when he was hospitalized after being shot in face and throat, Taylor struggled to stay comfortable in his hospital bed - largely because pillow would not stay in place. "It was very frustrating," 50-year-old High Point, N.C. man recalls. "If I would reach over to nightstand or anywhere else, there would go that pillow. Every time I raised bed, there would go pillow falling. You would just have to keep putting it back into place." Unaware of any sort of device he could get to keep his pillow from falling, Taylor invented his own mechanism - an adjustable strap that easily clips onto a hospital bed or chair and holds pillow in place using E-Z-Clips. That invention led to another one, E-Z Clip Sheetstraps. Instead of those frustrating garter buckles. Just clip them on and they are guaranteed to hold your sheet on mattress. "He is so creative," says Cindy Teer, an old family friend who opened her home to Taylor last summer when he was discouraged and looking to move back to High Point,N.C. from his home in Linville Falls, N.C. Taylor, a former home-improvement contractor now on disability, says patent on his product is a testament to what hard work and determination can accomplish, even in face of adversity. "People told me, 'Oh, you'll never get a patent,'" Taylor says. "I heard that a lot." But Taylor persisted, and on Dec. 23, he received patent notification he had been seeking for better part of a decade.
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