Magna-Pak Newsletter - Issue 10

April, 2001

News and information you need to know about Magnetic Therapy

Newsletter Contents:

1) Report on Two (2) Randomized Double-blind Clinical Trials on Magnetic Mattress Pad with Patients with Fibromyalgia
2) Magna-Pak Magnetic Mattress Pad Sale!
3) This Edition's Winner

1) Report on Two (2) Randomized Double-blind Clinical Trials on Magnetic Mattress Pad Use in Patients with Fibromyalgia

Magna-Pak is pleased to report 2 new double-blind clinical trials that further solidify Magnetic Therapy as a viable, alternative treatment method for the control of pain.

1) "Magnet Therapy Reduced Fibromyalgia Pain, Reports New Study"

Magnet therapy reduced fibromyalgia pain according to a new University of Virginia study published in the February 2001 Issue of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

One group used Pad A, which provided whole-body exposure to a low, uniformly static magnetic field of negative polarity. The effects of using North/negative magnetic energy in this group reduced Fibromyalgia pain intensity enough to be "clinically meaningful,".

Interestingly and predictably, another group using Pad B, which provided whole body exposure to a low, variable positioned static magnetic field of ALTERNATING polarity, showed an improvement in all outcomes after 3 and 6 months - although the results were statistically inconclusive.

"Finding any positive results in the groups using the magnets was surprising, given how little we know about how magnets work to reduce pain," said the study's principal investigator Dr. Alan P. Alfano, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and medical director of the U.Va. HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital. "The results tell us maybe this therapy works, and that maybe more research is justified. You can't draw final conclusions from only one study."

However, a new clinical trial on Magnetic Therapy and Fybromyalgia has also been completed.

2) Magnetic Mattress Pad Use in Patients with Fibromyalgia, A Randomized Double-blind Pilot Study, conducted by Agatha P. Colbert, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Conclusions were simply this; "Sleeping on a magnetic mattress pad, with a magnet surface field strength of 1100+50 Gauss, delivering 200-600 Gauss at the skin surface provides statistically significant and clinically relevant pain relief and sleep improvement in subjects with Fibromyalgia. No adverse reactions were noted during the 16-week trial period."

"The results of this pilot study demonstrate that sleeping for an average of 8 hours per night (prone, supine, or side-lying) on a mattress pad which delivers a 200-600 G static magnetic field, for 16 weeks, provides significant pain relief and sleep improvement in women with FM. Because pharmaceutical agents are associated with a high rate of adverse effects and offer only minimum relief for the majority of patients, we recommend a trial of magnet therapy, as a non-invasive, painless, low risk adjunct to standard medical and physiatric interventions."

We look forward to further results from on-going clinical trials.

2) Magna-Pak Magnetic Mattress Pad Sale!

Magna-Pak is pleased to offer 30% savings on our complete line of Magnetic Sleep Systems!

3) This editions's winner;

Congratulations to Linda Mackie!, this edition's winner of a High Strength Magnetic Pillow Insert.

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Thank you for your continued interest in this newsletter.

Best regards,

Fred Rinker
Magna-Pak Inc.