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PEMF for inflammation
Professional organizations like MagnaWave and AOPP claim that PEMF relieves inflammation. How this happens is largely unknown. The featured image came from a review on how charges in solution line up on surface charges. from metals, to metal oxides, to ion exchange membranes, and finally biological membranes. Some images of skin and bone joints…
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Magnawave & Schumann Resonances
One of the AOPP certification classes was taught by a chiropractor, Dr. Jerry Dreessen, who uses Magnawave/Aurawell equipment. Some PEMF frequencies were claimed to have tissue specific therapeutic properties. Was this personal experience or something in the literature? Magnawave has Schumann Resonances (featured image) embedded in 50→1 Hz of each power setting. The relative…
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PEMF eNOS PI3K
This post looks at Li 2015, a delightfully simple publication that explores the use of a very specific type of PEMF to counter the tissue damage that proceeds femoral artery excision in a mouse model of peripheral artery disease. While this is not the exact same as a branch of the femoral artery being…
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electrical stimulation and hind limb unloading
Many PEMF practitioners use PEMF when an animal, including humans, has an injured limb and loss of use of the associated skeletal muscle. Some may argue that PEMF resembles electrical stimulation via Faraday’s Law of Induction. PEMF seems to act on the ERK signaling cascade in cultured myoblasts. [1] Electrical muscle stimulation in a…
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PEMF and hemoglobin
PEMF is said to increase oxygen delivery to our bodies. Just exactly what does this mean? This post presents a hypothesis as to the molecular and electromagnetic mechanism as to how this occurs.