Magnets, Do They Really Work?

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039506e1egerbq.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Post-Polio Syndrome Information and More</B></FONT><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3366FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>                                                                                                              </B><A HREF="index_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Index"><U><B>INDEX</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#339900" TEXT="#080000"> <div>                   <img src="HTMLobj-216/aniGif.gif" alt="Sunshine, spinning" border="0" align="bottom" width="60" height="57">  </div> <bR> <div>                                              </div> <div>            <img src="HTMLobj-223/aniGif.gif" alt="Tweety flapping wings" border="0" align="bottom" width="98" height="83">  </div> <div>                        </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#99CC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Magnets, Do They Really Work?</B></div> <div> <B>     It's official, magnets do help to relieve pain and to promote healing. Three careful scientific studies have found major benefits for patients treated with the safe and inexpensive devices.</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT><B>Dr. Agatha Colbert, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University in Massachusetts , tested magnetic mattress pads on 25 patients suffering from Fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by widespread muscle and skeletal pain.  Doctors don't know its cause and there is no known cure.  "Patients just hurt all over," Dr. Colbert said.  "The patients treated with real magnets had less pain and were able to sleep better.  Patients in the placebo group did not improve.  </B><B>Treating pain with magnets is a breakthrough.  This is extremely exciting!"</B></div> <div> <B>     In another eye-opening study, Dr. Carlos Vallbona, a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, found that magnets dramatically reduced the pain suffered by Post-Polio patients.</B></div> <div> <B>     Dr. Daniel Man, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Boca Raton, FL, tested magnets on patients recovering from liposuction surgery on stomach, thighs, and other areas.  Following surgery, magnet-containing patches were placed on the operated areas.  Ten patients received active magnets; 10 got fake ones.  Patients treated with real magnets had significantly less pain, swelling and discoloration from the procedures.  No one is sure how magnets relieve pain, but Dr. Man is convinced they ...  "can indeed make surgery a little easier to cope with.  They can work very, very well."</B></div> <div> From "National Enquirer" May 16, 2000 by S.D.Hubbard</div> <bR> <div> <B>For more information regarding magnets and their uses, here is one page to check out</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://cat007.com/magnet.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://cat007.com/magnet.htm"><U><B>http://cat007.com/magnet.htm</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Did you know -- That Cleopatra used magnets in her beauty routine?  That magnetized rocks were used to treat sterility in ancient Greece?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>     </B></div> <div> <B>                                  <img src="HTMLobj-224/aniGif.gif" alt="Kissing lips" border="0" align="bottom" width="132" height="70">           </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#990033" FACE="Arial" ><B>                         </B></FONT><B>Stay with me now, ya hear?</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF00CC" FACE="Arial" ><B>                                                                                                      </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>                        More good things to come ....</B></div> <div> <B>                                                                                </B></div> <div> <B>                                                </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="baby_boomers.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BabyBoomers, CFS Possible Link to Polio"><U><B><IMG SRC="0816e5a0.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="90" ALT="Back button of same cat under blanket reaching for ball" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>                                                                        </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nuts, Todays Superfood"><U><B><IMG SRC="08a6e590.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="89" ALT="Forward Button of cat under a blanket with paw reaching for ball" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>             </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     </B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>