Comments on the Baylor study
Of couse, this was a pilot study - a study to see if it would be worthwhile to do further studies. A 75% positive result is very good indeed! I've seen drugs with far smaller, sometimes almost no positive results, get lauded in the newspapers and hailed as the next great cure for whatever. When I've read those studies I've wondered why the newspapers were so impressed! Say 3% positive results with several bad side effects for some drug treatment leaves me wondering.
This study was done in 1997.
Now, is it or isn't it important to help people get relief from pain such as the pain that those polio patients had?
I would say resoundingly that yes, it's very important. Helping others to have a higher quality of life is something that I would consider a very good human quality. Especially if it can be done without any bad side effects.
So now, here we have a pilot study with the most encouraging results and no follow up in 9 years! What's with that?
I think that it is a major problem in the north American health care system - Most studies are funded by the drug companies . The drug companies are businesses. They are there to make money. They are really only likely to fund studies on drugs that they are developing.
There should be a point at which the governments step in and fund studies for the general good. Of course they do at times, but not often enough in my opinion.
So this study leaves some questions.
* 300 to 500 gauss is considered very low. Myself I always use 1000 to 2500 gauss. Would the results have been better with a stronger magnet? Or would they have been the same or worse?
* 45 minutes is not a long time! Not for someone who has been in chronic pain for years. Would a longer exposure have more beneficial results?
*Did they use the bio-north pole towards the skin at all times? Or a mixture of north and south poles towards the skin?
I hope that at some time there are more reputable double blind studies done on this with different types of magnets. Especially I'd like to see it done with a little rare earth magnetic dot of about 2500 gauss against the original 300 - 500 gauss, and with attention being paid to which pole of the magnet faced the patient.
This study was done in 1997.
Now, is it or isn't it important to help people get relief from pain such as the pain that those polio patients had?
I would say resoundingly that yes, it's very important. Helping others to have a higher quality of life is something that I would consider a very good human quality. Especially if it can be done without any bad side effects.
So now, here we have a pilot study with the most encouraging results and no follow up in 9 years! What's with that?
I think that it is a major problem in the north American health care system - Most studies are funded by the drug companies . The drug companies are businesses. They are there to make money. They are really only likely to fund studies on drugs that they are developing.
There should be a point at which the governments step in and fund studies for the general good. Of course they do at times, but not often enough in my opinion.
So this study leaves some questions.
* 300 to 500 gauss is considered very low. Myself I always use 1000 to 2500 gauss. Would the results have been better with a stronger magnet? Or would they have been the same or worse?
* 45 minutes is not a long time! Not for someone who has been in chronic pain for years. Would a longer exposure have more beneficial results?
*Did they use the bio-north pole towards the skin at all times? Or a mixture of north and south poles towards the skin?
I hope that at some time there are more reputable double blind studies done on this with different types of magnets. Especially I'd like to see it done with a little rare earth magnetic dot of about 2500 gauss against the original 300 - 500 gauss, and with attention being paid to which pole of the magnet faced the patient.
posted by George at 7:28 AM
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