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Bioelectromagnetic
therapy is the study of the human biologic effects of electromagnetic
fields. This would include the study of strong ionizing fields, but also
weak fields. Examples of this type of treatment would include the use
of electric or magnetic fields to help heal nonunion bone fractures, pain
reduction by transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), and treatment
of anxiety by transcranial electrical stimulation. The effects of acupuncture,
homeopathy, and "laying on of hands", may be related to bioelectric
field interactions.
According
to William Teller, PhD, professor emeritus, Stanford University Department
of Material Sciences, "For most of this century, science and medicine
have seen health as being dependent upon the balance of body chemistry
and the functioning of physical structures. However, attempts to treat
illness and imbalances chemically often lead to unwanted side effects
or the body becoming insensitive to the chemicals." Because of this,
many physicians in the complementary health field have looked beyond drug-based
therapies towards energy medicine.
Many of the diagnostic
tools used today incorporate principles of energy medicine including the
EKG, EEG, EMG and MRI. Energy medicine or bioenergetic medicine refers
to therapies that use an energy field, whether it is electrical, magnetic,
sonic, acoustic, microwave, infrared, or other, to screen for or treat
health conditions by detecting imbalances in the body's energy field and
then attempting to correct them. It is felt by practitioners of energy
medicine that imbalances in the body occur first in the bioenergetic fields
and secondarily in the chemical and structural areas of the body. Bioenergetic
practitioners believe that the earliest preventative therapies will be
bioenergetic in nature.
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