Exercise

It is a well known fact that exercise is essential to keeping fit and healthy. Without it our bodies would degenerate to the point of being dysfunctional. Exercise also speeds the healing process.

When we have an injury the level of pain often limits the amount of exercise needed to aid in the recovery process. Also there is often a concern by the medical practitioner and patient that too much movement or exercise could stress the injury and make it worse.

NASA Research

NASA addressed this problem back in the late seventies. In 1977 the astronauts returned after five months in space building space platforms for the star wars program. This was the first time astronauts had been in space in a weightless environment for such an extended period of time.

NASA was shocked to find that although the team of astronauts were only in their thirties, their bodies were like those of a seventy year old, having osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. This made it difficult to motivate the next batch of astronauts to be sent out only to return with highly degenerated bodies.

So they acquired input from one of the world's leading Orthopaedic Surgeons at the time, Professor Bassett. He was Professor Emeritus of Columbia University for the Department of Orthopaedics and had been doing research on the effects of bone and cartilage being exposed to levels of energy.

Discover How to Stimulate Bone & Cartilage Growth

Professor Bassett found that the energy levels from research in the 1950's by two Japanese scientists, Drs Yashuda and Fukada, were too high. When Bassett lowered the energy levels down to a micro level, he was able to stimulate bone and cartilage growth.

The level of energy Bassett arrived at is the same level that is produced through exercise. If you go to any text book on Physiology, (see one reference below/link) you will find that this level is between -0.45mv and -0.60mv (mv = millivolt). It is this level of energy that opens the gates of the membrane of a cell and it is this same level that exercise produces when the joint is in motion. If you like, the banging of bones against each other and the movement of ligaments and muscles creates sufficient energy for the cell regeneration process to be activated.

If a cell's membrane does not open, then the process of healing is stalled. What can contribute to this? The answer is: inflammation, pain, swelling and injury. The cell will not place itself in jeopardy if the environment around it does not seem safe. In this case it will leave its membrane closed and no change, exchange of nutrients or cell duplication or growth will occur if the cell feels threatened. It will keep the gates of its membrane closed. It won't even release its toxins.

Physiologically, the level of energy needs to be between -60mv and -45mv. If it is lower than -0.60mv then the membrane will not open its gates. (See ref below). On the same basis if the energy is too high then the cell will not recognise the environment around the membrane to be sufficiently safe enough to open the gates in its membrane.

Exercise Helps Repair

Recent research has shown that by simulated exercise and by providing the correct levels of energy most bone tissue, cartilage, ligaments, tendon tissue as well as soft tissue will open those gates in the membrane and thus speed up the body‘s natural healing process. In this way the process of exchanging nutrients and the releasing of toxins (waste) is stimulated rather than stalled. The healing process can be sped up.

Elite athletes and seniors with osteoarthritic conditions in recent years have gained immense benefit by using PEMF technology that has built on the research NASA conducted through Professor Bassett. PEMF stands for Pulsed ElectroMagnetic Field therapy. These fields are typically tens of thousands of times lower than a mobile phone and many thousands of times less than a hair dryer.

Speeds Up Healing in Elite Sports People

The speed of healing times for elite athletes with acute injuries is very often cut by 40-50%, enabling high end sports players to get back into their game in half the time that is normally predicted by their practitioners.

Speeds Healing of Arthritis

Many seniors with osteoarthritis and other chronic muscular skeletal conditions who have been drug dependent with little or no real change occurring, have found that the latest technology has given them back the life style that they have been missing out on. This activity level and lifestyle is achieved without the use of prescription drugs. This technology stimulates the cells into action.

Thanks to NASA, Bassett and modern technology, there now is a way to provide the body with the level of energy it needs, to heal itself.

References:

Andrew Bassett: Overview and Life story

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss12/record2012.34.html

Medical Textbook:

"Human Physiology", Rhodes and Pflanzer, Second Edition, Pages 245-254

PEMF:

The Effect of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee and Cervical Spine. Report of Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Trials. Or: http://www.curatronic.com/scientific.html#1

The Latest Technology for Sports Injuries and chronic Osteoarthritis injuries:

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