By: Fabiola Grosshan
Submitted: 2010-05-13 02:38:16 | Word Count: 541
There are many different types of alternative medical options popping up all over the medical field. From medicinal marijuana to laser equipment, researchers are finding effective, noninvasive, and safe ways to keep patients healthy, happy, and pain-free. Below are basic descriptions of a few relatively new alternative therapies currently on the market.
Cold Lasers
Many people think of pointers from high school or dangerous weapons from movies when they think of lasers, but that could not be further from the concept of medical laser equipment. Cold lasers are used in low-level-laser therapy to treat a variety of ailments. Additionally, these low level lasers are considered liposuction equipment as they are proven alternative methods for weight loss. There are lasers to alleviate back, shoulder and neck pain, as well as lasers to increase productivity in the body, leading to higher levels of ATP as well as weight loss.
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Energy Balancing Systems
An energy balancing system facilitates the body's natural homeostasis, helping in its detoxification process. We live in the most polluted environment in the earth's history. We constantly inhale harmful, polluting products, including petrochemicals, plastics, and pesticides. These antagonize cell receptor sites, blocking hormone utilization.
Your body has its own natural system of detoxification, sweating. That is why a sauna can be so reviving after exercise or a nice massage. The heat works to sweat all the toxins out of your body. The trouble is that it takes quite a long sauna bath to completely rid your body of toxins, which is something few people have the time for. Fortunately, ion therapy comes to the rescue through energy balancing systems. It speeds up the detoxification process to a simple half hour or less.
An energy balancing system works to ionize bathwater by sending a tiny charged current through your body in order to generate positively charged ions. The increased ion field works to neutralize the negatively charged ions in your body, which are then expelled through the pores of the feet. A complete detoxification process can be done in a matter of minutes. It is a safe and healthy procedure for people of all ages and body types.
Healthy individuals usually feel more energy and increased surges of well-being as a result of ion therapy. Those who suffer from edema, pain, gout, headaches and swollen joints often report complete relief. Some patients with allergies, arthritis, and neuralgia have been able to ease their symptoms through multiple treatments with an energy balancing system.
Medical Percussors
The lesser known device of the three is one of the most interesting, and most simple. Medical percussors function in a similar way to the percussion instruments in our elementary school’s band, in that they function by utilizing vibrations. These vibrations have the ability to release chest congestion caused my mucus build up, as well as the ability to alleviate muscle pain in various parts of the body.
Migraines associated with chronic lock jaw, as well as pains cause by muscle strains, scar tissue, or abnormally tight muscles can be treated with a percussor. The chronic pains associated with muscular issues can be temporarily alleviated by these unique vibration tools.
