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Sportsmen pioneers of speedy healing - Halifax Evening Courier
A SOPHISTICATED form of magnetic field therapy developed for scientific use 12 years ago when the first astronauts returned from the Moon is now in use in hospitals, private clinics and sports establishments round the world treating patients with a variety of complaints from pulled muscles to migraine, skin ulcers
to arthritis.
The machine, which it is claimed helps to speed the body's healing processes, is called a magnetotron and while the theory of magnetic field therapy — known as MF therapy for short — is Romanian, its full potential was realised only in the late Sixties when NASA carried out tests on the Moon astronauts.

Their trips outside Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field led to several changes in their body chemistry, one of which caused osteoporosis — loss of calcium from the bones.
Treatment with magnetic field therapy brought such good re­sults that scientists researched its effects on other conditions and now use of the magnetotron is well established in Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
An international congress is held each year in one of these countries at which orthopaedic surgeons, doctors and others can compare notes of the progress that is being made with the new therapy.
In Britain, the pioneers of this new form of treatment have been not doctors, but physiotherapists in some of our top soccer and rugby clubs.
Glasgow Celtic, Dundee United, Hamilton Academicals and Manchester United have all installed a West German magnetotron machine in the past 12 months and report excellent healing results with a wide variety of sports injuries ranging from torn ligaments and fractures to severe bruising.
Interviewed by a sports reporter recently, Brian Scott, Head physiotherapist for Glasgow Celtic, commented that the machine had made a remarkable difference to the club’s treatment of injuries.

"Its special benefit," he said, "arises from the fact that every part of the body has an electrical charge. As soon as there is any injury, be it a tear or a strain, the charge can drop very low.
"The purpose of the magnetetron is to send magnetic impulses into the damaged area allowing dead blood to be flushed away and oxygen to reach the wound, thus raising the charge back to normal.
"Since this machine is made in Germany, a lot of clubs over there have them, in fact, I even know of a horse box which has been converted into a magnetic field therapy unit to aid the animals in show-jumping events." Mr. Scott remarks that most soccer clubs have taken to the magnetotron because of the speed with which it helps to heal some injuries.
"For instance, within 48 hours of a player getting a bad bruise or swelling, the condition can, be gone completely, especially if the machine is used in conjunction with conventional methods like ice and ultrasound. "The patient feels nothing at all. He simply puts the damaged area into the magnetic field which is inside an 18in diameter hoop or, alternatively, a special applicator, and keeps it there for perhaps 20 to 35 minutes. And it is certainly effective."

There are now about 80 to 100 magnetic field therapy machines in use in Britain. One is at the Nuffield McAlpine Clinic in Glasgow, another at the Bangour General Hospital in Edinburgh — the first NHS hospital to have the machine, which was a gift from the West Lothian section of the WRVS.
In England, the magnetotron is being used at a hospital for spastic children with good results, and both the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, have the equipment on test.

Kenny gets the treatment! - Dewsbury Reporter

WHEN injured speedway international Kenny Carter accepted an invitation to open a new clinic, he ended up on the treatment table and took a big step on the road to recovery.
The Halifax Dukes captain, who suffered a badly cut broken right leg in a track crash at Easter, was awaiting a bone graft operation when he was Invited to open Stanley Richardson's clinic in Heckmondwike.
Kenny accepted, but told Mr. Richardson: "It's a pity you can't do something for me."
Five months after the accident, he was still in pain from the plate and screws pinning his shattered leg together.
Mr. Richardson, who specialises in the treatment of sports injuries, immediately put him on a course of magnetic field therapy. After daily treatment for a fortnight, Kenny visited his specialist in Scotland and was told the bone graft was no longer necessary.
Mr. Richardson said: "Kenny was sceptical at first, particularly as magnetic field therapy is rather boring because nothing appears to be happening while the treatment is going on.
"But it has helped the healing so much that he his now had the plate and screws removed. Yet a bone graft would have meant at least three weeks in hospital and many more weeks of recovery."

 

 

To Russia with grateful thanks - Heckmondwike Herold

A YOUNG gymnast is to have her dreams of training with the famous Vladimir School of Gymnastics in Russia , come true — after a broken arm had shattered her hopes of attending. Mirfield schoolgirl Deborah Nicholson, 11, is a member of the Greenhead Gymnastics Club in Huddersfield, and three months ago had the misfortune to break her arm while training — a break which virtually put paid to Deborah's ambition of visiting the Soviet's best gymnastic school, to learn new training techni­ques and gain valuable experience in the sport.

Then Deborah visited the Special Sports injuries clinic at the Richardson Clinic at Heckmondwike where an intensive daily programme of magnetic field and Faradic treatment has helped heal the break.

ADDED BONUS

The treatment has had the added bonus of building up Deborah's muscle to perform the gymnastic moves which often require arm strength. Not surprisingly Deborah, who started gymnastics at Whitcliffe Mount Sports Centre, Cleckheaton, is delighted with the treatment and the rapid recovery. Her mum said, "Deborah is very pleased that she will be able to take the opportunity to visit Russia." To see Deborah to the Soviet Union in style the team at the Richardson Clinic have presented her with four tracksuits for training sessions.