How Magnetic Therapy For Horses Works ?
“We know that the magnetic pads do reduce pain and increase circulation and they’ve been studied for the past 50 years to try to determine the mechanism of these actions – how do they do what they claim to do? It’s been observed that nerve conduction rates are slowed down by the magnetic field. What that means is those pain messages that are going to the brain are interfered with by the magnetic field, so they’re not recognized, so you don’t perceive pain. It’s also been shown that vascular changes occur with the magnetic fields. Blood vessels dilate, they open up so you have a greater volume of blood flowing to the injured part, this is, of course, important in healing. Blood brings oxygen for the tissues and nutrients to promote healing, and also flushes away by-products of injury – things like bradykinins, prostaglandins and histamines; things that are implicated in pain and cause scaring if they are left to sit around the injury site. So with those two important mechanisms, pain re
