VETERINARY
PEMFT box (Magnafield MF 2200)
PEMFT
The natural therapy giving racehorses around the globe a competitive edge Widely used in conditioning racehorses around the world, the benefits of PEMFT (Pulsed ElectroMagnetic Field Therapy) are no secret, with more and more trainers turning to this natural and gentle therapy to heal and even calm their thoroughbreds.
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WORDS: PROFESSOR MICHAEL CLARK PHOTOS: PROFESSOR MICHAEL CLARK, GILES ANDERSON
OME leading PEMFT device manufacturers have noticed a significant uplift in sales to the equine world during the past year. What’s more interesting, however, is the growing number of ways in which it is being used. Whether you are looking to speed up the process of healing broken bones, boost recovery time, maximise performance, or simply keep a horse calm in transit, PEMFT offers a myriad of benefits to equine health. PEMFT’s ability to aid bone repair is fully recognised by the FDA. Veterinarians have been using this therapy to heal broken legs in racehorses for many years. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are in excess of 10,000 published scientific papers about the effects of PEMF therapy. Many of the initial studies were carried out in Russia
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and Eastern Europe, but more and more research is now taking place in Western Europe and the United States. These studies are centred on humans but are equally applicable to the equine world. Couple that with a sea of anecdotal evidence attesting to the treatment’s efficacy across many areas of equine health, and it is not surprising this gentle and natural therapy has piqued the interest. Health is an energy dance; the more you have, the better you will feel – provided the energy is harmonious and beneficial. The health of a body is totally dependent on the health of the cells. All organs and tissues are made of cells. Horses are, in essence, cellular beings, with trillions of cells intelligently communicating at faster-than-light speed, creating some 400 billion reactions every second, involving over 100,000 bio
molecules. Newtonian-based physics and biology are left speechless when attempting to explain this complexity. This amazing intelligence residing in an animal’s body knows how to heal itself, and it only requires the essential elements of food, water, and oxygen, as well as sleep, exercise, and the earth’s natural PEMFs to accomplish this. Gaining a greater understanding of the importance of PEMFs to cellular health has been largely accelerated by space exploration agencies. Yuri Gagarin, in his historic flight into space, returned to earth in nearcritical condition after only one hour and forty-eight minutes in space. He had all the fundamental elements considered important to human life, but was sealed off from the earth’s natural PEMFs. It is not surprising to learn that PEMF devices are now