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Arthritis |
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What is osteoarthritis? |
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Osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, is also called degenerative joint disease or “wear-and-tear” arthritis. Almost everyone is affected by it to some extent as they grow older. It most frequently occurs in weight-bearing joints, mainly knees, hips, and ankles. This form of arthritis slowly and gradually breaks down the cartilage that covers the ends of each bone in a joint. Normally, cartilage acts as a shock absorber, providing a smooth surface between the bones. But with osteoarthritis, the smooth surface becomes rough and pitted. In advanced stages, it may wear away completely. Without their normal gliding surfaces, the bones grind against one another, causing inflammation, pain and restricted movement. Bone spurs may form. |
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What Causes Osteoarthritis? |
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Primary osteoarthritis is mostly related to aging. With aging, the water content of the cartilage increases and its protein composition degenerates. Repetitive use of the joints over the years irritates and inflames the cartilage, causing joint pain and swelling. Eventually, cartilage begins to degenerate by chipping or forming tiny cracks. In advanced cases, there is a total loss of the cartilage cushion between the bones of the joints, which causes friction between the bones, leading to pain and restriction of joint mobility. Inflammation of the cartilage can also stimulate new bone outgrowths (spurs) to form around the joints. Osteoarthritis is sometimes found in several members of the same family, implying a heredity (genetic) basis for the disease.
Secondary osteoarthritis is caused by another disease or condition. Conditions that can cause secondary osteoarthritis include abnormal joints at birth (congenital abnormalities), diabetes and other hormone disorders, gout, obesity, repeated trauma or surgery to the joint structures. |
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Do Occupational factors lead to Osteoarthritis? |
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Yes. Acute and chronic injuries are obvious risk factors for the development of OA. Major knee injuries, or muscle/ligament tear in sports such as soccer and football, high amount of jogging, occupations requiring frequent knee bending and lifting or carrying heavy loads contribute to the development of OA. |
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What are the other medical conditions that can cause Osteoarthritis? |
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Other causes of osteoarthritis include the following:
- Complications of persistent, inflammatory arthritic conditions, particularly chronic gout,
pseudogout, or rheumatoid arthritis.
- Bleeding disorders such as hemophilia that cause bleeding to occur in the joint.
- Disorders such as avascular necrosis that block the blood supply near the joint.
- Complications of persistent, inflammatory arthritic conditions, particularly chronic gout,
pseudogout, or rheumatoid arthritis.
- Conditions that cause iron build-up in the joints such as hemochromatosis.
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What are the symptoms? |
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The number one symptom is pain. The pain is caused by irritation and pressure on nerve endings as well as muscle tension and fatigue. The pain can progress from mild soreness and aching with movement to severe pain, even when resting. The second symptom is loss of easy movement, such as bending or rising normally. Morning stiffness is a problem for many people. This lack of mobility, in turn, often causes the muscles serving the knee or hip to weaken, and overall body coordination suffers. |
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How is it diagnosed? |
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A simple, weight-bearing x-ray and examination by a skilled orthopedic doctor will determine if you have osteoarthritis. Time-consuming and costly diagnostic procedures are not required. |
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What is the treatment?
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There is no cure for arthritis, but the past decade has seen dramatic new ways to manage the pain, lack of mobility, and fatigue that are among its most disabling symptoms.
The most commonly used medications for osteoarthritis are:
- Analgesics
- Topical analgesics
- Counterirritants
- Salicylates
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Corticosteroid injections
- Hyaluronicacid therapy
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However, another treatment which is widely gaining popularity is the Quantum Magnetic Resonance Therapy™.
Quantum Magnetic Resonance (QMR) Therapy™ is a non-surgical treatment that helps regenerate cartilage and restores mobility of arthritic knee joints. It is a painless and safe treatment. It has also proved to be extremely effective in the treatment of certain types of cancer. |
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How does Quantum Magnetic Resonance (QMR) Therapy™ work? |
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Quantum Magnetic Resonance (QMR) is a technology that is made to deliver highly complex quantum electromagnetic pattern in the radio and near radio frequency spectrum, with precise command and control. The beams can be precisely controlled and focused onto the cancerous tissues or degenerated tissues to either deactivate or activate it. |
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Are there any side effects of this method of treatment? |
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QMR does not utilize the ionizing, thermal, destructive radiation of the upper side of the electromagnetic spectrum such those used in radiotherapy including X-rays or gamma knife that may also adversely affect the healthy cells. The non-ionizing, non-thermal radio frequency waves utilized in QMR has been safely used in thousands of electrical devices for more that 100 years and the MRI technology that has been utilized to precisely focus the rays on the application area has been in wide spread use for more than 30 years. |
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Is QMR Therapy™ safe? |
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QMR Therapy™ is non-invasive, painless and safe. The streaming voltage potentials generated are lower than what is used in cell phones thereby making it safe for human use. Also, The International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) has defined emission levels that are considered safe for human use. Both electric and magnetic field emissions from QMR exposure are well below the levels specified by ICNIRP. |
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What are QMR Therapy's™ benefits and how is it different from other forms of treatments? |
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- It is a pioneering, unique, effective and non-invasive procedure for treatment of Osteoarthritis.
- QMR Therapy™ for osteoarthritis significantly decreases pain.
- It has no side effects.
- It enables natural growth of cartilage and increases its thickness as against placement of foreign substance.
- It is a cheaper alternative to knee replacement.
- Both knees can be treated simultaneously in QMR Therapy™.
- It increases mobility in patients.
- It improves stability and power of the knee joint.
- It is an outpatient treatment.
- Progress of the disease is halted.
- Patients can carry on their normal activity during the treatment.
- Does not have an effect on co-morbidities (associated medical problems).
- Patients can get rid of knee joint pain killer drugs.
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Cancer |
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What is QMR treatment for cancer? |
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Quantum Magnetic Resonance therapy uses a technology in which electro magnetic radio frequency beams can be exactly focused on tumour tissue by a computer controlled device to cause cell apoptosis.
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How QMR causes apoptosis or tissue degeneration?
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In normal cells the resting cell membrame potential is -7 to 90 mv. In cancer cells it is -15 to -30 mv. Focusing QMR beams everyday for 28 days brings the cell membrame potential of cancer cells to normal level thereby marking them for programmed cell death. |
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why are side effects not there? |
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QMR therapy™ is very safe & does not have any side effects for following reasons
A. These waves are in non ionizing , non thermal range of electromagnetic spectrum.
B. It is very tissue specific & close calculation is done on the proton density of particular tumour tissue.
C. It does not affect the normal tissue or have effect on other associated illness. |
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How does it improve quality of life in widespread cancer disease? |
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QMR beams being non – ionizing, non-thermal , does not damage the normal surrounding tissue. At the same time by cell apoptosis (Programmed cell death )it stops liberation of toxins from tumour tissue, which are mainly responsible for general symptoms like, loss of appetite, weight, weakness etc., so patients during & after QMR therapy improve on these symptoms.
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Is there any publications of QMR therapy™ Trial in cancer? |
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Yes – Ref : JSHO ( Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes )
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What is the cause of cancer? |
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We do not know the exact cause of cancer , it has multifunctional eliology ranging from chronic physical of chemical irriation to viral & genetic factors playing a role.
But in all cancer electro magnetic changes remains the same which can be addressed by QMRT.
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How QMRT can cause regeneration & degeneration?
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This technology basically normalizes the cell in cancer iwhich is multiplying purposelessly. Normalizing cell membrane stops the multiplication of cel, while in arthritis the cell is not responding to tissue injury& healing itself and QMR brings back normal physiological response of cell , which then starts healing. |
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