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Field
of study
The Monareth
study chose to investigate the medical
use of standard instruments and treatments
with the extra use of electromagnetic
instruments (provided they could find
suitable instruments to sue in the experiment)
to see whit results the therapy would
bring. There is not national or international
norm for the use of magnetic fields for
such studies.
This
study encompassed a wide range of placebo
controls with the use of electromagnetic
machines both as mono therapy and as partial
therapy to investigate forms of disturbed
sleep.
They used
the Pittsburgher Sleep quality index and
from the 19 questions for the patients
to answer they chose 7 for use in this
experiment.
-
Subjective quality of sleep,
- tendency to sleep,
- length of sleep,
- how efficient was the sleep,
- disturbed sleep,
- use of sleeping pills,
- tiredness during the day.
For this
field study 50-60 test subjects were used.The
test subjects were chosen at random and
were kept on the treatment they were having
using standard therapy and their normal
sleep pattern and treated at random with
pulsating fields with or without magnet
fields being used.
The
Magnet field application was carried out
with the Dream Medi 7500 which was placed
at the head of the test subject. Only
EEG frequencies were used based on the
knowledge of the different sleep phases.
The pulsating electromagnetic fields were
appropriated to the earth magnetic fields
.
According
to the manufacturers, Family OKM Ortungstechnik
Krauß and Müller GmbH the technical
magnetism lies within the earth magnetic
field so that the safety and comfort and
the Human rights of the test persons could
not be endangered in any way.
Criteria
of choice
The following
sentences show what the test people were
expected to do.
Conditions for inclusion
in the test:
•
The patient had to be between 18 and 80
years old.
•
The patient had to have suffered from
lack of sleep or disturbed sleep for at
least 3 months and for at least 3 nights
a week.
•
The patients had to continue their normal
therapy during the whole course of the
experiment . Multivitamin tablets and
any therapy they had been using at the
start of the Experiment would disqualify
them.
•
The patients had to keep their usual living
quarters and their way of life and they
were not allowed to change their living
quarters or their usual sleep pattern
for t he four weeks prior to the experiment.
•
Patients taking sleep inducing Alnagetia
or hynotishe sedatives, tranquilizers
or anticholerial were not allowed to change
the dose during the 6 days prior to the
start of the experiment.
•
No drugs were to have been used in the
month before the experiment began and
ten test patients had to agree that they
would not take any drugs during the course
of the experiment..
•
The patients had to drink at least an
extra ½ L of water daily.
•
The patients had to sign the list of rules
.
Not suitable patients:
The
following patients were not suitable as
test persons:
•
Patients who had other illnesses or acute
infections that mean they could not allow
a true picture of any side workings that
they had
• Patients with a heart monitor
• Patients suffering from cancer
• Patients sufffering from AIDS
• Patients taking drugs or alcoholics
• Patients diagnosed as having an
irregular heart beat
• Patients suffering from coronary
trouble
• Patients suffering from disturbed
sleep because of organic troubles or because
of prescribed medicines
• Pregnant or breast feeding mothers
• Patients suffering from Diabetes
• Patients with an over active thyroid
• Epeleptics
• Patients living near an airport.
Reasons for breaking off the experiment:
Because internationally
no one has yet discovered any detrimental
results from using the magnet field therapy
each Doctor had to use his discretion
in breaking off the experiment if he felt
that the patient was not responding well
to it.
Each
of the patients taking part in the experiment
was free to break of the treatment at
any time.
Doctors
taking part in the experiment
Only such
doctors as had patients taking part in
this experiment and who had been using
magnet field therapy for over a year were
able to take part in this experiment.
All
Doctors taking part in this study agreed
to keep records and to make the results
available to the people initiating the
study.
Nine Doctors
took part in this study. They came from
the following branches of medicine:
• Practical
Doctors
• Internal Medicine
• Ear, Nose and Throat specialists
• Orthopaedic specialists
• Rehabilitative Medicine, Convalescent
specialists
All the doctors
taking part in this study were in daily
practice of their profession:
• Berlin
• Hessen • Sachsen •
Sachsen-Anhalt • Thüringen.
Carrying out the study
During the period between
November 2005 and December 2006 59 patients
and 8 Dr’s practices in 5 provinces
in Germany were involved in the experiment
All
the doctors had conversations with the
patients taking part in the experiment
and explained to the patients. And explained
to them how to carry out the experiment
and how to use the machine dream Medi
7500. All these conversations were recorded.
Each Doctor
had machines that looked identical . this
meant that in each group all the machines
had the same details although in actuality
only a few of the machines were able to
produce magnetic fields. About 20% of
the machines were Placebo machines and
these were distributed among the different
groups.
Neither
the Doctors nor the patients taking part
in the experiments knew which machines
were Placebos.
Besides the
usual medical details their were record
of sleep habits and individual questioners.
The
observation stage lasted 4 weeks . The
Doctors taking part in the experiment
questioned their patients at the beginning
of the experiment an used the Pittsburger
Index to measure the quality of their
sleep. Then followed two weeks of checking
the sleep quality without stimulation.
This was
followed by two weeks using the Dream
Medi 7500 and keeping a record.
At
the end of the second phase the doctors
once again used the Pittsburger sleep
Quality Index PSQI to access the quality
of sleep.
DThe results
of this experiment were handed to the
MONAREM institution. Here the results
were correlated and accessed.
Results
8 Doctors
handed in results, from teh 59 cases 54
could be used 5 cases had had to be broken
off.
From
the 44 patients taking part in the experiment
34 had shown an improvement.
This result showed 77.27% had
had a positive result.
19 showed marked improvement that was
43.18%
And 15 showed a slight improvement that
equalled 34.09 %
In 2 cases there was no change, in 8 cases
there was a deterioration 4 slightly worse
and 4 very much worse.
Among those taking the placebo
6 showed improvement ( 4 much better 2
slightly better) 1 slightly worse and
3 showed no change.
Results
according to age and gender:
Results according
to age and gender showed almost the same
results.
From
15 experimental patients under 50 years
12 were better form 29 over 50 years of
age 23 were better from 30 female patents
24 were better and from 14 male patients
11 were better.
Results according
to social groups:
The same
ratio showed among different work groups.
From
17 office workders 15 showed improvement
88.23%
From 10 pensioners 7 showed improvement
70%
These good
results from pensioners who often suffer
from sleep disorders because they no longer
have a fixed routine shows a very good
result.
5
were self employed and all showed an improvement.
One had decided to give up his firm and
is now working full time again.
Results of the tests:
If we study
the results we see the following picture:
The quality
ofsleep improved in 47.72 % and the length
of sleep in 45.45% of the cases.
he efficiency
of sleep improved in 43,18% and the day
time tiredness by 41.86% and the restlessness
by 40.91%. Less disturbance was noted
by 32,56%.
It is interesting
to note the little change in the grounds
for sleepnesnes.
From 30 patients
who claimed they were sleepless because
of problems 18 claimed they noted an improvement
60% a good result.
29 patients claimed
lack of sleep because of pain.
Of these
16 (55.17%) claimed an improvement and
most said they had no more pain.
10claimed
that before using dream Medi 7500 they
had had breathing problems and of these
7 (70%) claimed they were cured.
From teh
13 who had taken sleeping pills 10 needed
less(4-33.7%) or none at all (6-46.15%)
a better result of 76.92%.
It was not
intended to go into each diagnosis so
only positive results are noted.
Hose suffering
from pain had a better result in 80% of
the case.
Hose suffering
from insomnia 66.66% better.
Hose suffering
from sleeplessness without any reason
100% better.
Conclusion
This was
a field study and studying the results
we can conclude that Dream Medi 7500 had
a positive working on the patients taking
part without having any adverse effects.
The test
phase was carried out for 2 weeks without
machines and 2 weeks with machines to
be certain that the test persons were
keeping correct records for the experiment.
As the results
show there were other results such as
using less medicine and a better quality
of life for the patients. If we look at
the results after 14 days we can conclude
that a longer use of the machine would
have given even better results.
Especially positive.
None
of the patients complain of bad results.
Only one patient complained o headaches
through using Dream Medi 7500 Headaches
that vanished when he used it for a longer
period.
A patient
who complained of restless legs had a
deterioration in the first phase and decided
that the use of Dream medi7500 had brought
an improvement in the long run.
It
was necessary that the test was carried
out in the patients usual environment
. the fear of some patients o using electrical
devices was not there as the machine was
not in contact with the body. Even these
people spoke of an improvement.
As the machine
has not shown any side effects we conclude
that it can be used even without control
from a doctor as song as the frequency
lies in the EEG area. Because of the positive
results we suggest that there should be
further studies by sleep experts to establish
this method for private and medical use.
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