Bioelectric Medicine is coming of age in the 21st Century. The explosive growth in understanding the relationship of electromagnetism and other forms of bioenergy with physiology is creating amazing non-invasive diagnostic and treatment tools.
Energizing Healing with Electromagnetic Field Therapy in Musculoskeletal Disorders. There is mounting evidence to suggest that exogenous electromagnetic fields (EMF) may play a significant role in various biological processes that are crucial to therapeutic interventions. EMFs have been identified as a non-invasive, safe, and effective therapy that appears to have no apparent side effects. Numerous studies have demonstrated that pulsed EMFs (PEMFs) have the potential to become a stand-alone or adjunctive treatment modality for managing musculoskeletal disorders. PMCID: PMC11258965.
Understanding the Feedback Loops between Energy, Matter and Life. This article proposes that electric and electromagnetic forces are the most important mediators over large distances. Field-like mediation is distinguished from cell-to-cell communication by special electric- or ion-guiding mechanisms that create additional pathways to the "classical" mediators such as nerve conduction or blood flow. Resonance phenomena from phonons and photons in the visible range will be discussed in relation to organelles, cytoskeletal elements and molecules. In this context, the aqueous surrounding of molecules and cells is an important aspect. PMID: 36575844.
The Slowest Shared Resonance: A Review of Electromagnetic Field Oscillations Between Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems. Electromagnetic field oscillations produced by the brain are increasingly being viewed as causal drivers of consciousness. Recent research has highlighted the importance of the body's various endogenous rhythms in organizing these brain-generated fields through various types of entrainment. We expand this approach by examining evidence of extracerebral shared oscillations between the brain and other parts of the body, in both humans and animals. We then examine the degree to which these data support one of General Resonance Theory's (GRT) principles: the Slowest Shared Resonance (SSR) principle, which states that the combination of micro- to macro-consciousness in coupled field systems is a function of the slowest common denominator frequency or resonance. This principle may be utilized to develop a spatiotemporal hierarchy of brain-body shared resonance systems. It is predicted that a system's SSR decreases with distance between the brain and various resonating structures in the body. The various resonance relationships examined, including between the brain and gastric neurons, brain and sensory organs, and brain and spinal cord, generally match the predicted SSR relationships, empirically supporting this principle of GRT. PMCID: PMC8888685.
Comparison of the Efficacy of Different Radiofrequency Techniques for the Treatment of Lumbar Facet Joint Pain: Combined with Anatomy. Radiofrequency (RF) of the medial branch of the posterior branch of the spinal nerve is an effective method for the treatment of lumbar facet pain. RF technology is diverse, including traditional radiofrequency (TRF), pulsed radiofrequency (PRF), cooled radiofrequency (CRF), low-temperature plasma radiofrequency ablation (CA), and other treatment methods. This article reviews the differences in the efficacy of the above four RF techniques, clarifies that the differences are mainly due to the inability to precisely localize the medial branch of the posterior branch of the spinal nerve, analyzes the reasons for the inability to precisely localize the posterior branch of the spinal nerve in conjunction with anatomy. PMID: 38526650.
Energy Medicine Gets Serious. Global Wellness Summit.
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Modulates Electrical Behavior of the Neurons: Design and Implementation of a Model. The electrical behavior of the neuron and the range of its membrane voltage modulated during ultrasonic stimulation.
Ultrasensitive Magnetic Field Sensors for Biomedical Applications. This introductory review focuses on modern magnetic field sensors suitable for biomedicine applications from a physical point of view and provides an overview of recent studies in this field.
Transcranial near-infrared photobiomodulation could modulate brain electrophysiological features and attentional performance in healthy young adults. The study presented that light irradiation with 850-nm LED source on right PFC could change brain electrical activity and has beneficial effects on attentional performance.
Electromagnetic Brain Stimulation in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness. Recently, this clinical distinction has been enriched by electrophysiological and neuroimaging data resulting from a better understanding of the physiopathology of DoC. However, therapeutic options, especially pharmacological ones, remain very limited. In this context, electroceuticals, a new category of therapeutic agents which act by targeting the neural circuits with electromagnetic stimulations, started to develop in the field of DoC.
Modulation of neuroinflammation and memory dysfunction using percutaneous vagus nerve stimulation in mice. Targeted cervical VNS using this novel percutaneous approach reduced LPS-induced systemic and brain inflammation and significantly improved cognitive responses. These results provide a novel therapeutic approach using bioelectronic medicine to modulate neuro-immune interactions that affect cognition.
Unifying Microscopic and Continuum Treatments of van der Waals and Casimir Interactions. We present an approach for computing long-range van der Waals (vdW) interactions between complex molecular systems and arbitrarily shaped macroscopic bodies, melding atomistic treatments of electronic fluctuations based on density functional theory in the former with continuum descriptions of strongly shape-dependent electromagnetic fields in the latter, thus capturing many-body and multiple scattering effects to all orders.
Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis.
The effect of low-frequency electromagnetic field on human bone marrow stem/progenitor cell differentiation. The plasma membrane is often considered to be the main target for EMF signals and most results point to an effect on the rate of ion or ligand binding due to a receptor site acting as a modulator of signaling cascades. Ion fluxes are closely involved in differentiation control as stem cells move and grow in specific directions to form tissues and organs. EMF affects numerous biological functions such as gene expression, cell fate, and cell differentiation, but will only induce these effects within a certain range of low frequencies as well as low amplitudes.
Healing in the New Millennium: Bone Stimulators: An Overview of Where We've Been and Where We May be Heading. Bone stimulators encompass several technologies that promote bone healing via manipulation of energy fields. Primary indications for the use of bone stimulation devices are the delayed union and nonunion.
Light Regulated MicroRNAs. MicroRNAs, which are short, non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by targeting many messenger RNAs, are emerging as important mediators of radiation induced changes in gene expression and hence critical for the manifestation of light-induced cellular phenotypes and physiological responses. In this article, we review available knowledge on microRNAs implicated in responses to various forms of solar and other EM radiation.
Electromagnetic Fields Mediate Efficient Cell Reprogramming into The Pluripotent State. Not only can EMF exposure be used as an efficient tool for epigenetic reprogramming, but naturally occurring EMF plays an important role in biological processes, including the acquisition of pluripotency.
The Effects of Non-Invasive Radiofrequency Treatment and Hyperthermia on Malignant and Nonmalignant Cells. Non-invasive radio-frequency treatment caused declines in cancer cell viability and proliferation.
Transmembrane voltage potential of somatic cells controls oncogene-mediated tumorigenesis at long-range. The authors discuss identifying a novel link between the microbiome and cancer that is mediated by alterations in bioelectric signaling.
How to control proteins with light in living systems. The possibility offered by photocontrolling the activity of biomolecules in vivo while recording physiological parameters is opening up new opportunities for the study of physiological processes at the single-cell level in a living organism. For the last decade, such tools have been mainly used in neuroscience, and their application in freely moving animals has revolutionized this field. New photochemical approaches enable the control of various cellular processes by manipulating a wide range of protein functions in a noninvasive way and with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. We are at a pivotal moment where biologists can adapt these cutting-edge technologies to their system of study. This user-oriented review presents the state of the art and highlights technical issues to be resolved in the near future for wide and easy use of these powerful approaches.
Virtual-Reality Video Game To Help Burn Patients Play Their Way To Pain Relief. The virtual-reality system eases pain of treatment by immersing burn patients in a wintry, computer-generated environment. Its interactive, multi-sensory, features put patients in a deep freeze of distraction, leaving less attention for the processing of incoming pain signals. It’s similar to what has been done with music, movies and even two-dimensional video games, but more effective because it involves problem-solving activities that emphasize coolness.
Epigenetic Modulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis by Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields. Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields stimulated hippocampal neurogenesis.
Electromagnetic fields instantaneously modulate nitric oxide signaling in challenged biological systems. Electromagnetic fields found to non-invasively aid healing.
Body Area Networks (BAN) - the cutting edge in health monitoring technologies. Most of us are familiar with LANs (local area networks) and WANs (wide-area networks) for computers. Now there's an entirely new class of networks that is being envisioned to monitor the health of your body via intrabody communications. Portable EEgs are an example of this emerging technology (see Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park).
Bioelectric modulation of wound healing in a 3D in vitro model of tissue-engineered bone. Endogenous electric signals, such as spatial gradients of resting potential among non-excitable cells in vivo, have also been shown to be important in cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, and tissue regeneration, and may therefore have as-yet unexplored therapeutic potential for regulating wound healing in bone tissue.
Radiofrequency in cosmetic dermatology. The demand for noninvasive methods of facial and body rejuvenation has experienced exponential growth over the last decade. There is a particular interest in safe and effective ways to decrease skin laxity and smooth irregular body contours and texture without downtime. These noninvasive treatments are being sought after because less time for recovery means less time lost from work and social endeavors.
