Long Term Beneficial Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields in Multiple Sclerosis

Abstract

A 39 year-old severely disabled woman with a 19 year history of chronic relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) began to experience improvement in symptoms within 24 hours after she received experimental treatment with picotesla electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Pattern reversal visual evoked potential (VEP) study obtained three weeks after the initiation of the first magnetic treatment showed a return to normal of the P₁₀₀ latencies in each eye. The patient continued to receive 1-2 EMFs treatments per week and during the following 32 months she made a dramatic recovery with resolution of diplopia, blurring of vision, dysarthria, ataxia of gait, and bladder dysfunction as well as improvement in fatigue, heat tolerance, mood, sleep, libido, and cognitive functions. VEP studies, which were repeated in April of 1995 more than 2 1/2 years after the initiation of magnetic treatment, showed that P₁₀₀ latencies remained normal in each eye providing objective documentation that continued application of these EMFs may sustain normal conduction in the damaged optic pathways over a long period of time. This is the tint case report documenting the dramatic long term beneficial effects of treatment with picotesla range EMFs in a patient with MS.

Key Words:

• Multiple sclerosis
• electromagnetic fields
• visual evoked potentials
• P₁₀₀ latencies
• pineal gland
• melatonin
• serotonin (5-HT)
• visual pathways