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Is the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) funding research on magnets for pain and other diseases and conditions?

April 26, 2017alternative medicine center complementary diseases funding magnets National NCCAM pain Research

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Is the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) funding research on magnets for pain and other diseases and conditions?

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Yes. For example, recent projects supported by NCCAM include: • Static magnets, for fibromyalgia pain and quality of life • Pulsed electromagnets, for migraine headache pain • Static magnets, for their effects on networks of blood vessels involved in healing • TMS, for Parkinson’s disease • Electromagnets, for their effects on injured nerve and muscle cells In addition, the papers by Alfano et al., Swenson, and Wolsko et al. report on research funded by NCCAM.