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WELLINGTON EQUESTRIAN // FEBRUARY-MARCH
does it work?
Healing Waves
As with any new technology, there’s a lot of misinformation
out there. Coupled with the equine world,
where medical habits change at a glacial pace, you
need accurate information.
Details are hard to come by when dealing with new technologies.
Given the fact that Cytowave is a hybrid technology
that combines one old technology and a newer,
patented approach to healing, facts are in short supply
and we’re not talking about alternative facts, we’re talking
real facts.
Cytowave technology represents a novel method of treating injuries
using tissue-based signals. There are many other products on the
market that use generic electromagnetic waveforms, but Cytowave
has taken a very different and perhaps a more logical approach. Rather
than a one-size fits all approach, this approach is based on the biology
of the injury. The signal is derived based upon the difference in biomagnetic
signals from normal and injured tissues. Cytowave’s novel
technology was granted protection from the US patent office. This
VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN
SUCCESS
When Cytowave was beta tested
at Gulfstream Park in South Florida,
it produced very quick results
and the company was off and running.
The demand for the product
created an issue that would not
become apparent for a couple
of years. The R&D budget was
non-existent because the product
worked. Flash forward a couple of
years later and veterinarians are
asking for data. The company is focused
on produting data that will
hopefully detail the actual physical
changes that are happening
technology was presented at various international meetings such as
Scandinavian Congress of Sports Medicine, VI International Workshop
on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, XXXIIIth Annual meeting
of BEMS and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Healing occurs via a series of integrated stages, each of which is
essential to the repair processes. Therefore, it is important to evaluate
the contribution of basic cellular activities occurring at a given stage in
tissue repair. This extremely complex phenomenon involves a number
of processes such as vascular responses, cellular activity,
and release of chemical mediators within the injured tissues.
The list should also include regeneration of parenchymal
cells, migration and proliferation of both parenchymal
and connective tissue cells, synthesis of extracellular matrix
proteins, remodeling of connective tissue, collagenization,
and acquisition of tissue strength. One area of specific interest
is the effect of EMF and MF on cell proliferation.
In pathological conditions, cell proliferation is usually suppressed
(in conditions of chronic wounds) or enhanced (in
the case of neoplastic growth). Magnetic field stimulation of
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