The Effect of Magnetic Therapy on Pain Relief in Postoperation Patients

Research Motivation and Research Issues:

The National Institutes of Health proposed six important strategies for pain management: studying the characteristics and needs of pain populations, prevention and care, identifying barriers and exclusions for pain care, providing individual pain care, professional education and training, and public awareness and communication. 80-100% of surgical patients experienced acute pain after surgery, and about 61-92% of postoperative patients experienced moderate or severe pain, and less than half of patients undergoing surgery showed that postoperative pain were alleviated. In the emergency treatment of musculoskeletal trauma patients, 40.9% of patients received medication. After pain treatment, only 12.5% of patients felt pain relief, and 23% of patients still felt moderate to severe pain when they left the emergency department. When pain is not properly relieved, it will have a negative impact on the patient, including quality of life and recovery of physical function, risk of complications, and even ineffective communication between doctors and patients. Proper pain assessment and care by caregivers can affect the effectiveness of pain relief in patients. Complementary therapy, in combination with conventional medicine, is one of the effective ways to relieve pain by reducing drug and medical costs and increasing the patient's self-care and autonomy. Complementary therapies can be divided into three broad categories: the first is natural products that are ingested through inhalation, external use or oral intake, including herbs, vitamins, minerals and probiotics. The second category is physical and mental interventional therapy, including art therapy, cognitive therapy, prayer, chanting, meditation, and energy complementary therapy, such as magnetic energy therapy. The third category is other categories such as local traditional therapy, Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy and natural remedies.

Magnetic therapy is a form of energy complementary therapy, which is the use of magnetic energy to produce energy for the relief or healing of diseases, usually divided into static magnetic therapy and dynamic electromagnetic therapy. In the implementation of magnetic therapy, there is no invasive treatment of pain and discomfort, no damage, so it is easy to be accepted by the public. The U.S. and Canada spend more than $500 million on static magnetic therapy to relieve pain, and global consumer spending exceeds $5 billion. The magnetic field has the effect of two distinct magnetic poles. The positive magnetic pole effect has the functions of oxidation, activation, excitation and pressure increase, and the negative magnetic pole effect has the functions of reduction, alkalization, relaxation, sedation and pressure resistance. Most of the research literature didn't show magnetic poles.

Therefore, this study focuses on the effect of magnetic complementary therapy on pain relief, in order to explore the magnetic therapy method and effect of pain relief.

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