Magnetic therapy for spine injury

BBC NEWS | Health: "Details of the technique - known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) - are published in the journal Spinal Cord. "We think it works by strengthening the information leaving the brain through the undamaged neurons in the spinal cord. It may work like physiotherapy but instead of repeating a physical task, the machine activates the surviving nerves to strengthen their connections."

They found rTMS treatment resulted in a 37.5% drop in intracortical inhibition, compared with normal physiotherapy. "