Magnetic therapy, magnetic therapy products and the concept of magnetic healing are not new ideas. The Gradient Medical LLC QuadraBloc website contains an overview of the history of magnetic treatment for pain.
The novelty of QuadraBloc is its unique, patented, geometric array of alternating magnetic polarity producing a very steep magnetic field gradient. The principal determinant of the efficacy in any device to be utilized in magnetic therapy is this steep field gradient. The specific magnetic field and steepness of the QuadraBloc gradient has been described using mathematical equations describing the three dimensional vector description in an X., Y., and Z axis. Seminal laboratory studies conducted at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Neurology in the division of Neuromagnetics, demonstrated over twenty years ago the importance of the projected steep field gradient in the blockade of primary afferent pain neuron transduction and transmission. As now has been independently determined, the alternating static magnetic field projected by the QuadraBloc is the most effective field; this unique field has consistently produced analgesia, pain reduction, in an animal pain model. The source or generator of this steep field gradient is in fact, the quadrapolar array. When the rare earth magnets utilized in QuadraBloc are arranged in this north-south-north-south configuration, the array produces the steepest magnetic field gradient produced with the minimal amount of magnetic material. It is QuadraBloc’s unique steep field gradient, as opposed to the magnitude, or strength of magnetic flux, which accomplishes the cessation of the firing in pain neurons and returns the membrane action potential to a resting, baseline state or latency. Further more, in the course of patent litigation with another magnetic therapy device manufacturer, Gradient Medical determined that the alternating quadrapole, the QuadraBloc, is unique in the property of our Company.
Gradient Medical feels the QuadraBloc device is not alternative medicine per se. QuadraBloc represents a traditional approach to treating the everyday aches and pains of daily living; producing cell membrane stabilization an effect or mechanism used in many current treatment options available today both by prescription, and over-the-counter. QuadraBloc actually blocks the pain signal in the pain cells where the pain originates. The QuadraBloc website contains scientific research papers which support the conclusion that the pain blocking mechanism from this patented device may provide aid to thousands of patients who enrolled previously in approved studies, and thousands of more patients worldwide over the last 15 years.
