For many years, the standard treatments for osteoarthritis and musculoskeletal disorders have relied on pharmaceutical agents, usually combined with physiotherapy - treatments that can help relieve the symptoms but have little impact on the condition itself.

Interventive procedures such as joint replacements are restricted by severe budget constraints and strict criteria for patient selection. Less than 10% of osteoarthritic patients have this surgery.

Now there is an effective alternative

PST Pulsed Signal Therapy is a patented, pulsed electromagnetic field delivery system new to animal treatment. It is the result of 20 years of intensive research by physician and bio-physicist, Dr. Richard Markoll.

Studies at Yale University of Medicine^1,2 and in France³, Italy⁴ and Germany⁵ demonstrate that 70% of human patients treated show significant improvement i.e. 2 out of 3 patients actually get substantial relief.

"At the end of treatment, the differences...reached statistical significance for pain, pain on motion, and both the patient overall assessment and the physician global assessment."²

With long term benefits and no reported side effects

The relief afforded by NSAIDs and analgesic drugs is essentially short term. Only repeat dosage can lengthen their effect and long term usage often leads to complications.

However, with PST Pulsed Signal Therapy, pain relief and improvement in mobility are sustained long after a course of treatment is finished - thus restoring the former activities of daily living.^1,2,4,5

Unlike many pharmaceutical agents, PST Pulsed Signal Therapy provides these benefits without any reported side effects.

"No untoward effects, symptoms, clinical findings or laboratory observations were observed in any patient."²

Restores synthesizing capacity of cartilage

PST Pulsed Signal Therapyıs mode of action is described as emulating the bodyıs electrical energy signals (streaming potentials) that stimulate cartilage regeneration, repair and maintenance.^1,2,6,7,8,9

"These streaming potentials apparently serve a purpose in cartilage similar to that in bone, transducing mechanical stress to an electrical (or electromagnetic) phenomenon capable of stimulating chondrocyte synthesis of matrix components."²

Thus, in addition to providing prompt and sustained symptomatic relief, studies suggest that PST Pulsed Signal Therapy also treats the condition itself.

PST Pulsed Signal Therapy is cost effective, too

Patients suffering from osteoarthritis can make four or more visits to the doctor a year. Many of these will be referred to Rheumatology and Orthopedic clinics for treatment. Add to this the cost of drugs as well as the cost of treating GI and other complications that result from long-term use of NSAIDs and it becomes clear that the cost benefits derived from PST Pulsed Signal Therapy are invaluable.

All of which makes PST Pulsed Signal Therapy a significant innovation in the management of osteoarthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.