5 Important Medical Advances of the Last 100 Years

Modern medicine has something to do with a long and healthy life. Many need to thank the countless medical minds for their discoveries,
mistakes and medical advances they have made over the last 100 years that have helped prevent and fight the previously incurable human diseases. Here are five important medical advances that have revolutionized and influenced our health.

Cold Laser/ Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT)

Figuring out that cold laser therapy or LLLT can stimulate cell growth and initiate cell functions to promote healing, modern medicine have discovered a way to dramatically reduce musculoskeletal pain, inflammation, and promotes tissue repair. Cold laser therapy can help with:

* Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
* Chronic back, shoulder, or leg pain
* Neck pain
* Tennis elbow
* Rotator cuff injury
* Joint pain in knees, hands, ankles

Heart Attack Prevention with Stent

Gains in heart disease are 40 percent new treatment interventions while 60 percent is prevention.

With the invention of a tiny flexible tube called "stent," heart attack can be prevented. Patients with narrow vessel by the buildup of plaque is discovered early on before a full on heart attack, stent can be used as a prop to open the blood vessel to allow the blood to flow normally.

High Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)

The life expectancy of an HIV patient can be extended to decades with a "cocktail," combination therapy approach. HIV is an epidemic disease that cannot be cured, but with the introduction of HAART in 1996, the death rate of HIV patients dropped 10 percent in the US between 2006 and 2007. HAART give HIV patients a chance of a normal life.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the Body

With this noninvasive medical test, physicians and surgeons are able to see what is going wrong inside the body. This machine with its powerful magnetic field, radio frequency pulses, produce physicians detailed images of organs, soft tissues, bone and all other internal body structure, so they can diagnose and treat patients' medical conditions.