What health benefits do magnets have when you wear them on your body?

I've seen some people wear magnets on their wrist. I also just saw a product where you can put magnets around your waist to help back pain.Is this a marketing gimmick or do magnets really help. Asked by Anchorman 52 months ago Similar questions: health benefits magnets wear body Health > Alternative Medicine.

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I certainly cannot explain WHY, but they relieve pain and speed healing. We have several support type of bandages which we use for sprains. We have them for wrist, ankle, knee, elbow, and neck.

When I broke my ankle severly in a motorcycle wreck, there was also extensive tendon dammage to the area. The doctors at Vanderbilt elected (with my input! ) to see if it would heal without surgery.

They told me the recovery would be VERY LONG, and they were right. After the cast was finally off, they said I would probably feel pain for another year. I would occasionally put on one of those supports on that ankle to give it relief.

We then bought one with magnets in it; it was identical to the one we had, except it had several light magnets imbedded into it. I could FEEL a difference in the morning when I slept with the magnetic one on! There was less pain, and the effect of the rest lasted longer.

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No scientific evidence, however from my experience... Well, this is a very good question. I've done on and off research on this for the past few years since I've had neck and knee pain. The neck pain was caused from the angle of sitting at a desk in front of a computer and knee pain from running.

There are a lot of companies that market magnets to supposingly aid in healing. The idea/concept is that magnets help to increase circulation. Circulation increases blood flow to areas of the body requiring additional healing.

Most scientific research will tell you that there is not any scientific proof behind this theory. So I'll give you my thoughts based on personal experience. I was and still do have pain in the lower area of my neck (the tip of the spine right below the neck).

It was killing me and I had to do somthing about it. It was being caused by the way my head and shoulders and arms were positioned when sitting and typing in front of a computer all day. I went and bought one of those thin blue wraps that have velcro at the end and a couple small round magnets inside.

The type of magnet that I bought could be used to be wrapped around a wrist or neck. I placed it around my neck with the magnets touching my skin (around the area where it hurt). Unbelievably, the next time I sat down (with the magnet on) I did not have the same pain that I did before - it was almost entirely gone.It was not the 'placebo' effect either, because I had totally forgotten that I had it on.

Now, if I took it off the pain would return (as long as I went back to that position) but otherwise if I wore it, it really did help. So something is obviously was working between the magnet and my body. Yet, when I purchased a magnetic knee brace, hoping for similar effects - it did nothing and was a total waste of money.

There were even more magnets in this knee brace. So in a nutshell, I think there might be some benefit to magnets, but its difficult to quantify this. I still have the neck magnet wrap and do use it every once in a while.

And still to this day it does help reduce my neck pain - what can I say it works for me. But the magnetic knee brace did nothing. Sources: My experience .

I tried them for pain. They did not work for me Some people say they help but from all that I have read on the subject there is no proof that magnets are any benifit. I think it is just another scam that feeds on peoples hope to relieve pain that will not go away.

I tried them free, a friend had them and said he felt a small relief. I think his back got better on its own. I wore the thing a week and nothing happened.

Save your money .

They almost certainly do nothing. If they do have an effect, it is through the placebo effect (where the patient expects to feel better, so he or she really does feel better. ) The placebo effect is real (in the sense that the person really does feel better) but it doesn't last.

And for any drug to be dubbed "effective" by the FDA, it has to work better than a placebo. So in other words, placebos work as well, at best, as the least effective drug approved by the FDA. There is no reason why magnets sold that way should work.

They are far too weak, and too small, to have any pain-relieving effect. And even incredibly strong magnets do not have a pain-relieving effect. (One particle physics experimenter inserted his head into an incredibly strong magnetic field, produced by a particle accelerator.

He reported some odd sensations and visual effects, but that was all. ) If and when the Federal Trade Commission ever gets off its ass, it will shut down these magnet hucksters. A few years go, it was copper bracelets.

Who knows what will be next? Vials of chicken blood? Voodoo dolls?.

They help to neutralize the blood, which helps with weight loss, kills germs and parasites etc. They help for... many things. You can get books about this: Magnet therapy, by William Philpott, Kalita and Goldberg .

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