Magnetic Therapy

[NoodJuggler]

Hi all..I was wondering if anyone has any information on Magnetic Therapy that they have used. Does it work? Does it matter what way the magnets poles face? What are your experences with this? How about magnetic water, has anyone tried this? I am reading about this but don't know of anyone who uses it or knows anything about it. Thanks for any info...Cheers...NoodJuggler

[NoodJuggler]

Hi all..I was wondering if anyone has any information on Magnetic Therapy that they have used. Does it work? Does it matter what way the magnets poles face? What are your experences with this? How about magnetic water, has anyone tried this? I am reading about this but don't know of anyone who uses it or knows anything about it. Thanks for any info...Cheers...NoodJuggler

[Boreas]

Hi NoodJuggler,

My husband used to work for a research organization in the Toronto area. Some people came there to do some research on magnets. They were wearing them throughout the day as they did their work. I think they wore them in different configurations. I believe they found no difference in the use of magnets.....in other words, they neither harmed nor helped. I have also heard anecdotal stories from friends who swore they helped. One woman had MS and had a magnetic mattress cover, and magnetic insoles. Apparently it helped her.

I will double check with my husband to make sure I have the story straight.

Good luck in your research!

[nacktman]

In my case magnets have helped when I've worn them taped to any joint that has suffered stress, strain and worse from my youthful days (i.e., athletic days).
They have made the ever-present dull ache go away and the joint was more limber.
Some mornings without the magnets I could not bend either knee.

Some have said it dosen't help them.
It's up to the user and their electro-chemical make-up ... it works for everyone I know with a high electrical reading on the Ohm meter and it does not for those on the low end (normal is .5 to 2 Ohms).

I peg out the 8.0 Ohm meter and bury the needle way past the "8" mark myself, I have friends and former athletes that run 5 to 6 on the meter and magnets help them, I have friends that were never atheletic that read 1 to 2 and magnets do nothing for them.

My advise is to have the electro-chemical make up of your body tested with a Ohm meter (if you can see sparks fly between your hand and the car door when reaching for it in the winter, odds are it's going to be high).
That way you will have an idea if magnets will work for you or not.

[NoodJuggler]

I never thought about using an Ohm meter..I'll give that I try with my wife. She has a sore neck and the magnets didn't work but it did on my sore wrist from a fall a few years ago..Cheers..NoodJuggler

[NakedGary]

Skin resistance is in the millions of [Meg [Million] Ohms, and depends on the distance of the probes, and the moisture of the skin or point of contact.

The skin resistance has no relation to a magnetic field from magnets.

To measure the strength of a magnetic field a gauss meter is used.

No scientific or clinical tests can claim that magnets do anything other than the placebo effect and the mind in healing.

Just like the copper bracelets that are supposed to heal.

They sell magnetic clamp on units to your automotive gas line [metal] that claims to increase your gas mileage and efficiency up to 25%, and to your water pipes in your home that claim to soften your water without any direct contact.

Below is a link to an article, and two web engine searches on "Magnetic Therapy" Fact or Fiction?

You decide [Please notice most all say "believed to heal, help, or cure" Not one scientific, clinical, or medical study claims other than maybe placebo or mind over matter in any improvement or healing effect of wearing or using magnets helps anything.

In the absence of adequate clinical evidence, however, companies continue to sell magnets with unsubstantiated claims. One such company, Magnetherapy, inc. was fined $30,000 for making health claims regarding their magnets, and signed a voluntary agreement to stop making such claims. Most companies, however, evade regulations by not making specific claims. Rather, they provide testimonials or make vague statements which avoid specific health claims.

Pain relief: Is it in magnets or mind?


Web Google search on Magnetic Thearpy "Fact or Fiction"

Generic Web search on Magnetic Thearpy "Fact of Fiction"

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[nacktman]

Gary, hate to say different but magnets do effect the body's electro-chemical make up and visa-versa just as they do in any other electrical application.

Magnets increase the electrical activity and direct it along the lines of their magnetic fields.

It does not matter about skin resistance, moisture, distance or any other qualifier ... the electro-chemical make up of the body will be effected.
Just how it will be effected will be determined by the aforementioned qualifiers and others.

Medical science poo-poos the idea of magnet therapy because it is something they can not control, i.e., over charge for and be the exclusive outlet for.
There needs to be no clinical research or trials to prove it works, just as any 1st semester engineering student at any college and they can tell you and show you how it works, if they haven't been sleeping in class that is.

[Nathan B]

Enough! Think about this magnetic thing a moment. First, you are living on the largest magnet for a couple of hundred thousand miles. Second, if magnetic therapy worked all you would have to do is submit to an MRI which uses up to 30,000 times the earth's magnetic field to align the atoms in your body so that imaging can take place.

Look at some of the patent medicine ads from the turn of the 20th century (1895 - 1910) and you will see tons of ads for everything from magnetic belts for men to improve virility to magnetic insoles for shoes.

Personally I prefer to walk backwards to reduce the effects of the earths rotation.

This is a hoot.

[nacktman]

Exactly Nathan we live on a giant magnet and have used magnet therapy for longer than we have recorded our history with the written word.

Why would we continue to do something that did not work?

Just stand with your back against the standing megaliths throughout the world and your back will relax ... it's awfully funny how they all are on magnetic meridians, you know.
Since they are man made and placed into position there had to be a reason ... could it be the magnetic field along those merdians, maybe?

Remember, medical science said Mom's story about chicken soup being good for a cold was hogwash as well until a few years ago when the "discovered" that Mom was right all along.

Humanity has forgotten most of its knowledge and is now only rediscovering a small portion of it slowly ever so slowly.