Do you think Magnet treatments work ?!
Question: Hi Sonnie. The following are direct quotes taken from a 'critical review' of the scientific studies on magnet treatment for pain.
"A systematic literature review was undertaken of studies that compared the use of static magnets with an appropriate control for the treatment of pain."
"Overall, 13 of 21 studies reported a significant analgesic effect due to static magnets. Of the 18 better quality studies ... 11 were positive and six were negative, and in one there was a non-significant trend towards a positive analgesic effect."
"In two of the negative studies, there were concerns over adequacy of magnet power for the type of pain, and in the other study of duration of exposure to the magnetic field. If these two studies are excluded on the grounds of inadequate treatment, then 11 out of 15 (73.3%) of the better quality studies demonstrated a positive effect of static magnets in achieving analgesia across a broad range of different types of pain..."
"The weight of evidence from published, well-conducted controlled trials suggests that static magnetic fields are able to induce analgesia."
Hope you find this scientific evidence helpful.
Answers: Hi Sonnie. The following are direct quotes taken from a 'critical review' of the scientific studies on magnet treatment for pain.
"A systematic literature review was undertaken of studies that compared the use of static magnets with an appropriate control for the treatment of pain."
"Overall, 13 of 21 studies reported a significant analgesic effect due to static magnets. Of the 18 better quality studies ... 11 were positive and six were negative, and in one there was a non-significant trend towards a positive analgesic effect."
"In two of the negative studies, there were concerns over adequacy of magnet power for the type of pain, and in the other study of duration of exposure to the magnetic field. If these two studies are excluded on the grounds of inadequate treatment, then 11 out of 15 (73.3%) of the better quality studies demonstrated a positive effect of static magnets in achieving analgesia across a broad range of different types of pain..."
"The weight of evidence from published, well-conducted controlled trials suggests that static magnetic fields are able to induce analgesia."
Hope you find this scientific evidence helpful.
Perhaps this is not the answer you want to hear, but no, "magnet treatments" are complete bullshit. Pseudoscience. Founded on the placebo effect.
Ive had back problems for a while, nothing major.. I use a magnet underlay on my bed and since then mt back isnt as bad and I do get a good nights sleep as well.. And I dont feel as tired in the morning when I wake, like I use too.
So do they work, maybe for some and not others :)
Yes. Totally.
If you're a nail, absolutely. Human beings aren't metallic, so magnets, unless they're so powerful that they're large enough to live in, have no effect on us at all.
no magnets suck
Magnets have even been accepted by "The Quack Buster" after honestly reviewing the research based on pain in polio victims. Magnets increase energy. Think of a grow light on your front lawn. For making things heal, like bone breaks, it is phenomenal. However, if there is a tumor or cyst...go back to the grow light illustration. They make everything healthier. So I use them for trauma short term. Like anything else, if a little is good, more is not necessarily better. However, there are other microcurrent therapies that can work for more systemic things. This website is comprehensive:
http://alternative-medicine-and-health.c...
Look for other resources, too, for your specific problem.
To contradict many answers posted at this question, yes, some magnet treatments do work on humans. Human bodies do in fact have metallic components, how else do MRI's work? Through M(AGNETIC) pulses through the body!
Yes magnet therapy works, only if proper magnets are used and only if the north polarity is facing the body. When the astronauts first went into space for an extended period of time and didn't have the earths magnetic field penetrating there body,when they arrived back on earth the doctors examined them and noticed there bone marrow had shrunk, bone marrow is responsible for the production of blood cells, extremely vital for proper health. NASA then installed magnetic generators on the space shuttle.
In a study presented as a paper at the North American Academy of Magnetic Therapy Convention in 1999, Dr. Bonlie demonstrated the effect of a reduced magnetic field on mice. He used a specially designed cage designed to block out magnetic fields. In doing so, he created an environment that reduced the magnetic field of the earth to one-tenth its present value. He then placed six, six-month old mice in the cage and found that they went into