It was the golfing market, of all places, that put magnet therapy, and magnet cures back into the mainstream. It all started with a celebrity endorsement from professional golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez. He claimed his foot pains were going away by slipping magnetic insoles into his heels. This trend started a new approach to pain therapy via magnetic cures. But do magnets really cure pain?
As you might imagine, since the Chi Chi Rodriguez endorsement, a few magnetic remedy companies came out with tons of different magnet products to heal pain of all different sorts. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission actually took action against a few of these companies that claimed magnetic therapy could cure cancer or AIDS.
- What Studies Show About Magnet Cures:
Of course, the magnet cure therapy may not be total baloney. In fact some studies have shown the effectiveness of magnets to cure pain in certain instances. One such study, published in a November 1997 in an issue of Archives and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, investigated taping half-inch magnets to "sore spots" on 29 people with post-polio pain. In the double-study, the ones who wore the magnets reported an impressive reduction in pain, from a pain scale of 9.6 (10 being the most pain) to 4.4.
But of course, as studies go, this did not prove once and for all that magnets cure pain. Another study, published in January 1997 in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, found that a study on magnetic insoles did not heal their "heel" pain.
- How Magnets Work:
The interesting thing is that the science behind how magnets work does make sense. The idea is that magnets actually boost circulation in the blood. If there is an increase in circulation, then there is an increase in the healing. In a sense, this means that more nutrients will be brought to the pained area, and healing can increase exponentially.
- The Magnets Cure Conclusion:
Will magnets work to cure your pain? Maybe they will and maybe they won't. It probably depends on what type of pain you have and why you have that pain. For instance, magnets worked in a study with people who had post-polio pain, but not in a study on curing heel pain. Other observations have shown no difference in carpal tunnel syndrome but did observe pain relief in helping diabetic foot pain.
The short answer is that the jury is still out. One thing is for sure, magnetic therapy has been around for thousands of years. There may be a very good reason magnets have withstood the test of time.
The suggestion I have is to check out some different studies on magnetic therapy, and find out in which specific cases magnets seemed to cure patients and for what type of pain or ailment. In this way, if you have the same type of pain associated with the study, then maybe you should give magnet cures a try.
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