For many, many years ppl have debated on effects of MT. I have only recently seen some products wc claim to use this for health reasons, and want to post what others who have researched on this have to say. Please feel free to add any experiences you have had for others here.
from Silly Beliefs - Magnetic Therapy - Real Healing or Scam?
...So which type of magnet do conventional medicine and alternative medicine practitioners commonly use?
Basically speaking, conventional medicine uses electromagnets whereas alternative medicine practitioners use permanent magnets. Although both types of magnet obviously produce magnetic fields, the strength of these fields and their effects can be vastly different. Think of comparing a 1908 Model T vintage car to a modern Ferrari sports car. Technically they're both cars, but the difference in their performance is worlds apart. You can't drive a Model T and claim that it performs like a Ferrari. Likewise you can't use a permanent magnet and claim that it has the same effect as a pulsed electromagnet.
But if conventional medicine really does use magnetic fields, doesn't that mean that some form of magnet can cure, just as magnetic therapists say they can? Yes, to a degree. Pulsed electromagnetic fields have been found to aid healing in some bone fractures, perhaps some types of wounds and to reduce certain types of pain for example. However they do not reduce pain in general or increase blood circulation etc as claimed by magnetic therapists. And they most certainly don't cure cancer. For a very few specific aliments the use of highly specialised magnets, usually pulsed electromagnets, can have positive health effects.
One other area of confusion often mentioned by the public and encouraged by magnetic therapists is the MRI scanner, a very powerful, very expensive, very complicated medical tool. MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging which uses an extremely powerful magnetic field produced by an electromagnet, along with radio waves, computers etc, to produce 3D images of the inside of the body. However it must be remembered that MRI scanners cure no one. It is merely a diagnostic device, albeit a very impressive one. No matter how long you spend inside one, you will be just as ill when you come out as when you went in. It merely helps reveal what your illness might be. Other means must then be employed to cure you. The magnetic field from an MRI has no therapeutic effect on the body, anymore than a doctor's stethoscope has an effect on the heart. Magnetic therapists capitalise on the public's awe of the MRI and its mysterious magnetic field and allow them to believe that the MRI's diagnostic power has somehow been converted into healing power and that they can have some of this healing power in their magnetic underlay... (more)
from Silly Beliefs - Magnetic Therapy - Real Healing or Scam?
...So which type of magnet do conventional medicine and alternative medicine practitioners commonly use?
Basically speaking, conventional medicine uses electromagnets whereas alternative medicine practitioners use permanent magnets. Although both types of magnet obviously produce magnetic fields, the strength of these fields and their effects can be vastly different. Think of comparing a 1908 Model T vintage car to a modern Ferrari sports car. Technically they're both cars, but the difference in their performance is worlds apart. You can't drive a Model T and claim that it performs like a Ferrari. Likewise you can't use a permanent magnet and claim that it has the same effect as a pulsed electromagnet.
But if conventional medicine really does use magnetic fields, doesn't that mean that some form of magnet can cure, just as magnetic therapists say they can? Yes, to a degree. Pulsed electromagnetic fields have been found to aid healing in some bone fractures, perhaps some types of wounds and to reduce certain types of pain for example. However they do not reduce pain in general or increase blood circulation etc as claimed by magnetic therapists. And they most certainly don't cure cancer. For a very few specific aliments the use of highly specialised magnets, usually pulsed electromagnets, can have positive health effects.
One other area of confusion often mentioned by the public and encouraged by magnetic therapists is the MRI scanner, a very powerful, very expensive, very complicated medical tool. MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging which uses an extremely powerful magnetic field produced by an electromagnet, along with radio waves, computers etc, to produce 3D images of the inside of the body. However it must be remembered that MRI scanners cure no one. It is merely a diagnostic device, albeit a very impressive one. No matter how long you spend inside one, you will be just as ill when you come out as when you went in. It merely helps reveal what your illness might be. Other means must then be employed to cure you. The magnetic field from an MRI has no therapeutic effect on the body, anymore than a doctor's stethoscope has an effect on the heart. Magnetic therapists capitalise on the public's awe of the MRI and its mysterious magnetic field and allow them to believe that the MRI's diagnostic power has somehow been converted into healing power and that they can have some of this healing power in their magnetic underlay... (more)
