Anyone had any expereince with magnets speeding up injury healing? I have always thought it to be a sales gimmick, but I have a close friend who swears by them.....just curious.
Anyone had any expereince with magnets speeding up injury healing? I have always thought it to be a sales gimmick, but I have a close friend who swears by them.....just curious.
Its all just blood flow and pressure, and nothing else. Repeat. Nothing else. Has virtually nothing to do with the magnets. Use a heating pad.
But if they do increase blood flow, wouldn't they be beneficial since it is hard to walk around all day with a heating pad? They seem more convenient, but I suppose the question is do they really promote extra blood flow to the targeted area?
Ingrid Kristansen used to swear by them, but that's been a while.
Helped speed my ham injury! everyone is different!
I have a magboy everything else to strong
Its hard to figure how these work. A changing magnetic field is well-known to stimulate circulation, but to generate a changing field (AC Field) you would normally require an electromagnet. "Therapy magnets" are DC (like a refrigerator magnet) and scientifically anyway, are no better for you than the Earth's own DC field. The OSHA safety guidelines for AC Magentic Field Exposure are much much lower (miligauss) than for DC fields (tens of gauss).
That being said, people swear by them. Perhaps a mental thing, if you think its helping, it probably is.
Speaking as an electrical engineer, I can say that I have never read a study on the healing power of magnets that proved they are effective (a few have tried, but they were flawed IMO). I have seen references to studies that have shown that they are ineffective though. If you get anything from them I'd say it's placebo effect.
The iron in your blood is attracted to the magnet, forcing blood flow. It's just that easy.
Won't work for vegetarians though - or anemics.
Geez, that's what I keep hearing but if it WAS attracted to the magnet (which it's not), then it would cause the blood to pool and stagnate, not flow (and thus improve circulation).
The iron in your blood is not like the little iron filings that folks may have used in those junior high school magnet experiments.