Question:
Does magnet therapy help in fracture and bone healing?
Currently, there are many modalities in the market. Is it true that magnet therapy has no side effect for the consumer?
Currently, there are many modalities in the market. Is it true that magnet therapy has no side effect for the consumer?
By Amirul AB
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Northumbria University
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Is anybody interested in using our new study to try to stop fraudulent advertising of magnetic therapies and related equipment?
It is dismaying that in most countries the legislators are unable to protect consumers from false advertising when alternative medical treatments are ...
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It is dismaying that in most countries the legislators are unable to protect consumers from false advertising when alternative medical treatments are concerned. Scientists have a responsibility to take stronger measures!
Here's the abstract of our paper:
"Magnetic therapy in the history of medicine and in the current alternative medicine. Case Bemer."
Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Markku Myllykangas, Veijo Saano
In this article we give a short review of the history of magnet therapies in medicine, and evaluate a modern version of electromagnetic radiation treatment, the Bemer therapy, on the basis of published reports and the material provided by the manufacturer Bemer Int. AG.
Therapeutic magnets – wrist bands, pads, pillows and matresses – are specifically marketed as cures for neck and back pain. Magnet therapy is also claimed to be effective against cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis. Magnets are also allegedly able to increase energy in healthy people, stimulate the immune system and improve golf swing. However, there is no scientific evidence to support the claims of therapeutic efficacy.
A modern example of magnet therapy is the Bemer treatment, which is claimed to stimulate microcirculation using signals transmitted by weak electromagnetic pulses to the body. The Bemer equipment produces non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. The signal is, however, orders of magnitude weaker than radiation emitted by many electric appliances in a typical modern home. The Bemer signal has virtually no interaction with biological matter. Therefore, there is no physical basis to claim that Bemer treatment could induce therapeutically meaningful responses.
By careful analysis we conclude that the published scientific evidence is insufficient to show the safety and efficacy of the Bemer therapy, in contrast to the claims made by the manufacturer. All therapeutic claims using Bemer are thus due to the placebo effect.
By Tapio Ala-Nissila
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Aalto University
Question:
Magnetic Therapy is popular in the UK
It appear to me that so many people in the UK are taking on magnetic therapy. The question - what is the atraction?
It appear to me that so many people in the UK are taking on magnetic therapy. The question - what is the atraction?
