How Effective Magnet Therapy Really Is?

Magnet therapy as a way to relieve joint or muscle pain through magnets has been around for centuries, and these are placed close to the skin. Placed under a mattress or pillow, fashioned into jewelry, inside any article of clothing, belt or shoe, or put inside an ankle strap or wrist the magnets can be used in a variety of ways.

You can at a med spa also have Magnet Therapy for Headaches, where in the hopes of achieving a beneficial effect a practitioner will submit your body to certain doses of magnetic energy.

Proponents of magnet therapy say that by realigning our bodies’ magnetic fields it works, making us perform and feel better on many levels. Blood is drawn to that area by placing magnets over specific parts of the body, they say, and there is a resultant soothing effect on cells, tissues, nerves and muscles.

However, the method is a highly controversial one and is also known as electromagnetic field therapy or biomagnetic! Except for a possible placebo-like effect in some cases there have been no real studies that have reported any positive effects whatsoever.

What Is It Exactly?

To the times of the ancient Egyptians, Magnet therapy and Magnetic Jewelry for Healing dates back, and to treat a myriad of different ailments, ranging from ulcers to chronic back pain to arthritis and sports injuries has been used by alternative practitioners.

Today, to treat cancer and diagnose HIV, some practitioners even use it although for such purposes it has been widely frowned upon.

Interestingly, making it a lot easier for the people trying to flog them it is not known exactly how the magnets and Magnetic Rings work or don’t work!

It is claimed by some distributors and/or manufacturers of magnetic products that to travel towards them they attract the iron in the blood, therefore making the supply of oxygen more beneficial in the body it improves and increasing circulation and enhances Natural Health.

Others say including repair cuts and wounds they reduce the body’s levels of negative energy, encouraging it do many things.