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.