One Study Shows That Magnetic Pain Therapy May Help With Osteoarthritis

For starters, it is certainly easy to look at something like magnetic therapy and decide it is all just an "alternative medicine" ploy so that someone can get rich fast while you continue to suffer with chronic pain. This is certainly not a bad assumption because there are many magnetic therapy vendors who would like to do nothing more than separate you from your money. However, it is important for anyone who suffers from chronic pain to know the entire story, and that is exactly what this article is all about. We will focus on one such magnetic therapy study that attempts to shed some light on the interesting developments in magnetic pain therapy.

For this magnetic pain therapy article we will discuss a randomized controlled trial at the Peninsula Medical School where magnetic bracelets were used in an attempt to show that magnetic therapy may relieve pain in osteoarthritis of the hips and knees. These was done with your typical real magnets and placebo magnets in a trial that took 194 men and women aged 45 to 80 years who suffered from osteoarthritis of the hip or knee.

What the 194 men and women were told to do was wear a standard strength static bipolar magnetic bracelet, a weak magnetic bracelet, or a non-magnetic bracelet for 12 weeks. Some of the men and women in the magnetic pain therapy study wore the standard strength magnetic bracelet, some wore the weak magnetic bracelet and others wore the "dummy" bracelet.

The results are at the very least uplifting for magnetic pain therapy enthusiasts. The results showed that for pain from osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, there was a decrease when wearing magnetic bracelets, however there is a catch. In this case, it is undetermined whether the decrease in pain was due to the magnetic pain therapy bracelets, or simply due to placebo effects. This is interesting to me because the men and women in the study were all under the assumption that they had on the strongest magnetic bracelets, but no matter, the results certainly did not imply that magnetic pain therapy is a complete sham. Certainly with studies like this, it must suggest at the very least that magnetic therapy may help certain people with certain health issues. How much pain therapy, and in what types of pain have yet to be determined.

So it is true that this study does not prove once and for all that magnetic therapy is going to alleviate all of your chronic pain be that osteoarthritis pain or otherwise. But at the same time, this study does provides some evidence to suggest that there may be more to magnets then meet the eye. In other words. maybe magnetic fields really do something to help alleviate chronic pain. Of course there are more layers to peel before we get to the bottom of the exact usefulness of magnetic therapy as a chronic pain therapy solution, but we must consider the possibility that magnetic therapy may have a place among other credible pain therapy solutions.

Magnetic therapy is going to be seen as a useful pain therapy solution for many years to come. Especially when studies like the one done at the Peninsula Medical School continue to produce positive results for magnetic pain therapy enthusiasts. There is a community of magnetic pain therapy users who will always swear up and down that magnetic therapy is the answer to the pain relief, and who are we to stop them? In saying that, it is important for the scientific community to continue studying the effects of magnets on chronic pain sufferers.