Magnet therapy : Its action and use

Now a days every third person suffering from any chronic disease wear a bracelet or any thing with a magnet in that. Magnet therapy claims to effective in treating many chronic diseases if placed near the bones. Magnet therapy also called magnotherapy is recommended by practitioners mainly in diseases like diabetes, hypertension and as a cure for chronic joint disorders of joints and chronic backache.

How magnet therapy works

The believer and practitioner of this magnet therapy claims that magnetic fields produced from permanent magnets if placed close to the body leads to faster healing of bone, relieve pain thus very much helpful after fracture, the magnetic field also leads to other healing of the body.

Practitioners use negative magnetic fields and it having a beneficial effect on health. After placing the magnet to close proximity of injury it creates a force field which helps in relaxing muscle thus increased blood flow, it also reduces inflammation.

The practitioner of this magnet therapy claims that magnet increases circulation of blood, some claims to be effective due to shiatsu massage and some says that it produces an alkaline reaction in the body. Some even claims that it affect iron contents of red blood cells in the blood.

Thus there are several theories of action of magnet in our body, but none of them is scientifically proved and the non believers claims to be a placebo effect on patients. However in my general practice I have seen the effect of magnets in certain chronic diseases and feel normalizing blood pressure, controlling sugar and reducing pain due to wearing a magnet device.

Scientific research of magnet therapy

In several scienticfic researches done by using magnet therapy in patients of injury, chronic back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome but after the research came to a conclusion that magnets have no effect on these conditions. In spite of these researches and conclusions magnet therapy is widely accepted by many patients and inspite of being a doctor cannot straightway deny its effect.

Should I go for magnet therapy

Magnet therapy is a better alternate treatment for many diseases, it is safe, drug free and easily available. Cost is also not too much thus using magnets as an alternative therapy is of no harm in some pains like back pain and minor injury. However I would recommend to use magnet therapy if a patient is willing to try but should use along with other proved conventional therapies especially in diseases like hypertension and diabetes where a bit ignorance may lead tp life threatening condition.

Places of body where magnets are generally used

Magnets in the form of bracelet, locket or in any device is generally used in head, shoulder, elbow, knees, ankles etc. The detail body organ where magnet can be used are shown in the image/picture below.