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Magnetic Therapy Research
Even though claims that magnetic therapy can treat diseases like cancer and multiple sclerosis are unfounded, there is some evidence that it may help relieve pain related to these chronic conditions:

1) Arthritis

In a 2004 study of 194 adults with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee, researchers found that those who wore magnetic bracelets for 12 weeks had a decrease in arthritis-associated pain. Meanwhile, a 2001 study of 64 people with rheumatoid arthritis of the knee showed that 68% of those who used magnetic therapy reported feeling better or much better after one week.

Learn about other natural solutions for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

2) Chronic Pelvic Pain

For a 2002 study of 32 women with chronic pelvic pain, one group of patients had active or placebo magnets applied to their abdomens for 24 hours a day. After four weeks of continuous use, those who received the active magnets reported significantly lower pain levels than at the start of the study.

3) Fibromyalgia

After six weeks of sleeping on magnetized mattress pads, 13 women with fibromyalgia reported significantly less pain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and next-day tiredness. A control group of 12 women (who slept on non-magnetized mattresses) had smaller improvements in pain, sleep, fatigue, and tiredness. The study's authors note that improvements in both groups might have been due to use of a better mattress pad.

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How Does Magnetic Therapy Work?
Magnet therapy takes many different forms. In some cases, magnets are applied to illness-affected areas with the help of wraps, shoe inserts, self-adhesive strips, belts, or "magnetic jewelry" like bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Other products include magnetic mattress pads and blankets, as well as magnetic-field-generating machines and even magnet-conditioned water.

Since scientific support for its use is so limited, it's difficult to determine how magnetic therapy might promote healing. However, proponents maintain that magnets can stimulate circulation, relax the blood vessels, increase endorphin levels, reduce muscle tension, and normalize metabolic functioning.

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What is Magnetic Therapy?
Magnetic therapy is based on the theory that when delivered directly to the body magnetic fields can stimulate healing from a range of health problems. Although its health claims include the treatment of multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, arthritis, insomnia, inflammation, and even cancer and heart disease, there is little scientific evidence for magnetic therapy's effectiveness.

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Advantages of Magnetic Therapy
The magnetotherapy has various advantages. Magnetotherapy does not stop to take any other medicine when being treated by this.

Magnetotherapy is a natural treatment, based on natural laws and works in conformity with the nature and is an aid to natural processes of healing. Therefore, it has no harmful effects, which could endanger the life of a patient. The magnetotherapy can be taken alone or along with any other treatment. It does not hamper any medical treatment but helps to accelerate the action of all medicines, which have the effect of restoring the ailing body to its normal state in a natural way.

Advantages of Magnetotherapy In magnetotherapy, the body comes continuously in contact with magnets, which generates warmth in body, activates the whole working system and accelerates blood circulation. Thus it provides strength and tones up the body as a whole. Magnetotherapy helps in faster recovery from ailments, removes, tiredness, weakness, proves beneficial in recovery periods. It also reduces pains and swellings of every part of the body.

Magnetotherapy is beneficial for light conditions as well as for serious diseases. It also helps those who are not mentally satisfied with their lives. The depressed persons can also get advantage by using magnetotherapy. It is very advantageous for the hurried, tense business executive, the worried nervous housewife, the career women unable to find mental peace and the child who is enraged by continued temper tantrums. One can enjoy a better and peaceful life after using the magnets.

Magnetotherapy has also cured numerous cases of serious sickness, which were considered incurable by efficient doctors. Many patients were also recovered by magnetotherapy from many incurable diseases like cancer, chronic arthritis, eczema, high blood pressure, poliomyelitis, prostate enlargement, rheumatism, sleeplessness, etc.

The treatment by using magnets is so simple that it can be given or taken at any time, at any place and at any part of the body. Person of any age or sex or age can take the magnetotherapy treatment. It gives quick and lasting relief in some diseases, especially in toothache, sprains, etc. Sometimes only one sitting with magnet is sufficient and even a second sitting is not required.

In the process of magnetotherapy, one does not need to take any preparation to give or take this treatment. It can be done only by touching the magnets for some time. Only 10 minutes use once a day is enough so it does not consume much time also. The magnet can be taken to the workplaces or in long journeys also and can be used there. This treatment does not require water, tea or milk as in it no medicine is needed to take internally. In the magnetotherapy treatment, several patients can use the same magnets, each day, without washing, cleaning or disinfecting them. The same magnets can also be used for all complaints, if the size, shape, design and power of the magnets are suitable for the parts of the body where they are to be applied and for the diseases.

The magnetotherapy treatment is not habit forming. If the person using the magnets does not use them for some days or weeks, he does feel anything wanting or any urge for using them. The users of the magnets remain fresh, energetic and youthful. The magnet used in the magnetotherapy has a special property of improving and removing pain from any cause. The treatment with magnets does not result any shock or irritation as is sometimes observed in some other systems of treatment. The permanent magnets used in the magnetotherapy treatment, retain their power for several years. They can be recharged to regain their lost magnetism if they lose their power in due course of time.

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