Magnetic Therapy
Has anyone tried magnetic therapy for help with Syringomyelia ? If a person has a shunt due to Hydrocephellus, is it safe to use magnetic therapy ?
If you have used any magnetic therapy, what company name would you recommend? Have you had any experience with Nikken products (magnetic products)?
Thanks
Answer:Apparently millions have tried it over many, many years and I found this:
"There's nothing new in the idea that magnets can heal. That suggestion was made 500 years ago. What's new is the way magnets are made.
Physicist Robert Park has worked with magnets a lot
"Modern material science has made it possible to make very thin magnets like the ones you have on your refrigerator," says Park "Well it makes it just terrific for people that want to revive all of this magnetic therapy stuff. Because they can sew these into a mattress. Or put them in your shoes or anything.
"So should I put a fridge magnet on my forehead then, if I think it's going to help take away a headache? It's going to work as well as the other one, which is not at all."
In fact the claim that's usually made is that a magnetic field, if you have an injury for example, will attract blood to the site of the injury.
"That is a misunderstanding," says Park. "Blood has iron in it. So people therefore feel that a magnetic field must attract it. But the iron is in the chemical form of hemoglobin. It's not like the metallic iron at all. A magnetic field, oddly enough, repels blood.