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Magnetic Therapy for Shoulder Pain ?

Posted Dec 06 2011 5:04pm

Here’s the basic claim:  Permanent magnets produce a magnetostatic field that can have beneficial health benefits.  Watch this video and then keep reading.

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How true is the claim?  Can magnetic therapy help your chronic shoulder pain?  Here’s what I found:

  1. Controlling Chronic Pain With Magnetic Therapy – found this article on About.com and was very excited … until I saw the author had a vested interested in promoting magnetic therapy - Ron Lawrence, MD. is the President of the North American Academy of Magnetic Therapy and co-author of Magnet Therapy – The Pain Cure Alternative
  2. Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View – a much less flattering view of the available research – also by a doctor - Stephen Barrett, M.D
  3. The Claim: Magnetic Therapy Can Ease Arthritis Pain – article from the New York Times

Will Magnetic Therapy Help Your Shoulder Pain?

Like most issues, the answer depends on who you ask.   Search Magnetic Therapy for Pain and see what comes up… a wide variety of articles.  Here’s what I discovered:
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