Magneto Therapy

Magnet therapy is a pseudoscientific alternative medicine practice involving the use of weak static magnetic fields, a form of electromagnetic radiation, produced by permanent magnets. It is similar to the alternative medicine practice of electromagnetic therapy, which uses the same sort of EM radiation, but generated from electrically powered devices.

Practitioners claim that subjecting certain parts of the body to weak EM fields has beneficial health effects. These physical and biological claims are unproven and no effects on health or healing have been established. Although haemoglobin, the blood protein that carries oxygen, is weakly diamagnetic (when oxygenated) or paramagnetic (when deoxygenated) the magnets used in magnetic therapy are many orders of magnitude too weak to have any measurable effect on blood flow.

Unique Technology

The magnets use a strong, multi-directional force of magnetism called Central Reverse Polarity. Standard magnets have single polarity (a North and a South Pole) whereas Central Reverse Polarity magnets have a unique arrangement of magnetic poles (North – South – North). This technology is patented to Bioflow and no similar method exists.

Magnotherapy is not a new concept; the healing properties of magnets have been known for thousands of years.

Benefits:

Static magnets are widely used for the relief of pain

Evidence about their efficacy in osteoarthritis is contradictory

Bracelets with static magnets decrease the pain from osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, over and above the effects of placebo.

These benefits are supplementary to those from usual treatments.