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I couldn't live without my magnets! Well, maybe that's a bit strong, but I find magnetic therapy very helpful in relieving pain and improving joint function. I use them daily.
This is a subject that you will find few qualified opinions on. Most medical doctors don't believe they work, but that's because there are few peer-reviewed articles about the effects of magnetic therapy and that's the forum they are accustomed to.

No pharmaceutical reps show up on your MD's doorstep to spout the virtues of magnets: as the magnetic force is a natural phenomenon, there is little opportunity for patents and profits in magnetic therapy. Since most medical studies are funded primarily by the pharmaceutical industry, there is little interest on their part in proving that magnets work as claimed. That they do work, however, can be surmised by their long recorded history of use in oriental medicine. There are even reports of Cleopatra using magnets to enhance her legendary beauty. Magnetic therapy appears to have very similar effects to acupuncture in that both appear to aid the body's natural electrical fields in optimal functioning.

Studies of magnets' effects have been performed both in the United States and in Europe and Asia. Magnetic therapy is much more prevalent in other countries: in Germany, for example, it is covered by medical insurance. Some of the names of the more well-known researchers are Dr William H Philpott, Albert Roy Davis, Ph.D, Robert Becker, M.D. and Kyoichi Nakagawa, M.D. All of these may be researched on the internet and several have written books regarding the use and benefits of magnetic therapy. I would suggest you read some of their findings for yourself: you might well become a believer'!
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Beneficial effects from applied static magnets have been shown in such diverse body processes and systems as sleep, mental health, joints and bones, muscles, nervous system, vascular, reproductive and skin. Results of such studies are not well-publicized however, and most public knowledge of the benefits of magnetic therapy has been passed on as anecdotal.

Electromagnetic therapies are widely accepted but most people do not appear to connect the two. Electromagnetic therapies such as the TENS pain reduction device and electro-therapy for healing difficult fractures are well-known and well-respected treatments. Electricity itself is a function of magnetism and the main difference in treatment is that electro-magnetics use a pulsed field, whereas

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