Magnetic therapy works by placing sufficiently strong medical grade magnets onto the skin directly over an area of pain or injury. Magnets can be worn in straps, wraps or in jewellery or they can be taped individually onto the skin with surgical tape or plasters. The main goal is to ensure that the magnets fit comfortably over the area you wish to treat.
NOTE, regardless of where your pain is and what type of pain it is, there is one rule that applies to all types of pain: Clinical Magnets must be placed directly over the area of pain to have an effect. Unfortunately you cannot treat the whole of the body with just one magnet. And that is because of a very simple physics principal (you may have been taught this at school):
To understand how a magnetic field works you need to grasp a basic principal of physics (its not difficult you most likely learnt it at school). A magnetic field is emitted from a magnet in a circular pattern, not to dissimilar to the ripples made be a stone being thrown into a pond. As the ripples of water spread out across the pond the ripples get larger, wider apart and weaker until they eventually fade away.
The same pattern occurs with a magnetic field. When you place a magnet on your skin the magnetic field radiates from the magnet and into the skin ad tissues. As the magnetic field moves along and into the body the strength of the magnetic field decreases and the strength becomes to weak to be of any use.
The magnetic field is at its strongest when it is directly by the magnet, for example if you placed a 3,000 gauss magnet on your back, the strength of the magnetic field at the point of contact with the skin is 3,000 gauss. However as the magnetic field moves along the back the magnetic field strength weakens. At 4cm away from the magnet the strength is 187.5 gauss and at 8cm away it is just 46.88 gauss.
There is a complex equation called the inverse square law which enables you to calculate what the magnetic field strength will be at any distance from a magnet position. You do not have to know how to use this equation in order to use magnetic therapy devices but it is a useful tool for therapists so they can prescribe the correct strength of magnets.
In a nutshell, if you have more than one area of pain you will need more than one magnetic device; each area you wish to treat must be treated individually with its own device. One more important thing, keep your magnets in place 24 hours a day. Simply remove for washing and then place them straight back on. Here’s why.
Clinical magnets must be worn 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to gain the maximum pain relieving benefits. Every time you remove them you are taking away the very device that is reducing your swelling, improving your blood flow, encouraging new cell growth, killing pain and freeing up joints.
It may sound like a chore but wearing the magnets 24/7 is not hard to do, the devices are designed to be comfortable during the day when moving about and whilst sleeping. If you wish to wear the magnets over a thin layer such as a petticoat or vest you may without hindering their effects. The main point is to keep them on until your pain is gone.
Your body heals by the greatest degrees at night whilst you sleep; it makes perfect sense when you think about it. When you’re asleep your body shuts down all of it’s non essential functions so that it has a surplus supply of energy. That excess energy is then used to accelerate the healing process, so during sleep is when most of your body’s healing work is done. Plus, whilst you are sleeping your body’s immune system is replenishing itself and gaining strength.
When your body has a surplus of oxygen and healing nutrients it will concentrate on healing damaged tissues and cells.
You do this by sleeping in a magnetic therapy sleep pad. The pad contains high strength neodymium magnets which are so light and small you do not feel them at all. The magnetic field from the sleep pad passes through the whole body, rapidly improving the body’s blood flow and increasing the amount of fresh oxygen and nutrients which are available for your body to heal..
The use of magnetic sleep pads have shown to dramatically increase the pain killing and inflammation reducing effects of magnetic therapy. I have treated thousands of pain sufferers and I can tell you those who use a combination of magnets placed over the area of pain and a sleep pad obtain significantly faster pain relief. I recommended them to all my patients.
