copper and magnets - health benefits?

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Just got myself a copper bracelet thing with magnets in an effort to aid joint pain - hips/shoulders/hands, not generally a fan of homeopathic remedies and such like but thought 'sod it, nothing ventured, nothing gained' and it ony cost £8.

Anyone seen an improvement in health/pain from copper/magnet therapy? Or is it, as I suspect, a waste of time/money hocus pocus?
 
Kellfire said:
You’ve just wasted money.
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Have to agree with that.

I have suffered with osteoarthritis for many years and have, as a result, tried several variations on this theme.

Guess what they haven't made even the slightest difference.
 
I have one of the Trion-Z bands, had it for 3-4 years now. Not sure if it helps or not but if psycholigcally it makes a difference and I think it helps then that is fine with me. Wear your band, you have it now.
 
copper is one of the ancient medicines, and copper sulphate crystals are used as an anti-fungicide. It’s a ye olde remedy but in truth it’s not widely used. It can be bought to treat white spot in a fish tank - that’s where I’ve used it.

Copper bands? Even the sweat dissolving some of the copper and you absorbing it would be in such minute quantities... waste of time.
 
I'm curious what it is about the bracelets that they claim 'works'. Apart from just quoting ancient remedies as if that were a reputable source.

Definitely shouldn't be knocking the placebo effect. I think that the role of the brain (and perhaps more importantly the gut) in controlling our health and wellbeing is becoming a little more mainstream that used to be the case. Of course, they won't tell us until they've worked out how to extract money from us...
 
I wear a copper band with a small magnet each end, and on the other wrist a stainless steel bracelet with a lot of high gauss magnets inset into it. I got them when I had a ruptured achilles tendon that had scar tissued heavily and was hurting under stretching, helped it no end.
I also have 2 velcro ended bands with 4 heavy gauss magnets in each that I put just under my knee on each leg. Knock them if you will, but each knee joint gets warm with the band on and hurts like hell playing golf if the band isnt on.
 
Bunkermagnet said:
I wear a copper band with a small magnet each end, and on the other wrist a stainless steel bracelet with a lot of high gauss magnets inset into it. I got them when I had a ruptured achilles tendon that had scar tissued heavily and was hurting under stretching, helped it no end.
I also have 2 velcro ended bands with 4 heavy gauss magnets in each that I put just under my knee on each leg. Knock them if you will, but each knee joint gets warm with the band on and hurts like hell playing golf if the band isnt on.
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Do you not find you get stuck to gates, and passing cars?
 
pendodave said:
I'm curious what it is about the bracelets that they claim 'works'. Apart from just quoting ancient remedies as if that were a reputable source.

Definitely shouldn't be knocking the placebo effect. I think that the role of the brain (and perhaps more importantly the gut) in controlling our health and wellbeing is becoming a little more mainstream that used to be the case. Of course, they won't tell us until they've worked out how to extract money from us...
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The idea of the magnets is that they attract the iron in the blood, moving it around the body quicker and smoother. I don't know about copper.
 
As none of it have been proven in anyway to help medically then It would be purely a placebo - no harm in wearing them but they won’t do anything physically for you
 
Used to think magnets were just a silly waste of money until my poor old horse went lame, over £1000 in vet bills and still no better.
Spoke to another vet told us to try a magnetic boot on him, it has 4 powerful magnets.
Within 7-10 days he was running about like a 2 yr old.
So I removed the boot and tried just a normal boot without the magnets, within 3-4 days he was lame again, magnets back on, he's fine.
Being a horse he didn't know what I was using but it worked on him, so I don't care what people say magnets do help and now have one myself, wrist and shoulder feels better after a couple of weeks.
 
murphthemog said:
Do you not find you get stuck to gates, and passing cars?
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When I worked in the coal mines, they had massive magnets over the conveyor belts to drag anything metal off the belts. It was amazing what you would find from scrap metal to stainless steel flasks, tools etc etc. One day one of the lads squeezed past the magnet over the belt and between a load of tram cars loaded with materials. The magnet grabbed the tools on his belt ( hammer, adjustable spanner, Stanley knife. Sockets) the lot. He was proper stuck, I and the other lads nearly wet ourselves laughing. Didn't do him any good.
 
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