Magnetic Therapy, do you use it and why?

[Moostang]

I posted this over on the horse forum, but I was wondering if it was also big in the dog world.

Post on horse forum

Originally Posted by Moostang

Just wondering if anyone uses magnets on their horse, or even themselves.

The reason I ask, is I went to horse expo and walked by a stand with some big expensive full body suit that you can use on your horse and put magnets in certain places. Well, being the trouble-making skeptic I am .. I started asking questions (take in mind Rob was standing side me grinning the whole time, knowing when it comes to certain topics I can be smarter than the average bear). I wanted to know WHY I should do this.. WHY/HOW it works.
Well after her bumbling around for 5 minutes she said "studies say it works" yet she didn't have any studies (you can manipulate a lot of studies to show what you want, so I like to see how they are done and recorded). She had no medical explanation or even THEORY as to why it worked "it just does" and basically stopped with saying she was just hired to run the booth she doesn't even work for the company

So.. I would like to know why some people use it, and maybe help to educate some people to make sure they are not spending their hard earned money on bad information. If you do it on faith, that is another story, but bad/miss-information really irks me.

[agilitydog]

Well not for dogs but my hubby had a backache from work and my neighbor told him to get a magnet and out it on his back. He grabbed a big magnet from the fridge(the big square flexible kind). He wore it on his back for the night and he said he noticed a huge imporvement in the morning.

My neighbor says the magnet helps pull the iron from your blood toward the surface encouraging better blood flow.

[Moostang]

That statement about the iron in your blood is untrue. The iron in your blood is non-ferrous (non-magnetic). If it did, putting a magnet on his back could have caused a blood clot if all the iron gathered to one area. Also fridge magnets are the weakest magnets out there, infact their magnet field barely penetrates the skin. Think what would happen if you had an MRI and the iron in your blood was attracted to magnets..

Sounds like your husband may have be relieved by the placebo fairy

[agilitydog]

Hey I didn't say I believed it LOL!! Just going by waht the neighbor said who supposedly was told by his chiropractor.

I told my hubby the same thing about the iron becasue I too didn't think it was the same kind of metal. Though hubby also admits to taking a bunch of aspirin too He too was little skeptical

[Moostang]

Chiropractors.. there's a whole different subject But I wont go there. (don't take it the wrong way, not all are bad.. just some with their theories are)

[SalemWitchChild]

http://www.quackwatch.org/04Consumer...QA/magnet.html

I'd be one that believes based on faith. The mind is an awesome organ. We can heal ourselves through will. If someones will has convinced them a magnet works and they see results then so be it.

[Moostang]

I love that website

[fairlight]

I too don;t know about dogs with magnetic therapy. I do know that I used to wear a knee brace with magnets in it. It did fine with me. Now would I go out and spend hundreds of dollars for magnetic mattress or magnetic fitted sheet...I don't think so.