Wrist magnets, copper bracelets useless for relieving pain

Baack · Oct 19, 2009

New research indicates that copper bracelets and magnetic wrist straps are ineffective in relieving arthritis pain.

The study, which appears in the British journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine, finds that reported therapeutic benefits from such items "are most likely attributable to non-specific placebo effects."

Stewart Richmond, a research fellow in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, led the study and explains the findings on the university's website.

"People tend to buy them when they are in a lot of pain, then when the pain eases off over time they attribute this to the device," he says. "However, our findings suggest that such devices have no real advantage over placebo wrist straps that are not magnetic and do not contain copper."
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notarps4me · Oct 19, 2009

Never worked for me. I have tried the magnets in knee braces before.

lonewolf4ad · Oct 20, 2009

The copper bracelets helped my dad's arthritis, but I have long thought it was due to a placebo affect. However, sometimes maybe these doctors and scientists just need to keep their mouth shut; if the bracelet eases their pain (despite the effect being in their head) then let the people continue to get relief from the method.

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