Magnetherapy the Facts

Background
For thousands of elderliness Chinese, Egyptians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Greeks, Romans and Indians have used magnets to heal. According to legend, approximately 2500 years ago, a shepherd named Magnes found mineral stones sticking to the metal nails in his sandals. That mineral received the name magnetite. In 2000 B.C., attractive stones are mentioned in the oldest medical publication ever discovered, the Gutless Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. In the 4th century B.C., the philosopher Aristotle was fascinated by magnets. And near the turn of the millennium Cleopatra, the bewitching Egyptian queen, is reported to keep worn a magnet on her forehead. In the 4th century, Martel, a French doctor, used magnets to cure hand and feet's pain. In the 6th century, Alexandre de Tralles cured joint's pain with magnets. Lobby Abbas, Arab doctor, used it to treat spasms and feet's pain. In the 16th century, Paracelsus the European doctor, used magnets for inflammation. He was a fantastic thinker and a pioneer for multiplied forthcoming lodestone healers. In the 17th century, the court physician to Elizabeth I, William Gilbert, published De Magnete.
It was the head comprehensive notebook on magnetism. He used "lodestones"
(magnets) to treat bleeding and for its astringent's properties. Maxwell, Czar Charles II's physician wrote a book about magnet's healing powers. In the 18th century, the French Regal Society of Medicine concluded that magnets are antispasmodic, ease athletic pains and "cannot be ignored nor contested".
The German doctor Mesmer was a famous, but controversial magnet healer. It's questionable if he did and to advance or hinder solenoid therapy. He was a flamboyant showman and regular relations self-promoter. Patients flocked to him and this gave magnet therapy even publicity, for better or for worse. In the 19th century, Doctor Magiorani and Charcot used it successfully too. In 1925, a French doctor, Durville, wrote a book about magnetotherapy, giving instructions to cure dozen of ailments with magnets. In 1976, in Boston (U.S.A.), the first International Convention on Biomagnetism was held. In 1991, in Munster, Germany, the eighth International Conference on Biomagnetism featured 240 presentations and attracted 400 participants. Magnetic therapy has arrived. In 1983, one of the greatest discoveries ever in magnetics was announced. Singular earth neodymium biomagnets were invented which are 700 reported improvement, which suggests that the magnetic foil conveyed no benefit.
More recently, researchers at the VA Medical Centre in Prescott, Arizona conducted a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover recite involving 20 patients with chronic back pain. Everyone patient was exposed to real and sham bipolar permanent magnets during alternate weeks, for 6 hours per day, 3 days per week for a week, with a 1-week period between the treatment weeks. No difference in pain or mobility was found between the treatment and sham-treatment periods.

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