And I still question if it helped. She has recovered, and is training for her first marathon. I still think that her recovery was more due to her religious compliance at her recovery program more than the effect of the box. The magnetic foil offered no advantage over the plain insole. 6 - JUNE 98 Magnet therapy.
Magnet therapy is the latest rage among athletes, who claim it reduces muscle soreness and pain.
It involves wearing high-powered magnetic disks or sleeping on magnetic mattress pads. Though therapeutic magnets have been used for decades by some athletes, research on their effectiveness has barely begun. One current effort is being led by Ann Gill Taylor, EdD, RN, director of one of the OAM research centers, the Center for the Study of Alternative and Complementary Therapies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Her double-blind, randomized, controlled study is evaluating how sleeping on a static magnetic mattress pad affects the pain of fibromyalgia patients. A double-blind trial of pulsed electromagnetic fields for delayed union of tibial fractures.