Ridecamp: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] shoes reopened...NOT; now magnetic boots

Tamara Woodcock plasmatica@xxxxxxxxxxx
No, magnets not attracting iron in the blood is physics, not a medical study.  The study I referenced was conducted by Dr. Carlos Vallbona on fifty post-polio patients at Baylor's Institute for Rehabilitation Research in Houston. Bioflex, Inc., of Corpus Christi provided both the magnets (multipolar, circular pattern) and a set of visually identical sham magnets to serve as controls. To keep the study "double-blind" neither the patients nor the staff were informed as to which devices were active magnets, and which were shams. Before and after the forty-five-minute period of magnet therapy, the patients were asked to grade their pain on a scale from 0 to 10. The twenty nine patients with active magnets reported, on average, a significant reduction of pain (from 9.6 to 4.4), while the twenty-one patients with shams reported a much smaller average reduction (from 9.5 to 8.4). This is a substantial difference, and if the double-blind study was successfully conducted, cannot be explained by a placebo effect.

And I think there is either a study going now, or maybe recently finished on use magnet therapy on fibromyalgia.  I don't have information on this one, and can't seem to find it in the journals.

Tests done on using magnets on *milder* forms of pain, ie muscle aches from exercise stress, etc., have shown no effects.

So I could extrapolate from this information:  If your horse is in severe, debilitating, pain, magnets *may* help.  If you are trying to increase circulation to an injury site, get better blood flow to hoof, etc.  magnets will not help.

-Tamara


>From: Susan Young Casey <glenn218@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Tamara Woodcock <plasmatica@xxxxxxxxxxx>, ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] shoes reopened...NOT; now magnetic boots
>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:09:07 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- Tamara Woodcock <plasmatica@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >   Only proof so far on static magnets is the "Baylor
> > study", (Vallbona,
> > Carlos, Carlton F. Hazlewood, and Gabor Jurida.
> > 1997. Response of pain to
> > static magnetic fields in postpolio patients: A
> > double-blind pilot study.
> > Archives of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
> > 78(11): 1200-1203.)
>
>Wow!  OK.  Works for me.  I don't know that I
>*understood* all of that because my vocabulary is
>pretty much limited to "giddyup" and "ho".  What the
>experiment showed was that magnets don't attract the
>iron in the blood and has no realy benefits to the
>horse, right?
>
>Well, this is MORE food for thought.
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>=====
>Susan Young Casey, Princess of Pink, LIW, RRHA, RHS
>Semper Obliquo (Always aside)
>
>Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson, Oklahoma U.S.A.
>
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