Wonder Magnetic knee braces

March 27, 2022, 12:23 PM

Well my knees were beginning to bother me and I decided to take a friends advice and try them. After about 3 weeks, I can honestly say that my knees no longer bother me. About $40 for a pair, but easily worth $500 to me as my knees feel 15 years younger.

March 27, 2022, 01:32 PM

Johnny 3eagles

Link?

March 28, 2022, 01:58 PM

wreckdiver

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:

Lots of sellers, look for the best price. Tried to post a link, but my google-fu is shit!!

Lots of places sell them, go for the best price!

March 28, 2022, 02:14 PM

Flash-LB

So people still believe magnets can make joints feel better...

March 28, 2022, 04:36 PM

jhe888

You mean they surround your joints with a magnetic field?

The support may be helping your knee quite a bit, but I can assure you that the magnets are not doing one little bit of good.

March 28, 2022, 05:17 PM

Stlhead

I am just glad the OP is happy.

March 28, 2022, 05:59 PM

Flashlightboy

It's the compression that makes your knees feel better. Magnets have nothing to do with it,except play on your psyche.

I've deposed many orthopedic surgeons, including doctors who treat pro athletes in football, baseball and hockey, including high school and college too. I've asked them, off the record, what they think about stuff like that and chondroitin/glucosamine and their answers were universal - it's snake oil.

They all said that if pro athletes making big bucks could preserve or maintain joint health by taking simple supplements everyone would be taking them and the doctors would be giving them out left and right.

The kindest doctor said, "If they provide a benefit to humans science hasn't found a way to measure the results."

None of that stuff works and it's the compression that's helping.

March 28, 2022, 08:23 PM

12131

As seen on TV, so it's got to be good.

March 29, 2022, 05:40 PM

cas

quote:
Originally posted by Stlhead:
I am just glad the OP is happy.

Amen. Though he does keep bumping into the refrigerator.

April 06, 2022, 02:28 PM

Minnow

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
After about 3 weeks, I can honestly say that my knees no longer bother me.

That is what counts! After dealing with arthritic knee pain for years, I started wearing a compression sleeve. It's not needed every day, but when I do have a flare up, the sleeve comes out and the knee is usable again.

April 06, 2022, 02:41 PM

Ackks

quote:
Originally posted by Flashlightboy:

The kindest doctor said, "If they provide a benefit to humans science hasn't found a way to measure the results."

After the last few years, would you trust "science" to tell us the truth if a cheap alternative worked? Would there even be money in testing magnets? There is snake oil and things that we don't understand. I'm not saying magnets help, but those doctors would probably say acupuncture doesn't work either. A Chinese guy jammed a needle into my wrist, I saw stars, and it hasn’t bothered me in ten years. There is a lot of junk out there, but modern medicine doesn't now everything.

April 06, 2022, 03:04 PM

smschulz

quote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
You mean they surround your joints with a magnetic field?

The support may be helping your knee quite a bit, but I can assure you that the magnets are not doing one little bit of good.

You have to have the ones with the Flux Capacitor to be effective .... just a fact.

April 06, 2022, 03:58 PM

Flash-LB

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Originally posted by smschulz:
You have to have the ones with the Flux Capacitor to be effective .... just a fact.

Only if it's the flux capacitor that's made of unobtainium.

April 07, 2022, 08:06 AM

Tirod

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Originally posted by Flashlightboy:The kindest doctor said, "If they provide a benefit to humans science hasn't found a way to measure the results."

Science sells out to the highest bidder all too often. Science won't even bother to measure results if there is no money handed out to do it. The state of Kansas just announced a complete reversal in handling pandemic health protocols. What was denied is now preferred.

Science is mutable in the hands of humans. The same people treat the Constitution that way, too.

April 07, 2022, 09:03 AM

bryan11

There have been published studies for transcranial low voltage pulsed electromagnetic fields showing benefits for migraines and depression. A recent study showed certain electromagnetic fields seems to speed healing of wounds. Add to all that a cell biology researcher people are saying could win a Nobel (can't remember his name) publishing work on how groups of cells use fields to communicate at a sort of network level.

So, could magnets in knee braces help in ways current medicine doesn't recognize? Why not?

April 07, 2022, 09:34 AM

parabellum

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Originally posted by Stlhead:
I am just glad the OP is happy.

Yes, let's say that this is merely a placebo. If wreckdiver's pain is alleviated, whats the harm?

April 07, 2022, 09:38 AM

sigfreund

We each have to make our own decisions about things like medical treatments, so it doesn’t matter to me in the slightest what other people do. But I have an inquiring mind and questions sometimes occur to me.

In this case some people believe that electromagnetism is somehow involved in activities at the cellular level. That’s a new one to me, but without doing any research myself I guess it’s possible. What puzzles me about that idea, though, is the belief that an artificial externally applied magnetic field would improve things at the cellular level. If anything magnetic is going on at the cellular level it must be extremely small to have escaped notice for so long, and my question is how could a random external field that’s vastly stronger help whatever processes are occurring?

It seems to me it would be like trying to converse in whispers while standing in the middle of a 175 battery as it’s firing and trying to subdue Charlie. If magnets hung on the outside of our body did anything, it would be to completely overwhelm and disrupt whatever the cells were trying to do naturally. I.e., how could that possibly benefit us? Morphine is a great pain killer too, but it’s generally recognized that too much isn’t good for us.

Added:
As an example of what I’m getting at, look at the “radium water” craze as discussed here:

https://www.chicagotribune.com...-20180220-story.html
https://theconversation.com/wh...oactive-energy-67976

And in many other articles.

April 07, 2022, 10:01 AM

jljones

quote:
Originally posted by wreckdiver:
Well my knees were beginning to bother me and I decided to take a friends advice and try them. After about 3 weeks, I can honestly say that my knees no longer bother me. About $40 for a pair, but easily worth $500 to me as my knees feel 15 years younger.

I can’t explain it either.

But, it works. And if it was “just the support” that was doing it, other knee braces would be doing the same results. I went from getting my knee pumped full of cortisone every 60 days and wearing a brace when I run to just wearing this brace when I run.

If it’s placebo, I’d really like to know how my mind is defeating the amount of swelling that I no longer have.

Again, I have no idea but I own 3 of them. (I keep losing them and buying another)