Magnetic "sport" wristbands

[Doseone]

Mrs Doseone suffers from a bit of tennis elbow, and a friend of hers who has tendonitis uses one of those wristbands with magnets in and swears by it. So now Mrs D is after one.

Does anyone use them? Its very hard from the website to work out exactly what it does or how it does it. There's a lot of "science" about ion flow etc which sounds like bo***cks to me.

Any thoughts?

 

[Fnaar]

If you wear one and go swimming, you could be a 'human compass'. Sorry, can't be any more help

 

[GazK]

Pure pseudo science. There is no evidence whatsoever that these work.

 

[Arch]

Pure pseudo science. There is no evidence whatsoever that these work.

The placebo effect is a very strong phenomenon. Some things 'work' in that they relieve symptoms because the user believes in them, even if they aren't actually clinically potent.

 

[classic33]

Got offerred the chance to sell them once, and like you couldn't get my head round it. My thoughts were much the same as yours on the subject, so I never started selling them.
However, if it works for the person wearing/using it then whats wrong with it, in principle. A placebo?

 

[ASC1951]

The placebo effect is a very strong phenomenon. Some things 'work' in that they relieve symptoms because the user believes in them, even if they aren't actually clinically potent.

Quite so. The placebo effect is a real effect - and GP medicine depends on it. Just as it depends on most ailments getting better in a few weeks whether they prescribe anything or nothing.

 

[machew]

Quite so. The placebo effect is a real effect - and GP medicine depends on it. Just as it depends on most ailments getting better in a few weeks whether they prescribe anything or nothing.

please stop talking bollocks and start taking the pills that your GP prescribed to you. As you need them

 

[Dan B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/82...ng-wristbands-do-not-enhance-performance.html

 

[vernon]

please stop talking bollocks and start taking the pills that your GP prescribed to you. As you need them

Stop talking bollocks and familiarise yourself with the facts before dismissing other folks assertions.

 

[ASC1951]

please stop talking bollocks and start taking the pills that your GP prescribed to you. As you need them

You silly man. Why else do GPs prescribe - by the ton - antibiotics for respiratory viruses? On which they have about as much effect as a mouthful of magnetic bracelets.

 

[machew]

Having had my wife's live saved by drugs prescribed by a GP. Plus my sister in law is a GP, then I think I know what I am talking about.

 

[vernon]

Having had my wife's live saved by drugs prescribed by a GP. Plus my sister in law is a GP, then I think I know what I am talking about.

I am not a doctor but I diagnose a case of 'Intelligence by association'

 

[ColinJ]

Having had my wife's live saved by drugs prescribed by a GP. Plus my sister in law is a GP, then I think I know what I am talking about.

When they prescribe the right drugs, that's great. For example, the Warfarin that saved my life last year.

When they dish out antibiotics like sweets for things that antibiotics are useless for - they are just giving patients placebos and breeding superbugs!

 

[ASC1951]

Having had my wife's live saved by drugs prescribed by a GP. Plus my sister in law is a GP, then I think I know what I am talking about.

And good for you. But if you think that the NHS in general and GPs in particular don't make regular use of placebos, I'm afraid you are simply deluded.
There's nothing wrong with prescribing placebos. For some patients and some "conditions" it is exactly the right thing to do.

 

[redcard]

..Plus my sister in law is a GP, then I think I know what I am talking about.

Did you really just say that??