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The Therapeutic Effects Of Magnets On Knee Osteoarthritis, Shin-Ching Chen, Chao-Jung Chen, Chien-Hung Lai, Lei-Shih Chen, Cheng-Feng Chiang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background and purpose: Magnets had been applied in the relief of musculoskeletal pain for years. We conducted a double blind study to assess the efficacy of magnets on knee osteoarthritis. Methods: Twenty subjects were recruited in our study. All patients wore braces over the painful knee areas all day long for 1 week except the time of bathing.Ten bands containing magnets and the other 10 bands containing placebos were used in our study. 4 times of measurements were performed before application, 1 hour, 1 day, and 1 week after application. Measurements were obtained by using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and …