Magnetic Therapy Natural Pain Relief

How does magnetic therapy treat your pain?

Healing magnets affect your body in different ways. One way magnetic therapy works to heal is through improving the blood flow around an injury or wound.

Magnets are composed of metal alloys such as iron, nickel or cobalt and will attract many different types of metallic particles. The blood contains iron and when therapeutic magnets are placed on the skin the magnetic field penetrates through the skin and into the surrounding tissues and blood stream. The iron in the blood is attracted to the magnetic field, this causes movement within the blood stream and the increased activity causes the blood flow to improve.

The increase in blood flow is localised to the area where the magnets are placed, unless the magnets are placed directly over a major artery such as the radial artery (the wrist pulse point) or the carotid artery (the pulse point in the neck). When healing magnets are placed over a major artery there is a much larger perfusion of blood flow so the magnetic field is carried further around the body.

When the body’s blood flow is increased oxygen, nutrients and hormones are distributed to the organs and tissues much more effectively and quickly. Your organs have a fresh rich supply of oxygen and nutrients to nourish them. Plus the tissues also gain oxygen, healing nutrients and hormones including endorphins, which are the body’s natural painkilling hormone. If you have an injury or ailment which is supplied with regular fresh oxygen, nutrients and endorphins, the injury or ailment will heal much faster and the pain will be relieved by the body’s own painkilling hormones (endorphins).

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