Magnets are said to help with arthritis, lessen the pain and help with stiffness when getting up from nightsleep.  They have a mattress cover with magnets in it and friends have said the right polarity makes them able to walk imediatley with little or no pain and effort to walk first thing.
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Hmmm...Magnet Therapy??\n\nSome people say this helps, but I don't think it has been proven.
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The Role of Sleep\n\nThe way you sleep and the mattress you sleep on can affect your back. Poor body support while you sleep can result in poor sleep posture and, instead of relaxation, extra strain for your muscles. The spine relies on good muscle support all day long--while you work, relax and sleep. When the muscles that support the spine aren't given a good night's rest, they can suffer from muscle fatigue. Over time, you might feel some discomfort in your lower back or neck, or the problem could develop into muscle tightness or spasm. Sleeping on your stomach with an oversized pillow, or sleeping on a mismatched box spring can translate into back problems as well.\n\nPosture\n\nThe best position for your back during sleep is the side-lying or fetal position. This position helps to rest the back by keeping the spine in its normal “S” contour.  Sleeping on your stomach or back arches the natural curves of the back, asking back muscles to work longer. Stomach sleepers find an acceptable compromise by sleeping with the outer knee flexed. It may help to place pillows at your lower back and/or between the legs to help reinforce back support. Back sleepers find it helps to place a pillow under the knees to maintain support for the normal curve of the lower back.\n\nPillows\n\nMost doctors recommend avoiding oversized pillows and using multiple pillows under the head because of the potential for strain on the neck.\n\nMattress\n\nThere aren’t set guidelines to dictate how long a mattress should last. Many factors can affect the life span of a mattress. However, if you are waking up with back pain, especially if you aren't going to bed with it, it’s probably time to check the condition of your bed. \n\nQuestions to help you assess your mattress:\n\n    *      Is your bed over 10 years old? \n    *      Has your mattress kept even contours, or are there impressions where you sleep? \n    *      Is your bed comfortable? If you feel your mattress makes you roll toward the center or it just doesn't feel comfortable anymore, it may be time for replacement. \n\nHaving said that, you might still wanna check out:\nhttp://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/2539.html\nhttp://www.ivillage.co.uk/pregnancyandbaby/pregnancy/concernpreg/qas/0,,16_158260,00.html\n(Note: The second weblink is for pregnant women)\n\nNext time you have a health related question to ask, go to www.doctorndtv.com and post yer query. Every query is answered. \n\nPS: NDTV is India's largest English News Channel - New Delhi station.
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I don't know much about that therapy, but I could give you some logic to think of.  Blood has iron in it. Iron is attracted to magnets.\nGood circulation heals, and possibly relieves pain (?).\nSo if you want pain relieved in a certain place, it would be logical to want blood there, so maybe the magnet attracts the iron in the blood, and causes the blood to flow there, or flow more freely or in a different way. Other than that I have no clue why magnets would help you, other than possibly cancelling out neurons that send electrical pulses.
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I had the same problem when I learned about both of them. \nBut now think of it in a different way. You are assuming that the magnetic FORCE that magnets have on certain metals. But if you think about it carefully they don't create or destroy energy. \nIf you don't beleive me consider a piece of iron with only gravity working on. But its height is 0 so it has no Potential or Kinetic energy. But now let's say you bring in a magnet. Now naturally that will make the iron bar rise and stick to the magnet. Now a natural assumption would be that you just created potential energy because the height of the iron bar just increased. But now you have to consider the fact that magnet is still putting some force on the Iron bar. So no change in potential energy occured. No change in Kinetic energy occured once the bar stuck to it. and the Energy needed to bring the bar up could be accounted by the energy needed to bring iron bar in. This shows that there was no energy created.  \nI think that you are trying to overthink the problem. I think this should help good luck.
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I'm sure both of you should be on medication, right? Sometimes over exercising can aggravate make the condition worst. Try doing the cobra posture exercise which is supposed to be good for back ache. Lie down flat on your tummy and try lift up your head and chest. Do this exercise every morning before you leave your bed and every night before sleeping.You can also try the supplement, Glucosamine Chondroitin, people who have joints and back pains swear by it.Pound some ginger and boil it in water for 15 minuties (a piece thumb sized ginger to 1 cup of water, add a bit of honey and drink it 2 times daily, it helps to relieve rheumatism associated to too long periods of muscles and bone-aches, like back pains.
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We can shape magnetic fields to trap things, but those things must be moving charged particles.\n\nHumans are not magnetic and even a very strong magnetic field will not restrain them at all.
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The magnets create a magnetic field, in the same way that matter creates a gravitational field.  The magnetic field causes the magnets to be attracted to each other.  The energy for this is stored as potential energy within the magnetic field itself.  If you were to let go of the magnets then they would more towards each other and thus the potential energy is being converted to kinetic energy.  \n\nWhile you hold the magnets apart, they don't lose any energy.  However you do use up energy, as you stated.  So energy is being lost but only if you include yourself in the system.  To try and clarify this think of holding an object above the ground.  Energy was required to raise the object (e.g. a ball) and this is stored as gravitational potential energy that will be converted to kinetic energy if you drop the ball.  But while you hold it the ball does not lose energy, but obviously you do, as you are holding it.  However in physics questions we tend to ignore this energy loss because we could always imagine that the ball was raised and put on a table, and thus not being held by you.  \n\nThe same goes for the magnets, the physics does not change if instead we imagine that the magnets are on a table and being held apart by being stuck to the table (perhaps by blue tack).  So as a result we tend to say that energy is not being lost (i.e converted to some ofter form), as we are only intersted in the magnets.\n\nI hope this is of help to you.
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There are some natural magnets. For example, the mineral magnetite is magnetic, and is found in lodestones. \n\nIf you have a magnet, you can stroke a piece of metal (not all metals, but some) and magnetize it; that is, turn it into a magnet. You line up the magnetic domains when you stroke it so it has a net magnetic field. If you put a radio reciever nearby tuned to the right frequency, you can hear the domains flip as you do this; this is called the Barkhausen effect. \n\nThere are also electromagnets. Passing an electric current through a coiled wire wrapped around the right kind of metal (called a shunt) produces a magnet. This is the kind of magnet one finds in MRI machines.
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My understanding is that it actually hurts it.  If poping it everyday for many years, arthritis could actually form and cause even more pain and make it harder for you to move.  If you are having problems with your back, go see a doctor and see what can be done.
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St John Warts can help to ease some of the symptoms equally a colour changing clock is suppose to aid the getting up in the morning you can get ones for 10 pounds but they are less effective \n\nhttp://www.shop-com.co.uk/op/~COLOUR_CHANGING_SOFT_EGG_LIGHT-prod-33543519-43867842?sourceid=309\n\nhttp://www.allergymatters.com/acatalog/Light_Therapy_Units.html?gclid=CJK75LSquIgCFRwUZwodSGYq2Q-   \n\nThe second link has more effetcive light boxes but they are more expensive
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Magnet therapy, or magnetic therapy, or magnotherapy is a pseudoscientific alternative medicine claiming that certain medical disorders can be effectively treated by exposure to magnetic fields. There is no scientific evidence for the claim but it may act as a placebo in some people. Adherents believe that magnetic fields from permanent magnets placed close to the body can cause bones to heal faster, relieve pain, and perform other forms of healing. It is most commonly used for joint disorders and back problems.\n\nProponents of magnet therapy claim that subjecting certain parts of the body to doses of magnetic "energy" (or fields) has a beneficial effect. This belief has led to the popularization of an industry involving the sale of magnetic-based products for "healing" purposes: magnetic bracelets and jewelry; magnetic straps for wrists, ankles, and the back; shoe insoles, mattresses, and magnetic blankets (blankets with magnets woven into the material); and even water that has been "magnetized"\n\nCriticism of these products focuses on scientific facts about magnets, including the claim that the typical magnet used in a bracelet purchased over-the-counter is not powerful enough to penetrate human skin, let alone strong enough to have a lasting effect on muscle tissue, bones, blood vessels, or organs. Notably, some people working in physics research work for hours per day with their whole body immersed in magnetic fields far stronger than those from the bracelets, and (if they observe precautions regarding pacemakers) are no more or less healthy than their peers. There are handheld neodymium magnets that produce a field of over one tesla and are often used in various hobbies. Household devices such as a garbage disposal, or an electric razor, also produce significant magnetic fields when in use.\n\nNo magnet healing product manufacturers have demonstrated scientifically that they actually achieve what they claim, and most cannot even agree on what exactly the magnetic fields do. Some claim that the magnets help to circulate the blood by some interaction with the iron in hemoglobin, a major component of red blood cells. However, in its ionised form, iron is not ferromagnetic. If it were, use of magnetic resonance imaging would instantaneously kill patients.[1] Still others claim that the magnets can restore the body's electromagnetic energy balance. There are also claims that the south pole of a magnet acts different on the body than the north pole. The list of ways that manufacturers purport that magnetic fields affect the body is almost endless.\n\nIt should be noted that many, if not most, of the websites that provide information and resources promoting the benefits of magnetic therapy belong to individuals and companies that profit from the sale of magnetic therapy products.
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maybe using a magnet will help
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ugggh- i had them last year.  He can take advil- that will help, but mine were so awful that they gave me vicodin.    I also had this stuff that my mother in law gave me (she's a physical theraptist)- it's called biofreeze.  that stuff was great for the pain and the itching.
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Glad to see you're thinking, but this is an easily answered question.  \n\nTake for example a magnet.  Regardless of what is in front of your magnet it will still attract an object to a distance equal to its strength.\n\nex:\n\n.....(|)<<<< <[]<<<<<<<[]          \n\n......^..............^...... ......^\nMagnet......Metal..... ..Metal\n.................Object.... Object\n\nThe magnet is going to exert force on both of the objects without interference from first object.  \n\nBased on your definition of propagate...come to your own conclusion...that is the joy of thinking...we all have our own thoughts.
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Not that big!\n\nMagnetism is stronger than gravity by order of thousands.\nThe earths magnetic field is bigger and stronger than the earths gravitational field.\nMagnetism is stronger than gravity otherwise you would not be able to pick things up with a magnet
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has to be metal, preferably in several sheets not touching each other. Wood and plastic do not stop magnetic field.\n\nThick piece of lead would definitely work, and is completely safe (as long as you do not drop it on your foot and wash your hands afterwards)
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I have arthritis in my hands, feet, and back. I get two injections of Enbrel a week. Makes a HUGE difference.  Difference between walking and not walking.