A U.K. study shows what most of us already knew: that copper bracelets, aside from turning your skin green, aren't really any good for anything. Neither, said the study, are magnetic wrist straps.Those "devices" have been said to be effective at relieving arthritis pain, but the new study, which appears in the British journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine, found that the reported therapeutic benefits from them "are most likely attributable to non-specific placebo effects."
In other words, any curative effects are all in your mind!
Stewart Richmond, a research fellow in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, led the study. He said:
"People tend to buy them when they are in a lot of pain, then when the pain eases off over time they attribute this to the device. However, our findings suggest that such devices have no real advantage over placebo wrist straps that are not magnetic and do not contain copper."He added, however, that the devices don't harm anyone, and might give wearers some degree of hope.
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