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Shane Watson with James & Dianne Hermans

Shane’s sports physiotherapist, Victor Popov prescribed Q magnet therapy to help overcome some chronic injuries and we made the effort to personally deliver them and go through some other applications such as bruising. He was sporting a nice deep purple bruise on the calf from a cricket ball, one of the hazards of batting. See some of the results of Q magnet application on bruising in this video with professional motocross rider Steve Sommerfeld.

Shane mentioned that for modern athletes, maintaining health and fitness is just as important as the skill of the sport. Obviously if you’re injured and out of the game, it doesn’t matter how good your skills are. This is where Q magnets are a fantastic adjunct therapy for the athlete that wants to recover faster.

For acute injuries, simply tape them on directly over the area, even use them under ice packs. Keep them on for the duration of the injury and they will speed up the healing process and make life a lot more comfortable during the recovery. You will also find you can train and perform with greater intensity with less pain while the injury is healing.

Q magnets are a no-brainer for the modern athlete wanting to recover faster from injury. Click here for pricing and to purchase your set today.

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The piece is another example that sets Q magnets apart as a serious medical device from the common magnets sold under the guise of magnetic therapy.

The how Q magnets works page can be found here at “How magnets for pain work“.

While I have known people in considerable pain who have found an MRI scan to be therapeutic, I’m not sure if this is commonly reported. More importantly though, when chronic pain sufferers find Q magnet devices useful at reducing pain, they usually have to be worn 24/7 for many months before they can begin to wean off them. If removed too early their symptoms return almost immediately.

So potential relief from pain from the magnetic field of an MRI would be brief at best. I am reminded of the study that used fMRI on a group of subjects undergoing a clinical trial for depression. It was discovered by accident that the group going through the MRI actually improved significantly, as it turned out because of the MRI which was only being used diagnostically.

But the most important point is this, through the cell studies it was found that the Maximally Effective Region of the quadrapolar magnet device was where the gradient was perpendicular to the local field vector, this was published in Static Magnetic Fields for the Treatment of Pain (pg 2). This is where it gets very technical, but the best way to  demonstrate this is with iron filings which follow the magnetic field gradients. You can see a comparison between bipolar and quadrapolar magnets with iron filings at the bottom of this page… http://www.qmagnets.com/mri.php

Studies on magnetic therapy such as the one by Vallbona use a multipolar rubberized static magnet that is relatively weak and would effectively penetrate less than 10mm. So for a superficial trigger point it would reach the target tissue. For lower back pain or abdominal pain however it would be highly unlikely that the field would penetrate deep enough to envelope the nerve roots or dorsal horn of the spine. This was most likely the reason why Collacott did not show any efficacy for LBP.

This is why the Q magnets are so unique. They are a magnetic field gradient generating device that can effectively penetrate up to 5cm and the cell studies, animal studies, thermal pain threshold study and some RTC’s do demonstrate the therapeutic effect of inhomogeneous fields.

I found Q magnets in my searchers and due to the straightforward information on the
website, some of the other testimonies with shin splints and the speedy response to my questions, I decided to purchase the set for lower back pain, as they contained the combination of devices I was after.

I followed the instructions that I was given and am happy to report that I’m very pleased with Q magnet results! I found the larger magnets to be effective pain relief for the larger calf muscles and the Q6-1.5‘s to be excellent for the pain along the tibial ledge.

The QF28-3‘s and QF28-6‘s applied too much pressure along the boney process, but the smaller Q6-1.5‘s are just the right size and weight….they can be worn 24/7 and aligned in just right spots.

I’m happy to say that I’ve been able to run 20 minutes continuously without pain. I know that it’s not much but it feels monumental at this point. Without a doubt Q magnets have become an integral part of my rehab.

Thanks so much!
Dwight Watkins
Florida, USA

Augusto Farfus and James Hermans at the GoldCoast600.

There are extreme demands on race car drivers which require intense physical and mental training. Back and neck pain, bruising, tendonitis and overuse injuries such as shin splints are common amongst race car drivers.

This is where Q magnets weave their magic. Many medical teams and professional athletes use Q magnets as an adjunct therapy for both chronic conditions and to speed up acute injury recovery.

The Q magnet website gets orders from all over the world to a wide variety of customers. Earlier this year BMW Works driver Augusto Farfus purchased some smaller magnets while in Japan and found them quite useful. Back home in Monaco, Augusto did some more research that lead him to the Q magnet website and he ordered a set online.

Augusto has found his Q magnets extremely useful for shin splints and lower back pain. Conditions like shin splints can severely restrict an athlete’s training program. It is common for athletes to use Q magnets as an adjunctive therapy to speed up the recovery times.

See our motorsport page for specific packages for race car drivers and use the coupon POLE to collect some extra bonuses.

It was a shame I just missed meeting Craig Lowndes overseas co-drive Andy Priaulx. Andy has also found Q magnets useful for among other things, lower back pain. But Augusto did introduce me to Germany’s Dirk Mueller. Dirk has also had great success with using Q magnets for tendonitis pain in his arm.

Dirk Mueller and James Hermans at the GoldCoast600.

Just ask John, who suffered with chronic pain for 27 years before he was introduced to Q magnets. Within minutes, he was pain free and this has been repeated many times in clinics around the world and seen in case studies published in medical journals.

But there are two main limitations when it comes to Q magnet therapy:

1. The first is where there is a mechanical cause of the pain such as a pinched nerve. This could be from a herniated disc, where the pain is being referred down the leg and the major component is the pressure on the spinal nerve. In many cases the pain from a disc bulge is an inflammatory pain and not pressure on the nerve and this usually responds well to Q magnet placement with a QF28-6.In fact some clinicians use Q magnets as a diagnostic tool so that if there is an unusual response, there is a good sign the patient needs to be sent off for further investigations. Mechanical pain often requires surgery to rectify.
2. The second limitation of Q magnets is where there is cumulative fatigue from posture or movement stresses that exacerbate the condition. This could be from excessive running causing shin splints or repetitive strain injuries from constant computer use.While Q magnets will usually help, rest, behaviour modification and rehabilitation are still going to be important. I’m afraid there are no silver bullets here.

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Here we have listed the genuine feedback of many Q magnet customers from all over the world. You won’t find any actors or paid endorsers here. Both professional athletes and chronic pain sufferers have offered their stories so that they might help others overcome similar painful conditions.

The first principle in using Q magnet therapy for the successful treatment of any condition is that they have to be placed directly over the injured tissue. Specificity is everything here. In addition, the correct device(s) needs to be selected such that the magnetic field gradient will envelope the target tissue.

Depth of penetration and surface area being the two critical factors in choosing the best devices.

If the pain from shin splints is spread over a large area of the leg, then multiple devices will need to be used. Remember, when placing multiple devices, the orientation arrows always need to be aligned and each device needs to be separated by its own width, otherwise the neighbouring fields tend to cancel each other out, rendering them  ineffective.

This is one doctor who explains how he successfully used Q magnets for a tibia stress fracture, not exactly shin splints, but they can be related.  Also, Kieran discusses his experience with using Q magnets for shin splints while training for an ironman event.

There are 13 different Q magnet models to choose from so you can find the right device for the job. The sizes and depth of penetration are listed to make device selection easier.

Sometimes the smaller devices, such as QF10-2 will work fine for shin splints and are much more affordable. But these smaller devices are not likely going to be effective on larger joints such as the shoulder or hip or for the lower back. The field they generate will simply not reach the target tissue.

Remember, Q magnets when cared for will last for decades so they can be used routinely for all sorts of current and future injuries and pain such as bruising. While purchasing some of the larger devices such as the QF28-3 might be a little more expensive up front, it  will provide greater flexibility in the future. The Q Bonus Packages offer the best value and a variety of devices to choose from.

It just depends on your current and future needs and your budget. Most people using Q magnets will pay for their devices many times over in savings on pain medication, not to mention the savings for your liver! Like this one patient who saved around $700 per year.

Keep in mind though. There are two main limitations with the application of Q magnets. The first is where there is a mechanical cause of the pain such as a pinched nerve and the second where there is cumulative fatigue from posture or movement stresses that  exacerbate the condition. The devices will usually help, but in the case of mechanical pain, surgery is often required and for cumulative fatigue rest, behaviour modification and rehabilitation are still going to be important. I’m afraid there are no silver bullets here.

We have described a treatment protocol using magnetic therapy for shin splints here.