MAGNETIC FIELD DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (MFDS)

He sent questionnaires to 11,648 Japanese, who he had use magnets to bipolar side 2.5mm thick and 5mm in diameter with a power of 590 Gauss (cc). Fifty-seven percent of the sample were women and the remaining 43% were men; the ages of both groups ranged from forty to forty-nine years.

Magnets were used to treat the following ailments:

45.2% Shoulder and neck pain;

19% Lumbago

13.9% Neuralgia

12.3% Muscle Pain

1.3% Rheumatism

6.3% other disorders

2.0% (uncontrolled responses for various reasons).

The effects are observed on average after the fourth day of application. No side effects were detected, but 90% of the patients defined the results obtained, according to a previously established conventional evaluation scale, as "more than satisfactory", "very effective", "fairly effective", while 10% defined the results as little effective or ineffective.

(Kyoichi Nakagawa, MD, “Magnetic Field Deficiency syndrome & Magnetic treatment”, Japan Medical Journal, 2745, 12 April 1976).