by October 13th, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized.
Phiten Necklaces promise relief from neck and shoulder pain, fatigue, stress, and who knows what else. Scores of Baseball players and other athletes are wearing them these days, and it seems they are all the rage right now. But do they really work? Here’s what Phiten claims about them:
“Phiten works by stabilizing the electric flow that nerves use to communicate actions to the body. ‘All of the messages in your body travel through electricity, so if you’re tired or just pitched nine innings, the electricity isn’t flowing as smoothly as it can,’ said Joe Furuhata, a Phiten spokesman. ‘Phiten necklaces smooth out those signals.’”
Stabilizing the electric flow of neurons, eh? I don’t know. That sounds a little farfetched to me.
The FDA has certainly never approved the use of magnets or titanium jewelry for any sort of healing. And Dr. Orrin Sherman, chief of sports medicine at the New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases has this to say about the technology:
“There’s no science and physiology. There’s just no way the chemical structure of the body can be influenced by magnets that small. It’s all superstitions with no scientific basis.”
So, I would hazard to guess that these Phiten necklaces may work for some of the Red Sox players that are sporting them in all of their games, but not for their scientific properties. I would guess that they work only because the players BELIEVE in them. There is alot to be said for the power of the human mind, and we all know how incredibly superstitious athletes can be!
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