Arabloo Jalal, Hamouzadeh Pejman, Eftekharizadeh Fereshteh, Mobinizadeh Mohammadreza, Olyaeemanesh Alireza, Nejati Mina, Doaee Shila
Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2017 Jun 11;31:31. doi: 10.18869/mjiri.31.31. eCollection 2017.
Magnet therapy has been used increasingly as a new method to alleviate pain. Magnetic products are marketed with claims of effectiveness for reducing pain of various origins. However, there are inconsistent results from a limited number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) testing the analgesic efficacy of magnet therapy. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of magnet therapy on reliving various types of pain. A systematic search of two main medical databases (Cochrane Library and Ovid Medline) was conducted from 1946 to May 2014. Only English systematic reviews that compared magnet therapy with other conventional treatments in patients with local pain in terms of pain relieving measures were included. The results of the included studies were thematically synthesized. Eight studies were included. Magnet therapy could be used to alleviate pain of various origins including pain in various organs, arthritis, myofascial muscle pain, lower limb muscle cramps, carpal tunnel syndrome and pelvic pain. Results showed that the effectiveness of magnetic therapy was only approved in muscle pains, but its effectiveness in other indications and its application as a complementary treatment have not been established. According to the results, it seems that magnet therapy could not be an effective treatment for relieving different types of pain. Our results highlighted the need for further investigations to be done in order to support any recommendations about this technology.
磁疗作为一种缓解疼痛的新方法，其应用日益广泛。磁性产品在市场上宣称对减轻各种原因引起的疼痛有效。然而，在有限数量的测试磁疗镇痛效果的随机对照试验（RCT）中，结果并不一致。本研究旨在评估磁疗缓解各种类型疼痛的安全性和有效性。我们对1946年至2014年5月期间的两个主要医学数据库（Cochrane图书馆和Ovid Medline）进行了系统检索。仅纳入了在缓解疼痛措施方面，将磁疗与其他传统治疗方法用于局部疼痛患者进行比较的英文系统评价。对纳入研究的结果进行了主题综合分析。共纳入八项研究。磁疗可用于缓解各种原因引起的疼痛，包括各种器官疼痛、关节炎、肌筋膜肌肉疼痛、下肢肌肉痉挛、腕管综合征和盆腔疼痛。结果表明，磁疗的有效性仅在肌肉疼痛方面得到认可，但其在其他适应症中的有效性以及作为辅助治疗的应用尚未得到证实。根据研究结果，磁疗似乎并非缓解不同类型疼痛的有效治疗方法。我们的研究结果强调，需要进一步开展研究，以支持有关该技术的任何建议。
