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> Magnetic therapy

The practice is still pervasive in CIS/Russian medicine despite being considered pseudoscience[1] by the rest of the world. You're almost guaranteed to be prescribed electromagnetic therapy if you're recovering from any sort of tissue injury.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_therapy

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In the late 2000's I was prescribed a magnetic "bone stimulator." (not to be confused with the implanted ones that are electrical and may actually work) -- and this was in California.

I also had same, in Vancouver BC recovering from broken tibia, early nineties. After one session, I considered it quackery and never went again.

It is absolute quackery-- as if a 9v battery an generate enough of a magnetic field to alter anything.

I had a gap in my malleous bone several millimeters tall.

I felt it was a insurance delaying tactic-- a way to postpone the needed surgery to just see if things got better on their own. This bone break lasted literally, 18 months.

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