I am not alone in suffering from arthritis. While driving, each time I changed gear I was jolted with pain. My wrist throbbed and ached. Even the shortest journey was agony. So my solution was to get a passenger to push and pull the gear lever while I focused on not crashing.

Then I learned about arthritis and found a more satisfactory arthritis pain relief remedy. Arthritis isn’t just one disease. It is the generic name for over 100 conditions. It is most often found in the over 60’s but can effect infants too. The single symptom that ties all the arthritis variations under one heading is pain, stiffness and inflammation of the joints. This chronic disease affects more than 46 million adults and 300,000 children in the USA alone.

Boosting blood flow through the joints is the key to arthritis pain relief. I found �magnotherapy’ and the �Brodpod’ magnetic bracelet. This amazing device harnesses one of the Earth’s elemental forces, magnetism, and applies it at the human level.

My arthritis pain relief wiped out the pain from day one. It gave me back the pleasure of driving. I have always been drawn (pun intended, sorry) to alternative therapies. It makes perfect sense to me. Life is all about invisible energy flows, magnetic bracelets, radio waves, microwaves, static electricity, nuclear energy, emotional energy etc.

I discovered a little of how my magnetic arthritis pain relief bracelet works. It may have something to do with the placebo effect but then I say �bring it on’! I only know that it works. According to the notes that came with my magnetic bracelet it has a powerful new magnet chip. It is designed in a series of �parallel alternating poles’. The bit I like best is that it operates in the same pattern as the Earth’s own magnetic waves. Mother Earth definitely knows best.

So all the blood in my veins is given extra energy and a push as it passes beneath my magnetic bracelet. I can’t feel a thing. Unless you count NOT feeling pain when I change gear. I think it looks good too, being an elegant black and silver wristband.

Here comes the science bit! There has been a clinical trial of the effectiveness of magnetic bracelets. It was a �blind’ clinical trial. That is where none of the participants have any idea which treatment they are getting. The participants know all about pain. They were 194 sufferers of acute osteoarthritis. They were divided into 3 groups. One had a genuine magnetic bracelet like mine. A second group had a look-a-like bracelet with a standard �magnotherapy’ insert. The third group had a bracelet but no magnetic chip in order to test the �placebo’ effect.

Only the first group reported consistently lower pain levels. I didn’t need the scientific reassurance to tell me that my magnetic arthritis pain relief bracelet has given me back the pleasure of driving.