Restful sleep is vital to health, to allow the body to recuperation time after the days many stressors. A magnetized underlay pad helps to promote a restful sleep. (Dr Lawrence Author Pain Cure Alternative himself sleeps on one). The muscle relaxing effects are only part of the benefit, as you can imagine now that you have learned how magnetism stimulates healing and homeostasis. Without claiming that it has been validated, here is one foreign report:

• A double blind clinical study was done in Japan in 1990 with magnetized mattress pads in three hospitals.
• The 431 subjects were tested and observed closely for any side effects. The magnetic pads used 104 magnets, each of them 750-950 gauss strength.
• More that 70% of the patients had results within five days.
• The improvements in back and lower back pain ranged from 68.49 to 92.04%
• The improvements in In lower limb pain from 66.82 to 97.47%
• The improvements in insomnia from 76.82 to 94.98%
• The improvements in Fatigue from 70.64 to 94.98%

These remarkable ranges of improvements and in an amazingly short time. Reportedly there were no side effects. (Source Dr. Kazup Shimodair, Tokyo Communications Hospital.)
(It should also be noted that the magnetic experience queen underlay has 257 x 1200 gauss magnets, substantially superior to the pads used in tests.)

Dr Agatha Cobert from Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and affiliated with Tufts University, gave the first report of a just completed study on the effect of the magnetic underlay on Fibromyalgia. This is a mysterious pain condition with no clear cause that hits seven times more woman than men. Most patients go from Doctor to Doctor, and take test after test, even before getting the correct diagnosis. Then there is the problem of getting relief. The list of symptoms is a long one, headed by pains and rigid muscles, and often including stiffness, migraine headache, trouble sleeping, pervasive fatigue, depression, and gastric disorders. There are several "tender points". Neurotransmitters are involved in Fibromyalgia, and as you have learned, nerves transmit pain signals. The requirements to confirm the diagnosis, as Dr Colbert noted, are chronic pain present for longer than three months, both above and below the waist, and at least eighteen tender or trigger points. To date there are not satisfactory treatments, though trials have been done on drugs.

In the test started in March 1997, approved by Tuffs Medical School, the question was: Does sleeping on magnetic mattresses influence the pain and sleep disturbances seen in Fibromyalgia? The thirty subjects were not allowed any medications or other new treatments during the study. The doctors in the study did not know which mattresses (some had not magnets) went to which patients. Using a questionnaire, the patients marked the changes in their symptoms, the number of tender points, and so on. The point count in the magnetic group went way down, other pain symptoms went down, and the sleep pattern improved. The functional ability was not that significantly changed.

The patients also kept a daily record and were able to call in twenty four hours a day. A biostatistician on the project who works for the NIH was extremely skeptical in the beginning, then stated that the statistical differences in pain and sleep left no doubt.

The patients who were on the sham mattresses were given an opportunity to try the real ones, and a month or two later all patients were given the opportunity to buy the mattresses or return them. All the sham mattresses were sent back, but all the magnetic mattresses except one were purchased by the patients.

Ref: Dr Ron Lawrence: Magnetic Therapy, the pain Cure Alternative