Ion Wrist Bands

I read some of the blogs after the 12/3 article on helping avoid or cure elbow pain. A few blogs mentioned using arms band wraps below the elbow. I can'€™t believe I forgot that, as I always have one, a '€œTru Fit'€ in my bag. We also got some advice about cooking eggs in a copper pan, using graphite clubs, another great one to help reduce shock from impact. We also were told about Ultra Sound Wands, and got a good exercise of twisting a light 2 or 3 pound weight back and forth in your hand while sitting down in a chair. Thanks for all the good input you all added to help us have more options to help and heal our elbow pain. Now, let'€™s look at ion bracelets.

I was introduced to ion bracelets and magnet bracelets by sales reps out on the PGA Tour years ago. They were handing them out like candy to the players and teachers, touting them as the way to reduce and eliminate aches and pains. Sounded good to me and, with my aches and pains, I took a few to try and have been wearing them ever since.

I am presently wearing a Titan Rules (www.titanrules.com) Minus Ion Bracelet on each wrist. The Titan bracelet is a rubbery type material. The package information states: '€œTitanium among other metals, has excellent properties that can be beneficial to your health and well being. This innovative product makes use of the negative charge and ionization characteristics of titanium. Once you wear one (or more) of the Minus Ion Wrists Bands, the semi-permanent power of the negative ions and the ionization of the titanium regulate the ion balance within your body to refresh you inside and out.'€ The Titan rules wrist bands come in 10 colors, including clear.

My left bracelet is black and the right is clear transparent. My wife, Susan, always wears a clear one on her right wrist as she has sore and achy knees. Her bracelet broke around a month ago and a day or two later she told me her knees were really aching. She asked me to get her another bracelet. Luckily for her, I had an extra in my desk draw. She put it on and said the next day her knees were already feeling better.

At our recent golf school, I was wearing an ion wrist band on each wrist and also had a magnet bracelet on the right wrist. At dinner one night one of the guys asked me about them, as to what they were and do they help. I told him they were ion bands. I felt they really helped me and mentioned that my wife also wears one and she believes they help reduce her achy knee pain. I went on to add that it may be truly physiological help or just voodoo or hocus pocus and in my head. Whatever it may be I am sure as my wife also is that we both feel physically better with less ache and pain and that also affects our mental well being. In any case what the mind believes is what we feel. And I feel better wearing them, plain and simple.

Another popular wrist band is the Trion: Z, whose slogan is '€œionic gear for the active lifestyles.'€ Like the Titan Rules band, the Trion: Z is really popular on the PGA Tour. Many of the equipment trailers have them for the taking for their Tour staffers.

The Trion Z: band is made up on two cloth bands looking like thick shoe laces held together with a plastic clasp on one side and a bigger one, about the size of a dime. Each of the laces is usually a different color (I have four different colored ones) so you can have numerous bracelets with different colors and co-ordinate them with your outfit of the day. Trion: Z got innovative with their marketing in that the dime sized magnet clasp can have logos on them. DJ gave me one that has a navy and a white band and on the dime clasp are the letters FJ for the shoe company.

The package states: Revitalize your body from daily stress and physical activity with Trion: Z magnetic minus'€“ion products. Trion: Z combines the natural power of magnets and the energizing effects of minus-ions to balance the body'€™s magnetic and electrical fields. Excessive positive- ion levels are associated with fatigue, lack of concentration and body aches. This balancing effect, hormesis, allows your body to adapt to today'€™s environment overpowered by electronics and stress. Trion: Z uses magnets in a patented Alternating North-South Polarity Orientation (ANSPO) which increases the magnet'€™s power to penetrate deeper into muscle and tissue fibers providing maximum benefit. The Trion: Z bands use Stayers, a unique fabric woven with minus-ion producing minerals to regenerate your body. This fabric can be hand washed or be wet and still maintain its minus-ion properties for those active in water sports.

These packages have some real interesting information and claims about the help these two wrists bands can provide your body. The key and main point here is there is the possibility (and many Tour players wear them and swear by them (as I do) that you will get relief from an inexpensive product you just wear on your wrists. Trion: Z also has bands for your ankles and one for your neck, which I also wear. Most importantly,you are not putting any drugs into your body. You are just wearing ion wrist bands.

The copper bracelet is putting copper into your body which, as a physiological fact, we need copper and too little is not good. The leader in stylish copper and magnetic bracelets is Sabona. You can see their line of products at www.sabona.com. They have also come out with a line of single string cloth bracelets (that look like the same cloth of the Trion: Z) called the '€œAthletic Bracelets.'€ They also have al line called the '€œPGA Tour Magnetic Bracelets'€ sporting the PGA Tour logo. Sabona bracelets can get quite stylish and expensive at $139.95, with their tungsten carbide model, and especially with their .925 Sterling /magnetic line at $299.99 each.

All in all, you can wear these somewhat stylish and inexpensive Titan Rules and Trion; Z bracelets or go for the real stylish, more expensive jewelry look of the Sabona bracelets. Either way you get your relief externally rather than internally, ingesting medicine. These bracelets provide another option to pain relief and the stylish choice is yours.

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