Sarah Mirando  |  March 28, 2012

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HoMedics TheraP “Magnetic Therapy” Product Class Action Lawsuit

By Kimberly Mirando

 

HoMedics TheraP wrapA HoMedics customer has filed a class action lawsuit against the wellness products manufacturer for selling TheraP “Magnetic Wave Technology” devices that purport to use the “Power of Magnets” to relieve pain but are actually medically useless.

“HoMedics has defrauded Californians by making blatant and provably false claims to market, advertise, and distribute a line of products labeled and advertised as possessing ‘Magnetic Wave Technology.’ Defendant falsely implies that the magnets have a therapeutic value, when in reality there is no scientific evidence that the magnets are of any therapeutic or any other health-related value,” the HoMedics class action lawsuit states.

Plaintiff Brad Post says he purchased a TheraP Knee Wrap product advertised on HoMedics’ website as containing the “Power of Magnets” and using “Magnetic Wave Therapy” to relive pain, but “the product was useless to him.”

Post says HoMedics makes the same misleading claims for a variety of TheraP Magnetic Wave Technology products, including the TheraP Wrist Wrap, Ankle Wrap and Elbow Wrap.

The belief that magnets can be therapeutic for treating pain is commonly known as “magnetic therapy,” but, according to his class action lawsuit, the National Science Foundation has classified magnetic therapy as “pseudoscience,” or “claims presented so that they appear to be scientific even though they lack supporting evidence and plausibility.”

“According to the National Science Foundation, there is no scientific basis for any belief that ‘magnetic therapy’ is effective in treating pain or any other ailment, and has concluded that ‘magnetic therapy’ has no scientific foundation,” the HoMedics TheraP class action lawsuit says.

The HoMedics class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of all persons in California who purchased any of HoMedics’ TheraP Magnetic Wave Technology Products for personal use at any time within the past four years. It is asking the Court to recover “the many millions of dollars of profits generated by this false and misleading claim.”

A copy of the HoMedics TheraP Magnetic Therapy Products Class Action Lawsuit can be read here.

The case is Brad Post v. HoMedics, Inc., Case No. RIC 1204417, Superior Court of the State of California, County of Riverside.

 

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Updated March 28th, 2012

 

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28 thoughts onHoMedics TheraP “Magnetic Therapy” Product Class Action Lawsuit

  1. Geraldine Harper says:

    They should be sued for stopping the making of this back brace. I have mine on now which is falling apart purchased about 2000. I have a drawer of other back braces and some in a closet that do not help my arthritis back pain. I am online searching for a new HoMEDICS Thera P back brace and can’t find one. I will sue these people bringing this lawsuit if I can.

  2. Kimberly Ann Kerr says:

    I cannot believe this is in litigation. Drugs that make people sick, or worse kill them are all around us. I have used a TheraP magnetic belt for YEARS, and went online to buy another one and found this ridiculous lawsuit. Really ? Just ask for your money back, don’t sue for something that didn’t work for you. I’m so mad, that I cannot buy another belt…mine has helped me thru some of the worst back pain imaginable. It helps me stand for hours in the kitchen while I cook for a paraplegic family member. It gets me going EVERY morning. When I get out of bed in the morning, I can barely stand up straight–after a few minutes with this belt on (and non of my other lumbar support belts work ) I can walk like a normal person, almost 100% pain free. Really? Get a life or take some of those drugs that don’t work and can potentially kill you. This totally frivolous lawsuit is beyond my comprehension. I hope you loose this case, and HoMedics continues to make products that help so many of us. I am not an employee, I am not paid for this comment, I am a very happy customer of many HoMedic products…

  3. Marty Mount says:

    I had an old Homemedics TheraP magnetic strap that I had tried for my hand and wrist pain. I stopped using it because it bothered me at night.
    Then I developed plantar fasciitis and was having a lot of pain. I came across this magnetic strap and decided to wrap it under my arch and around my ankle as a last resort. My fasciitis pain is gone! I wear it every night now. I was shocked it worked but it did.

  4. GMC says:

    Homedics Magnetic Wave eye mask (comes with hot / cold pad, but I barely used it) got me through years of terrible, chronic migraine. It was the only thing that worked consistently. I had and have other magnetic masks which may help a little bit but none come close to this. Unfortunately I lost it or it was taken some years ago, and these items have been discontinued and you cannot come by the eye mask anywhere whether for love or money.

    I have homedics and this mask to thank deeply for the long term relief it gave me, and I wish so much this item could be still available to purchase.

    Not everyone gets relief from magnets – any kind of magnets – but many do. If you don’t, you don’t. Some NSAID pills also, for example, also can have no effect on some people. If your magnetic aid didn’t help you, please just ask the company for your money back (I suppose they’d probably oblige) instead of severely damaging the potential for help which others may have in the future.

  5. Tracy L. Shannon says:

    I have Multiple Sclerosis. I f it we’re not for these anile wraps with magnets, I probably would have ended it all years ago. They help me when I am suffering at my worst. I am here to tell you, that there is a power in magnets. I am not claiming they heal. However, they do something. They bring a calming over my feet and legs that gives me relief.
    I stand behind this product 100%.

  6. Susan Schraiber says:

    I have been using these magnets for years, and they help me. I have them on right now as I am typing. They take away my pain, and I do not have to use any drugs or pills.

  7. Patricia says:

    I’ve been using magnets for pain relief for decades. They DO work. I started with Homedics tiny magnets which I tape on because the circle adhesives that came with them would not hold them. Since Homedics stopped selling them, I’ve bought other brands. I tape them directly over trigger spots and within minutes the pain is either gone or greatly reduced. Too bad science hasn’t been able to figure out they help some people.

  8. Sue says:

    I bought Homedics Thera P and forgot I had them. I got sicker and still did not remember had them. Then my Son had a major brain hemmoragic stroke and when feeling came back in his body, as he is recuperating and trying to regain use of arm and leg talked about using Copper socks and I remembered I had them and was going to let him use mine….until one night I had Neuropathy’s bad bad in legs and feet and I thought hey I will try those, so wrapped around my ankles and PAIN STOPPED. Then I thought oh probably had run its course so will go ahead and send to him and took the wraps off and the pain STARTED immediately again. Put them back on and WOW pain stopped AGAIN. This just happened this week 10/4/17. Made a believer out of ME. So now I will purchase my Son his own set to rehab with. What a DISCOVERY. Praise God that this came about because he is trying to walk again after that huge stroke.

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