[gail swanson]

Originally Posted by blueash

Your belief that you get useful information from people who had PEMF and their thoughts are not an "opinion" might bear some reconsideration. The placebo effect is huge in pain studies. Perhaps you should be seeking the "opinion" of medical researchers and looking at real studies for your guidance.

A series on anecdotes is still anecdotal data. If I asked for TOTV experiences from those people who were in car crashes about the benefit of seat belts to prevent death, just those actually in the crash not others who had opinions, 100% of the responses would say the seat belts worked.... because when the seat belt failed the person is dead and not likely to be posting. Selection bias and wording as well as choice of data points is critical in understanding medical outcome.

If you actually want to read on the efficacy of PEMF you can sift thru the studies available on google scholar...

For those who do not know, google has a specialized search engine for science literature.

Google Scholar

There you can enter your key words, in this case PEMF and perhaps your disease, osteoarthritis human efficacy and there will be a date restriction option once you have results. For most medical data I'd suggest 2018 or more recent. Meta analysis added as a key word will get you reports of authors who combined the data from many smaller studies to try to get a better data set. Here is a screen shot of the kind of articles you see. Sometimes the link is to the entire article and sometimes to a summary only.

Google Scholar

Thank you for the resource info!!!