<p>I’ve read/heard about various brands of these – on a friend’s FB page, from a fellow golfer, and just yesterday in an article in our local paper. D, who works as a personal trainer, told me her boss at the gym did a balance test with her – first with her not wearing a bracelet, and then with her wearing it. She said her balance was greatly improved.</p>
<p>I fully understand that the “power” is mostly likely in one’s mind, i.e. if you believe the bracelet (or necklace, etc.) will work, then it will. Just curious if any CCers have any experience with these, and if so, which one. The 3 major brands I’ve heard about are: Power Balance, EFX, and Phiten.</p>
<p>CBBBLlinker – If he used the ‘demonstration’ I’ve seen, of course her balance was improved. The first time, she didn’t know what the ‘boss’ was going to do. The second time, unconsciously, she prepared herself so that he couldn’t put her off balance. It’s a simple, old snake-oil salesman trick. The magnets in these bracelets simply aren’t powerful enough to influence <em>anything</em> except maybe your credit card. I will be charitable enough to guess that her ‘boss’ and others don’t realize how they are fooling people but it is a fad.</p>
<p>“Foot in mouth” at Christmas I was telling my SIL that I had refused to buy one for S2 for Christmas since it was clearly a scam. MIL/FIL hold out their wrists to show that they were WEARING them…oops.</p>
<p>At least they only paid $10 for the rip-off brand.</p>
<p>Well, I wouldn’t know about these bands, but years ago, my DH bought me a copper bracelet, since these were supposed to have healing powers. I tripped on the back steps the first time I wore it, and although the bracelet did not cut my wrist, it scratched it, and for years I had a discoloration on my wrist, which finally did fade away. That was the one and only time I wore that bracelet. Healing, schmealing…</p>
No, he wasn’t. He was trying to test them. D doesn’t have one; I don’t have one. I was simply curious after reading the article in yesterday’s paper. (The article I read is similar to the one in ek’s link, but it talked about all 3 brands.)</p>
<p>For the fun of it I went to the website for ‘Power Band’ and it appears to be just a neoprene or silicone wristband with a hologram on it. Apparently the hologram is supposed to provide some kind of benefit according to them. However, their ‘How it works’ page doesn’t actually even say how they profess it’s supposed to work. It’s just standard ‘join the bandwagon’ salesmanship 101 and that they ‘believe in them’ - nothing about any theory of how they should work. In their defense, they are up front enough to NOT state any hokey reason why they work (since they state no reason at all) and they indicate on their website that they currently have a class action lawsuit filed against them and that they’re having some issue with Australia due to them.</p>
<p>To test it out I guess one could strap their credit card to their wrist for a while since most of them have holograms on them.</p>
<p>For the ones with magnets in them one could tape a few fridge magnets to their wrist and see how that goes.</p>
<p>All of these kinds of things refer to ‘energy’ and ‘energy flowing’ by people who don’t have the slightest understanding of physics or what energy actually is.</p>
<p>However they appear to be following the PT Barnum paradigm and making some money - like that guy who sold pet rocks.</p>
<p>somemom, as a Sacramentan, and a Kings fan, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about the fact that Arco Arena will become Power Balance Pavillion on March 1.</p>