Swing through his chronic pain until recently when he taped magnets around his shoulder Jack wears seven quarter sized magnets every day and reports his pain went from intense on a scale of 1 to 10 down to mild Probably at the most of level 1 Having a very good day a new FDA study being done in Tennessee is now looking at pain relief and magnets Wiley is already a believer a car accident almost two years ago left him in severe pain He spent fifteen thousand dollars on treatments There were five injections per week physical therapy I was begging these surgeons to operate at the same time. He found dr. Robert Holcomb and his magnets It's not alternative medicine We will look up on this just as much a part of medicine as drug therapy is a part of medicine Holcomb explains it like this if you bang your elbow the nerves send a signal to the brain to feel pain He says the magnets block that signal after treating five thousand six thousand patients Probably in the vicinity of 80 to 90 percent of patients will experience some relief relief that put Jack back on the golf course And the magnets have had a big impact on his handicap. This is Kristi Goranson crem to news Well doctors are testing the device for chronic pain pain out graphics