Health/Social - #expensiverubberbands...

To everyone who has ever purchased a PowerBalance bracelet or made any claims to its amazing superpowers - I hope you feel like a giant knob!

I have previously (not so subtly) expressed my extreme disgust and repudiation of these bracelets and how people can be so gullible as to believe that a piece of silicon or rubber with some holographic stickers in them actually improve your athletic performance in terms of stability, flexibility, strength and balance. That is the equivalent of saying that when your kid sticks some of those play-stickers on your back window to keep themselves busy during transit it increases the car's power by 20 horses. We all know that the only thing that adds to a car's power is a company sticker, but that's an entirely different show! :-D

Needless to say you can see my disdain...

Fortunately for me (and not so fortunate for all the PowerBelievers) they have started conducting some double-blind studies with these bracelets and can now prove that they are absolute BS and a grand waste of 450 buck.

Dr. Simon Brice and a small team has pioneered to be the first to study this holographic-messiah and will have the findings published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.

In case you want the summarised version of the facts that most everyone knows and most people do not care to admit:

"Chief investigator, Dr Simon Brice, said the study found there was no statistically significant change in balance performance brought about by the silicon wristbands, which are embedded with two hologram discs.

"We saw no difference in people's balance whether they were using the wristband, wearing a placebo or wearing no wristband at all," Dr Brice said.

"While our focus was on balance and stability, holographic technology wristbands are also promoted as enhancing strength, flexibility and endurance."

I know that they Aussies have caught onto this scam towards the end of last year already and have moved to get all the people that actually purchased these bracelets their money back...personally, I hope they do not as I believe anybody that gullible deserves to loose their money to teach them a lesson.

but hey, that's just me...
WB