A lot of patients every day end up asleep and a fair few say they wish it was longer. I’d be in that group.
The noise is often described as a relaxing ‘white noise’ by this group.
The outer shells are different between vendors and the Philips ones I trained on definitely looked more ominous than the Siemens ones I use now.
The unnerving movement is partially due to the magnet interacting with the inner ear. It creates a sort of vertigo. Explaining this to someone who is anxious seems to help ‘it’s not you freaking out, it’s what magnets do to your inner ear and it eases after a few deep breaths’.
The outer shells are different between vendors and the Philips ones I trained on definitely looked more ominous than the Siemens ones I use now.
The unnerving movement is partially due to the magnet interacting with the inner ear. It creates a sort of vertigo. Explaining this to someone who is anxious seems to help ‘it’s not you freaking out, it’s what magnets do to your inner ear and it eases after a few deep breaths’.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409466/