Therapeutic spiral magnet

Magnet spirals for therapeutic application with minimum one foil strip made of a rubber-type flexible, preferably skin compatible, plastic which is coiled up along its lengthwise dimension in form of a spiral, whereby the foil strip is magnetically polarized in an axial direction relative to its larger lateral face (i.e. in its lengthwise direction). The larger lateral faces of the foil strip are magnetically polarized in an axial direction of the foil-that is, in the lengthwise direction of the foil strip, preferably up to its total saturation. In the coiled condition of the foil, one side of the larger lateral area thus faces the other large lateral area. Starting at the center this configuration creates in a radial direction a sequence of varying magnetic polarizations within the cross section of the magnet spiral. The effect of this series arrangement of the magnetic polarizations causes the creation of a particularly strong magnetic field in the vicinity of the magnet spiral. The strength of the magnetic field is caused in particular by a multitude of magnetic dipoles being arranged in series along their magnetic axes. In the case of the magnet spiral according to the present invention, the foil strip may be coiled up around itself, or around an object of optional form in the center of the spiral. The magnet spiral of the present inveniton invention may, for example, have a largely circular form circumference, or a rectangular periphery with rounded-off corners or irregularly shaped.