The claim: Provides immediate and significant pain relief from arthritis and other chronic conditions.
The truth: After years of working its way through the court system, a lower court decision for the FTC was upheld by an appeals court in 2008 in an $87 million ruling against Q-Ray Bracelets, which promised pain relief despite lacking any scientific basis for the claim. In 2011, the FTC began mailing 248,931 refund checks to consumers who were misled by the company.