The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found the bracelets are part of a scheme devised to defraud consumers.

[4] This study prompted the Federal Trade Commission to impose an injunction on QT Inc. the following year, preventing any further claims regarding pain relief.

[3] On September 8, 2006, a federal judge ordered QT Inc. to pay back $22.5 million "in ill-gotten gains."

U.S. Magistrate Judge Morton Denlow wrote a 136-page opinion and concluded: "Park made up the theory that the bracelet works like acupuncture or Eastern medicine.

Thus, the theory was made "...to defraud consumers out of millions of dollars by preying on their desire to find a simple solution to alleviate their physical pain.