Low energy pulsing electromagnetic fields modify biomedical processes

✍ Scribed by C. A. L. Bassett

• Book ID: 102759348
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 944 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0265-9247
• DOI: 10.1002/bies.950060110

✦ Synopsis

Low-energy, pulsed electromagnetic jields (PEMFs) have reversed therapeutically resistant pathologic processes in the musculo-skeletal system. Their development as a non-thermal therapeutic agent is based on 30 years of study of the electro-biological properties of connective tissues. Specijic energy characteristics in applied PEMFs produce selected biological effects by modifying synthetic and other behavioral patterns of target cells; some mechanisms of action are de$ned. The technology appears safe and eflective in clinical treatment of un-united fractures, avascular necrosis of bone, and chronic, refractory

tendinitis. An expanding, rational use in biomedical science is predicted.