Bone healing after bone surgery
Study 1
Bone healing after bone surgery**
Authors, title of the study and source:
Borsalino G, Bagnacani M, Bettati E, et al: Electrical stimulation of human femoral intertrochanteric osteotomies. Clin Orthop 1988; 237:256-263.
Number of patients: 31
Disease:
Degenerative osteoarthritis of one or both hips(s)
Treatment:
Reconstruction and surgical change of state in the femoral head.
MFT 75 Hz, 18 gauss, 8 pcs/day, 3 months.
Improvement:
The MFT group showed a highly significant increase in callus formation and trabecular bridging of the osteotomy position.
Remarks The authors believe therefore that this study is very important, because they have the opinion that the bone healing after bone surgery is a chapter on its own and that the bone healing is not to be compared with fresh fractures or with delayed fractures.
Study 2
Bone healing after bone surgery **
Authors, title of the study and source:
Mammi GI, Rocchi R, Cadossi R, Massari L, Traina GC: The electrical stimulation of tibial osteotomys. Clin Orthop 1993;246-253.
Number of patients: 40
Disease:
Degenerative Arthritis of the knee.
Treatment:
Surgery in the lower part of the knee joint.
MFT: 8 pcs/day, 60 days. 75 Hz.
Improvement:
Radiographic evaluation after 60 days: Placebo group showed common healing. MFT group: 72.2 % showed more advanced healing.
Remarks:
Authors believe that this data is a clear demonstration of efficiency of MFT, also for these bones surgery the process is as already described for the hip surgery (Borsalino 1988).
** The treatment with pulsating magnetic field seems to be superior because of double blind controlled randomized studies of the Placebo-treatment.
* The treatment with pulsating magnetic field seems to be superior because of the controlled studies of the control-treatment.
