Gonarthrosis
Study
Gonarthrosis,Osteoarthritis **, Joint pain, Chronic arthritis, Cervical spine disorders
Authors, title of the study and source:
Trock DH, Bollet AJ, Markoll R: The effect of pulsed electromagnetic fields in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee and cervical spine. Report of randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trials. J Rheumatol 1994; 21:1903-1911.
Number of patients: 167
Disease:
86 abrasion of the knee; 81 abrasions of the cervical spine with intervertebral stenosis, new bone formation at the articular surface (osteophytes), cartilage lesions (subchondral Sclerosis). Disease existed for more than 7 years
Treatment:
Pulsating, 5 – 25 Hz (rectangular) ascending in three steps of 10 min, 10-20 G, 30 min. 18 times within 1 month. Follow up check without treatment: 1 month.
Improvement:
Highly significant improvement of pain at rest, pain in motion, pressure pain, less restriction of movement in flex/stretch or twirling, both subjectively and objectively.
Remarks:
The improvement was noticeably better than with the usual drug therapy.
The MFT has cartilage protective and regenerating, which is also the approach of a new pharmaceutical therapy!
Although, as is well known, for arthritis and osteoarthritis the placebo effect is great but the treatment was much better.
After one month of completion the therapy group was still feeling better.
** 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.
