Inflammation of the tendons
Study 1
Inflammation of the tendons and muscle onset **, Capsular injuries, Shoulder -arm syndrome, Chronic shoulder pain, endinitis, tendon injury
Authors, title of the study and source:
Binder A, Parr G, Hazleman B, Fitton Jackson S: Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy of persistent rotator cuff tendinitis. A double-blind controlled assessment. Lancet 1984;1:695-698.
Number of patients: 29 patients where no other conventional therapy with corticosteroids or could be helped.
Disease:
Persistent shoulder capsule and tendon inflammation
Treatment:
4 weeks of blind randomized placebo or MFT therapy, after that all patients received MFT during 4 weeks, all patients were observed after 8 weeks again. 73 +/- 2 Hz.; 27 G.
Improvement:
72 % had no more symptoms (no pain, no restriction of movement), 10.5% had minimal residual symptoms, 7 % maintained a spot of pain, 10.5% could not be cured with MFT. During the placebo treatment no improvement showed in any of the patients.
Remarks:
These patients had already been in 3 months of intractable shoulder pain with severe limited movement. The effect of therapy has already set in after 4 weeks of MFT and continued. Patients who had no success were craftsman. The nature of the load was held responsible for treatment failure. In these 72 %, were cure, no relapses occurred within 4 months! It is expected that the MFT will help with other capsule and tendon inflammation.
Study 2
Inflammation of the tendons and muscle onset **, Capsular injuries, Shoulder -arm syndrome, Chronic shoulder pain, Tendinitis, Tendon injury, Pain of the musculoskeletal system, Myalgia
Authors, title of the study and source:
Pujol J, Pascual-Leone A, Dolz C, Delgrado E, Dolz JL, Aldoma J. The effect of repetitive magnetic stimulation on localized musculoskeletal pain. Neuroreport 1998, 9(8): 1745-8
Number of patients: 30
Disease:
Musculoskeletal pain
Treatment:
40 min. one time
Improvement:
MFT group: 59 % decrease in pain intensity, placebo: 14 %. The improvement was usually maintained for several days.
Remarks:
Various diagnoses with musculoskeletal pain is included in this study (shoulder capsule injury, tennis elbow, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome, spasms of the back muscles and leg muscles, osteoarthritis of the knee and the ankle joint, tendinitis).
** 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.
