Role of pulsed electromagnetic fields after joint replacements

Pulsed electromagnetic fields and cancer.

Microcirculatory effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields.

PURPOSE Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) are used clinically to expedite healing of fracture non-unions, however, the mechanism of action by which PEMF stimulation is effective is unknown. The current study examined the acute effects of PEMF stimulation on arteriolar microvessel diameters in the rat cremaster muscle. The study hypothesis was that PEMF would increase arteriolar diameters, a ...

Pulsed Beam Expansion of Electromagnetic Aperture Fields

The present contribution is concerned with an exact frame-based pulsed-beams expansion of planar aperture timedependent electromagnetic fields. The propagating field is described as a discrete superposition of tilted, shifted and delayed electromagnetic pulsed-beam waveobjects over the frame spectral lattice. Explicit asymptotic expressions for the electromagnetic pulsed-beam propagators are ob...

Pain Management with Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields

The issue of pain treatment is an extremely urgent health and socio-economic problem. Pain, in acute, recurrent and chronic forms, is prevalent across age, cultural background, and sex, and costs North American adults an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 per person annually. Estimates of the cost of pain do not include the nearly 30,000 people that die in North America each year due to aspirin-induc...

Antibiotic prophylaxis after total joint replacements.

OBJECTIVES To review the latest evidence on antibiotic prophylaxis for patients with total joint replacements to prevent prosthesis infections. DATA SOURCES Literature search of Medline and PubMed until June 2009. STUDY SELECTION Studies of patients with total joint replacements from around the world, studies concerning antibiotic prophylaxis, as well as chemoprophylaxis guidelines from ort...