Promoting Healing of Long Bone Fractures

Promoting healing of long bone fractures with low-frequency pulsed magnetic therapy was tested on 58 patients and the research team (Hong-fei et al., 2013) published the results in the scientific journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

Since non-healing fractures and fractures with delayed union still represent a major problem especially in case of long bones, this randomized, placebo-controlled study attempted to improve treatment of these fractures.

All patients with a 16-week to 6-month delayed union of long bone fractures were randomly divided into an active and control group. Patients in the active group underwent low-frequency pulsed magnetic therapy and patients in the control group were exposed to sham devices. Both groups started their daily eight-hour applications at the same time.

According to the results, low-frequency pulsed magnetic therapy achieved success rate of 77.4%. In contrast, the control group was successful only in 48.1% of fractures.

Pulsed magnetic field also contributed to much greater union of fractures. Moreover, it was evident that if pulsed magnetic therapy is applied as soon as possible after fracturing the bone, then healing time shortens considerably as this treatment promotes healing of fractures effectively.

References: Hong-fei, S., et al. (2013). Early application of pulsed electromagnetic field in the treatment of postoperative delayed union of long-bone fractures: a prospective randomized controlled study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 14(1), 1-7.

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