Electromagnetic fields, electric current and bone healing - What is the evidence?;Elektromagnetische Felder, elektrischer Strom und Knochenheilung: Was ist gesichert?

Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-270

  Schmidt Rohlfing, B ^a   Silny, J ^a   Gavenis, K ^b   Heussen, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

bone healing; electrical stimulation; electromagnetic fields; randomised clinical trials

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; MAGNETOTHERAPY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79959900026     PISSN: 1864-669     EISSN: 18646743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1250518     Document Type: Article

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