Rodríguez ROR, Monreal R, Chong-Quero JE

Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 52-56
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ABSTRACT

The employment of a low intensity pulsed ultrasound signal has being demonstrating through numerous clinic studies, to be an effective method for the stimulation of bone repair. This work presents the results obtained in a preliminary study realized in the “Manuel Fajardo Teaching Hospital”, in Havana, Cuba, between 1999 and 2000, about the treatment of bone fractures with a delayed healing process treated by a specific ultrasound therapy. A total of 11 fractures with different times of evolution were treated daily for a period of 20 minutes, with an ultrasound signal of 30 mW/cm² (spatial average - temporal average), 1 MHz, 400 ms sine wave burst width, repeated at 0.5 kHz. The treatment was employed until the fracture was found clinically and radiologically healed. No treatment failed.

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