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Electromechanical Properties and Electromagnetic Stimulation of Bone

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Biomechanics of Normal and Pathological Human Articulating Joints

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The use of electromagnetic stimulation of tissues has been increasing in the clinical fields. It is mainly used in the clinical cases when the classical, well-known methods fail or in order to accelerate the recovery of healing. The non-unions of bone fractures are the best application area at this time for the electromagnetic stimulations. Analyzing the electro-mechanical feedback systems of the tissue leads the way for how one can use electromagnetic stimulation in order to duplicate natural bioelectric signals. Although different artificial electromagnetic stimulation techniques could be equally effective in the treatment of the same pathological cases, they would differ in their tissue culture and cellular level responses. That is, the overall response of the tissue (healing of a non-union) would be the same for different stimuli but their cellular level reactions would be different. The tissue culture experiments and well controlled in vivo experiments will illuminate this point in the near future by bridging the overall response of the tissue to cellular level activities.

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Güzelsu, N. (1985). Electromechanical Properties and Electromagnetic Stimulation of Bone. In: Berme, N., Engin, A.E., Correia da Silva, K.M. (eds) Biomechanics of Normal and Pathological Human Articulating Joints. NATO ASI Series, vol 93. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5117-4_13

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