Resumen

SOSA SALINAS, ULISES  y  MORFA VIAMONTES, FELIX. Electric stimulation of bone callus. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1996, vol.10, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3100.

The use of low frequency pulsed magnetic field in 165 patients treated at the Central Comprehensive Teaching Polyclinic, in the city of Camagüey, between February, 1994 and January, 1995, is reported. The affections treated were the following: osteoarthritis, chondromalacia, synovitis, traumas, periarthritis, postsurgical fibrosis, pathological synovial plica syndrome, and Hoffa disease. The results achieved may be considered as good in 97 % of the treated patients.

Palabras clave : OSTEOARTHRITIS [therapy]; SYNOVITIS [therapy]; PERIARTHRITIS [therapy]; FIBROSIS [therapy]; ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES; KNEE [pathology]; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES.