Effect of Stimulation by Low-Frequency Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields in Subjects with Fracture of the Femoral Neck

Abstract

Low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic fields (hereafter PEMFs) have now been in use in orthopaedics and traumatology for upwards of twenty years. The technique is employed to promote osteogenesis and hence to favour bone repair proc esses. It has recently been shown that PEMFs may be the treatment of choice in avascular necrosis of the femoral head. The treatment has emerged as especially effective in the earliest forms in the staging according to Ficat