Designed electromagnetic pulsed therapy: clinical applications

J Cell Physiol. 2007 Sep;212(3):579-82. doi: 10.1002/jcp.21025.

Abstract

First reduced to science by Maxwell in 1865, electromagnetic technology as therapy received little interest from basic scientists or clinicians until the 1980s. It now promises applications that include mitigation of inflammation (electrochemistry) and stimulation of classes of genes following onset of illness and injury (electrogenomics). The use of electromagnetism to stop inflammation and restore tissue seems a logical phenomenology, that is, stop the inflammation, then upregulate classes of restorative gene loci to initiate healing. Studies in the fields of MRI and NMR have aided the understanding of cell response to low energy EMF inputs via electromagnetically responsive elements. Understanding protein iterations, that is, how they process information to direct energy, we can maximize technology to aid restorative intervention, a promising step forward over current paradigms of therapy.

Publication types

  • Historical Article
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antioxidants / chemistry
  • Antioxidants / metabolism
  • Antioxidants / radiation effects
  • Calcium / metabolism
  • Calcium Channels / chemistry
  • Calcium Channels / metabolism
  • Calcium Channels / radiation effects
  • Electric Stimulation Therapy* / history
  • Electromagnetic Phenomena / history
  • Electromagnetic Phenomena / methods*
  • Free Radicals / metabolism
  • Gene Expression / radiation effects*
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / genetics
  • Inflammation / metabolism
  • Inflammation / therapy*
  • Protein Conformation / radiation effects
  • Wound Healing / genetics
  • Wound Healing / radiation effects*

Substances

  • Antioxidants
  • Calcium Channels
  • Free Radicals
  • Calcium