"Take and Run" and "Take and Hold" Therapeutical Electromagnetic Field Application Modalities in Physiotherapy: Some Clinically Significant Pathways of Action

This paper proposes and for the first time examines in parallel the most likely mechanisms of clinical effects unlocked by two modality applications: the therapeutic (acute) “take and run” and the occupational (chronic) “take and hold” of therapeutic EMFs. Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) for therapeutic use have a long pre-clinical and clinical history. The practical experience worldwide has increased the trust of the medical community due to the EMF potential for speeding up the recovery and reparative processes and for influencing the pathological ones – edema, pain, inflammation. We consider these favourable effects of the triggered stimulation of the production of endothelial NO - a consequence of the biochemical activation of the calcium-calmodulin system as well as the vasodilatative vasomotor changes by low-intensity EMFs of any range as the main clinically significant, universal therapeutic mechanism of action in the stimulation of the reparative processes. These beneficial health effects on patients look different when assessed as an occupational factor from the perspective of the health of the physiotherapy professionals. Our recent, complex, ambispective study, which as far as we know is the first in this field, has provided evidence about their specific morbidity profile in its somatic and behavioral complexity, where seems to be endocrinal and cell damaging/ irritating processes are involved. The results indicate that the hypothesized endocrinal mechanis...
Source: Current Chemical Biology - Category: Biochemistry Source Type: research