Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields: A possible non-invasive therapeutic tool for spinal cord injury rehabilitation.
Author: Kumar S1,2, Dey S1, Jain S1
Affiliation:
1a Department of Physiology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi , India.
2b W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey , Piscataway , NJ , USA.
Conference/Journal: Electromagn Biol Med.
Date published: 2016 Jul 11
Other:
Volume ID: 1-14 , Word Count: 117
Traumatic insults to the spinal cord induce both immediate mechanical damage and subsequent tissue degeneration. The latter involves a range of events namely cellular disturbance, homeostatic imbalance, ionic and neurotransmitters derangement that ultimately result in loss of sensorimotor functions. The targets for improving function after spinal cord injury (SCI) are mainly directed toward limiting these secondary injury events. Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic field (ELF-EMF) is a possible non-invasive therapeutic intervention for SCI rehabilitation which has the potential to constrain the secondary injury-induced events. In the present review, we discuss the effects of ELF-EMF on experimental and clinical SCI as well as on biological system.
KEYWORDS: Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic field; recovery; regeneration; secondary injury; spinal cord injury
PMID: 27399648 DOI: 10.1080/15368378.2016.1194290
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