Electrically enhanced damaged tissues healing. Part I: direct current in bone healing
Franek, A.; Franek, E.; Grzesik, J.
Polski Merkuriusz Lekarski Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego 6(35): 294-296
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 1426-9686 PMID: 10437406 Document Number: 502772
The reasons of investigators' interest of damaged tissues healing with electrical current in concise form are represented by the authors. The nonunions and pseudarthroses healing with direct current through negative polarized electrode is described in this article. Hypothetic biological healing mechanisms (as piezoelectric activity, streaming potentials, electric properties of glycosaminoglycan etc.) are discussed. Technical data of currents and their antibacterial properties are described.