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Electromagnetic Fields in
the Treatment of Tendon
Injury in Human and
Veterinarian Medicine
Richard Parker
and Marko S. Markov
26.1 INTRODUCTION
Equine and human tendon injuries or lesions differ. In the equine model, the lesions appear as cavi-
ties within the tendon itself, whereas in the human patient, lesions are predominantly found to be
edge tears. Equine tendon lesions are found mostly among young horses and gradually diminish in
frequency with age. Although a number of options exist today for the treatment of tendon lesions,
useful imaging of the tendon cellular structure is limited, fostering the condition whereby the trainer
does ...