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Electromagnetic Fields for
Soft Tissue Wound Healing
Harvey N. Mayrovitz
15.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter deals with connections between wound healing and electromagnetic elds in the form
of electrotherapy with electrodes (ET) or noncontact electromagnetic eld (EMF) excitation. Either
form is here referred to as electromagnetic eld therapy (EMFT). Despite evidence of such con-
nections, no mechanism can as yet account for such reported effects. A broad concept underlying
EMFT in relation to soft tissue healing is that applied elds and currents benecially affect func-
tional aspects of cells and processes involved in tissue repair. Because ...