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Physical Regulation in
Cartilage and Bone Repair
Ruggero Cadossi, Matteo Cadossi, and Stefania Setti
16.1 INTRODUCTION
The therapeutic possibilities at the physician’s disposal foresee the use of both chemical and
physical energies. While the use of chemicals (drugs) and ionizing electromagnetic energy for
disease treatment has been well dened in different branches of medicine and surgery, this has
not been the case for nonionizing electromagnetic energies. Clinical biophysics is the branch of
medical science that studies the action process and the effects of nonionizing physical stimuli
utilized for therapeutic purposes. The principles u ...