Medicina rigenerativa in ortopedia e traumatologia: la stimolazione biofisica
Abstract
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE IN ORTHOPAEDICS: THE BIOPHYSICAL STIMULATION
Cartilage lesions are considered to be the first cause of disability in the active population. Treating cartilage injuries is
often a challenge for orthopaedic surgeons, owing to the poor regenerative potential of chondrocytes. Pulsed
electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) improve cellular proliferation and migration, and ECM induction. PEMFs during or
after surgery for chondral lesion have been demonstrated to be useful in inducing better repair andmigration of
chondrocytes into the bioscaffolds, and to lead to improvement in patient symptoms after surgery. In this review of the
literature, we collected a significative number of studies, which support using biophysical stimulation, in particular
PEMFs, as first-line treatment during and after surgery to treat chondral lesion.
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© Società Italiana Ortopedici Traumatologi Ospedalieri d’Italia 2019 , 2019
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