Using Electromagnetic Microwave Field Combined With Laserotherapy in Postoperative Period of Patients With Purulent-Inflammatory Diseases of the Hand in Outpatient Clinic

摘要

The results of a treatment of 51 patients with purulent-inflammatory diseases of thehand in outpatient clinic are analyzed; a new method of treatment using electromagnetic (EM)microwave field combined with laserotherapy was applied. A portable apparatus was used thatoperates in the millimeter (mm) wave range in 4 regimes of an intensity 2-10 mW/cm~2and a redlaser of 0.65 μm wavelength of a low intensity 10-15 mW/cm~2. A peculiarity of the method wasan absence of any antibacterial medicine. An exposure of an influence was 10 min. The totalcourse included 5-7 applications. An influence of low intensity EM radiation was started 15-20min before the operation. The action was to the center of purulent inflammation and to thebiological active points of acupuncture (G14, E36). Starting from the first day since theoperation, the low intensity EM radiation was applied to the biological active points combinedwith laserotherapy to the wound in the sedative regime (the repetition rate 9-10 Hz) during 10min. Clinical symptomatology, radiographic findings, the results of microbiologic, morphologicstudies were analyzed as well and were satisfactory (without any complications).