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PEMF and bone healing
PEMF has been examined for 40+ years as a means of helping bones heal themselves. The Magnawave Semi-10 uses frequencies between 1-20 Hz depending on the setting. The magnetic field has a max of 4,700 G at the highest setting. As the setting increases the frequency decreases and the magnetic field increases. A table…
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PEMF for inflammation
Professional organizations like MagnaWave and AOPP claim that PEMF relieves inflammation. How this happens is largely unknown. The featured image came from a review on how charges in solution line up on surface charges. from metals, to metal oxides, to ion exchange membranes, and finally biological membranes. Some images of skin and bone joints…
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PEMF and voltage gated calcium channels
Pulsed electromagnetic frequency therapy enthusiasts and those who are simply dubious of 50Hz and radiofrequency electromagnetic pollution like to point to opening of voltage gated calcium channels as a mechanism. This post is not meant to convince these groups that it doesn’t happen. This post is meant to convince these groups that our natural…
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PEMF eNOS PI3K
This post looks at Li 2015, a delightfully simple publication that explores the use of a very specific type of PEMF to counter the tissue damage that proceeds femoral artery excision in a mouse model of peripheral artery disease. While this is not the exact same as a branch of the femoral artery being…
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electrical stimulation and hind limb unloading
Many PEMF practitioners use PEMF when an animal, including humans, has an injured limb and loss of use of the associated skeletal muscle. Some may argue that PEMF resembles electrical stimulation via Faraday’s Law of Induction. PEMF seems to act on the ERK signaling cascade in cultured myoblasts. [1] Electrical muscle stimulation in a…