Bone Growth Stimulator; Used To Promote Bone Healing In Difficult To Heal Fractures or Fusions

Bone Growth Stimulator

 Bone Growth Stimulator is used to promote bone healing in fractures which are difficult to heal. The stimulator stimulate the natural healing of bone using electrical - ultrasonic current to the site of fracture. These stimulators are used to enhance the bone healing process without the sensation of electrical shocks, currents, or vibrations when being worn by the user. The bone growth stimulator works by emitting either a low-level pulsed electromagnetic field or pulsed ultrasonic energy, helping the body to heal fractures.

Bone Growth Stimulator help increase the amount of bone tissue by increasing bone mass and stimulating bone growth. The stimulator helps delay the natural time limit for bone re-growth after losing a bone, therefore increasing bone mass at a faster rate. To stimulate natural healing process, bone growth stimulators send low-level pulses of electromagnetic energy to the fusion site or injury. These stimulations are can be applied invasively or non-invasively. They raise the natural speed of healing by giving electric shocks to patients.

Bone stimulators are often used to treat nonunions, which are broken bones that fail to heal. Nonunions may occur when there’s a lack of stability, blood flow, or both. A stimulator delivers pulsed electromagnetic or ultrasonic waves to the nonunion site to stimulate healing. The Bone Growth Stimulator generates an electric current to encourage bone growth. To be effective, the bone stimulator treatment must be used every day. ‌Bone stimulators are either external or surgically implanted into the area of the affected bone.

In May 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Orthofix Medical Inc.’s AccelStim bone healing therapy Class III device. AccelStim provides a safe and effective non-surgical treatment for indicated fractures and for fractures that have not healed (nonunions). Specifically, it is designed to help bone fractures of the larger bone between the elbow and wrist (radius) or the larger long bone in the lower leg (tibia) heal faster.

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