EMRT - Regeneration Process

The effect of EMRT is based on the body’s own regeneration through the physiological stimulus of signals transmitted by a magnetic field. EMRT forces a migration of positively charged hydrogen ions(H+) in the negatively charged extra cellular matrix
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The flow of charged particles, The hydrogen protons, affects the reconstruction of the electrical field (streaming potential) normally present around a joint and which is not only disturbed in arthritic patients, in tendonitis and injuries, but in nearly all orthopaedic conditions.

ELECTROMAGNETIC REGENERATION THERAPY (EMRT)/PST are based on a patent developed by an American doctor and biophysicist of German origin. This is a therapeutic method which differs from the so-called magnetic therapy used for many years for slowly consolidating fractures.

EMRT, while it can be used in bone tissue also, finds its main indication in the treatment of cartilage and of soft and connective tissues. To understand the effect of EMRT, it must be remembered that when a joint is subjected to compressive stress, there is a displacement of the water present in the matrix accompanied by sodium ions, leaving the negative charges of proteoglycan molecules un-neutralised. By a mechanism of mechanical-electrical transduction, the mechanical stimulus is transformed into a week electric current (potential streaming) which is thought to represent the main signal for the cartilage cells to increase the synthesis of proteoglycans and collagen.

Bone and cartilage tissues have electromagnetic natural bio-potentials which are of crucial importance to the formation and the dynamic functional adaptation of the tissue. Various factors, including electrical stimuli such as pulsed electro-magnetic fields, can activate the regeneration process. The combined energy parameters of ELECTROMAGNETIC REGENERATION THERAPY (EMRT) belongs to the range also observed in connecting tissue.

• Early improvement of joint function (mobility & flexibility) by the removal of muscular tension. • Acceleration of healing process inn injuries to joint structures. • Stimulation of the chondrocyte activity on streaming potentials with regeneration of the cartilage tissue. • Stimulation of the osteoblast activity through piezoelectric potentials with stabilisation of the bone thickness

If the potential streaming is the signal for chondrocytes to produce new matrix, the same effect can be obtained by exposing the joints to an electromagnetic field, producing currents which stimulate those of the organism. Administration in this way of a low strength pulsed signal at a frequency similar to the biological one that is capable of creating an electrical field in the joint, prompting the regeneration of the cartilaginous tissue, and thus conferring physical chondro-protection.