Biomedical Engineering Reference
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tissues than EM radiation. Other acoustic interactions also occur
inside atomic nuclei where gluons, photons, and phonons can
interact.Thevariousmethodsofenergydeliverytoeitherpromote
cell replication or cell apoptosis are generic to a wide class of
medical therapies.
Intervention
The application of an acoustic device (Cyma 1000), which
delivered specific frequencies, within the audible sound range, to
acupuncture points and meridians as well as the areas of injury.
These audible acoustic frequencies ranged from 100 to 1600 Hz.
Objective:
Toassesstheeffectivenessofanacousticdeviceoncore
tendonlesions of the thoroughbred race horse.
Outcome:
In our case studies, we have found a rapid rate
of tendon healing; evidenced by ultrasonographic imaging that
clearly showed the return to normal and homogeneous tendon
cell integrity as proven by the uniform and normal echogenicity.
A complete reduction of the core lesions to a well defined tendon
cell regeneration area with no evidence of a prior tendon lesion
was found.
The mean duration of healing time, per follow-up ultrasonog-
raphy, as well as rapid return to function was 40 days; from the
first diagnostic ultrasound scan to the last follow-up ultrasound
scan.Allsubjects,thusfar,havehadverysimilarresults,therefore,
only one complete case study will be presented here.
Primary Diagnostic Ultrasonographic Images
Image 1
Short axis ultrasonography of the SDFT 4-09-04.
