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

The results of a treatment of 51 patients with purulent‐inflammatory diseases of the hand 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 that operates in the millimeter (mm) wave range in 4 regimes of an intensity 2–10 mW/cm2 and a red laser of 0.65 μm wavelength of a low intensity 10–15 mW/cm2. A peculiarity of the method was an absence of any antibacterial medicine. An exposure of an influence was 10 min. The total course included 5–7 applications. An influence of low intensity EM radiation was started 15–20 min before the operation. The action was to the center of purulent inflammation and to the biological active points of acupuncture (G14, E36). Starting from the first day since the operation, the low intensity EM radiation was applied to the biological active points combined with laserotherapy to the wound in the sedative regime (the repetition rate 9–10 Hz) during 10 min. ...