Drug treatment, electric stimulation and decimeter wave therapy have been shown to promote the repair and regeneration of the peripheral nerves at the injured site. Feng Zhao and colleagues from Hebei Medical University investigated the effects of intraoperative electric stimulation and decimeter waves on sciatic nerve regeneration in a Mackinnon's model of rat sciatic nerve compression. These results, published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 21, 2013) verified that intraoperative electric stimulation and decimeter wave therapy contributed to the regeneration and the recovery of the functions in the compressed nerves.
This image shows the effects of electric stimulation and decimeter wave on ultrastructure of the sciatic nerves in rats with sciatic nerve compression at the 4th week post-operation (transmission electron microscopy, × 30 000).In the intraoperative electric stimulation and decimeter wave group, the myelin sheath was relatively thick and the regenerated axon had a normal appearance.
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Source: Neural Regeneration Research