Using Electromagnetic Microwave Field in Treatment of Lumbar Pain

The authors analyzed the results of a treatment of 28 patients with a lumbar pain. The patients with a lumbar pain underwent a method of treatment using electromagnetic microwaves field (EM). We used a portable apparatus that operates in the millimeter (mm) wave range in 4 regimes. The intensity of EM radiation was 2-10 mW/cm(2). A peculiarity of the method was an absence of any pharmaceutical medicine. The exposure of the radiation was 10 min. The total course included 7-10 procedures. An application of low intensity EM radiation was started to the biological active points of acupuncture (VG3, VG4, VB30) in the sedative regime (the repetition rate 9-10 Hz) during 10 mm. Clinical symptomatology, radiographic findings were analyzed as well. The results were acknowledged to be satisfactory, there were no complications. A pain disappear, movements in vertebral column have improved. We consider the use of low intensity electromagnetic radiation to be effective in the treatment of patients with a lumbar pain.