MEDICAL SUPPLY BONE STIMULATOR 

 

Bone growth stimulation is the process of promoting bone growth in difficult to heal fractures by applying a low electrical current to the fracture. This is usually done when the pace of healing is too slow and if it does not occur naturally. This case is typical to adults, people who usually smoke and have severe fractures.

The human bone has the capacity to heal itself once it is injured or broken because like the skin, it is also a living tissue. With the use of a medical supply bone stimulator, the body’s natural bone healing process is enhanced.

With the spine fusion, multiple bone fragments can heal together to create one solid bone. But take note, that it does not occur immediately right after the surgery. The growth process may take a few months up to one year until the bone graft pieces into a solid union of bone.

Although spine fusion helps a lot of patients, there are also cases that may lessen the chance of obtaining a solid fusion cycle. Some of these factors are obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes, alcoholism, medications that exhaust calcium and renal and vascular disease.

There are two types of medical supply bone stimulators. One is internal which is implanted under the skin and the other type is external which is worn outside the skin.

An internal medical supply bone stimulator is implanted during the spinal fusion surgery. It may be used with or without any other devices related to the fusion. It is small and is implanted in a soft pocket tissue under the skin in the lower back to the side of spine. Small electric currents are being delivered directly to the area where the bone will grow. This device does not create painful or electrical sensation to the patient.

On the other hand, an external bone growth stimulator is a device worn outside the skin. It does not require surgical implantation or extraction It maybe worn as a small and thin skin pads that are properly placed directly on the fusion site or a treatment coil placed into a brace or directly onto the skin. This kind of medical supply bone stimulator is usually light in weight and battery operated which makes it portable. It can prescribed for the patient to use for several weeks or months after a fusion surgery if the bone is not fusing as expected. Like the internal bone growth stimulator, this is device is not also painful and it does not send electrical shocks to the patient who is wearing it.

The possible result of a fusion or an operation still depends on the age and on the general health of the patient and on the type, damage and location of the fracture.