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Device for treating osteoporosis, hip and spine fractures and fusions with electric fields

  • US 7,158,835 B2
  • Filed: 07/10/2002
  • Issued: 01/02/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of preventing and/or treating osteoporosis, bone fracture, and/or bone fusion in a patient, comprising the steps of:

  • incorporating at least one conductive coil N turns, where N>

    1, into an article of clothing adapted to be worn on the patient'"'"'s torso adjacent the patient'"'"'s skin, whereby the article of clothing, when worn, causes the coil to be located over a treatment area of the patient; and

    applying an electrical signal to the coil effective to produce a magnetic flux that penetrates the treatment area so as to produce an electric field in the treatment area effective to treat osteoporosis, fracture and/or fusion of bones of the treatment area.

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