← Return to PEMF for treatment of Osteoporosis - Is it effective?

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@susuasheville

I recently suffered from a severely fractured humerus. I refused surgery and used a Sarmiento splint instead. My ortho added OrthoFix at 90 days which is a PEMF device. Really helped with healing a difficult fracture. The fracture healed perfectly. I give the PEMF device most of the credit as it was originally healing so slowly. PEMF is being used in Europe to treat osteoporosis in lieu of drug therapies with success. Would be very interested in your results achieved for your hip if you decide to use PEMF. I would prefer to use PEMF for osteoporosis as I cannot take drugs such as Evenity due to adverse reactions.

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Yes, I am familiar with pemf for livestock, mainly horses being positively treated with pemf using high frequency units with positive results to serious injuries including regeneration of bone. I would think it must work for Osteo providing its the right unit which I am researching. My preference is not to take medication as they mask the issue with side effects rather than regenerate bone naturally.

That is really interesting! Most recently I've been recommended to take Reclast, which my endo says is an old drug with very minimal if any side effects. Not what patients on this site say, and since I'm 86 I would rather not spend a year of my dwindling life expectancy in misery. Just got a DEXA which shows improvement or stability plus one - spine - now normal, after taking McCormick collagen and now minerals, exercise, D, eating more calcium, etc. Now I'm about to get an Echolight scan which is ultrasound that will show both bone density and bone quality and will get a doctor's consult plus 5-year risk of fracture.
You can do it as often as you want because there's no radiation and it's also more accurate than a DEXA. This is the standard in Europe now and I'm lucky to have the ortho most experienced with it in the country close by, in Sanford, NC.
My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer but it turned out the MRI was faulty, fortunately, and he does not have cancer. There's a much more accurate up-the-butt MRI - first treatment in Europe. I'm starting to think we should check all treatments with the European standard the way we should with food additives and other food standards before we agree to them.