Low-Intensity Ultrasound Enhances Maturation of Callus after Segmental Transport
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- Vol. 430 (430), 189-194
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.blo.0000150456.39608.bc
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether low-intensity ultrasound can be used to enhance callus maturation. Fifteen-millimeter bone defects at the metatarsal bones of sheep were treated with a segmental bone transport for 16 days. The callus formations in the bone defects were allowed to mature for 63 days before the animals were sacrificed. Eighteen sheep were operated on and divided into two groups. One group was treated with low-intensity ultrasound for 20 minutes per day, whereas the other group served as an untreated control group. Biomechanical tests after removal of the metatarsals showed significantly higher axial compression stiffness and significantly higher indentation stiffness of callus tissue in the healing zone in the group treated with ultrasound. Also, histologic analysis of the cortical defect zone showed significantly more callus formation and more active zones of endochondral ossification in the group treated with ultrasound. Stimulation of callus maturation by ultrasound is possible, similar to stimulation of fresh fracture healing, and may be used to shorten clinical treatment times.Keywords
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