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...colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine actually showed that a small direct current could help mend patients' stubborn fractures. Today several dozen hospitals in the U.S. and abroad are using electrical treatment on orthopedic patients for whom other therapies have failed. Says Dr. C. Andrew Bassett, chief of Columbia-Presbyterian's orthopedic research labs: "No question about it. In these cases, electricity can significantly speed up the healing process...
...kind of signal to certain bone cells known as osteoblasts. Normally, the cells promote deposition of calcium and other minerals that act as the "cement" in the formation of hard bone. Sometimes the osteoblasts go berserk, producing either too little or too much cement. When that happens, explains Bassett, "we can say, 'Release calcium,' or we can say, 'Don't release calcium,' simply by inducing a current with the necessary voltage across the cell membrane...
Electrotherapy is not necessary or even desirable for most fractures. "Natural healing is still the best," says Bassett, who notes that he and his colleagues are not in business to put careless skiers back on the slopes overnight. But electrotherapy can aid patients with nonhealing fractures-notably elderly patients and youngsters with congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia, an inherited condition in which nerve defects block healing of fractured shin bones...
...ugly, but endearingly ugly, with black hair that flopped over his ears and into his eyes. He always looked wet, and fixin' to die from pleurisy and lung concer from the Lucky Strike that was always in the corner of his mouth. Like a big bedraggled hairy bassett hound, with great hazel eyes and a wet nose. He wore a coat he's finagled from the Freshman Coat Fund two winters ago, or a corduroy jacket he'd bought second-hand, levis, and boots. He was a psychotic...
Fromm Music Foundation--8:30 pm--Sanders Theater--The Pro Arte String Quartet, assisted by Richard Kogan, piano, Scott Nickrenz, viola, and Beverly Morgan, soprano--works of Bassett, Cruckman, and Imbrie. Free...