Analgesic effects of pulsed magnetic therapy in idiopathic hip osteoarthrosis

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Osteoarthrosis is the most frequently diagnosed disease of the musculoskeletal system. The grown number of patients awaiting surgical treatment and the possible negative consequences resulting from long-term pharmacological therapy lead to searching for non-pharmacological methods aimed at relieving pain and reducing doses of analgesics, including physiotherapy using magnetic fields.

AIM: To evaluate the analgesic effects of the pulsed magnetic therapy in patients with idiopathic hip osteoarthrosis.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The randomized study enrolled 28 men aged 48 to 75 years (mean age: 62.8 years) with diagnosed idiopathic hip osteoarthrosis. The subjects were randomized into 2 groups (14 patients each): the first group included the patients who received pulsed magnetic therapy cycles, the second (comparison) group included the magnetic therapy-naïve ones. During the exposure cycle, both groups underwent multiple assessments of their mood, pain intensity, and dose of analgesics.

RESULTS: No statistically significant differences were found in the assessment of respondents’ mood. The magnetic therapy group showed, on Day 14 and Day 21 of the procedures cycle, and in Week 1 after the therapy cycle, significantly decreased intensity of the perceived pain (p <0.05). In the group of the patients that received courses of magnetic therapy, the use of painkillers was by 14% (р <0.05) reliably lower than at the baseline; this was not reported in the comparison group.

CONCLUSION: Using the pulsed magnetic therapy in the treatment of men with idiopathic hip osteoarthrosis results in a statistically significant improvement of the analgesic effect with a concomitantly decreased need for analgesic, without, however, any significant changes in the patient’s mood.

Keywords

pulsed magnetic therapy / hip osteoarthrosis / mood / pain intensity

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