Claims
- 1. A method for promoting healing of body tissue, comprising the steps of:
- generating a high frequency, low-energy electromagnetic field at a treatment frequency determined by an inductive-capacitive tuned circuit;
- radiating the electromagnetic field from a flexible inductor-antenna into an area of body tissue to be treated, at a field strength which promotes healing of body tissue, but which is too small to significantly heat body tissue; and,
- controlling the frequency of the field by including the inductor-antenna as a part of the tuned circuit, whereby the strength of the radiated field is independent of the differences in capacitive coupling between the inductor-antenna and the body tissue to be treated.
- 2. The method of claim 1, comprising the step of radiating the electromagnetic field from a spiral-shaped inductor-antennna of at least one turn.
- 3. The method of claims 1 or 2, comprising the step of radiating the electromagnetic field from a spiral-shaped inductor-antenna having a plurality of inductor elements defined between tapping points.
- 4. The method of claim 1, comprising the step of driving the tuned circuit with a fixed frequency pulse generator.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 205,749, filed Nov. 10, 1980. Application Ser. No. 205,749 is a division of application Ser. No. 074,926, filed Sept. 13, 1979, now abandoned.
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Divisions (2)
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