Nerve Injury
Therapeutic ultrasound enhances sciatic nerve regeneration in mice
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, May 15th, 2005
Neuroscientists in Brazil conducted an "experimental study of the influence of therapeutic ultrasound on the regeneration of the sciatic nerve submitted to a controlled crush injury."
"Twenty female Wistar rats weighing 250 g on average were used and divided into two groups of 10 animals each, respectively, submitted to: (1) crush injury followed by ultrasound irradiation and (2) crush injury only," explained V.V.M. Raso and coauthors at the University of Sao Paulo.
"Under general anesthesia the sciatic nerve was exposed on the right thigh...
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