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PST therapy for joint pain

Scientific Rationale Behind the Operating Principles of the

Pulsed Signal Therapy (PST) Device

magnetic therapy device

The Pulsed Signal Therapy device works by stimulating cartilage cells (chondrocytes). To activate healing, it sends changing electromagnetic signals. If the signal is always the same, cells stop responding. But a carefully selected pattern of changing signals helps restart natural recovery processes.

Comparison of PST
to Standard Joint Therapy

Comparison of PST
to Standard Joint Therapy

1. Kraus-Lechner System Coil
This system coil delivers an alternating current magnetic field that generates a sinusoidal waveform. This signal does not conform to what normally takes place in the body because electric activities in all living organisms follow only direct current oriented processes.
2. PEMF -
Pulsed electromagnetic field
PEMF is a therapy that uses pulsed electromagnetic fields. During the session, a gentle electrical signal is repeated with the same strength and frequency. This method was studied in laboratories for many years, and it became the foundation for Pulsed Signal Therapy, developed by Dr. Richard Markoll.
3. Pulsed Signal Therapy

Pulsed Signal Therapy represents an evolution of PEMF technology, generating a pure magnetic field with direct current and unidirectional biological frequencies. Its quasi-rectangular waveform delivers alternating pulsed electromagnetic signals, primarily between 10 and 30 Hertz. This indicates its operation at low frequencies and field strengths.

1. Kraus-Lechner System Coil
This system coil delivers an alternating current magnetic field that generates a sinusoidal waveform. This signal does not conform to what normally takes place in the body because electric activities in all living organisms follow only direct current oriented processes.
2. PEMF -
Pulsed electromagnetic field
PEMF is a therapy that uses pulsed electromagnetic fields. During the session, a gentle electrical signal is repeated with the same strength and frequency. This method was studied in laboratories for many years, and it became the foundation for Pulsed Signal Therapy, developed by Dr. Richard Markoll.
3. Pulsed Signal Therapy

Pulsed Signal Therapy represents an evolution of PEMF technology, generating a pure magnetic field with direct current and unidirectional biological frequencies. Its quasi-rectangular waveform delivers alternating pulsed electromagnetic signals, primarily between 10 and 30 Hertz. This indicates its operation at low frequencies and field strengths.

Besides the main physical parameters examined here - wave form, field strength and frequency - there are other important characteristic features, such as energy carriers, work cycle, impulse frequency, implementation etc. which are fundamentally different in these three therapy methods.

  • Healthy joint –

    streaming potential

    Movements generate:

    • Fine electric currents in the joint
    • Electrical field of the joint
    • Control of the constant preserving and regenerating the cartilage and connective tissues

  • Disturbed

    electrical field

    • Alteration of the electrical field by osteoarthritis or injuries
    • Perturbation in the continued cartilage regeneration.

  • PST treatment - formation of the electrical field

    • Activation of streaming potentials by Pulsed Signal Therapy
    • This signal stimulates the regeneration process in cartilage, tendons and ligaments

  • Healthy joint –

    streaming potential

    Movements generate:

    - Fine electric currents in the joint

    - Electrical field of the joint

    - Control of the constant preserving and regenerating the cartilage and connective tissues

  • Disturbed

    electrical field

    - Alteration of the electrical field by osteoarthritis or injuries

    - Perturbation in the continued

    cartilage regeneration.

  • PST treatment -

    formation of the

    electrical field

    - Activation of streaming potentials by Pulsed Signal Therapy

    - This signal stimulates the regeneration process in cartilage, tendons and ligaments

PST supports regeneration

and repair of bone and cartilage tissues

Bone and cartilage tissues have natural electrical signals that help them grow and adapt. These signals can be boosted using special impulses like magnetic fields. This kind of stimulation helps start the healing process. Pulsed Signal Therapy parameters are also suitable for treating connective tissues.

Pulsed Signal Therapy
has a specific signal pattern:
-Constant changes in intensity, duration and frequency (frequency
1-30 Hz, field strength 0,5-1,5 mT, 5-15 Gauss)
- The signals correspond with the natural physiological body signals
-They activate the self healing process of the body
repair of bone and cartilage tissues

Pulsed Signal Therapy

supports regeneration

and repair of bone and

cartilage tissues

Bone and cartilage tissues have natural electrical signals that help them grow and adapt. These signals can be boosted using special impulses like magnetic fields. This kind of stimulation helps start the healing process. Pulsed Signal Therapy parameters are also suitable for treating connective tissues.

Pulsed Signal Therapy
has a specific signal pattern:
-Constant changes in intensity, duration and frequency (frequency 1-30 Hz, field strength
0,5-1,5 mT, 5-15 Gauss)
- The signals correspond with the natural physiological body signals
-They activate the self healing process of the body

Pulsed Signal Therapy stimulates the chondrocytes.
Observation: more production of proteoglycan and collagen (building blocks for the extracellular matrix)

Pulsed Signal Therapy stimulates the chondrocytes.

Observation: more production of proteoglycan and collagen (building blocks for the extracellular matrix)

The patent “electromagnetic stimulation of cartilage tissue” with original PST® energy parameters was issued under
  • US patent number 6,524,233
  • European patent 1,119,393.
Inventor: Richard Markoll.
In fact, the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) Agency has recognized PST® as a unique technology and therefore created a new classification only for PST® products (GMDN GENERAL CODE 47584).

electromagnetic stimulation of cartilage tissue
The patent “electromagnetic stimulation of cartilage tissue” with original PST® energy parameters was issued under
  • US patent number 6,524,233
  • European patent 1,119,393.
Inventor: Richard Markoll.
In fact, the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) Agency has recognized PST® as a unique technology and therefore created a new classification only for PST® products (GMDN GENERAL CODE 47584).

electromagnetic stimulation of cartilage tissue

Procedure

During a one-hour therapy session, the joint is treated in an enclosed coil.
A treatment course consists of 9-12 hourly sessions conducted on consecutive days.
If necessary, only one interruption of less than 2 days (48 hours) is authorized after completion of at least 3 treatment sessions.
Pulsed Signal Therapy treatment is non-invasive, pain free and has no known side effects.
In addition to the treatment of osteoarthritis, Pulsed Signal Therapy has been increasingly used as a therapy for injuries such as stress fractures and/or tendinopathies.
Pulsed Signal Therapy has increasingly gained importance in the conservative therapy of professional and amateur athletes.

The working principle of the PST for joint pain technology
is scientifically founded

Joint at rest

Charge equilibrium between hydrogen protons and neg­ative charge carriers of the extracellular cartilage matrix (ECM)— no streaming voltage potential.

Joint under load

Generation of a streaming voltage potential in the joint under load by the "compression" of fluid forced out of cartilage tissue with forced movement displacement of the hydrogen protons (joint flexion).

Joint under Pulsed Signal Therapy

Generation of streaming potential flow in the joint caused by forced movement of hydrogen protons in the extra-cellular cartilage matrix through alternating rectangular impulses as stimuli for the cells in the connective tissue, primarily chondrocytes.

The working principle of the PST for joint pain technology is scientifically founded

Joint at rest

Charge equilibrium between hydrogen protons and neg­ ative charge carriers of the extracellular cartilage matrix (ECM) — no streaming voltage potential.

Joint under load

Generation of a streaming voltage potential in the joint under load by the "compression" of fluid forced out of cartilage tissue with forced movement displacement of the hydrogen protons (joint flexion).

Joint under Pulsed Signal Therapy

Generation of streaming potential flow in the joint caused by forced movement of hydrogen protons in the extra-cellular cartilage matrix through alternating rectangular impulses as stimuli for the cells in the connective tissue, primarily chondrocytes.

The Pulsed Signal Therapy concept supports natural processes and can be applied as a pain free, non invasive method without known side effects.

  • Functions of electric currents

    The tissues of the human musculoskeletal system are stressed by continuous support of the body weight and muscle and tendon strength. The car­tilage tissue reacts with a functional adaptation. It has been demonstrated that the cartilage layer of the joints under higher load will become thicker and enable a more even distribution of the load. Electrical currents are responsible for the function of the cartilage cells and the regeneration of the bone tissue.

  • What Pulsed Signal Therapy does

    However, in unhealthy cartilage tissue a normal flow of streaming potentials is severely affected.

    The patented Original Pulsed Signal Therapy technology intervenes here in the treatment of the affected joint cartilage. The unhealthy tissue is treated with impulses that constantly change in intensity and duration. Another effect of the pulsed electromagnetic fields method is that Pulsed Signal Therapy stimulates the natural regeneration of the cartilage cells and the bone tissue with changing rectangular impulses.

The Pulsed Signal Therapy therapy
concept supports
natural processes and can be
applied as a pain free,
non invasive method without
known side effects.

  •    Functions of electric

       currents

    The tissues of the human musculoskeletal system are stressed by continuous support of the body weight and muscle and tendon strength.

    The car­tilage tissue reacts with a functional adaptation. It has been demonstrated that the cartilage layer of the joints under higher load will become thicker and enable a more even distribution of the load. Electrical currents are responsible for the function of the cartilage cells and the regeneration of the bone tissue.

  • What Pulsed Signal Therapy does

    However, in unhealthy cartilage tissue a normal flow of streaming potentials is severely affected.

    The patented Original Pulsed Signal Therapy technology intervenes here in the treatment of the affected joint cartilage. The unhealthy tissue is treated with impulses that constantly change in intensity and duration. Another effect of the pulsed electromagnetic fields method is that Pulsed Signal Therapy stimulates the natural regeneration of the cartilage cells and the bone tissue with changing rectangular impulses.

How does Pulsed Signal Therapy work? (extract)

Various studies indicate that the capacity of the cartilaginous tissue to withstand compressive stresses is linked to the level of proteoglycans in the intercellular substance; the sulphated glycosaminoglycan chains have an increased concentration of negative electrical charges which give considerable rigidity to the system by their reciprocal repulsion and hold bound a large part of the cartilaginous water in states of rest.
How does Pulsed Signal Therapy work? (extract)

Various studies indicate that the capacity of the cartilaginous tissue to withstand compressive stresses is linked to the level of proteoglycans in the intercellular substance; the sulphated glycosaminoglycan chains have an increased concentration of negative electrical charges which give considerable rigidity to the system by their reciprocal repulsion and hold bound a large part of the cartilaginous water in states of rest.

The mechanical-electrical transduction.

By a mechanism of mechanical-electrical transduction, the mechanical stimulus is transformed into a weak electric current (potential streaming) which is thought to represent the main signal for the cartilage cells to increase the synthesis of proteoglycans and collagen.
The mechanical-electrical transduction.

By a mechanism of mechanical-electrical transduction, the mechanical stimulus is transformed into a weak electric current (potential streaming) which is thought to represent the main signal for the cartilage cells to increase the synthesis of proteoglycans and collagen.

Supported by clinical studies and laboratory research.


If the potential streaming is the signal for chondrocytes to produce new matrix, the same effect can be obtained by exposing the joint to an electromagnetic field, producing currents which simulate those of the organism. Administration in this way of low strength pulsed signals at a frequency similar to the biological one is capable of creating an electrical field in the joint, promoting the regeneration of the cartilaginous tissue, and thus conferring physical chondroprotection.
the signal for chondrocytes to produce new matrix

Supported by clinical studies and laboratory research.

the signal for chondrocytes to produce new matrix
If the potential streaming is the signal for chondrocytes to produce new matrix, the same effect can be obtained by exposing the joint to an electromagnetic field, producing currents which simulate those of the organism. Administration in this way of low strength pulsed signals at a frequency similar to the biological one is capable of creating an electrical field in the joint, promoting the regeneration of the cartilaginous tissue, and thus conferring physical chondroprotection.

  •    Enhanced

       Joint Function and Healing

    Early improvement of the joint function (mobility and flexibility) by the removal of muscular tension, with normalized joint kinematics and reduced pain.


    Stimulation of the chondrocyte activity on streaming potentials with regeneration of the cartilage tissue

  •    Multifaceted Benefits of

       a Therapeutic Approach

    Acceleration of the healing process in injuries to joint-related structures


    Stimulation of the osteoblast activ­ity through piezoelectric potentials with stabilisation of the bone thick­ness

  • Enhanced Joint Function and Healing

    Early improvement of the joint function (mobility and flexibility) by the removal of muscular tension, with normalized joint kinematics and reduced pain.


    Stimulation of the chondrocyte activity on streaming potentials with regeneration of the cartilage tissue

  • Multifaceted Benefits of a Therapeutic Approach

    Acceleration of the healing process in injuries to joint-related structures


    Stimulation of the osteoblast activ­ity through piezoelectric potentials with stabilisation of the bone thick­ness

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