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Invited Commentary

AJ Robinson, PhD, PT, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

Following are two commentaries on "Effect of Microamperage Stimulation on the Rate of Wound Healing in Rats: A Histological Study" and "Pulsed Microamperage Stimulation: A Controlled Study of Healing of Surgically Induced Wounds in Yucatan Pigs."

Electrical stimulation using low-amperage currents is not new to the practice of physical therapy, yet relatively little is really known regarding the proven clinical or physiologic effects of such stimulation in humans. In recent years, a number of commercial manufacturers have stimulated interest in the clinical use of low-amperage currents with the development of devices designed to produce either monophasic or biphasic pulsed currents (also known as interrupted direct and alternating currents, respectively). This new class of stimulators are designed so that current amplitudes are kept very low and electrically excitable tissues, nerve, and muscle are not stimulated as they are in most common electrotherapeutic applications....

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