title: Magnetostimulation in the treatment of crural vein ulceration.
abstract: Chronic venous insufficiency, as well as crural vein ulceration, developing at its background, poses a serious clinical problem. Treatment is costly and lengthy. Intense development of physical medicine allows to reduce the time of treatment, as well as to improve the life quality in numerous soft tissue ailments, including wounds that are hard to heal. This article presents the beneficial results of treatment of a 67-year-old woman patient with a diagnosis of crural vein ulceration in the right limb. The applied physiotherapeutic method, in the form of magnetostimulation, contributed to complete healing of the lesion, subsidence of symptoms, as well as improved life quality of the treated patient.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Ward of Internal Diseases, Angiology, and Physical Medicine, Centre of Diagnostics and Laser Therapy in Bytom, Silesian Medical University in Katowice, Poland. jarus_tomus@o2.pl
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pasek
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pasek
authors.forename: Aleksander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sieroń
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D055909:Magnetic Field Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*; D014945:Wound Healing