Following two reviews provide useful information about 'Millimeter Wave (MW) Therapy' , 'Extremely High Frequency (EHF) Therapy' aka 'Microwave Resonance Therapy':
Rojavin, M. A., & Ziskin, M. C. (1998). Medical application of millimetre waves. QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians, 91(1), 57–66. https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/91/1/57/1570406 --> PDF
"With medical MW generators now employed in hospitals and clinics in the former USSR and some European states (some estimates range as high as 50 000 units, thousands of patients undergo treatment with MWs every year. Some authors,claim that there are several hundred thousand patients who have been treated with MWs."
Picture. An example of an early millimeter wave therapy device, «Yav-1» (picture source: Wikipedia)
Pakhomov, A. G., & Murthy, P. R. (2000). Low-intensity millimeter waves as a novel therapeutic modality. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 28(1), 34–40. https://doi.org/10.1109/27.842821
"A brief, low-intensity MMW exposure can change cell growth and proliferation rates, activity of enzymes, state of cell genetic apparatus, function of excitable membranes and peripheral receptors; it can alleviate stress reactions, stimulate tissue repair and regeneration, etc."
Please, note: Both reviews are made already 20 years ago when I write this blog posting. However, as reviews they document quite nicely those (current) effects of millimeter wave (MW) treatments. Worth opening and reading those PDFs!
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