[Margaret Pilkington]

You are right John, this isn't a new idea. They have been using a kind of vibrational therapy for the healing of fractures where the ends of the bone can't be joined by placing them together....but I think this is a newer version of that...they are using ultrasound waves.
Football physios have been using ultrasound energy to heal soft tissue injuries for quite a while now. This application for bone healing though is a new application(I think)....if I am am incorrect, I am sure there will be someone on to tell me about it.

Even though I have been retired from the NHS for almost a decade, I still find things medical very fascinating. Even though I know that reading about them isn't the same as being in the thick of it with patients.