RESUMO
As a physical method, electromagnetic therapy has been widely used in clinical treatment of various human diseases. In this paper, a total of 123 research papers related to the clinical application of electromagnetic therapy were retrieved from the Chinese Journal Full-text Database also known as China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WANFANG Database, Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), PubMed, Europe PMC, etc. All papers were analyzed and evaluated, and 58 effective articles were selected. The clinical application and therapeutic effects of electromagnetic therapy on several diseases were reviewed, including hypertension, diabetes, insomnia, depression and osteoporosis. The categories of commonly used electromagnetic therapy were sorted out and summarized, including magnetization at acupoints, pulsed electromagnetic fields, gyromagnetic, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, and wearing magnetic items. The results show that electromagnetic therapy has a wide range of applications and small side effects, it has significant effects on some medical diseases, neurological diseases, and orthopedic diseases.