Magnetotherapy is one of the most popular methods of physiotherapy and is used in orthopedics, rheumatology or for the treatment of internal diseases. The success of magnetotherapy could be improved provided that non-invasive post-interventional evaluation of its effects is performed with the aid numerical modeling. In order to provide meaningful insights, the evaluation has to be patient–related, and to this aim tailored computational domains are needed. This study is concerned with the numerical modeling of the magnetic field problem associated to magnetotherapy and possible side effects due to electromagnetic heating of metallic orthopedic implants, using two computational stages: a simplified one, approach, with the computational domain built from geometric shapes and a complex and more realistic one, with the computational domain built using medical images based techniques.

Keywords: Magnetotherapy, Medical images based computational domain, Magnetic field, Heat transfer, Numerical simulation, Finite element method