Abstract: An apparatus to introduce impact pulses into the human body has an impact transmitter (8) displaceable in an axial direction and an electromagnetic impact generator (2, 6; 26, 24; 36, 34) driven by current pulses and supplying force impulses to the impact transmitter. The impact generator includes a magnet fixed in position and having a magnetic field, and a coil (6, 26, 36) displaceable in the direction of transmitter displacement in the field of the magnet (2; 23, 24; 33, 34), the coil being energized by the current pulses to be axially displaced and drive the impact transmitter (8).