Today, a variety of electrotherapy devices are used in physiotherapy clinics.
Electrotherapy has been used as an effective modality for relieving musculoskeletal pains.
In electrotherapy devices, electromagnetic waves, sound waves and electrical currents are used to stimulate nerves and muscles.
The use of these devices in physiotherapy with the help of improving the conditions of patients needs to perform surgery in many of these people is eliminated.
Electrical stimulation of the nerves of the skin or the same electrotherapy with the equipment of the microwave, ultrasound, short-wave pulsed therapy and treatment with interventional waves (IFT) are electrotherapy common methods.
For treatment with electrotherapy machine should only be referred to physiotherapy clinics or medical centers and the use of these devices at home and by the person himself can have the risks associated with them.
The patient’s need to be treated with this method and the number of treatment sessions will be determined after examination and investigation of physiotherapist.
Electrotherapy device treatment is a safe and uncomplicated way in which many cases improve the patient’s condition and help relieve the chronic pain that a person suffers from.
Feeling of burning and Paresthesia is temporarily one of the side effects of electrotherapy device that is reported in some people and it often disappears within a few hours.
Electrotherapy methods
Electrotherapy with the equipment (TENS)
For treatment with this electrotherapy physiotherapist, the electrical pads are placed on the skin and the electrical stimulation is transmitted through them to the nerves and motor fibers of the muscles.
The therapists are placed on the painful areas of the body, and by using them, they transmit a weak flow to the affected tissue.
Nerve stimulation, which is caused by the electrotherapy of the machines, can be impaired in the process of transferring pain to the central nervous system and helps to reduce pain sensations.
This treatment is only influenced by a portion of the body that is suffering from pain and discomfort and does not follow the effects of chemical drugs that affect the entire body.
Ultrasonic devices
Treatment with this type of electrotherapy machine helps to repair and regenerate damaged tissue and help reduce pain sensations.
In this method, high-frequency audio waves are inserted upon the damaged and painful tissues of the body.
Pulsed Short Waves
The therapeutic effects of pulsed short waves are similar to ultrasound waves and are effective in relieving pain and inflammation.
Interventional Waves (IFT)
Treatment with this device is a electrotherapy that is a more profound type of TENS that helps relieve pain in the target tissue.
The waves of this machine penetrate the deep tissues of the body and stimulate the cells of this area.
Electrotherapy Device Benefits
- Relieve and eliminate pain
- Accelerates wound healing
- Improves muscle movement ability
- Increased secretion of natural analgesic hormones such as endorphin
- Improve localized blood flow
- Reducing inflammation and swelling in damaged tissues
- Accelerated regeneration of damaged tissue
- Disruptions in the transmission cycle of the pain message to the central nervous system
- Boosts metabolism
- Boost the immune system
Electrotherapy Device Usage Cases
- Arthritis such as arthritis knee and osteoarthritis
- Back pain and neck pain
- Peripheral nerve damage
- Headaches, especially migraine headaches
- Sports injuries
- Sciatic pain
- Spinal canal stenosis
- Low back disk
- Protruding neck disc
- Tennis & Blit
- Fibromyalgia
- Tendonitis
- Inflammation of Bursa
- Joint pains
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Labor pain
- Pelvic floor muscle weakness
- And…
