Electrotherapy

Electrotherapeutic procedures can be divided into different aspects, for example the contact ones and the contactless ones.:

Contact - current is supplied by electrodes connected conductively to the skin.
At our workplace we use BTL 06 - diadynamic, interference, Trabert and TENS currents can be applied.
The Vacotron device is popular, it combines electrotherapy and instrumental massage with vacuum suction cups.

Two-chamber or four-chamber bath

It is a galvanic bath that can be used separately as a two-chamber galvanic bath for the upper or lower limbs; if it is applied to the upper and lower limbs simultaneously, we speak of a four-chamber bath.
The good effect of galvanic current and water is mainly in neuritis, neuralgia, blood circulation disorders, innervation disorders, paresis, plegia, spasticity, application is also indicated in acute post-traumatic conditions.

Electrostimulation and electrogymnastics are performed on the Endomed device.
Electrostimulation of denervated muscles - using oblique pulses with a slow rise in intensity and longer pulse length.
Electrogymnastics - the involuntary contraction of the striated muscle is induced by means of el. impulses → the goal is to strengthen the muscle or to put its contraction into the correct movement stereotype - functional disorders of the movement system after removing the reflex change.

Contactless - electrotherapy- using electromagnetic fields.

Diathermy - short-wave, ultra-short-wave and microwave: Solux, mountain suns, not used here, we use parafango for warming up, see more about thermotherapy.

Distance electrotherapy:
We use the VAS 07.
Distention electrotherapy - uses electromagnetic induction created by induced electric currents (Faraday) arising in the tissues.
It has an analgesic, anti-inflammatory and myorelaxant effect.

Magnetotherapy:

A pulsed magnetic field is used, which has vasodilating effects (widening of vascular permeability, subsequently improving blood supply to the tissue), analgesic, anti-inflammatory, myorelaxant and spasmolytic effects, accelerates healing, counteracts swelling and soothes.
Magnetotherapy can be used for fractures, degenerative and inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system, functional disorders of the motor system, to reduce spasticity. However, magnetotherapy also has a lot of contraindications, such as pregnancy, pacemaker, hyperthyroidism, adrenal hyperfunction, hypothalamic and pituitary disorders, myasthenia gravis, IHD, acute viruses, cancer.
Depending on the location, different applicators are used: flat, double, triple, solenoid (ring) - in the picture we can see two such solenoids: