Electrotherapy uses low-frequency current for pain relief. The main area of application are all acute and chronic pain conditions in chronic degenerative diseases of the musculoskeletal system and chronic inflammatory processes.
Galvanization (DC) is used for radicular and pseudoradicular syndromes. Galvanic bath has an effect of a bath full with electrotherapy. Not only the pain threshold is changed, but also the muscle tone.
Pulse currents between 2 and 150 Hz and a combination of pulsed and direct current are used for local, acute and chronic pain conditions. Electrotherapy is mainly used for muscular and skeletal pain, post-traumatic pain, neuralgia, stump and phantom pain, circulatory disorders, carcinoma pain.
The fact that electricity can be used for medical purposes has been known since the 19th century. In the 20th century, a number of methods of electrotherapy were developed.
Electrotherapy or electromedicine is the term for therapeutic applications of electric current in medicine and physiotherapy. For some of the procedures, the terms stimulation current therapy or fine current therapy are used synonymously. The proper voltage is supplied either via electrodes conductively connected to the skin surface or via electrodes in a water bath.
... is suitable for:
• Muscle and skeletal pain
• Post-traumatic pain
• Neuralgia
• Blunt and phantom pain
• Circulatory disorders
• Carcinoma pain
• Paralysis
• Muscle weakness
