Electrotherapy
It’s the use of electricity for a therapeutic purpose. Electrotherapy is the most widespread kind of treatment that is used in Physiotherapy.
There are many kinds of electrotherapy and applied according to
the condition:
TENS
Faradic currents
Diadynamic currents
Galvanic currents
Pulse currents
Russian stimulation
Iontophoresis
Biofeedback Intenferential
High voltage
TENS have primarily analgesic effect and are used in cases of injuries and conditions accompanied by pain such as: tendonitis, arthritis, ligaments and muscle injuries, fractures, cervical syndrome , low back pain, sciatica, peripheral nerve injuries, etc.
Electrotherapy is used for:
analgesions
relaxation of muscle spasms,
prevention and deceleration of muscle atrophy from unuse;
increase of blood flow
maintaining and increasing the range of motion
management of chronic pain, and acute postoperative pain
muscle retraining and rehabilitation with electric muscle stimulation
postoperative muscle irritation to prevent venous thrombosis
wound healing
application of medicines (iontophoresis)
