electrotherapy Electrotherapy   remedial power of electricity Electrotherapy consist in using electric current to stimulate tissue, with the aim of healing various diseases or recovery of some lost functions of the body.

It was demonstrated that the bones cartilages, ligaments, tendons and other cells of the body are positively influenced by electricity. It is considered that by electrical stimulation of cells, affected tissues may be healed.

Electrotherapy has been used since the end of the 19th century to treat various diseases in most part associated with a localized pain in a certain part of your body. Theory that electricity has role in treatment of various diseases was born at the beginning of the 18 century, when Johann Gottlob Kruger suggested that electricity can make changes in the body, accelerating it recuperation. During this period, electricity was used in enhancing blood circulation.

Electrotherapy procedures used are different, the most known and used are nero stimulation, Trabert currents (currents of low frequency), and simple oned (currents of average frequency), microwaves and ultrasound (high frequency) and galvanic baths ionization (continue currents).

Procedures can treat a wide range of diseases: headache, postoperative pain, arthritis, hematomas, contusions, muscle tension, cellulite, chronic constipation, dismenoree. The list remains open, in terms of specialists.

Nero stimulation

A buffer is located on the problems zone and an electrical current is induced, through the dermal to nerves. The treatment is for pain annihilation.

Galvanic baths

Treatment consists in combining water with an easily electric current. Patient sits in a bath at a temperature of 34 degrees Celsius, while to whole body is transmitted an electrical current. Galvanic baths are used to treat degenerative arthritis and inflammatory diseases and for articulations.

Ionization

These procedures have the effect of allowing medicaments to enter the body by galvanic current. It is recommended in case if patient is suffering from arthritis or chronic diseases and inflammation of the column.

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