What is Electrotherapy ?
Electrotherapy (or electromagnetic therapy) is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment. The ‘electrically induced heat,’ as so-called diathermy, is commonly used for muscle relaxation. It is a method of heating deep tissue electromagnetically or ultrasonically for therapeutic purposes in medicine. Electrotherapy can also apply to a variety of other treatments including the use of electrical devices to stimulate deep brain tissue in neurological disease. Electrotherapy has also been applied specifically to the use of electric current to speed wound healing.
Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment. In medicine, the term electrotherapy can apply to a variety of treatments, including the use of electrical devices such as deep brain stimulators for neurological disease. The term has also been applied specifically to the use of electric current to speed wound healing
What are the Main Types of Electrotherapy Treatment?
In other forms of electrotherapy, your physiotherapist will use a transducer with gel to transmit specialized ultrasound waves into your body. When you go for a session, your physiotherapist might use one of these methods in treatment:
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
- Therapeutic Ultrasound
- Interferential
- Electroacupuncture
- Shockwave Therapy
- Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)
If you need more information about the Electrotherapy , read below
Electrotherapy is used for relaxation of muscle spasms, prevention and retardation of disuse atrophy, increase of local blood circulation, muscle rehabilitation, and reeducation by electrical muscle stimulation, maintaining and increasing range of motion, management of chronic and intractable pain, posttraumatic acute pain, postsurgical acute pain, immediate postsurgical stimulation of muscles to prevent venous thrombosis, wound healing and drug delivery.
Electrotherapy should be cautiously used or restricted if the patient sustains high fever, fluctuating blood pressure, with very sensitive skin, using cardiac pacemaker, severe kidney and heart problems, pregnant, mentally retarded, bone tuberculosis, malignant cancer, or with local conditions as open wounds, skin disease, unhealed scars, or recent burns.
Physiotherapists use a variety of tools to manage pain, restore range of motion, and treat conditions of the musculoskeletal system. Along with methods like joint mobilization, stretching, and targeted exercises, your physiotherapist might recommend electrotherapy as a treatment option.
Using specialized devices designed to deliver customized levels of electrical stimulation to your body’s nerves, muscles, or tendons, trained physiotherapists can harness the power of electrotherapy to promote treat injuries, promote healing, and offer pain relief
