DIATERMY
Heat has a moderate, slow, but effective analgesic effect that raises the awareness of the sensitivity of the nervous endings.
The analgesic effect is used in neuralgias, traumatic pains and rheumatisms in joints. Parallel to the analgesic action, heat has an antispasmodic effect on skeletal muscles, thus widely used on visceral colic, hypertonia, contractures and cramps.
Finally, the heat of high frequency causes an attenuation of the general activity of the nervous system and psychic sedation. This justifies the use of a hot bath therapy for
states of anxiousness or psychosomatic tension.
Thermal therapy is indicated:
• For chronic inflammatory processes of the genitourinary apparatus, where high frequency is irreplaceable. Concrete examples are: pelvic inflammatory disease, pos-surgery adhesions, prostatitis, epididymitis, etc.
• In rheumatic and degenerative diseases, high frequency is indicated in arthrosis, periarthrosis on shoulder and hips and particularly in fibroma.
• In traumatic syndromes: fractures of fatigue and sequels of pos-surgery fractures. High frequency accelerates tissue repair process and fosters formation of a bone callus.
• In neuralgias especially in the sciatic and post-herpes.
• In otorhinolaryngology, high frequency has its applications in torpid sinus and in some types of otitis. It is also used in otosclerosis because of the circulatory action of the heat.
• In respiratory diseases such as bronchial asthma and pulmonary bronchitis.
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