Electrotherapy
ABOUT
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 …
BENIFITS
Electrotherapy utilizes electrical signals to disrupt the ability of the body to transmit neural pain signals to the brain. It effectively overwhelms the pain signals that the body is sending to the brain using the “gateway” approach to pain mitigation.
Electrotherapy is primarily used in physical therapy for:
- relaxation of muscle spasms.
- prevention and retardation of disuse atrophy.
- increase of local blood circulation.
- muscle rehabilitation and re-education.
- electrical muscle stimulation.
- maintaining and increasing range of motion.