Electrotherapy - One of the Best Ways of Pain Management

Physiotherapy is the most in-demand and effective way of treatment in today’s time for several physical and mental ailments. Physiotherapy is used as a method of rehabilitation of patients that have undergone some major physical changes such as a surgery, fracture or a joint replacement.  Physiotherapy is also known to be effective in treatment of some of the major diseases such as arthritis, cerebral palsy, etc. When we are talking about physiotherapy, it is a perfect combination of exercises, electrotherapy and heat treatment. The electrotherapy is the method of physiotherapy in which the electrical pulses are used for pain management of the patients and increase their range of motion. 

There are several major types of physiotherapyelectrotherapy equipment that are used widely in clinics and hospitals during physiotherapy for pain management of the patients. Here are some of them. 

TENS

TENS is an acronym for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. This therapy is given to the patients to lower down their pain and increase their mobility. In this method, a sensory nerve is simulated to provide a significant amount of pain relief to the patient. The level of pain relief depends on the method of application of TENS, degree of pain and nature of the pains being managed. 

Interferential Therapy

In this electrotherapy modality, there is a very low frequency electrical stimulation of nerves is done without the any side-effects. The devices used for giving this therapy to the patient is portable yet is capable of providing such low frequency output to deliver proper interferential therapy. 

Ultrasound Therapy

Ultrasound therapy is a modality that is given to the patients when there is a need to provide heat to the tendons and tissues that are deep inside the skin and covered with muscles and bones. With ultrasound therapy, heat can reach the areas of body where conventional heating methods would not be efficiently working. There are different sizes of ultrasound machines available for the therapists to use on patients with proper frequency and intensity. 

  

Apart from these, there are Pulsed Shortwave therapy and laser therapy that are used for electrotherapy during the course of physiotherapy to the patients.