Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy Physio Delta

Electrotherapy is the use of electric energy as a medical treatment

The use of electrotherapy has been researched and accepted in the field of rehabilitation (electrical muscle stimulation). The American Physical Therapy Association acknowledges the use of Electrotherapy for:

• Pain management
  • Improves range of joint movement
• Treatment of neuromuscular dysfunction
  • Improvement of strength
  • Improvement of motor control
  • Retards muscle atrophy
  • Improvement of local blood flow
• Improves range of joint mobility
  • Induces repeated stretching of contracted, shortened soft tissues
• Tissue repair
  • Enhances microcirculation and protein synthesis to heal wounds
  • Restores integrity of connective and dermal tissues
• Acute and chronic edema
  • Accelerates absorption rate
  • Affects blood vessel permeability
  • Increases mobility of proteins, blood cells and lymphatic flow