Areas of application / Contraindications
1.1 Areas of application – Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy is used to promote circulation, to provide analgesia, to improve trophicity, to
relieve muscle tension and to improve muscle tone.
Other areas of application are musculoskeletal diseases, rehabilitation and wound healing.
In addition, electrotherapy can be used for paralysis diagnostics.
Experiences from clinical practice have shown that there may be a positive effect when
treating the following problems:
•Functional circulatory disorders
•Angiopathy in diabetes mellitus
•Angioneuropathy (Raynaud's disease)
•Acrocyanosis
•Venous vascular diseases
•Chronic venous insufficiency
•Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
•Sudeck's syndrome (stage II)
•Lymphoedema
•Treatment of the facial nerve (as a pre-treatment)
•Chronically contracted muscles
•Peripheral joint disease (chronic)
•Radicular syndrome in the setting of spinal diseases (subacute and chronic)
•Ligament ruptures
•Tenosynovitis
•Strains, contusions, sprains to muscles, tendons, joints and bones
•Extensive myalgia
•Polyarthralgia
•Joint diseases, inflammatory
•Chronic polyarthritis (rheumatoid arthritis),
treatment during the low inflammation interval
•Diffuse pain in periarthropathy, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis
•Tendinitis, tenosynovitis
•Local and pseudoradicular spinal diseases
•Radicular lesion
•Disc surgery
•Inflammatory spinal diseases, chronic
•Chronic pain conditions, pain disorder
•Pelvic pain (adnexitis)
•Pelvic pain (prostatitis)
•Neuralgia
•Neuritis
•Polyneuropathy
•Radicular syndrome
•Nerve compression syndrome
•Allodynia
•Causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome)
•Neurotrophic ulcers
•Decubital ulcers
•Delayed wound healing
•Osteoporosis
•Delayed bone healing
