In modern medicine, in addition to treatment with various drugs, methods of apparatus physiotherapy are widely used, such as inhalation, electrophoresis, inductometry, magnetotherapy, electrical stimulation, UHF. What it is, a person who has not had to undergo such procedures hardly knows. However, the effectiveness of these methods has been proven in practice. Often they are indispensable in the restoration of working capacity, during the rehabilitation period, after injuries or diseases.
UHF physiotherapy. Its features and mechanism of action
The process of patient rehabilitation can take a long time. In cases where additional thermal effects on human organs and tissues are necessary to accelerate the recovery processes of the body, the method of therapy using an ultrahigh-frequency electric field (UHF) is used. What it is? Most accurately, this procedure can be characterized as a process of artificial generation of endogenous (arising inside) heating of cells and tissues of the body using electromagnetic radiation. This field provokes vibrations of ions, displacement of atomic groups, inAs a result, the energy absorbed by the tissues is converted into heat. Most heat can be produced by bone tissues and subcutaneous cells, much less by blood, lymph, muscles, and nerve tissues. The action of the field contributes to irritation of nerve endings, changes in biological and physico-chemical processes.
How UHF therapy is done
Before starting a UHF course, a physiotherapist carefully studies the features of the disease (injury), highlights problem areas of the body or organs, the restoration of which should be paid more or less attention to. Then the doctor determines the most optimal technique for conducting UHF. What it is? What methods are used to warm up certain parts of the body?
The UHF therapy device is equipped with two capacitor plates. They are installed in the longitudinal, transverse directions or at an angle with respect to the human body. The distance from the plates to the surface of the body is determined individually, but in no case should it be less than the diameter of the plates. The strength, depth and area of penetration of the electric field depend on their location.
Ultra-high frequency electric field exposure doses
- Athermic (weak dose, patient hardly feels heat).
- Oligothermal (the patient feels a slight warmth, the machine is running at output power).
- Thermal (patient feels intense heat).
UHF applications
- Inflammation of the skin, includingpurulent.
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
- Inflammation of the respiratory system.
- Pathological processes in the peripheral nervous system.
- Inflammatory processes in the digestive tract.
- Gynecological diseases.
Contraindications
- Pregnancy.
- Presence of oncology.
- Hypotension.
- Heart failure.
So UHF. What it is? This is a physiotherapy method of healing and rehabilitation, used in conjunction with other methods of treatment.
