Electrotherapy Store

Electrotherapy is a type of therapy which makes use of electrical energy straightly onto the recipient or a patient in order to quickly benefit recovery from any type of ailment or illness. The electrotherapy equipment generates electric pulses within the specialized machine and then the appropriate kind of electrical flow or current is passed all the way through the chief power device into the particular affected portion of the body.

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• Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation
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• Care Touch Blood Pressure Monitor

Choose the Right Electrotherapy Equipment and Accessories For Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy device or equipment passes a small but effective pulsating current to the nerve and muscle endings. After passing repeated stimulations, the electrical current causes the muscles to contract, relax and strengthen and thereby reduces pain. So for a number of holistic as well as medical reasons, you need to choose a suitable electrotherapy equipment or machine to make use of electrotherapy.

Several kinds of electrotherapy are being used today. There are various types of electrotherapy machines that are available in the market for giving electrotherapy. They are Electro-Acupuncture (EA), Interferential Current Therapy (IFC), Galvanic Stimulation (GS), Percutaneous Electrical Stimulation or PENS, Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS), Pulsed Short-Wave Diathermy or PSWD and TENS machine. The type of electrotherapy may differ, depending on the illness or the ailment of a person. Accordingly the type of frequency, wave length and current required are set in the electrotherapy equipment. Therefore to get healed effectively and accurately, you need to choose right electrotherapy accessories and equipments.

TENS machine ( Transcutaneous Electrical Neural Stimulation) is the most popular pain reliever electrotherapy machine that can be purchased for use at home to effectively cure muscular pain or back pain according to your convenience and comfort of your home. Moreover this electrotherapy equipment allows patients to adjust the frequency of electrical signal and also provides freedom to patients to decide on the intensity and length of treatment and thereby gives long lasting significant effect in relieving pain.

Interferential current (IFC) is considered as more intense kind of TENS treatment wherein with the help of IFC machine, the electrical current penetrates more deeply and provides higher level of stimulation to the user with less discomfort. Galvanic Stimulation (GS) is one another known electrotherapy to effectively treat acute injuries that are accompanied by swelling or bleeding. The GS machines directly apply current to the affected area and immediately stop swelling and aid in speed healing.

How Electrotherapy Helps With Healing

Electrotherapy Helps

Electrotherapy has been around for many years now and has helped people all around the world. Dating back to 1855, this treatment has helped with pain and swelling within the body. Electrotherapy is often stated as the best form of pain relief especially when compared to all the drugs on the market that come with many side effects. 

The way it works is by passing electric currents though the body and more specifically the muscles to stimulate the affected muscles or body part. Although both direct and alternative currents are often applied, research has shown that alternative currents are more effective. Electrotherapy treatment helps to increase the flow of blood around the body, which in turn helps to speed up the healing process and is largely used by physiotherapists and chiropractors. Currently there are no known serious side effects when using this treatment.

Electrotherapy has also been very successful in helping patients with arthritis and particularly with arthritic inflammation as it blocks the pain signals from reaching the rest of the body and so distinguishes the need for pain killers or injections of any kind that are common among patients suffering from arthritis. However, any patients that use a pace maker or are pregnant are not recommended to use Electrotherapy due to the risk involved for them. In any case it is important that you should always follow your doctor's advice before taking part in any sort of treatment even if you don't use a pacemaker or are not pregnant.

Electrotherapy equipment is not only used to treat muscle or body pain but is also used to help measure certain diseases and conditions. For example an EKG machine helps to discuss and measure heart disease within a patient and can measure abnormalities in the way the heart pumps blood around the body. Another important piece of equipment that also uses the electrotherapy concept is ultrasound equipment. This piece of equipment has revolutionized treating pregnancies as well as being used to show certain conditions within the body.

An ultrasound allows a doctor to look inside the body and to show certain abnormalities or conditions within the patient and more importantly it is a rather quick and painless test. In general, Electrotherapy equipment is quite expensive to buy for yourself. In most situations the machines are available in hospitals and clinics for doctors and qualified staff to use only. They are usually manufactured by companies who specialize in Electrotherapy equipment and have years of experience in innovating and manufacturing this type of equipment. And will continue to do so in the years to come.

How does electrotherapy work and when is it used?

In electrotherapy, electric current is applied on muscles or body tissue for the purpose of stimulating the damaged areas. The current applied can be alternating current or direct current. In most cases, alternating current is applied because it is much more effective.

Electrotherapy is used as a form of treatment for mentally ill patients and also for those who are suffering from other forms of neurological problems. It is also preferred form of treatment for increasing blood circulation and increasing the speed of healing for various types of wounds. In such case, it is a preferred form of treatment as it does not cause any side effects or pain. It is a form of treatment is largely used by physiotherapists and also by Chiropractors.

It is not unusual to see electrotherapy being used alongside other treatment methods such as ultrasound, acupuncture and manipulation. It is highly effective as a form of method for pain reduction in basically any part of the body. Patients who are suffering from arthritic inflammation find electrotherapy to be very effective because it minimizes discomfort by blocking transmission of pain signals without the need for any surgery or drug intake. It can be used to transmit analgesics and anti-inflammatory medication effects in situation where there is labor pain, occurrence of a fracture or surgery incisions.

Electrotherapy is highly useful in treatment because if its ability to speed up the growth of damaged muscles and reduces muscle spasms. There is no need for a special operation theatre to conduct this treatment as it can be done right in the doctor's office with the necessary treatment equipment. However, it should be noted that people having a pacemaker or who are pregnant must not be exposed to it. It is not recommended for people who are undergoing ionizing radiation treatments or for those who are suffering from diabetes in a very severe form.