Dawn of a New Age, Electrocare Physiotherapy

Gone are the days when you had to undergo weeks of intense physical therapy to recover form am injury. Various different types of physiotherapy equipments are now available which can make your gruelling physical therapy sessions a lot simpler and comfortable yet just as effective if not more. In the realm of physiotherapy equipments or products used for physical therapy one of the major breakthroughs have been physical therapy equipments which uses electrical energy for physical therapy. These equipments have taken physical therapy ahead by leaps and bounds.  It is difficult to comprehend how much the lives of innumerable patients have improved due to the use of these types of physiotherapy equipments. There are several other types of physiotherapy equipments which prove to be very helpful in different types of physical therapy.

Electrocare physical therapy is probably one of the most useful types of physical therapy currently available. This type of physical therapy uses electrical energy to treat patients. Healing wounds and injuries is one of the prime targets of electrotherapy. This is one of the most important aspects of physiotherapy. In recent times a large fraction of the professional physiotherapists uses electrotherapy for treating there patients. Electrotherapy is way faster and effective than traditional physiotherapy with very little or practically no side effects.

There are innumerable types of products available for electrotherapy in the market. The application of electrotherapy is diverse wide ranging and precisely developed for acute treatment of particular injuries. The most commonly used equipments are:

• Interferential: The basic premise of interferential therapy is that it utilises the effects of very low frequency stimulation of muscles and nerves with electrical pulses. It helps patients do away with the associated painful side effects. Caution has to be practised while using this type of treatment and it is best advised to be used under professional guidance at home or in a physiotherapy clinic. It is still being developed further to help patients in need more and more. This is a very active field of research as of now.
• TENS: TENS in an abbreviation for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. This is used mostly for pain condition related to nerves. It uses electrical energy to send pulses through a patient’s body and keeps the signals of pain from reaching the brain. TENS equipments helps the body to stimulate a comparatively higher level of natural painkiller that is endorphins.
• Laser: In very simple terms laser is a sort of a light amplifier. Laser therapy is similar to various electrotherapies; the energy from the laser light is absorbed by the tissue which helps in treatment of damaged tissue. Presently most of the energy from the laser is used in treatment of superficial tissues but it has the possibility of having very far reaching effects. This device also helps in increasing the blood flow which helps in faster healing of a wound.

Electro physiotherapy equipments are very useful and the above mentioned are few of the most popularly used products. These electrotherapy equipments are surely going to benefit you in many ways in your physical therapy treatment. It is advisable to use these with professional help.