What is clinical Electro Physicotherapy?

Physio Electro therapy that is an effective method for wound healing nerve regeneration pain management cosmetic regeneration soft tissue injury treatment, skin treatment, resolving viral and bacterial infections. Electrotherapy uses electrical signals to interfere with the transmission of neural pain signals into the brain. It effectively slows down or distracts the message from the nerve to the brain.

From a physiotherapy point of view, affecting one’s ‘Pain Gate’, whether in an acute or chronic pain episode, is crucial area of treatment and electrotherapy is a very useful resource where conventional medicines are not as affective. Electrotherapy can also involve the use of this electric current to speed tissue healing where tissue damage has also occurred.  I’m going to discuss two different forms of it today, TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) and Interferential therapy.

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)

TENS is widely used around the world for a variety of painful conditions such as;
Arthritis
Low back pain
Labour pain
Nerve related pain such as phantom pain

History of Electrotherapy

Electrical stimulation for pain control was used in ancient Rome, 63 A.D. It was reported by Scribonius Largus that pain was relieved by standing on an electrical fish at the seashore. From the 16th to 18th centuries various electrostatic devices were used for headaches and other pains, even Benjamin Franklin was a supporter of this method for pain relief.