In modern medicine, in addition to treatment with all kinds of drugs, methods of apparatus physiotherapy are widely used, such as inhalation, electrophoresis, inductometry, magnetotherapy, electrical stimulation, UHF. What is it, hardly knows a person who did not have to go through such procedures. However, the effectiveness of these methods has been proven in practice. Often they are indispensable in the restoration of disability, during rehabilitation, after suffering injuries or diseases.
UHF physiotherapy. Its features and mechanism of action
The patient's rehabilitation process can last a long time. In those cases when an additional thermal effect on human organs and
tissues is necessary to accelerate the recovery processes of the body
, a method of therapy using an ultrahigh-frequency electric field (UHF) is used. What it is? Most accurately, this procedure can be described as the process of artificially generating endogenous (arising inside) heating of cells and tissues of the body using electromagnetic radiation. This field provokes ion vibrations, displacement of atomic groups, as a result of which the energy absorbed by the tissues is converted into heat. Bone tissue and subcutaneous cells are able to produce the most heat; much less is blood, lymph, muscle, and
nerve tissue. The action of the field contributes to irritation of nerve endings, a change in biological and physico-chemical processes.
How is UHF therapy
Before embarking on a UHF course, the physiotherapist carefully studies the characteristics of the disease (injury), identifies problem areas of the body or organs, the restoration of which should be paid attention to a greater or lesser extent. Then the doctor determines the most optimal technique for UHF. What it is? What methods are used to warm individual parts of the body?
The UHF-therapy apparatus 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.
Doses of exposure to ultra-high frequency electric field
- Athermic (the dose is weak, the patient practically does not feel heat).
- Oligothermic (the patient feels weak heat, the device operates at the output power).
- Thermal (the patient feels intense heat).
UHF Applications
- Inflammation of the skin, including purulent.
- 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.
- The presence of oncology.
- Hypotension.
- Cardiovascular failure.
So, UHF. What it is? This is a physiotherapeutic method of healing and rehabilitation, used in conjunction with other methods of treatment.