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Electrosleep therapy
Last reviewed: 03.07.2025
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Electrosleep therapy is a method of local exposure to pulsed electric current of appropriate parameters through electrodes and moist hydrophilic pads (or with the help of an electrically conductive gel) applied in contact:
- paired, of the same polarity - on the skin surface of the eye sockets or superciliary areas of the head;
- single, of the other polarity - on the skin surface of the back of the patient's neck.
The course of treatment is 15-20 procedures daily or 4-5 times a week. Repeated course - after 3 months.
Current strength - up to 10 mA; voltage - up to 18 V; pulse repetition frequency - 1-160 Hz; pulse duration - 0.2-0.5 ms; pulse shape - predominantly rectangular; duty cycle - 10.
[ Indications for electrosleep
Cerebral atherosclerosis, neurocirculatory dystonia, arterial hypertension, migraine, neurasthenia, impotence due to neurasthenia, hysteria, obsessive-compulsive disorder, climacteric neurosis, hypothalamic syndromes, consequences of traumatic brain injury, causalgic and phantom pain, autonomic ganglionitis, traumatic epilepsy, viral and rheumatic encephalitis, residual effects of tick-borne encephalitis, postencephalitic hyperkinesia, enuresis of central genesis, sleepwalking, night terrors, autonomic crises, autonomic polyneuropathies. vibration disease, Raynaud's disease.
Contraindications to electrosleep
Hemorrhage into the brain and eye, cataract, glaucoma, tumors of the central nervous system and eye sockets, traumatic arachnoiditis with cerebrospinal fluid dynamics disorders, weeping eczema in the facial area, presence of metallic foreign bodies in the impact area.
Mechanism of action
The effect of the factor is associated with the direct influence of the pulsed electric current on neurons, synapses and neural ensembles of the brain due to the occurrence of electrodynamic changes in them, which initiate conformational rearrangements of the corresponding structures. Changes in the associative connections of neural networks occur, and as a consequence of these processes, a cascade of subsequent biochemical and biological reactions occurs with the final implementation in clinical effects. At certain frequency characteristics of the current in the corresponding structural and functional complexes of the brain, inhibitory or stimulating effects of regulation of the central nervous system occur.
Main clinical effects: tranquilizing, sedative, antispasmodic, trophic, secretory.
Equipment: “Electroson-4T”, “ES-10-5”.