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Last reviewed: 03.07.2025
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Galvanotherapy (galvanization) is the effect of direct electric current of low voltage (up to 80 V) and low power (up to 50 mA). During galvanization, ionic shifts occur, the acid-base balance and dispersion of colloids change, and biologically active substances are formed that excite extero- and interoreceptors. As a result, efferent impulses are formed in the vegetative centers, aimed at eliminating undesirable changes in tissues. Such reactions can be local, regional or general. Galvanization stimulates the regulatory functions of the nervous and endocrine systems, metabolic, trophic and energy processes, increases the reactivity and resistance of the body to external influences.
[ Indications for the use of galvanization
- neurasthenia and other neurotic conditions with autonomic disorders and sleep disorders;
- neurocirculatory dystonia;
- hypertension stage I and II;
- bronchial asthma;
- gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer;
- functional gastrointestinal and sexual disorders;
- polyradiculoneuritis;
- polyneuritis;
- polyneuropathy;
- lesions of nerve roots, nodes, plexuses, peripheral nerves;
- consequences of infectious and traumatic brain damage.
Contraindications to the use of galvanotherapy
Acute purulent inflammatory processes, circulatory failure stages IIB and III, hypertension stage III, severe atherosclerosis, fever, eczema, dermatitis, damage to the epidermis at the sites of electrode application, tendency to bleeding, individual intolerance to current, malignant neoplasms.