Galvanotherapy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Galvanotherapy (galvanization) is the action of a low-voltage (up to 80 V) low-voltage electric current and a small force (up to 50 mA). During galvanization, ion shifts occur, the acid-base state and the dispersion of colloids change, and biologically active substances that excite extero and interoceptors are formed. As a result, efferent impulses are formed in 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 organism to external influences.
[Indications for the use of galvanization
- neurasthenia and other neurotic conditions with autonomic disorders and sleep disorders;
- cardiopsychoneurosis;
- hypertensive disease I and II stages;
- bronchial asthma;
- peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum;
- functional gastrointestinal and sexual disorders;
- polyradiculoneuritis;
- polyneuritis;
- polyneuropathy;
- lesions of nerve roots, nodes, plexuses, peripheral nerves;
- consequences of infectious and traumatic brain lesions.
Contraindications to galvanotherapy
Acute purulent inflammatory processes, circulatory insufficiency IIB and III stages, hypertensive disease of the III stage, severe atherosclerosis, febrile condition, eczema, dermatitis, violation of the integrity of the epidermis at the sites of electrode application, propensity to bleed, individual intolerance of the current, malignant neoplasms.