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Physical therapy for phlebitis and thrombophlebitis
Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
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Physiotherapy for phlebitis and thrombophlebitis at the workplace and at home involves the use of the most convenient and fairly effective methods of laser (magnetic laser) therapy.
For the effect, it is necessary to use laser therapeutic devices that generate radiation in the near infrared (wavelength 0.8 - 0.9 μm) part of the optical spectrum, in continuous or pulsed mode of generation of this radiation.
The method of exposure is contact, stable (sequential gradual irradiation along the corresponding fields - laser or magnetic laser therapy) or distant (the gap between the emitter and the body surface is 0.5 cm), labile (scanning with a beam at a speed of 1 cm/s - only laser therapy).
Impact fields. Irradiation is performed on the skin along the projection of the affected vein from the periphery to the center, sequentially with fields overlapping each other (laser therapy only), or by a scanning method with a speed of movement of the emitter (laser beam) of 1 cm/s (laser and magnetic laser therapy). In the presence of varicose nodes, they are additionally affected by one or more fields.
PPM OR 5 - 10 mW/cm2 . Induction of the magnetic attachment (magnetic laser therapy - only according to a stable method) - 20-40 mT.
Treatment is effective using devices operating in continuous ILI generation mode. However, with the possibility of frequency modulation of NLI, the optimal frequency is 10 Hz.
The exposure time on the field is up to 5 minutes. The course of treatment is 10-15 procedures daily, once a day in the morning.
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