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Health

Physiotherapy

How to choose a method of physiotherapy for therapeutic and preventive and rehabilitation purposes?

When appointing physiotherapy procedures it is necessary to know and constantly remember the general contraindications to physiotherapy.

Healing mud (mud treatment)

Therapeutic muds (peloids) are natural organo-mineral colloidal formations that possess the properties of heat carriers and contain biologically active substances (salts, gases, biostimulants, etc.) and living microorganisms.

Physiotherapy for bronchial asthma

When the disease worsens, the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma is carried out in a hospital. In various combinations and with the corresponding alternation of procedures, the following methods of physiotherapeutic treatment are carried out there. Medicinal electrophoresis of essential medicines. The effect of sinusoidal modulated currents (amplipulse therapy) on the corresponding regions.

Methods using the effect of an artificially modified air environment

Aeroionotherapy is a method of influencing the human body through the respiratory tract and skin by electrically charged gas molecules (aeroions) or combined water and gas molecules (hydroaeroions).

Methods using exposure to gases of different partial pressures

Normobaric hypoxic therapy ("mountain air") is a method of inhalation effect performed by a gas mixture with a reduced oxygen content when the mixture is mixed with atmospheric air.

Ultrasonic therapy (ultrasound therapy)

Ultrasound therapy (ultrasound therapy) is a method of local exposure to ultra-high frequency acoustic oscillations, carried out with the help of an appropriate radiator, which is applied through the ointment base to a specific area of the skin of the patient's body or through an aqueous medium.

Methods using the informational action of physical factors on the human body

These new methods do not refer to traditional physiotherapy. Their peculiarity is in using mainly the information component of an external physical factor acting on the human body.

Thermotherapy and cryotherapy

Heat therapy is an application in the treatment-and-prophylactic and rehabilitation purposes of heated media with high heat capacity, low thermal conductivity and high heat-retaining capacity. The main types of heat therapy are paraffin and ozokeritotherapy.

Hydrotherapy

All types of hydrotherapy are divided into hydrotherapy and balneotherapy. Hydrotherapy is a group of methods of external use in the treatment and prevention and rehabilitation purposes of the effect on the human body of fresh water in pure form or with the addition of various substances. The main types of hydrotherapy used in the clinic of internal diseases are souls and baths.

Medicinal photophoresis

Medicinal photophoresis is a combined physicochemical method of local exposure to electromagnetic radiation of the optical range of the relevant parameters and drugs, carried out with the aid of a radiator located at a distance of 0.5-100 cm above a certain exposed area of the patient's body, the dermal surface of which contains a solution of the drug .

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