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Ultrasonic therapy (ultrasound therapy)
Last reviewed: 18.10.2021
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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.
Ultrasonic therapy (ultrasound therapy) uses the frequency of acoustic oscillations generated in a continuous mode, 22-44, 880 and 2640 kHz. In pulsed mode, pulses of 0.5 duration are used; 1; 2; 4 and 10 ms with a frequency of 1 and 3 MHz, and the repetition frequency of these pulses is 16, 48, 50 and 100 Hz.
Features of ultrasound therapy are associated with the combined effect on the body of mechanical, thermal and physicochemical factors of ultrasound exposure. The mechanical factor is due to variable acoustic pressure due to the alternation of the compression and depletion zones of the substance and manifests itself in a vibrational "micro massage" at the subcellular and cellular levels. The thermal factor is associated with the effect of the transformation of the absorbed energy of ultrasonic vibrations into heat. The physicochemical effect factor is electrodynamic and subsequent conformational changes in biological structures on the basis of the piezoelectric effect.
The main clinical effects: anti-inflammatory, analgesic, spasmolytic, metabolic, defibrizing.
Equipment:
- with a frequency of oscillation of 22-44 kHz - "Barvinok-G", "Gineton", "Tonsillor";
- with a frequency of oscillation of 880 kHz - UZ-T5, UZT-101 F, UZT-102, UZT-103 U, UZT-104 UZT-107, UZT-108 F , "ENT-1A", "ENT-3";
- with a frequency of oscillation of 2640 kHz - UZT-ZM, UZT-Zb, UZT-302 D, UZT-303 L, UZT-304 C, UZT-305 U, UZT-306 , "UZT-307".
Medicinal phonophoresis (phonophoresis) is a combined physicochemical method of local exposure to ultra-high frequency acoustic vibrations and drugs, carried out with the help of an appropriate radiator, which is applied to a specific area of the skin of the patient's body through an ointment base containing medicines.
The characteristics of the combined effect and the main clinical effects are due to the influence of ultrasound and the corresponding drug.