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Electrosleep therapy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Electrosleep therapy is a method of local action by impulse electric current of the corresponding parameters through electrodes and wet hydrophilic gaskets (or with the help of an electroconductive gel), contact superimposed:
- paired, one polarity - on the skin surface of the eye sockets or the superciliary areas of the head;
- single, different polarity - on the skin surface of the posterior region of the patient's neck.
The course of treatment - 15-20 procedures daily or 4-5 times a week. The repeated course - in 3 months.
Current strength - up to 10 mA; voltage - up to 18 V; pulse repetition rate - 1-160 Hz; the pulse duration is 0.2-0.5 ms; the shape of the pulse is predominantly rectangular; duty cycle - 10.
[Indications for conducting an electrosleep
Cerebral atherosclerosis, neurocirculatory dystonia, arterial hypertension, migraine, neurasthenia, impotence against neurasthenia, hysteria, obsessive-compulsive disorder, climacteric neurosis, hypothalamic syndromes, consequences of craniocerebral trauma, causalgic and phantom pains, autonomic ganglionitis, traumatic epilepsy, viral and rheumatic encephalitis, residual phenomena of tick-borne encephalitis, postencephalitic hyperkinesis, enuresis of central genesis, snakes, night terrors, vegetative crises, autonomic polyneuropathy. Vibration disease, Raynaud's disease.
Contra-indications to carrying out electrosleeping
Hemorrhage in the brain and the environment of the eye, cataract, glaucoma, tumors of the central nervous system and orbits, traumatic arachnoiditis with liquorodynamic disorders, wet eczema in the face, the presence of metallic foreign bodies in the area of exposure.
Mechanism of action
The effect of the factor is related to the direct influence of a pulsed electric current on neurons, synapses and neural ensembles of the brain due to the appearance in them of electrodynamic changes that initiate conformational rearrangements of the corresponding structures. There are changes in associative connections of neural networks, and as a consequence of these processes a cascade of subsequent biochemical and biological reactions with final realization into clinical effects occurs. With certain frequency characteristics of the current in the corresponding structural and functional complexes of the brain, inhibitory or stimulating effects of the regulation of the activity of the central nervous system occur.
The main clinical effects: tranquilizing, sedative, spasmolytic, trophic, secretory.
The equipment: "Electroson-4T", "ES-10-5".