What is Electrotherapy and How It Works?
It is a form of treatment, which makes use of electrical impulses for treating damaged tissues, repairing muscles, and strengthening muscles by sensitizing them. There is historic evidence of the use of electrical stimulation for pain relief. The last two centuries have seen many electrostatic devices being used for pain control. The therapy uses electrical signals to intervene the pain transmission signals into the brain. This in effect, creates disturbances in the message send from the nerve to the brain. The therapy is very useful when traditional medicines aren’t effective. It can also involve the use of this electric current to hasten the healing of tissues where the damage has occurred and is taking too much time to heal. Forms of Electrotherapy Ultrasound, TENS, Laser Therapy and stimulation, and Inferential Therapy are its few forms. While sound waves are used for healing in ultrasound, TENS use electric signals to relieve you from pain. Laser therapy, as the name suggests, mak...