High-frequency currents and magnetic fields
Chapter 2
High-frequency currents and magnetic fields
3 topics
- 11High-frequency electromagnetic modalities. Biophysical principles and interactions with biological tissuesWhat all high-frequency currents have in common, from d'Arsonvalization to microwaves and TECAR. Why they pass the skin without a tingle, how the field reaches the tissues (capacitive, inductive or radiated), how it turns into heat deep inside, which tissues heat most, and what that heat does to the body.
- 12Shortwave and microwave diathermy. Physical characteristics, application techniques, dosage, therapeutic effects, indications, contraindications, and safety considerationsThe two deep-heating diathermies in practice. Shortwave (the course's UHF therapy) with its capacitive plates and inductive coils, and microwaves (decimetric and centimetric) with their radiating applicators. How each is applied and dosed, what it treats, who must never have it, and how patient and therapist are kept safe.
- 13Magnetotherapy. Low- and high-frequency magnetic fields. Biological and therapeutic effects, application methods, dosage, indications, and contraindicationsTreatment with magnetic fields. What a magnetic field is and how it is measured, the static, alternating and pulsed low-frequency fields and the high-frequency and high-intensity ones, what they do to cells and what they have been shown to do for patients, and how they are applied, dosed and ruled out.