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What are the indications and contraindicatios for magnetotherapy?
Magnetotherapy – effects
As a consequence of the cellular changes resulting from the treatment, magnetotherapy has effects:
- analgesic effect
- anti-inflammatory effect,
- anti-edema effect,
- stimulation of the circulatory system, particularly the peripheral circulatory system
Magnetotherapy treatment
Magnetotherapy – as a physiotherapy method, magnetic fields are characterised by their quite extensive effects on the human body.
According to the consensus opinion of most researchers, the well-documented biological effects of low-frequency alternating magnetic fields include:
- Intensification of oxygen utilisation and tissue respiration
- Vasodilatory and angiogenetic effects
- Increasing soft tissue repair and regeneration processes
- Acceleration of the bone fusion process
- Anti-inflammatory and anti-edema effect
- Analgesic effect
- Modification of membrane transport and ion distribution
What are the indications and contraindicatios for magnetotherapy? Check the list:
Magnetotherapy – indications for use
What are the indications for magnetotherapy? To name a few:
- delayed union of fractured bone
- pseudoarthrosis
- osteoporosis
- degenerative joint disease
- rheumatoid arthritis
- ulcerations and trophic shank changes
- bacterial infections of the skin and soft tissues
- keloids
- condition after cerebral stroke
- hemicrania and vasomotor headaches
- functional disorders of cranial and peripheral nerves
- multiple sclerosis
- corneal infection diseases
- optic atrophy
- arterial hypertension
- ischemic heart disease
- Heart arrythmia
- hypersensitive large intestine
- chronic pancreatitis
Magnetotherapy – contraindications for use
- pregnancy
- neoplastic disease
- active tuberculosis
- juvenile diabetes
- thyrotoxicosis
- bleeding from alimentary system
- severe infections
- presence of electronic implants (eg a cardiac pacemaker)
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- PhysioMG – new generation of magnetotherapy
- Biological interaction of the magnetic field
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- Magnetotherapy in the migraine prophylaxis
