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Interference therapy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Interference therapy is a method of local action by two sinusoidal electric currents of the corresponding parameters through two pairs of electrodes and moist hydrophilic gaskets, which are applied to certain areas of the skin of the patient's body in such a way that these currents in a certain place in the tissues of the body intersect (overlap) and interact between by yourself.
Current strength up to 50 mA; frequency of current oscillations within 3000-5000 Hz; the frequency of one current is constant, the other is different by 1-200 Hz.
Interference therapy is based on interference (imposition) of two electromagnetic oscillations of the same amplitude and close frequency and the appearance in the tissues of an interference current with a doubled amplitude of oscillations of the initial currents with low-frequency amplitude modulation. Physicochemical reactions are associated with the peculiarities of electrodynamic changes in the structures and systems of the body from the influence of interference current, and subsequent biological processes are caused by conformational rearrangements on the basis of these features.
The main clinical effects of interference therapy are: analgesic, myoneurostimulating, trophic, spasmolytic, defibrizing.
The equipment: "AIT-50-2", "Interdin", "Interdynamic", "Interference-IFM", etc.
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