Electrotherapy Although, as a word meaning, it refers to an auxiliary treatment method used during physical therapy, it is the use of electrophysical agents for both evaluation and treatment in a wider context today. The terms Electrotherapy and Electrophysical Agents are terms interchangeably used for evaluation and treatment of any of the electrophysical agents applied externally to the human body. As we know, physical therapy and rehabilitation is a branch that is directly related to many areas of the medical world, such as low back and neck pain, joint pain, stroke, paralysis, spinal cord injury, Parkinson's and MS rehabilitation, rheumatological rehabilitation, orthopedic rehabilitation, athlete's health. In other words, it works in cooperation with other branches of medicine, supports and complements other branches of medicine.

 

Physical therapy and rehabilitation has different treatment options according to the condition of the disease and the physical capacity of the patient, according to the patient's level of influence, and according to the patient's symptoms. Physiotherapy and rehabilitation are included in the entire rehabilitation program in cases where pain relief of the patients, improvement of nerve conduction, circulation, reduction of swelling and edema in the tissues, acceleration of the healing process by increasing cellular nutrition, and in cases where the nerve cannot stimulate the muscle and the muscle cannot contract sufficiently or not at all and muscle functions are impaired. used as needed. Of course, the reasons why physiotherapists prefer electrotherapy are not limited to this. Electrotherapy prevents pain receptors from sending pain signals to the brain. As we can understand from this part of our article, electrotherapy method is also used as a very important improvement method in physical therapy and rehabilitation applications. Electrotherapy is a method that should definitely be applied by a specialist physician or a physiotherapist. In electrotherapy application, different and different frequencies of electric currents are used according to the disease and the physical condition of the patient. The duration of electrotherapy and the intensity of the applied current vary according to the type of current used and the disease to be treated.