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Goals

• Identify the different types of electrical currents.

• Identify the different techniques associated with this type of therapy.

• Recognize the main effects of each type of electrotherapy on the body, distinguishing specific therapeutic benefits.

• Identify the indications, contraindications and precautions to respect in each type of electrotherapy.

• Identify the characteristics of heat and cold as therapeutic agents and their benefits.

• Distinguish the equipment and support materials for the application of therapeutic techniques, respective maintenance and hygiene rules.

• Use application techniques associated with electrotherapy, in particular thermotherapy and cryotherapy, in accordance with the standards.

• Handle the equipment associated with each of the electrotherapy, thermotherapy and cryotherapy techniques.

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Contents

• Historical Background of Electrotherapy

• Notions of Electrotherapy

  • continuous electric current

  • alternating electric current

  • Intensity

  • potential differential

  • power

  • Magnetic field

  • Frequency

• Direct current and low frequency therapy

  • galvanic currents

  • Faradic currents

  • diadynamic currents

• Medium frequency therapy

  • interferential current

• High frequency therapy

  • short and ultra short wave

  • Ionization or iontophoresis

  • Ultrasonic

• Thermotherapy

  • Heat as a therapeutic agent

  • Physiological effects of heat

  • Dry heat: infrared and ultraviolet

  • moist heat

  • Paraffin and mud

  • Cryotherapy

  • Physiological effects of cold

• Simulated practice of applying the following therapeutic techniques

  • Galvanic current and ionization

  • Faradic current

  • diadynamic currents

  • interferential current

  • short and ultra short wave

  • Ultrasonic

  • Infrared and ultraviolet

  • moist heat

  • Paraffin and mud

  • Cryotherapy

  • Combined Therapies

  • electrolipolysis