Diathermy is a therapy that works through deep heat.
Etymologically diathermy has a very clear meaning: through heat. Diathermy is a therapy that acts through deep heat, a controlled heat directed towards the territory we wish to treat. Current diathermy equipment represents the greatest advance in electrotherapy that physiotherapists can count on in a multitude of pathologies that resist other conventional treatments.
Both capacitive and resistive diathermy act on the human body thanks to the fact that the high-frequency mode they use is capable of generating deep heating without causing the contraction of the muscle tissue that they pass through. Low and medium frequency electrotherapy is somewhat limited in its action due to the fact that with very high intensities a muscle tetanization occurs that makes it difficult or impossible to obtain the desired results, which is why the energy that we transmit to the body with this type of therapies is highly codified but not intense enough to generate powerful trophic effects.
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