Hot air
Hot air therapy is a dry heat therapy in which the patient does not come into contact with the heating medium. Usually thereby an infrared heat emitter is used, which does not radiate UV jets and which can deliver the radiant heat to a large treatment area. A treatment with hot air usually takes 15-20 minutes.
It is suitable well as preparatory measure before the Krankengymnastik or Massage. Like other variants of heat therapy, treatment with hot air has a muscle-relaxing effect, improves blood circulation and stimulates the metabolism. The warmth mediated by the red light lamp should penetrate deeply into the tissue and even reach the joints. The application can therefore help with neck and back pain, rheumatic illnesses and after injuries, in addition, with colds with concerned nasal sinuses. Also babies on the newborn station can be warmed up because of the careful heat emission with infrared emitters, if they do not produce yet sufficiently own body warmth.
Heat therapy using ultrasound
In heat therapy, heat can be applied specifically to the treatment area by means of high-frequency ultrasonic oscillations (800-3000 kHz). The ultrasound waves reach the deep muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints and the therapy can therefore be applied particularly targeted and locally. It is also possible to apply medication through the skin using ultrasound. Heat therapy using ultrasound can be used, for example, for rheumatic joint pain, in the treatment of tendon attachment irritation and other inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system. It can be prescribed by a doctor and is performed by most physiotherapy facilities.
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