Thermotherapy
The thermotherapy is one of the measures of physical therapy in which the body is deliberately fed to heat or withdrawn, in order to achieve a positive effect on the body. Accordingly, thermotherapy includes both heat and cold therapy . The regulation of thermotherapy is regulated in the Therapeutic Products Directive .
According to the Therapeutic Products Directive, thermotherapy includes the following prescription measures:
- Cold therapy using cold packs, cold gas, cold air,
- Heat therapy using hot air as radiant and conducted heat for muscle toning and pain relief,
- Heat therapy using a hot roller, for local hyperaemia with spasmolytic, sedative, pain-relieving and reflective effects on internal organs,
- Heat therapy using ultrasound to improve blood circulation and metabolism and to warm deeper tissue layers,
- Heat treatment by means of hot packs of peloids (z. B. mud ), paraffin or paraffin-Peloidgemischen to the application of intense heat,
- Heat therapy using full and partial baths with peloids / paraffin.
As a rule, thermotherapy is used in combination with other therapeutic measures such as B. Manual therapy , massage or physiotherapy prescribed.
Web links
- Entry on thermotherapy in Flexikon , a Wiki of the DocCheck company
literature
Intellimed GmbH Verlag + Medien: Heilmittelkatalog 2011 - Heilmittel der Physical Therapy , ISBN 978-3-935886-12-3
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Rheuma-Liga Bundesverband eV: Thermotherapy for Rheuma , 2nd edition 2008 - 20,000 copies Print number: MB 5.4 / BV / 11/2008
- ↑ Guideline of the Federal Joint Committee on the regulation of therapeutic products in contract medical care ( Therapeutic Products Directive / HeilM-RL ) in the version of January 20, 2011/19. May 2011, published in the Federal Gazette 2011; No. 96 (p. 2247) entered into force on July 1, 2011, § 24 Thermotherapy (heat / cold therapy)