Thermotherapy

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The thermotherapy is one of the measures of physical therapy in which the body is deliberately fed to heat or withdrawn, in order to achieve a positive effect on the body.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:

  1. Cold therapy using cold packs, cold gas, cold air,
  2. Heat therapy using hot air as radiant and conducted heat for muscle toning and pain relief,
  3. Heat therapy using a hot roller, for local hyperaemia with spasmolytic, sedative, pain-relieving and reflective effects on internal organs,
  4. Heat therapy using ultrasound to improve blood circulation and metabolism and to warm deeper tissue layers,
  5. Heat treatment by means of hot packs of peloids (z. B. mud ), paraffin or paraffin-Peloidgemischen to the application of intense heat,
  6. 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.

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literature

Intellimed GmbH Verlag + Medien: Heilmittelkatalog 2011 - Heilmittel der Physical Therapy , ISBN 978-3-935886-12-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Rheuma-Liga Bundesverband eV: Thermotherapy for Rheuma , 2nd edition 2008 - 20,000 copies Print number: MB 5.4 / BV / 11/2008
  2. ↑ 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)