Today our site will tell about one of the techniques called phonophoresis. This procedure is used to treat diseases, pain relief and cosmetology.
General information about phonophoresis
Phonophoresis is a therapeutic or cosmetology procedure, in which medical drugs or means of cosmetology are delivered deeply under the skin with direct impact on her ultrasound. During this process, two types of exposure to the human body turn out: chemical (through medication) and physical (thanks to ultrasound). Ultrasound contributes to the maximum penetration of medicinal substances into the upper layers of leather, called the epidermis, further enact them in the lymph, then into blood and transfer to the cells they need to assist. Ultrasound fluctuations used under the procedure range from 800 to 3000 kHz. The following devices are used: UZT-101, UZT-104, UTT-103, UZT-102, UTT-31 and others. The lower the frequency of ultrasound, the deeper its penetration into the tissue. Best absorbs ultrasound bone tissue.
Benefits of the method
Despite many positive properties of phonophoresis, there is a method and contraindications. They are divided into common and local.
Common:
- neoplasms (malignant or benign);
- blood diseases, bleeding;
- Hypertension (third and second stage), angina, arrhythmia;
- tuberculosis;
- infectious diseases during the period of exacerbation;
- hysteria, neurosis, exhaustion;
- pregnancy;
- Some heavy lesions of the heart, liver, kidney, endocrine system;
- Individual intolerance to such procedures with ultrasound.
To local (that is, referring to the exposure site) contraindications include:
- the presence of moles in this zone;
- acute and purulent inflammation on the skin;
- hymorit, sinusitis, frontititis in acute form;
- thrombophlebitis;
- Impact on the eyelids do not produce, if a person has myopia, glaucoma, retinal detachment;
- The procedure on the stomach is not made with a bricken disease;
- Do not make her back, if a person has kidney stones.
How the procedure is carried out?
First clean and disinfect that section of the skin on which phonophoresis will be produced. Next, a special gel with active ingredients or a cosmetic agent is applied to this section. Then the skin is treated intended for this method by an ultrasound apparatus supplying waves of different frequency and intensity. During the session, the health worker makes some movements on the processed zone, changes the power of the wavelength, they are not heard. The patient only feels a small vibration on the skin. Meanwhile, medicinal substances penetrate into the depths of the skin. Sometimes to increase the efficiency of phonophoresis 10-20 minutes before the procedure on the application area impose the appliques of dimethyl sulfoxide or hyaluronidase. The duration of therapeutic procedure from 10 to 30 minutes. It is recommended to conduct a course consisting of 8-12 sessions. They are held every other day or daily. Repeated course can be performed after 3-5 months.
You can combine phonophoresis with other positive impacts, such as paraffin therapy, mesotherapy, electrophoresis, massage, wraps and masks.
These are the foundations of phonophoresis, occupying an intermediate place between physiotherapy and pharmacotherapy, since the ultrasound and medicinal (cosmetic) components used with it will potentiate each other's action.
