Evidenzbasierte Elektrotherapie: Theorie und Praxis (German Edition) (Original PDF from Publisher)

By Pieter van Kerkhof

Knowledge that electrifies

This practice book provides physiotherapists, medical lifeguards, masseurs and ergotherapists with the ideal basis for applying electrotherapeutic treatment methods. Are you wondering which mechanisms actually work in electrotherapy? For which clinical pictures can Low-TENS according to Birger Kaada be used? Or what contraindications speak against the use of high-frequency therapies? Here you find the answers!

From the content:

• Pain, pain inhibition and pain processing
• Physical basics of electricity, action potentials and much more
• Application of high frequency, muscle stimulation, direct current, TENS, photobiomodulation and ultrasound

Expand your treatment repertoire with numerous evidence-based application options and prepare yourself for the use of electrotherapy in everyday therapy.

Plus: additional material such as B. Treatment protocol and findings form for download

Pieter van Kerkhof, MSc (physiotherapy), qualified physiotherapist from the Netherlands. Former senior physiotherapist at several Swiss clinics, including specialist teacher for electrotherapy and lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. He has published on the subject of “Using and dosing ultrasound systematically” and writes articles on the topic of electrotherapy on his blog Physiosupport.org.

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st edition 2022 edition (February 27, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ German
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3662635356
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3662635353
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783662635353
• eText ISBN: 9783662635360