Zimmer PhySys - Indications; Contraindications; Indications - Electrotherapy

Indications / Contraindications
1.1 Indications - Electrotherapy
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Circulation-promoting
therapy
• Functional circulatory disorders
• Angiopathy in diabetes mellitus
• Angioneuropathy (Raynaud's disease)
• Acrocyanosis
• Venous vascular diseases
• Chronic venous insufficiency
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Sudeck's syndrome (stage II)
• Lymphoedema
• Treatment of the facial nerve (as a pre-treatment)
• Chronically contracted muscles
• Peripheral joint disease (chronic)
• Radicular syndrome in the setting of spinal diseases (subacute and chronic)
• Ligament ruptures
• Tenosynovitis
• Bursitis
Analgesic therapy
• Strains, contusions, sprains to muscles, tendons, joints and bones
• Extensive myalgia
• Polyarthralgia
• Joint diseases, inflammatory
• Chronic polyarthritis (rheumatoid arthritis),
treatment during the low inflammation interval
• Diffuse pain in periarthropathy, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis
• Tendinitis, tenosynovitis
• Local and pseudoradicular spinal diseases
• Radicular lesion
• Disc surgery
• Inflammatory spinal diseases, chronic
• Chronic pain conditions, pain disorder
• Pelvic pain (adnexitis)
• Pelvic pain (prostatitis)
• Neuralgia
• Neuritis
• Polyneuropathy
• Radicular syndrome
• Nerve compression syndrome
• Allodynia
• Causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome)
Trophicity-promoting
therapy
• Venous ulcers
• Neurotrophic ulcers
• Decubital ulcers
• Delayed wound healing
• Osteoporosis
• Delayed bone healing
• Ligament ruptures
Muscle-toning therapy
• Muscle weakness
• Poor innervation of the skeletal muscles
• Absent muscle sensation