How IFT Can Give a Quick Relief To Your Pain?
What is Interferential Therapy?
IFT i.e. interferential therapy offers electrotherapy for pain. This therapy treatment uses electric current to stimulate tissue that helps in providing pain relief, reduction of swelling, and other benefits. It uses a range of frequencies that encourage the body to change positively such as increasing blood flow in a specific area which increases the speed of healing.
A lot of professionals in the medical industry use IFT due to its drug-free, non-invasive promotion of healing and pain relief. IFT in physiotherapy has become extremely popular due to its ease of use and lack of any side effects.
The IFT machines are an easily available option for multiple daily home treatments that can help reduce medication, pain, and swelling.
IFT machines for physiotherapy are used to treat pain associated with the following:
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Shoulder pain
- Knee pain
- Muscle pain
- Frozen pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Joint injuries
- Tennis elbow
- Trapezoids
- Inflammation
- Muscle strains
- Sciatica
- Overactive bladder
How does Interferential Therapy work?
IFT machines are different from TENS machines. TENS machines promise to deliver periodic pulses to stimulate surface nerves blocking the pain signal. While IFT machines aim to deliver a continuous stimulation deep into the affected tissue, this stimulation blocks the pain and even reduces swelling and inflammation that can cause pain. IFT achieves this ability by using a 4000 Hz carrier wave and overcoming the skin impedance.
The 4 pole Interferential machine works by putting two signals into the tissue at slightly different frequencies. The two signals ‘interfere' to produce lower frequency the therapeutic current where they cross over. Since the tissues do not conduct uniformly, the currents rarely interfere in the target area. Physiotherapists commonly use moveable electrodes to hunt down the best electrode positions. All this procedure is a slight issue for untrained home use.
Many expensive machines use aimed fields; these are prejudiced solutions to this problem because they continually move the interference zone around the volume between the electrodes. However, this means that treatment is delivered only to the affected area.
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Effects of Interference frequency
Following are the effects of low-frequency interference currents as per physiotherapists:
2Hz – The metencephalins are stimulated around this frequency which results in short-term pain relief.
10Hz – This frequency benefits the immune system which tends to make patients wakeful yet relaxed.
130Hz – On this frequency, the production of endorphins is stimulated which results in long-term pain relief and some local anesthesia.
1-100Hz – Around this frequency, the inflammatory rate will increase
45-90Hz – This frequency swing will depress the sympathetic nervous system which allows the increased activity of the parasympathetic system and increase the blood supply.
IFT as part of the treatment regime
Physiotherapists believe the use of IFT should be considered as a part of the whole treatment regime. The treatment may include the following exercises:
- Stretching injured muscles
- Moving stiff joints
- Strengthening muscle groups to support the joints
Physiotherapists confirm that gentle movement is generally better than resting since the stiff joints are more painful.
In Summary
Physiotherapy machines can be expensive so many patients are considering IFT to be a far better option for their regular treatment. It is more convenient and saves you the hassle of traveling back and forth to the physiotherapists.
Cautions
Additional caution must be taken while you place the electrodes due to the deep penetration of the IFT signals so that the current could flow through the heart.
To prevent even the smallest risk the maximum current density is below recommended safe levels which might affect the heart rhythm.
