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phase. MENS are an interesting instrumental therapy that can be used in a lot of pathologies, and
the use of MENS together with other instrumental therapies such as for example laser and TENS
can provide excellent clinic results that are usually difficulty to reach.
IONOPHORESIS
Ionophoresis is an electrotherapy form that acts transmitting pharmacological substances inside
the tissue thanks to a continuous electric current of unidirectional type.
Ionophoresis bases on the capacity of ionic dissociation of some medicated substances, of very
low molecular weight, after being dissolved in water.
It is really important to know that the active part of the medicine has, after being dissociated
under ionic form, positive or negative charge, with the aim to place it correctly according to the
direction of the electric flux.
The ions of the medicated substance are transmitted inside the organism through cutaneous
areas that oppose a low resistance to the current reaching in this way the cellular membranes
that are thereby electrically modified.
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