Department of physiotherapy

Chief of the dept. Vera N. Irianova

Specialization provides all necessary physiotherapeutic procedures to improve treatment and decrease period of rehabilitation

About physiotherapy

Physiotherapy presumes to use effects of physical factors for treatment and rehabilitation. Advantages of physiotherapy usually consider to be an alternative to pharmacotherapy despite of wide applying of complex of both pharmacy and physiotherapeutic factors.

Advantages of using physiotherapy:

• considerably increases variety of healing effects and reduces period of treatment
• does not cause allergy and drug disease
• enhances effects of the most of drugs
• enlarges remittence of chronic diseases
• no drug dependence
• healing effects appear to be smooth
• medical methods are noninvasive

Methods of physiotherapy blend well with hyperbaric oxygenation, curative gymnastics, reflexotherapy and may be applied in complex therapy and rehabilitation of patients with different pathology.

Scientific investigations, that are carried out in our Center, allow us to optimize some physiotherapeutic procedures regarding to theirs application conjointly with transosseous osteosynthesis. At the beginning of postoperative period after Ilizarov device installation physiotherapeutic methods promote prevention of posttraumatic inflammation development and dystrophic disturbances, favour in restoration of physiologic processes in injured tissues, decongestion, pain reducing or its elimination, improvement of patient's general condition.
At the second week after operation treatment of patients with devices for external fixation of bone segments is directed on stimulation of angiogenesis and microcirculation in injured region, prevention of osteoporosis and muscle's atrophy of operated limb, pain reduction. During the stage of fixation of operated limb methods of physiotherapy promote improvement of metabolic processes and blood supply of limb tissues. At the subsequent stage of fixation and after Ilizarov device removement physiotherapeutic measures promote stimulation of reparative osteogenesis and organotypic restructuring of regenerated bone, mineral metabolism normalization, pain reduction.

The goal of the dept. of physiotherapy is enhancing of quality of treatment and reducing of rehabilitation period. It is attained by solving the following problems:

• treatment of pain syndrome,
• prevention of rough scarring,
• prophylaxis and treatment of edemata of soft tissues,
• prophylaxis and treatment of trophic disturbances,
• preservation of vitality of denervated tissues and limbs,
• enhancing of regeneration of bone tissue, nerves, soft tissues, etc.

In our dept. are used: galvanization and electrophoresis, amplipulse therapy, transcranial electroanalgesia, electrostimulation of paretic muscles and nerves, including applying of epineural and epidural electrodes and interstitial electrostimulation, UHF-therapy, shortwave-frequency therapy, magnetotherapy, IR-, UV-radiation, laser therapy, vibrotherapy, ultrasonic therapy, heat-therapy, aerohydromassage, aromatherapy and also combined methods of physiotherapy including multifunctional recreational hydrofusion capsule "SPA-JET Dermalife". Physicians of our dept. permanently apply new methods of physiotherapy in patients with transosseous osteosynthesis, develop and apply into practice complexes of physiotherapeutic measures, destined for adaptation and correction of known methods and technique of carrying out procedures in adults and in infants.