Physiotherapy is the treatment with the help of natural and physical factors: heat and cold, ultrasound, electric current, magnetic field, laser, ultraviolet, infrared and other kinds of radiation, therapeutic mud, water, massage, hirudotherapy, etc.
Physiotherapy is successfully used to treat a variety of diseases of organs and systems of the human body. As an independent method of treatment, physiotherapy is effective at the initial stages of the disease development. Physiotherapy is an excellent means of preventing many diseases. Most often it is used as an additional method in the general course of treatment.
Indications of physiotherapy: injuries, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, diseases of the nervous system, skin diseases, certain types of cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal pathologies.
Contraindications of physiotherapy: mental disorders, hypertension, acute, diseases of internal organs, all benign neoplasms including fibroids, mastopathy, joints, bones, pregnancy, early postpartum period.