Gima UTC2, Instruction Manual

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Treatment by moving the emitter
The emitter is moved on the treatment’s zone in order uniformely distribute the energy on it. The emitter should bewell
adherentto the skin. Avoid if possible the presence of little bubbles of air, so that wave reflection and consequent cutane-
ous overheating are prevented. Massage must be performed starting from an extreme of the treatment zone and slowly
proceed toward the other extreme touching all the points of the area to be treated. The better way to do this is that to
describe concentric circles, almost superimposed the one to the other, interesting a small zone a time, so to be certain
to give it sufficient energy, before to pass to a surrounding zone. This method is said “ micro-massage “ and has to be
performed slowly. The rotation speed should be one circle, having a diameter a little ampler than the diameter of the
emitter, a minute . The pressure has to be homogeneous and not exaggerated . After few minutes of circular movement,
the treated people warns, if the dose is correct, a light feeling of heat in the treated zone,this gives the certainty to have
practised in that zone the correct relationship intensity-time that is an indicative factor of great importance. The time that
lasts for having the thermal feeling, it depends bymany factors such the delivered power, the speed of the massage, the
local anatomical conditions, the pathological state and the reflexes vegetative nervous system of the patient. The feeling
of immediate pain, shold be avoided, since it is a sign, that the vibrations pass from a less dense mean to a more dense
(bone) one, causing phenomenons of excessive refraction, that determine the irradiation of the periosteum. It is worth-
while in these cases, to vary the incidence of the beam and to reduce the power. Great importance has delivered energy,
in case of treatment with fixed head, the power have to be reduced to around a tenthof the maximum, so that to avoid the
painful feeling of which we have mentioned in precedence. Such phenomenon can be reduced by using the impulsive
treatment, which allows of to radiate the same peak power without provoking an excessive heating of the treated part.
The medium used intensity for treatments with mobile transducer is 2-3 W/cm
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, the session lasting 10-15 minutes. Daily
treatments is recommended up to a total of 10 sessions.
ELECTROTHERAPY
The electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy, in different forms, for a therapeutic aim.
The most commonly used currents are:
● The direct current, that cannot be modified in direction or in amplitude. The most used direct current is the galvanic
one that is used for the galvanization and iontophoretic technique.
● The variable current, a generic term to indicate numerous wave forms. The different conformations, the pulse dura-
tion and the time of action and pause generate different therapeutic effects.
The use of electrical energy produces different effects on the organism with different clinical indications and principally:
excitative-motor effect, antalgic effect and vehicular of drugs.
Excitative-motor●effect
Faradic currents
Rectangular currents
Bipolar currents
Impulsive currents
Antalgic●effect
Tens (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation)
Galvanic
Diadynamic
Interferential
Vehicular●effect Iontophoresis