Manual de Operação - SONOPEEL
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Ultrasonic spatula (position
of the spatula, vide figure 3).
General guidelines
This resource is usually applied after the ultrasonic peeling to favor the
permeation of the actives.
It can be used in the continuous mode where the mechanical effects are
associated with the thermal effects (heat production and vasodilation)
It can be used in the pulsed mode where there is a predominance of the
mechanical effects.
The sliding of the spatula should be slow and the skin should be kept moist.
3. COMBINED THERAPY
a)
Low frequency ultrasound associated with the microcurrent (MENS)
For this kind of treatment the metallic part of SONOPEEL ultrasonic spatula, which
also acts as an electrode, is used together with the connecting cable for the closing of
the electric field, and the selection of the current in the liquid crystal display must be
MENS. This allows
SONOPEEL
to perform the
Combined Therapy: ultr
microcurrent (MENS).
Recent studies show that the ultrasound application increases the skin
permeability, i.e. it allows the delivery of drugs through the skin, a phenomenon
known as sonophoresis. Significant advances have been made in the sonophoresis
research in recent years, especially under low frequency conditions (20-100kHz),
being the cavitation considered the main effect which favors the active penetration into
the skin.
SONOPEEL
allows the use of ultrasound combined with the microcurrent in
order to favor the penetration of actives into the skin; it also promotes the increment of
tissue nutrition together with the physiological benefits offered by the microcurrent.
The microcurrent - MENS (Microcurrent Electrical Neuromuscular
Stimulation) is a modality of non-invasive therapy which uses low amperage current,
in microamperes (µA) with positive and negative polarity alternation every 3 seconds.
Its therapeutic effects are related to the increase of the cellular metabolism, the