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electrotherapy
(redirected from Interferential current)

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electrotherapy /elec·tro·ther·a·py/ (-ther´ah-pe) treatment of disease by means of electricity.
e·lec·tro·ther·a·py (-lktr-thr-p)
n.
Medical therapy using electric currents. Also called electrotherapeutics.

electrotherapy.
electrotherapy
treatment of disease by means of electricity. See also diathermy.


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The stimulators used clinically include large, mains-powered devices, commonly interferential current (IFC) or "Russian current" stimulators.
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Ozcan et al (17) found that interferential current (4-kHz AC) is significantly more uncomfortable if the AC is continuous ("true" interferential; 100% duty cycle) rather than delivered in burst with a 50% duty cycle ("premodulated interferential").
 
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