Neck massager, low-frequency pulse massager is more common in life nowadays, and many people use it to relieve the symptoms of body fatigue and aches and pains. In particular, some older people are keen to buy physical therapy equipment, and even believe that it [cure all diseases]. In an e-commerce platform search [elderly physical therapy device], an infrared electric grill lamp is the most popular among consumers, with a monthly sales volume of more than 3,000 units. Overall, the price of the elderly physical therapy instrument ranges from three to five hundred dollars to several thousand dollars, mainly used to relieve joint and muscle pain. In this regard, experts said that the elderly unauthorized use of physical therapy equipment there is a great risk, need to look at rationally.
At present, the physical therapy instrument is more commonly used technology is mainly sound, light, electricity, magnetism, heat these five, through the role of physical factors in the human body, so that the lesions of the organization to get better. Physiotherapy instrument can play a major role in dredging the meridians and channels, unobstructed blood, promote the role of metabolism, in the clinic is mainly used for the treatment of muscle strain and pain, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, as well as cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, and other bone and joint diseases, to buy their own home physiotherapy products and the use of not necessarily work, but it is not to the body to produce particularly great harm. However, if the elderly have physical diseases, or not in accordance with the norms of operation, there will be a greater risk.
Fractures. If an elderly person with a medical condition uses a physical therapy device, it may cause a fracture if the force is not properly controlled. If the elderly themselves have cervical vertebrae dislocation, osteoporosis and other symptoms, the body is more sensitive to external stimuli in the greater intensity of vibration stimulation may lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, compression of the nerves, causing arm numbness and pain.
Burns. The use of infrared physical therapy device, if the elderly failed to set the appropriate time of use, once asleep at a comfortable temperature, it is easy to cause accidental burns. Especially diabetic patients, the skin is less sensitive to stimuli than normal people, the risk of burns is greater, and once burned, recovery is more difficult.
So how should the elderly scientific view and use of physical therapy devices?
Choose the physical therapy instrument that suits the physical condition. The use of physical therapy equipment should focus on individualization, there is no one physical therapy equipment or physical therapy suitable for every elderly, so the elderly should be in the guidance and recommendation of professional doctors to choose the appropriate physical therapy. When choosing a home physiotherapy device, low-frequency and medium-frequency are the main ones, which are relatively safer.
Timing and quantification, accompanied by family members. If you choose to have physical therapy at home, the elderly need to read the product manual carefully in advance, clear use of contraindications and precautions, and ask their children or professional doctors in time if they don’t know what to do. Elderly people in the use of the best behavioral capacity around the family accompanied by setting up physical therapy time, timed off in infrared physical therapy, pay attention to the equipment distance from the body is not less than 30 centimeters, to avoid scalding of the skin due to the distance is too close to the use of too long or caused by too much time.
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Post time: Aug-28-2023