Changes in Peripheral Blood Flow Produced by Short-Wave Diathermy

Journal/Book: Reprint from ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION Vol. 38 June 1957. Copyright, 1957, American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.. 1957;

Abstract: Read at the Thirty-fourth Annual Session of the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Atlantic City N. J. September 11 1956. 1 2 From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. University of Illinois College of Medicine. This study was partially supported by funds from the Graduate College Research Board of the University of Illinois 3 From the Department of Surgery Chicago Medical School. Summary and Conclusion The results of the present study an human subjects support the view that diathermy has a consistently potent vasodilating effect and that at a bath temperature of 45 C. the action is primarily upon the muscle vessels. Whether the same situation exists at a bath temperature of 32 C. cannot be stated conclusively although there is some suggestive evidence in support of this view. The finding in about one-half of the cases of a greater vascular response to diathermy at a bath temperature of 45 C. than at 32 C. may have clinical implication and application. ___MH

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