Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment. In medicine, the term electrotherapy can apply to a variety of treatments, including the use of electrical devices such as deep brain stimulators for neurological disease. Electrotherapy is a part of neurotherapy aimed at changing the neuronal activity. The term has also been applied specifically to the use of electric current to speed up wound healing. The use of electromagnetic stimulation or EMS is also very wide for dealing with muscular pain. Additionally, the term "electrotherapy" or "electromagnetic therapy" has also

form of brain stimulation using magnetic fields

surgical treatment involving the implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker

nerve stimulation for therapeutic purposes

medical treatment that involves delivering electrical impulses to the vagus nerve.

technique of brain electric stimulation therapy which uses low current delivered via electrodesm placed on the scalp

elicitation of muscle contraction using electric impulses

Neurostimulation is the purposeful modulation of the nervous system's activity using invasive (e.g., microelectrodes) or non-invasive means (e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial electric stimulation such as tDCS or tACS). Neurostimulation usually refers to the electromagnetic approaches to neuromodulation.

British medical doctor (1814–1854)

technique that uses low-energy electrical pulses

also called transcranial electrotherapy

medical treatment using electromagnetic fields

19th-century medical treatment

French physician (1851–1923)

Electroanalgesia is a form of analgesia, or pain relief, that uses electricity to ease pain and belongs to a type of neurotherapy. Electrical devices can be internal or external, at the site of pain (local) or delocalized throughout the whole body. It works by interfering with the electric currents of pain signals, inhibiting them from reaching the brain and inducing a response; different from traditional analgesics, such as opiates which mimic natural endorphins and NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) that help relieve inflammation and stop pain at the source. Electroanalgesia has

form of electrotherapy and technique used in research and clinical neurobiology