Physiotherapy
Tecar therapy
This modern electro-medical device is capable of delivering different levels of heat, from low to intermediate to high, which develop with an endogenous – prolonged
effect and become curative in a very wide range of pathologies.
We can treat the mildest inflammation up to functional post-operative problems with excellent results.
Cupping
Cupping is ideal both for the treatment of classic contractures in which tissue thickening generates a circulatory deficit and for myalgias of the inflammatory type: because these arise in a ‘pain point‘ or myalgic area and alter extensive muscle-cutaneous fasciae, which become harder atrophic . Cupping is effective for both, because by placing the cups of different sizes on the areas to be treated, and sucking in air with a mechanical pump, the skin and part of the musculature are sucked inside the jar, creating an air vacuum As a result, the effect of the vacuum generates an immediate hyper-oxygenation of the area
, thus oxygenating and softening tissue that was poorly oxygenated just before.
Connective Tissue Reflexotherapy
- Dicke Method (R.T.C.)
The method that physiotherapist Elisabeth Dicke ingeniously produced in Germany in the 1930s still represents a major contribution to science today,
thanks to the discovery of how dermatomeric maps work and how they act through pressure.
Basically, if we stimulate a muscular area that is peripheral to the painful one, but which is part of the same dermatomeric area, we are more likely to evoke reflex effects that increase the lymphatic pump
and histiocyte trophism (of connective tissue regenerating cells), rebalancing the deficit in question.
In order for this to be effictively realised, it is necessary for the therapist to apply a series of deep manoeuvres (stretching and hooking) in the right sequence, in order to put real pressure on the connective tissue.
RTC today represents a very effective and resolving therapy both for all inflammatory syndromes, where there is little response to drugs and infiltrations, and for psychosomatic syndromes such as headaches and gastritis.
Proprioceptive peripheral mobilasation
When used in synergy with functional rehabilitation,
it comes into deep contact with the patient’s joint both to release muscle-ligament conflicts and to restore ‘input‘ to the automatisms of the correct movements to be performed.
Thermotherapy
Integrated therapy with a decontracting action that uses warm moist ‘washes‘ (mini towels) and that will allow deep relaxation of areas thickened by tension.
TENS
(Transcutanean electrical nerve stimulation)
(Transcutanean electrical
nerve stimulation)
Through the correct application of electrodes on the painful areas, TENS,
by conveying a low-frequency current that is barely noticeable by the patient, causes the peripheral nerves to shut down the painful transmissions and inhibit their sensitivity with the effect of lowering the pain threshold. It is therefore highly indicated as a treatment for inflammatory-nevritis problems.
Lymphatic drainage and rehabilitation:
The Asclepio studio offers a wide range of approaches for all those are causes deriving from the stagnation of liquids,
with edematous or simply inflammatory expression, linked to primary (congenital or chronic) and secondary problems (arising from trauma, surgery or other external determinants). Therefore, in using different therapeutic protocols, the area of intervention is quite broad: it ranges from metabolic problems, the cause of unsightly factors such as cellulite, up to the most important lymphoedematous disorders of congenital origin.
It is by virtue of this,that the physiotherapist will know whether to use a single therapeutic technique or a combined-multilevel approach.
M.L.D. (Manual Lymphatic Drainage) - Leduc Method:
This is a manipulation technique that consists of three main phases:“Emptying”and preparation of the lymph nodes to receive the lymph.“Reabsorption”of the interstitial waste fluids through the collectors and, lastly,“Recall”of the same fluids to the lymph nodes which, now ready, will be able to purify the “toxic” part of the fluids, discharging it into the excretory systems, and regenerate in new lymph. It is ideal and effective for all problems deriving from venous stasis, edematous (originating from trauma) and is very effective
in lymphadenoctomy interventions for oncological problems.
Lymphtaping
Lymphtaping: Also called lymphatic patch or “polyp”, due to its characteristic shape, it has a draining, anti-inflammatory and nociceptive function. It is applied to the patient’s skin, respecting the lymphatic outflow criterion, and thuse following the correct anatomy of the collectors and main lymph nodes that are related to the district that needs to be treated . Therefore it will be left on the subject for a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 5 days and the wrinkles,
which are mechanically generated on the plaster strips, will raise continuous skin folds favoring a draining function on the tissues and transferring the waste substances to the positioned lymph node on the main “head” of the tape. This technique is decidedly effective over time and can be used both individually and in combination with the D.L.M
Pressotherapy
This is a type of treatment that bases its functionality on the use of braces to be inserted in the upper or lower limbs depending on the part to be treated. It works through a compressed area pumping system measured in mmhg (millimetres of mercury) which can vary in a range from 60 to 180,
depending on the problem whether aesthetic, traumatic or for a lymphatic pathology
It is generally used within a recovery programme where we have D.L.M. (lymphatic drainage) or elastic compression bandaging.
Elastocompressional drainage
is a very effective treatment for everything that concerns a higher degree of pathology in chronic and acute problems; both congenital and resulting from external factors. Thus, it is excellent for lymphoedemas (both primary and secondary), stasis effusions and lymphadenoctomies. Basically, when manual lymph drainage or tape is no longer sufficient to counteract excess pathological interstitial infiltration, we can also include bandaging in the protocol. Its more constant and more energetic pressure generates greater inductive motility on the lymphatic channels; thus activating even the deepest and most hidden recesses that are difficult to stimulate.