Description of the treatments available at the Physio–therapeutic
Department of the Busko−Zdrój Health Resort

INTERFERENCE CURRENTS
 – are alternating currents of medium frequency. They are applied by four electrodes put to the patient’s body in such a way that they form two intersecting electric circuits. As a result of interference a curative stimulus occurs within a specific area of the patient’s body. The currents have analgesic effects, stimulate the peripheral circulation, nutritional processes and metabolism of tissues. They relieve the tension of the sympathetic nervous system, and are used in neuralgies, polyncuropatia, algesic syndromes of degenerative diseases of the back−bone, and disorders of the  peripheral circulation.

KOTZ CURRENTS
– stimulation by Kotz, or Russian stimulation, is used
to build up the strength of muscles and develop musculature.

 
TENS CURRENTS
–  impulse currents mostly used in protracted analgesic
therapy and neuralgies, polyncuropatia, algesic syndromes of degenerative diseases of the back−bone, disorders of the peripheral circulation, and to stimulate skeletal muscles.

TRÄBERT CURRENT

– a rectangular impulse current of constant parameters: time per impulse 2 ms and interval time 5 ms. Current UR is of remarkable advantage to the therapy of pains
caused by back−bone disorders, of neurology with spastic component, and of diseases of the peripheral nervous system.
 

Therapies are prescribed by resort doctors and timetabled in the outpatient resort department.