The LG-IF60 It can be used to treat any condition that would normally respond to standard TENS.

The LG-IF60 is a superb New Interferential Unit with the benefit of "choice" between 2 and 4 pole modes. Reduces inflammation and pain rapidly. This is a professional electrotherapy unit which can also be used easily in the home by patients.

How Interferential Therapy Works:

Many users will be familiar with TENS, which delivers intermittent pulses to stimulate surface nerves and block the pain signal. Unlike TENS, Interferential Therapy delivers a continuous stimulation deep into the affected tissue. IFT achieves this deep penetration by using a 4000Hz carrier wave to overcome the skin impedance. TENS signals travel around the top 1cm of the skin surface. IFT signals travel almost directly between the electrodes.

Interferential Therapy uses two medium frequency 4000Hz currents that ‘interfere’ with each other to produce a beat frequency that the body recognises as a low frequency energy source. The range of this beat frequency is usually 1–250Hz as experience has shown that these are the most effective therapeutically.

In addition to providing pain relief by the same mechanism that TENS uses, most physiotherapists consider that IFT’s major role is to accelerate the inflammatory or healing rate. IFT is believed to work by passing currents across cell membranes; these currents vary depending upon the tissue involved. By using particular frequencies in the range, different systems within the body can be stimulated or used to increase the blood supply, which in turn hastens the healing rate. IFT is used to treat almost any condition where inflammation is a problem. For example, sports injuries; arthritic conditions; bruising and swellings, back pain, osteo arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, muscular pain.

The LG-IF60 Interferential Treatment Kit Include:

• 2 Preset Programs with different ranges of frequency sweeps
  
  
• 4 Programs with adjustable frequency ranges and their rates of increase
  
  
• Continuous and Stepped Modes
  
  
• Built in Rechargeable Battery
  
  
• Includes unit, Leads, Charger, Pads, Pouch and Complete Instructions
  
  Two Poles and Four Pole Modes:
  
  In practice, the tissues do not conduct uniformly, so the currents rarely interfere in the expected target area. Therapists commonly use moveable electrodes to “hunt” for the best electrode positions. This is a real problem for unskilled home use. Many patients find just positioning and connecting up four electrodes a problem, without having to optimize the position. Some expensive machines use vectored fields. These are a partial solution to this problem as they constantly move the interference zone around the volume between the electrodes, but this means that treatment is only delivered to the affected area for part of the treatment time.
  
  In Bipolar mode, the LG-IF60 overcomes these problems Early IF units used analog circuits, and were limited in the waveforms they could produce. LG-IF60 uses digital waveform generation to produce true sinusoidal bipolar IF.
  
  The LG-IF60 uses a 4000 Hz carrier wave, but delivers an amplitude modulated low frequency signal to the whole area between the electrodes, not just the interference pattern. Occasionally it is difficult to position the electrodes to cross the area of interest. In these circumstance, it may be possible to use the 4 pole positioning to deliver therapy to the right place.
  
  However it’s therapeutic effects of increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation / swelling around the treatment area make it particularly effective for a much wider range of conditions. While it delivers many times the power of a standard TENS the sensation of IF-60 is extremely gentle.
  
  The well written user manual includes specific instructions addressing:
  
  * Ankylosing Spondylitis
  
  * Rheumatic Arthritis, Osteo Arthritis, Spondylitis
  
  * Recent Injury (including Sports Injury)
  
  * Post Operative Pain, Edema
  
  * Tennis and Golf Elbow * Post Op (Ankle) Surgery
  
  * Plantar Facilitis
  
  Specifications:
  
  
  • Carrier Wave: 4000 Hz Max current: 60 mA peak to peak Weight: 258 gms
  • Dimensions: 115 x 66 x 45 mm
  • Power: NiMH rechargeable battery giving up to 3 hours operation. Mains adaptor included
  • Electrodes: 50 x 50 mm
  • Treatment timer: 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes
  
  
  MODES:
  • Constant. Adjustable frequency 2-160 Hz
  • Sweep. Fixed 2-10 Hz. 12 second cycle
  • Sweep. Fixed 2-100 Hz. 12 second cycle
  • Sweep. Adjustable. From Set to twice Set. 12 second cycle
  • Abrupt. Adjustable. From Set to twice Set. 2 second cycle
  • Abrupt. Adjustable. From Set to twice Set. 12 second cycle.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

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