• Diathermy is electrically induced heat or the use of high-frequency electromagnetic currents as a form of physical therapy and in surgical procedures...
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  • electrical currents, have existed for over 125 years, and now include diathermy, hyperthermy treatment of cancer, electrosurgery scalpels used to cut...
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    Stewart Halsted was the pioneer of the technique, which later was called Diathermy. In 1900, physician Joseph Rivière used electrical current to treat a...
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  • energy in these bands include RF heating, microwave ovens, and medical diathermy machines. The powerful emissions of these devices can create electromagnetic...
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    therapy, which became known as "D'Arsonvalization". It was later used for diathermy. In 1881, d'Arsonval proposed tapping the thermal energy of the ocean...
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    education Intervention techniques Aquatic therapy Cryotherapy Debridement Diathermy Eccentric training Electrotherapy Gait training Heat therapy (Thermotherapy)...
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    relay networks, radar, satellite and spacecraft communication, medical diathermy and cancer treatment, remote sensing, radio astronomy, particle accelerators...
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    known as thermolysis, also called radio frequency (RF), shortwave or diathermy. Thermolysis was developed in the 1920s and first reported in medical...
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  • electrical currents, have existed for over 125 years, and now include diathermy, hyperthermy treatment of cancer, electrosurgery scalpels used to cut...
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    openers, keyless vehicle locks, baby monitors as well as for medical diathermy machines and microwave ovens (typically at 2.495 GHz). One of its largest...
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  • Electrocoagulation (EC) is a technique used for wastewater treatment, wash water treatment, industrially processed water, and medical treatment. Electrocoagulation...
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    century for deep body tissue heating in the medical field of longwave diathermy. The amount of heating depends on the current density, which depends on...
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    lifting/retracting. Although the term dissection is broad, energy devices such as diathermy/cautery are often used as more modern alternatives. Grasping or holding...
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  • at least seven male children being reassigned as female. Cryosurgery Diathermy Singe "Dictionary definition, retrieved: 2009-03-07". Soballe, Peter W;...
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  • Diathermal or diathermic may refer to: Related to diathermy, e.g., diathermic therapy Diathermal wall, in thermodynamics, allowing (only) heat transfer...
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    from carbonization of tissue. Diathermy is used by some as a synonym for electrosurgery but in other contexts diathermy means dielectric heating, produced...
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  • Shift work sleep disorder (also known as Shift Work Disorder) Shortwave diathermy Southern Winds Airlines, ICAO code Southwest DeKalb High School, Georgia...
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    have been applied to the body for 100 years in the medical therapy of diathermy for deep heating of body tissue, to promote increased blood flow and healing...
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    in addition to regular stretching exercises and ultrasound diathermy. Ultrasound diathermy generates heat deep within body tissues to help with contractures...
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    Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval's electrotherapy equipment and used in medical diathermy therapy as well as quack medicine until perhaps 1940. The high voltage...
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  • They are also used for heating in industrial microwave heating, medical diathermy, microwave hyperthermy to treat cancer, and to cook food in microwave...
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    heat food in microwave ovens, and for industrial heating and medical diathermy. Microwaves are the main wavelengths used in radar, and are used for satellite...
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    waves for heating or industrial purposes, such as microwave ovens or diathermy equipment, are not usually called transmitters, even though they often...
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    process foods quickly. In medicine, the RF heating of body tissues, called diathermy, is used for muscle therapy Heating to higher temperatures, called hyperthermia...
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    an effort to treat cancer. Hyperthermia uses higher temperatures than diathermy and lower temperatures than ablation. When combined with radiation therapy...
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  • research (FCC terminology) and standard- frequency-and-time services. RF diathermy equipment uses 27.12 MHz to heat bulk materials or adhesives for the purpose...
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  • to biological effects ranging from muscle relaxation (as produced by a diathermy device) to burns. Many nations and regulatory bodies like the International...
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    "inadequate evidence" for human carcinogenicity. Shortwave (1.6 to 30 MHz) diathermy (where EM waves are used to produce heat) can be used as a therapeutic...
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    waves to heat human tissue had developed into the medical therapy of diathermy. At the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, Westinghouse demonstrated the cooking...
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    degree burns on his leg and later developed gangrene after being given diathermy treatment for a twisted knee. The burns and infection limited his mobility...
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