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Drugs and Their Physiological Effects:: 1. Dexamethasone
Drugs and Their Physiological Effects:: 1. Dexamethasone
It is a type
ofelectrical stimulation that is used to administer medication into your body through your
skin.
How Does Iontophoresis Work?
To understand the basic principles of iontophoresis, you should remember some basic
lessons from physics and chemistry class. In general, ionic charges that are alike will
repel one another, while ions that are oppositely charged will be attracted to one
another.
So if you have a medicine in a solution that is negatively charged and you apply a
negative electrical charge to it, the medicine in solution will be pushed away, or
repelled, from the negative electricity. When using iontophoresis, your physical therapist
is using electricity to push medicine into your injured tissues.
The medication used in iontophoresis is ionically charged. So if your physical therapist
decides to introduce medication into your injured tissues via iontophoresis and that
medication is negatively charged, he will use a negative current to drive that medication
into your body.
Decrease inflammation
Decrease pain
Decrease muscle spasm
Decrease swelling and edema
Reduce calcium deposits in the body
Manage scar tissue
Your physical therapist will work with you to decide on the treatment goals and the
rationale for using iontophoresis.