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SHORT WAVE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF SINUSITIS AND ALLERGIC RHINITIS

The advent of short wave therapy on the therapeutic horizon in the past ten years has brought forth exorbitant claims regarding its efficacy. These have encouraged its indiscriminate use by the medical profession, often on the insistence of the patient. Our purpose in this report is to demonstrate the limitations of and indications for this increasingly popular form of physical therapy in intranasal disease by statistical analysis of 160 cases1of acute and chronic sinusitis and of allergic rhinitis treated by short wave therapy in Vanderbilt Clinic in the past three years. Gale2in 1935 reported it is yet too early to go into the causes for the results obtained, but, from the experience gleaned from treating fifty chronic sinus conditions, I believe the ultra short wave to be the best means of combating sinus conditions at present. Tebbutt3in the same year and Talia4two

Foundation of Short Wave Therapy.

Foundation of Short Wave Therapy.

Biological Effects of High-frequency and Magnetic Fields

SINCE diathermy first became a generally recognized method of treatment and especially after short-wave therapy was universally accepted, the controversy as to whether the heat effects alone account for the biological effects has not ceased. No other physical effect but heat has, however, up to the present been proved to exist while high-frequency currents are applied.

SHORT‐WAVE THERAPY

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 25 p. 933-933 Reviews SHORT-WAVE THERAPY First published: 01 June 1939 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1939.tb114937.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1, Issue25June 1939Pages 933-933 RelatedInformation

Short wave therapy in the treatment of preeclampsia and eclampsia: Emmrich, J.: Zentralbl. f. Gynäk. 61: 1165, 1937

Short wave therapy in the treatment of preeclampsia and eclampsia: Emmrich, J.: Zentralbl. f. Gynäk. 61: 1165, 1937

Short Wave Therapy: The Medical use of Electrical High Frequencies

Journal Article Short Wave Therapy: The Medical use of Electrical High Frequencies Get access Short Wave Therapy: The Medical use of Electrical High Frequencies. By Dr. Erwin Schliephake, Dozent of the University of Giessen. Authorized English translation by R. King Brown, B.A., M.D., D.P.H. Second Edition. Price, 21/—net. Pp. 296, with 148 illustrations. London: The Actinic Press, Ltd., 1938. Physical Therapy, Volume 19, Issue 2, March 1939, Pages 111–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/19.2.111c Published: 01 March 1939

ReviewShort Wave Therapy. By SchliephakeE., Authorised English translation by King-BrownB., M.D., D.P.H. (London: Actinic Press.) Second English Edition. 296 + 24 pp., 148 figs., price 21/-.

ReviewJ. A. W.J. A. W.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:29 May 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-12-135-192-bSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractThis, the second English edition of Schliephake's work on short wave therapy forms a valuable contribution to physiotherapeutic literature. Previous article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 12, Issue 135March 1939Pages: 129-192 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMay 29,2014 Metrics Download PDF

Short Wave TherapyShort Wave Therapy. Second English Edition. By. SchliephakeE., Dozent of the University of Giessen. Authorized English translation by BrownR. King, B.A., M.D., D.P.H. A volume of 296 pages, with 148 illustrations. Published by The Actinic Press, Ltd., London, 1938. Price: 21/-net.

Short Wave Therapy<scp>Short Wave Therapy</scp>. Second English Edition. By. SchliephakeE., Dozent of the University of Giessen. Authorized English translation by BrownR. King, B.A., M.D., D.P.H. A volume of 296 pages, with 148 illustrations. Published by The Actinic Press, Ltd., London, 1938. Price: 21/-net.

The Effect of Short-Wave Therapy on the Guinea Pig Testis

The Effect of Short-Wave Therapy on the Guinea Pig Testis

THE PRESENT STATUS OF SHORT WAVE DIATHERMY

About two and a half years ago, in a preliminary report for the Council on Physical Therapy, I 1 pointed out that, with further clinical investigation, wave diathermy might prove to be a useful therapeutic agent. Sufficient additional data are now available to warrant a further report. From the published mass of conflicting opinions, one may now winnow enough information to draw a number of additional conclusions. DEFINITION Short wave diathermy may be defined as the therapeutic heating of the bodily tissues by means of an oscillating electric current of extremely high frequency (from 10,000,000 cycles per second and a 30 meter wavelength to 100,000,000 cycles per second and a 3 meter wavelength). NOMENCLATURE A confusing variety of terms have been suggested to describe such radiation, among them being short wave therapy and ultra-short 2 wave therapy (Schliephake 3 ) radiothermy (Bierman 4 ) radiathermy (Kobak 5 ), parathermy (Turrell 6 ), neodiathermy,

Short-wave therapy in gynecology and obstetrics: Experiences with one hundred twenty cases

Short-wave therapy in gynecology and obstetrics: Experiences with one hundred twenty cases

Foundations of Short Wave Therapy

Foundations of Short Wave Therapy

Foundations of Short Wave Therapy

Journal Article Foundations of Short Wave Therapy Get access Foundations of Short Wave Therapy. Physics and Technics by Wolfgang Holzer, Dr. Ing: Assistant in the Physiological Institute of the University of Vienna; Medical Applications by Eugene Weissenberg, Dr. Med., Medical Superintendent of the Short Wave Section of the University Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases in Vienna. Translated by Justina Wilson, F. R. C. P. Edin., D. M. R. E., and Charles M. Dowse, B. Sc., A. M. I. EE Cloth Price 12s, 6d. Pp. 228 with 53 illustrations. London, Hutchinson’s Scientific and Technical Publications, 1935. Physical Therapy, Volume 16, Issue 4, July 1936, Page 169, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/16.4.169a Published: 01 July 1936

Book Review Short Wave Therapy and General Electro-Therapy . Heinrich F. Wolf. 96 pp. New York: Modern Medical Press. $2.50.

Book Review Short Wave Therapy and General Electro-Therapy . Heinrich F. Wolf. 96 pp. New York: Modern Medical Press. $2.50.

Short Wave Therapy and General Electrotherapy

Short Wave Therapy and General Electrotherapy

Short-wave Therapy

Short-wave Therapy

British Empire Cancer Campaign

AT the fifty-fourth meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign held on April 10, it was announced that a grant at the rate of £350 a year for the year 1935 has been made to Sir Leonard Hill for the services of Dr. T. Reiter whilst continuing his research work on short wave therapy in the laboratories of the St. John Clinic and Institute of Physical Medicine. On the recommendation of the Physical Sub-Committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee, a grant of £1,000 a year for two years has been made to the North of England Council of the Campaign, to be placed at the disposal of Prof. W. E. Curtis, of the Armstrong College, Newcastle, and Dr. F. Dickens, research director of the Cancer Research Institute of the North of England Council, for the purpose of conducting an exhaustive scheme of research in short wave therapy. A grant of £700 has been placed at the disposal of the Scientific Advisory Committee for a special investigation, under its supervision, of the biological reactions of monochromatic radiations of various wave-lengths. The Grand Council has decided to continue to offer from time to time a prize and medal for the best essay submitted on a set subject concerning cancer research; gold medals will also be awarded from time to time to those in the British Empire who have carried out and published contributions to cancer research of outstanding merit.

Benefaction for Research into Short-wave Therapy

THE Medical Research Council has agreed to act as trustee in administering a benefaction of £4,000 provided by the Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society and named in honour of the secretary of the Society, Mr. Hugh S. Quekett. The purpose of the gift is the promotion of research into the value of short-wave radiation in the treatment of disease. The money will be used by the Council to meet the cost of assistance and special apparatus in experimental and clinical investigations to be made at the London Hospital under the direction of Prof. D. T. Harris, Dr. E. May, and Sir Robert Stanton Woods.

Discussion on Short-Wave Diathermy

It is submitted that the thermal action of short-wave therapy does not account for the therapeutic results obtained. The theory is put forward that many of the results obtained can be better explained by the disruptive and dispersive action of the impact of the electromagnetic vibrations. An analogy, indicating such disruptive effects at high frequency, is drawn from the molecular vibrations—transmitted through transformer oil, and excited by the application of high frequency currents to the layers of quartz in the piezo-electric oscillator of quartz. It is submitted that these disruptive and dispersive effects will be greatest where the conductivity of the tissues is low, such as in bones and fat, and it is shown that it is in these regions that the therapeutic action of these currents is most obvious. It is also pointed out that, if effects, comparable to those obtained in the subcutaneous area, are obtained in the deeper tissues and organs, the application of deep-wave therapy would be attended by serious risk.

COMMON WARTS

Twelve months ago, a patient was given a maximum of roentgen and radium therapy for warts which involved the finger-tips of both hands, without effect. They ramified down under the nail plates and involved the greater part of the cuticular borders. It is well known that therapy by local irritation is markedly enhanced by previous short wave therapy. It was for the latter reason that this procedure was first instituted, and I have now adopted it to the exclusion of all other methods. It has yet to fail in a single instance. Using a fine spark, the verrucous surfaces were lightly seared. The patient returned at weekly intervals, and the procedure was repeated. To my surprise involution and desquamation of the lesions occurred within six weeks. At this time I attributed the reaction to: (1) a result of the combined action of the treatment with rays of short wavelength and