[The use of transdermal therapeutic systems in physical therapy].
Methods of the transdermal administration of drugs have long been sought in the medical field in order to ensure the noninvasive and painless transmission of the medicine. Such methods include the TTS (transdermal therapeutic system). It is a method, or rather a set of methods that allows the introduction of the drug to the sites of pathologically changed areas without the pharmacological burdening of the whole body. An important aspect of this treatment is that the substance can be introduced passively (even to unconscious or sanity-limited patients) or actively, i.e. exactly at the point of the pathological changes, thus avoiding contraindications for applications in the general purpose and discomfort of the patient. The transdermal therapeutic system can be found in various areas of medicine. It is also increasingly beginning to act as an alternative to a number of other areas such as pharmacotherapy, physical therapy, and cosmetology; as a precognitive application, hormonal substitution, nutritious, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, or anti-swelling application; an application for the treatment of scars, delayed fracture healing, the neuromuscular stimulation, trophy of tissues; or a bacteriostatic application. Further research in this area seems to have a great practical significance.
Military-Physician Phaculty, Chair of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, Medical University of Łódź, Poland. katarzyna.jankowska@umed.lodz.pl
Katarzyna
K
Jankowska
Anna
A
Delewska
Robert
R
Klimkiewicz
Anna
A
Kubsik
Marta
M
Woldańska-Okońska
D000279:Administration, Cutaneous; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D004561:Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation