One of the most common diseases of the female genital area is endometriosis. Treatment of this disease is one of the priority issues of gynecology. Physiotherapy in endometriosis is an important aspect of the fight against this ailment. According to WHO, pathology is most often detected in young women, which affects the growth of fertility in many countries around the world. In addition, despite its benign basis, the disease is considered by many specialists as a period of transition to the onset of cancer problems.
Features tTreatment of the disease and its types
When the patient shows a rapid growth of the endometrium outside the uterus, it is said that the patient develops endometriosis. Modern medicine does not yet have a clear explanation of the causes of such a pathology. Most experts agree that the basis for the development of endometriosis is a malfunction in the work of the immune system of a woman. The genetic component of this disease is not excluded: if the mother had a history in the abdominal cavity, in 15-18% of cases the daughter will have the same pathology.
Gynecologists divide this disease into the genital, that is, the captivating female genitalia, and extragenital endometriosis. Most often, in practical medicine, the external process occurs, and the internal growth of the epithelium in the thickness of the walls of the uterus is no more than 3-5% of cases.
Based on the classification of pathology, treatment is prescribed, which includes a whole range of measures to combat this disease.
Endometriosis
How the endometrial growth in the genital area of a woman is treated
A modern view of the treatment of pathology implies a combination of drug therapy, surgical interventions and various complementary therapies. Physiotherapy procedures for endometriosis are usually used to relieve inflammation and accelerate the regeneration of tissues after surgery.
Several vectors for combating this disease are envisaged:
- The majority of specialists are in favor of an operative solution of the problem with the subsequent use of hormones and biostimulators.
- Has the right to life a method for the combined use of physiotherapeutic methods of treatment, hormonal drugs and hyperbaric oxygenation.
- A separate direction in the treatment of excessive growth of the endometrium is the combined use of biostimulants, proteolytic enzymes and hormonal agents. In this case, physiotherapy with endometriosis in special resorts is also recommended.
- One of the latest trends in the treatment of this pathological process is called complementary therapy, that is, the widespread use of folk remedies, medicinal plants and homeopathy.
All listed methods of therapy of this female disease are aimed at restoring the reproductive function of the fair sex. In addition, it is very important to prevent the transition of a benign process to a malignant oncological process. Physiotherapy is included in virtually any scheme of treatment of endothelial growth in the abdominal cavity.
We recommend reading an article on the treatment of endometriosis in women. From it you will learn about the disease and the conduct of drug therapy, hormonal and non-hormonal drugs, which the doctor appoints to a woman.
When are physiotherapeutic procedures prescribed?
Physiotherapy itself has many positive features for the treatment of any disease, and especially with similar expansions of the endometrium. It has long been known that this method of treatment is almost safe, absolutely does not give patients painful sensations and acts directly on the pathological process in the body.
However, it should be remembered that this is not an independent kind of medicine. Physiotherapy is part of the whole complex of effects on the patient's body, enhancing or emphasizing the effect of other therapies.
Most physiotherapy is used as a supplement to hormonal drugs in patients with the initial stages of this pathology. Usually prescribed after the surgical treatment to reduce the pain syndrome, relieve inflammation and prevent adhesion.
Physiotherapy techniques are widely used in girls and young girls, when the growth of the endometrium is diagnosed at a young age. Surgical intervention in this case is extremely rare, so conservative treatment, especially physiotherapy, allows you to postpone the operation for a long time and to stabilize the mental state of the young patient.
There are other indications for using this harmless and useful method of treatment:
- Physiotherapy comes to the fore if the patient does not tolerate hormones due to various co-morbidities.
- This method of treatment has proven itself as a prevention of adhesions in the abdominal cavity in the postoperative period.
- Therapeutic physiotherapy measures are excellent for chronic pelvic pain syndrome, especially when combined with medications.
All indications for the use of concomitant techniques in the endometrium are exposed to the patient by the attending physician, he must also explain the necessity and sense of applying this or that method of physiotherapy to the female body.
What gynecological clinics offer for physiotherapy of endometriosis
Modern medical centers have sufficient equipment for successful control of epithelium in the abdominal cavity of a woman. Thanks to this, physiotherapists can use a wide variety of therapeutic methods.
Shortwave ultraviolet and laser radiation
One of the modern methods of treatment of endometriosis is the use of electromagnetic oscillations in the range from short to long waves. In the presence of a short optical range, ultraviolet radiation is obtained, which is successfully used to treat a postoperative wound.
The pronounced antimicrobial and antibacterial effect, the ability to enhance the growth of phagocytes in the patient's blood, the stimulation of trophism of compromised sites favorably affects the wound healing process after removal of the excess epithelium.
If the wavelength of the radiator is around 1000 nm, then specialists receive laser exposure to the affected area. In this case, in addition to the bactericidal effect, it is possible to obtain a cupping of a painful syndrome of sufficiently high activity.
Magnetotherapy for endometriosis
Magnetotherapy for endometriosis
Another method of treating endometrial overgrowth is the use of various magnetic fields. In medicine, use constant, pulsating, pulsed and other fields, as well as a field of electromagnetic origin.
Among other things, magnetic fields of low frequency can penetrate almost any depth of the patient's body tissues, which has a positive effect on the effectiveness of treatment.
Low-frequency impulse currents
In medical practice, a large number of pulsed currents of low frequency are used. Their enumeration is interesting only to specialists or people close to the physics of conduction.
Most often, these methods of treatment use electrophoresis in endometriosis. Using this technique, various medicinal substances are introduced into the patient's tissue, which possess both local and general action.
An example is the electrophoresis of iodine in the patient's body. This type of treatment allows you to accumulate a therapeutic substance and act on the patient gently, without causing allergic reactions and overdose.
Another method of using pulsed currents is percutaneous electroneurostimulation. This technique is good for arresting the pain syndrome, while there is no risk of growth of estrogens in the patient's blood.
The negative factors of these treatment methods include the need to use them for 3-6 months to get the proper effect.
Use of medical baths
For the treatment of endometriosis, modern medicine successfully uses therapeutic baths, which, depending on the component, have been called balneotherapy and hydrotherapy.
When baths with rhodonium, iodine and bromide are used for complex treatment, this type of treatment refers to balneotherapy. The temperature should correspond to the human, that is not to exceed 37 degrees. Rodon most affects the female hormonal sphere. It reduces the level of estrogens in the patient's blood, stimulates the growth of progesterone and leads the hormonal balance to normal proportions. In addition, the anti-inflammatory effect of this substance is very important. The ability of the rhodone to stabilize arterial and venous pressure in the pelvic vessels will not be left without attention.
The baths combining iodine and bromine have a similar effect. However, unlike the rodon, these drugs can reduce the pain threshold and soothe patients. Apply therapeutic baths preferably in combination with microclysters and irrigation of the vagina.
Treatment with hydrotherapy or coniferous baths gives almost the same results. In addition to all the above therapeutic effects, needles and bischofite have a positive effect on the metabolism of women, which reduces the carbohydrate content in the blood and leads to a decrease in endothelial growth in the pelvic area and the abdominal cavity.
A few words about the risks of
In addition to the positive moments from the use of physiotherapeutic methods of treatment for endometriosis, there are a lot of factors that cause an increase in the level of estrogens and intensify the pathological process. First of all, these are various heat effects on the woman's body.
To prevent these complications, there is a section of physiotherapy - climatotherapy, that is recommendations for the stay of patients with certain diseases in a specific climatic zone. For patients with endometriosis, countries with a hot and humid climate are contraindicated, staying on the beach remains a big question, the use of any mud for external use is only possible after consultation with the attending physician.
The female body, especially its hormonal and sexual sphere, is such a delicate mechanism that any abrupt fluctuations in temperature and other parameters of the environment can negate all treatment efforts. The attending physician is obliged to give his patient all the recommendations for possible rest and daily life.
Endometriosis in advanced stages is also a contraindication for such treatment, since the use of physiotherapy can only worsen a patient's condition or accelerate the possibility of malignancy of the process. It is not an indication for the conduct of concomitant physical therapy of deep mental and nervous disorders, which often accompany neglected forms of pathology.
Physiotherapy, like any method of treatment, has its positive and negative sides. However, in the hands of experienced specialists this method of treatment can become a reliable assistant in the fight against a rather unpleasant pathology of the female sexual sphere - endometriosis.