Thermal effects
What effect produces heat or warmth?
Thermal effect
For a device how does the transfer of mechanical energy flow?
From the motor to the attachment
When are electrochemical effects created?
When electric current travel through a solid electrode and liquid conductor
What determines the results of microcurrents?
Movements performed with electrodes
What is electrotherapy?
the use of electricity for therapeutic purposes
what are the 4 thermal devices?
Steamer, Lucas Spray Pulverizer, Electric Mask/Heated Mitts and Booties, high frequency
What are the 3 mechanical/magnetic devices?
Rotating brush, vacuum spray, microdermabrasion
What are the 2 electrochemical effects?
Galvanic device, microcurrent
How can a combination effect can be achieved?
When two or more effects of electric energy are produced at the same time
What are the two types of current used in esthetics electrotherapy?
Direct Current (DC)
Alternating Current (AC)
What does a Lucas Spray Pulverizer do? And how is it transferred?
Increases hydration by delivering herbal ingredients and moist heat, increases vasodilation of capillaries
transferred by convection
What drives the brush head for the rotating brush?
Energy
Does anaphoresis have a positive or negative pole?
Negative
What do microcurrents do for your skin?
Tissue tightening, stimulation of microcirculation and muscle motor points, enhances product absorption, soothes nerve endings
Esthetic electrotherapy devices improve the skin’s appearance by?
Stimulation, product application enhancement, deep cleansing
Heat can be transferred from one object to another in what three ways?
Conduction, convection, radiation
What does vacuum spray do? And how does it work?
Balances pH by delivering toner to skin, loosens trapped debris, increases microcirculation
Energy drives motor to create airflow or vacuum, attachments determines vacuum or spray action
Does cataphoresis have a positive or negative pole?
Positive
What does an ultrasonic spatula do?
Aids in exfoliation (mechanical) while generating heat to increase microcirculation (thermal)
Typical physical therapy results of electrotherapy are?
Reduction in pain, reduction of edema (swelling), muscle stimulation, nerve stimulation
What is Pyrolysis?
Thermal breakdown of the skin; evident when a blister forms on burned skin
How does a microdermabrasion machine work?
Energy drives motor to create airflow or vacuum, attachment delivers abrasive material and vacuum action
What do galvanic devices do for your skin?
Deep cleansing, Stimulation of microcirculation, soothing, tissue tightening, enhances product absorption, reduction of erythema
DC uses active electrode to deliver negative or positive charge for what electrochemical effect?
Galvanic current
what is the difference between esthetic electrotherapy and regular electrotherapy
Devices used in esthetics that create an electrochemical effect are considered electrotherapy devices, but they are different from the electrotherapy devices used for physical therapy