Diathermy/radiofrequency in sports pathology, prevention and high performance - IN PERSON - JUNE 7, 2025

Date : June 7, 2025

Opening hours: 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. approx.

Location: Fisaude Headquarters, Calle Sierra Filabres 1. La Olivilla Industrial Estate. 28946. Fuenlabrada (Madrid)

Price: 200€

Teachers: Therapy Global Solutions

Description

- Diathermy is the physical therapy with the most powerful analgesic, anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxant effect, allowing us to obtain outstanding results in all types of musculoskeletal and therefore sports pathologies.

- This course will provide you with sufficient knowledge to strategically choose, within the therapeutic framework, the frequency, potency, technique and duration of the treatment to obtain an optimal result, both in acute and chronic pathologies.

- Carrying out practical exercises among students with different diathermy equipment, applying manual, automatic and myofascial electrodes.

What you will learn

- All the fundamental theoretical aspects of Diathermy , in order to perform treatments with maximum efficiency and profitability.

- Be able to develop various therapeutic strategies , optimizing parameters such as: Frequency, Technique (capacitive/resistive), Mode (continuous/pulsed), Intensity and Time.

- Different forms of application of Diathermy and its combination with manual therapy, free hands technique and Instrumentalized Myofascial.

- Treatment of sports pathologies such as: tendinopathies, fasciitis, muscle overload, muscle and tendon tears, bone edema, chondropathies and enthesopathies.

Addressed to

Aimed at physiotherapists and sports medicine specialists.

What you will need

- Have a computer/tablet/mobile phone and internet connection.

CONTENT

Modules

1. Introduction

2. Technical aspects of Diathermy/Tecartherapy

3. Practical uses of Diathermy/Radiofrequency in sports pathology

Syllabus:

1.- Injury mechanisms in sports practice.

2.- States of exhaustion or fatigue of the athlete.

3.- Role of diathermy in injury prevention.

4.- Characteristics of the athlete patient.

5.- Effects of diathermy with evidence.

6.- Therapeutic Window.

7.- Physiological effects of diathermy on the human body with evidence.

8.- Special programs: vehicle, hands-free, scanning, athermal, pulsed.

9.- Myofascial Electrodes. Clinical reasoning.

10.- Benefits of applying diathermy with IASTM.

11.- Indications and contraindications, absolute and relative, of diathermy.

12.- Objectives and treatment during the recovery, rehabilitation and strengthening phase.

13.- Indications for the treatment of injuries during the recovery, rehabilitation and Return to play phase.

14.- Intervention strategies and practical cases for treatment with Manual, Automatic and Instrumentalized Myofascial Diathermy of:

Chondropathies

Tendinopathies

Myopathies

Ligamentous and fascial alterations

Bone pathology.

15.- Questions from participants.