wIRA indications

 

General medicine

  • Chronic, degenerative rheumatic illnesses
  • Chronic pain in the support or locomotor mechanism
  • Chronic neuritis, neuralgia
  • Arthrosis (chronic poly arthritis)
  • Cervical spine (cervical syndrome)
  • Thoracic spine (intercostal neuralgia)
  • Lumbar spine (lumbar syndrome)
  • Keloid formation around scars
  • Sinus problems; circulatory problems
  • Peripheral blood circulatory disturbance
  • Warts (verrucae), psoriasis by photodynamic therapy (PDT)

 

Rheumatology

  • Chronic rheumatic inflammation (arthritis, visceral rheumatism)
  • Chronic, recurring pain syndrome in the spinal region
  • Lumbago
  • Lumbar sciatica
  • Arthritis of the major joints (omarthritis, gonarthritis, coxarthritis)
  • Torticollis (muscular wry-neck)
  • Muscular headaches
  • Shoulder / arm pain
  • Progressive, systemic sclerosis
  • Sclerodermia sircumscripta

 

Sports medicine / Orthopedics

  • Myogeloses
  • Strained shoulder/neck muscles, neck pain, shoulder stiffness
  • Strained thoracic muscles
  • Intervertebral disk problems, lumbago
  • Subluxations, distortions (not acute)
  • Slipped disks, tennis elbow
  • Sacroiliac syndrome (blockage of the sacroiliac joints)

 

Ear nose and throat (ENT) medicine

  • Chronic, recurring sinus inflammations
  • Eustachian tube/middle ear catarrh

 

Pain relief

  • Muscle pain
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Wound pain
  • Fibromyalgia (FMS)

 

Dermatology (special wIRA-device)

  • Ulcus cruris, Problematic wounds
  • Systemic sclerodermia
  • Chronic skin ulcerations and disturbance of wound healing
  • Skin lesions
  • 5-aminolevulinic acid based photodynamic therapy of basaliomia, actinic dyskeratosis
  • Therapy of warts (verrucae)
  • Akne (Acne vulgaris)

 

Paediatrics / Neonatology (special wIRA-device)

  • Source of heating for open care, and at reanimation stations, and during infant care in incubators

 

Oncology (special wIRA-devices)

  • Local recurrence of breast cancer (LRBC)
  • radiation-induced angiosarcoma of the breast
  • 5-aminolevulinic acid based photodynamic therapy of basalioma, actinic dyskeratosis